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Year 411 · The Changing Land
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Year 4 · third unit

The Changing Land

The land seems to be standing still, but it is changing very slowly. It is only that our eyes are too slow to see it.

A child feeling soil with their hands

How does a great rock become soil?

A board to run

Run a hundred thousand years. You will see what breaks the rock.

A great rock with a crack, and grass growing in the crack

I poured water on flower-bed soil and playground soil

A board to adjust

Which will drain first? Pour the water.

A child pouring water on two cups of soil

I let water run down a mound of earth

A board to adjust

How will the top and the bottom come to differ? Set the amount of water, and drag the mound to change its slope.

A child letting water run from the top of a mound of earth