Gravity Holds You Down

Lab Brief #9

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Every solution creates a new problem. That's good — that's the next project.

What you'll learn

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

Key words

Make a hypothesis first

Predict: which design will hold the most weight?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 3 · Read

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

Step 2 of 3 · Observe

What happened? Tell a grown-up what you noticed.

Step 3 of 3 · Record

Tell a grown-up your favorite part of the activity.

Question 1 of 2

What keeps your feet on the ground?

Question 2 of 2

What would happen without gravity?

Mind = blown

🌉 The Eiffel Tower can grow 6 inches taller in summer because metal expands when hot.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 2 right.

🎯

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: Your phone, your bike, your shoes — all designed with this idea.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Build something — anything — out of stuff in your recycling bin.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “What's something around the house you'd redesign — and how?”

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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