Gravity Activity?

Question

I need help people! I have to have a few activities that deal with gravity! Its for grades up to Kindergarden! = )

Answer 1

hold a marker or something & let it go.. it will fall b/c of gravity.

keep it simple

Answer 2

Use a ball or something.

Answer 3

drop anything from the air - drop a kleenex and show how the air slows down the gravity - how we hold ourselves down with our weight while there is weightlessness in space with pictures. Check out your library.

Answer 4

you can show children that what goes up comes down on earth because gravity pulls things down. demonstrate by dropping something. you can also talk about how in space, there's no gravity and things float in the air. you can demostrate that by using things that float in water. and comparing that to floating in space.

Answer 5

Have you searched this online...you are bound to get a bucketful of ideas!

Here's something I've done with school-agers that  you could do.

I collected a variety of common classroom materials that ranged from heavy to light.  I placed them one at a time inside of a tube sock.  Then I had the children feel it and discuss what they think it was, look inside and draw it in the first column of their preprogrammed (4 column) paper.  We went through all of them.  In the next column after the drawn image they noted whether it was heavy or light and then in the 3rd column they predicted whether it would stay in the air or fall.  Of course all of them, in reality, would fall.  We tested each item..discussing how fast they fell and they noted it in the 4th column and then we compared it all and came to the conclusion that the heavier the object the faster it falls.  With the older kids we even timed the objects as they fell.

Now with the younger kids I would simplify it.

I would use a dry erase board or chalkboard to make one chart.  I would still use the "mystery" part of it because it's a great language activity.  For more child involvment I would have pics of the items already made and displayed and it would help them decide what it in the sock/bag.  Then one child can place the pic in the column and then test and discuss it as a group.  I would use an up arrow and a down arrow to note in the column whether it stayed up or went down.  That is important because the point of the activity is to show that everything falls.  I'm sure you can go from there!  Good luck.