SPACE

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SPACE
GRAVITY
By Rosi Barron
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Fifth Grade Space developing the concept of
Gravity.

Tips

-Teachers, please read through the whole
presentation prior to the activity.
-Each activity is meant to be used in addition to
your classroom teaching.
-Each activity includes a journal component.
Objective TSW be introduced to the concepts of
Gravity.

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What goes up, must come down!
1643-1727
Sir Isaac Newton decided that this statement was
true. Describe how he made his discovery.
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Nicholaus
Johannes
Tycho Brahe
Issac Newton
Copernicus
Kepler (1571-
(1546-1601)
(1643-1727)
(1473-1543)
1630)
November 11, 1572, he wandered out of his
workshop and glanced up at the night sky. He saw
an extra star in a constellation overhead.
In 1543, Nicholaus Copernicus came up with the
idea that the Sun was at the heart of the Solar
System and the planets revolve around it.
Kepler discovered that the Earth and the other
planets in our Solar System travel around the Sun
in elliptical orbits.
Issac Newton confirmed it to be true. Just as the
Moon around the Earth, the planets in our Solar
System are held in motion around the Sun by
gravity.
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Journal
Re-arrange the astronomers below in the order in
which they made their discoveries.
Nicholaus
Johannes
Tycho Brahe
Issac Newton
Copernicus
Kepler
EXTRA What was the significance of Brahes
observation?
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