Facts and Information about Gravity for Kids

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Facts and Information about Gravity for Kids
One of the questions that arise in the minds of
children as they start going to their Montessori
classes and their reasoning abilities grow. It
was a notion that many people, from philosophers
to everyday people, had pondered for a long time
before Isaac Newton figured it out. Gravity is
the force that causes a thrown ball to fall to
the earth or causes you to fall when you slip. It
is also the force that keeps the Earth rotating
around the Sun, as well as the force that causes
stars and galaxies to exist in the cosmos. This
page explains the gravitational pull in detail so
that children can gain a better knowledge of how
it works and what its implications are. In
Pasadena, CA playschools, children start learning
about Gravity from a very young age3.
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What is meant by Gravity? Gravity can be defined
for children as a force of attraction that all
objects with mass have between them. Every object
with mass has a gravitational force that it
exerts on all other objects with mass in its
vicinity. The stronger an object's gravitational
attraction force is, the more mass it has. This
means that objects such as planets and stars are
surrounded by a significant gravitational force.
The gravitational force is also affected by the
distance between the two objects. Their
gravitational force is stronger the closer they
are.
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Who discovered Gravity? Many attempts to explain
the motion of falling items on Earth, as well as
the motion of planets around the Sun, had been
made. Galileo demonstrated that objects
accelerate at the same rate towards the ground
regardless of their weight by dropping heavy
balls from the Tower of Pisa. Even though he
didn't comprehend gravity, Johannes Kepler
devised his three rules of elliptical orbits.
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Sir Isaac Newton was the first to use mathematics
to describe it. According to legend, Newton
recognised that what maintains the Moon orbiting
the Earth is the same thing that caused the apple
to fall on his head while he sat under the apple
tree. This gravitational force was given the name
'Gravity' by him. The force of gravity between
two objects, according to Newton, is directly
proportional to their masses and inversely
proportional to the square of their distance.
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Why is gravity important? Montessori going kids
sometimes wonder what would happen if there were
no gravity. Nothing would exist in this world if
gravity didn't exist! Gravity's influence can be
traced back to the early universe's birth of
stars from dust clouds. In gas clouds,
gravitational pull generates enough heat to
contribute to the birth of stars. The components
that make up all matter in our bodies and all the
materials we utilise in our daily lives are
forged by stars. As a result, gravity is
responsible for our existence.
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Gravity also maintains the Earth tethered to the
Sun. The Earth would fly out in a tangent to
outer space if gravity were to evaporate, killing
all life forms on the planet. Because of the
principles of gravity and orbital mechanics, the
telecommunications satellites we use for the
internet and other reasons remain in space. The
gravity of the Earth keeps them in orbit,
allowing us to stay linked around the world.
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