Flexi Physics

WALT- combine sources of information with developing confidence to identify, form and express ideas.
This week we have been learning about gravity and how it affects us, we read a book called the chicken affect, We also read an article about gravity.
We did some experiments with Dropper Poppers and boinks,
We had to fill in a google slide of our experiments,

I enjoyed filling it in,
I found it tricky to embed the screenshots onto my blog,
Next time I would change the font in my google slide,

My digital learning object shows I can use google slides

Gravity

WALT- organise text into paragraphs
For writing we were writing an explanation of gravity, we watched a video to get ideas,
I enjoyed writing my explanation and watching the video,
I found it tricky to use paragraphs,
My digital learning object shows I can use google docs,

                      Gravity 

What happens after you jump up into the air? You land on the ground, right? Why would you land on the ground instead of floating off into space? That's when gravity comes in. Gravity is a force that pulls us towards the Earth so we don’t go floating out in space.

 A force is a push or pull acting against an object to move it or change direction. Think of gravity as our invisible superglue, keeping the Earth together and us on the ground.

 Our class did an experiment with boinks. If you squeeze the boink the coil gets tight then when you let it go it will spring up into the air, but eventually gravity will pull it back down to the ground.

 We did another experiment with Dropper Poppers. If you invert and drop the dome down with a ping pong ball, the ping pong ball will ping up into the air. It will stay in the air for a bit, but in a few seconds gravity takes action and it drops back down to the ground.

 No matter where you throw that ping pong ball… it's going down! Force is the cause that produces the effect of all objects coming down. Eventually gravity is going to pull everything down to the ground… no matter what!