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Gravity

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: 2,3,4,5

Students need only look around to find examples of science in their homes and classrooms - providing they know what to look for. This issue explains the force of gravity in simple terms and helps students understand an everyday event - why objects fall to the ground when dropped.

In this issue students will:
• Learn the meaning of gravity and its relationship to weight
• Understand how weight differs compared to mass of an object
• Practice reading expository text
• Use the newspaper to practice higher order thinking
• Conduct a poll and summarize results
• Use the internet to locate easy experiments for kids