Gravity

We have been learning about gravity by reading School Journals and articles on the internet, watching YouTube clips, and conducting experiments. We put all our new understanding and knowledge together to write explanations about how gravity works, and also made connections between the texts we read and the experiments.

Here's Kylah's explanation of Gravity:

If you throw a ball into the air what will it do? It will fall down right?  But why doesn't it not float into space?

The reason for this is a force called gravity. Gravity is a force that keeps us on the ground. Gravity is like super glue and holds us down.

Force

A force is a push or a pull. Gravity is a force that pulls us down so we don't float into space.

Boinks

Boinks are a flexible spring-action toy. If you push down a boink, a force will be created. When you let go it will fly up then gravity will pull the boink down.

Dropper popper

A dropper popper is a toy that looks like a dome. If you invert drop the dome with a ping pong ball, the ping pong ball will spring into the air and then gravity will pull it down.

Conclusion

No matter where you throw the ball, it's going down! The effect is a person or a thing that acts in the way that some specific thing happened as a result. Gravity is the cause and effect of everything coming down. Eventually everything is coming down.

To see the videos of the experiments she conducted, read her blog.

Here's the connections Francesca made between the journal article she read and the Boinks experiment: