Gravity Pulls Down

Explain that gravity pulls objects toward Earth, and that heavy and light things fall together without air in the way.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 54

Drop a ball, and it falls. The force pulling it is gravity. Gravity pulls everything toward the center of Earth.
Down means toward Earth's center, wherever you stand. That's why people on the other side of the world don't fall off.
Here's a surprise: heavier things don't fall faster! Drop two same-size balls, one heavy and one light, and they land at about the same time.
A feather falls slowly only because air holds it back.
With no air, they fall together. An astronaut showed this on the moon by dropping a hammer and a feather.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S4P3.b — Construct an argument to support the claim that gravitational force affects the motion of an object.