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Falling Fun! - Gravity Experiment

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Falling Fun! - Gravity Experiment

Tevita and Rawiri are getting ready for a safe drop test. With an adult, choose two small, unbreakable objects and drop them from the same low height onto a clear floor. Never drop anything near people or boats. Watch carefully and record what happens. Gravity is a force that pulls objects towards Earth.

Predict and investigate

Use your own safe objects for Questions 1–4. If you cannot do the test, use the example: a flat sheet of paper and a tennis ball are dropped together; the ball reaches the floor first. Answers may vary for your own test.

1.Before you test, choose two objects. What do you predict: which one will reach the floor first, or will they land together?
2.In your test, what two objects did you drop?
3.What did you see? Tell which object landed first, or say if they landed together.
4.Was your result the same as your prediction? Explain with a few words.

Think like a scientist

Read the example carefully. In air, a wide, flat sheet of paper can be slowed by the air around it. This is called air resistance. Gravity still pulls both the paper and the ball down.

5.What force pulls the paper and the ball towards the floor?
  • Gravity
  • A sail
  • A push from the floor
6.Why might the flat paper fall more slowly than the ball?
  • Air resistance slows the paper
  • Gravity only pulls the ball
  • The paper is heavier than the ball
7.Rawiri scrunches the same paper into a tight ball. He drops it beside the tennis ball from the same height. What might happen now?
8.True or false: Gravity pulls objects towards Earth, even when they fall at different speeds.
TrueFalse
9.Name or draw one safe object at the sailing club that gravity could pull down if it were dropped. Do not choose anything fragile or heavy.
Draw the two objects at the top and show where they landed. Add arrows to show the direction gravity pulled them.

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  • Falling Fun! - Gravity Experiment, page 1 of 3: Predict and investigate

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  • Falling Fun! - Gravity Experiment, page 2 of 3: Think like a scientist

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  • Falling Fun! - Gravity Experiment, page 3 of 3: 9. Name or draw one safe object at the sailing club that gravity could pull down if it

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