Lesson 5 of 15 · Forces

Lesson⭐ 30 XP⚡ Spark Lab

Gravity Holds You Down

🧪Lab Brief #5

Gravity Holds You Down.

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

The opposite of what you expect is often what happens.

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Mind = Blown

🔥 A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: what happens if you double the force?

What You'll Learn

Gravity keeps your feet on the ground. Without gravity, you would float!

Key Words

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Steps

Step 1 — Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 — Observe

Draw a picture of what you see.

Step 3 — Record

Share what you learned with someone!

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What keeps your feet on the ground?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

This is why airplanes can fly and why rockets reach space.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

This week, find one thing in your house that turns one kind of energy into another.

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For the dinner table

“Show me something at home that uses this kind of energy.”

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