GRAVITY

Rizalinda M. Redito
Science Teacher
DAY 1

Rizalinda M. Redito
Science Teacher
 Describe Gravity

 The theory of gravity was proposed by

Sir Isaac Newton in 1687 in his book
Principia Mathematica. He saw an apple
falling from a tree, and it got him
thinking about the mysterious force that
pulls objects to the ground. Newton
named this mysterious force “gravity”.
 Gravity puts all things on Earth and
the universe in order. Cars, water in
the ocean, rocks, houses, tables,
chairs, plates, appliances, and other
things stayed on its place. They do
not float away.
 Gravity helps keep the planets
orbiting around the sun and moons
revolving around the planets. Objects
that are thrown upward on Earth
eventually fall down. This is because
the Earth is exerting an attractive
force on us and to all things around us.
 Without gravity, everything on the
Earth’s surface will float in the
atmosphere, just like astronauts floating
in their spaceship. While traveling in the
outer space, sun, planets and other
heavenly bodies in the solar system will
bump at each other. Stones thrown
upward will never fall down.
Figure 1. A car falls from a cliff. Figure 2. An astronaut experiencing
weightlessness in space.

1. Is gravity acting on the car that falls off a

cliff (Figure 1)? ____________
2. Is gravity acting on the astronaut
experiencing weightlessness in space
(Figure 2)? ______________
DAY 2

Rizalinda M. Redito
Science Teacher
 Activity 1: THE FALL
You will need any handy object (ball/notebook/small stone or
crumpled paper).

Instructions:
1. Get any handy object near you. Raise the object at a certain
height, as shown in Figure 3 below.

Figure 3. Raising an object to a certain height

2. Quickly release the object. Observe what happens
to the object. Repeat the step two more times and
observe.

3. Using the same object, throw it upward, as shown

in Figure 4 below. Observe what happens to the
object. Repeat the step two more times and observe.

Figure 4. Throwing an object up

 Whether the object is dropped or
thrown upward, the object tends to
go back to the ground. There is a
force that pulls all objects towards
the ground. This force is called
gravity or also known as the
gravitational force.
 Gravity is a force of attraction that exists
between any two objects. This gravitational
force between the two objects acts towards
each other. The two objects are attracting or
pulling one another towards each other. Also,
there is a gravitational force between Earth
and us, between two people, between two
marbles, and even between two atoms or
particles.
Directions: Complete the following statements by choosing
the word that best completes the following sentences. Write
the words you have chosen on your answer sheet.

1. (Gravity, Air) is a force that pulls all objects downward

or towards the center of the Earth.
2. Gravity is a force of (attraction, repulsion) that exists
between two objects which act towards each other.
3. Earth’s (mass, gravity) keeps us and all objects on the
ground.
4. Gravity is a (force, energy) that affects all objects in the
universe.
DAY 3

Rizalinda M. Redito
Science Teacher
What I Can Do

Directions: Draw a simple illustration

of what will happen around us if there
is no gravity. Write your answers on
your answer sheet.
What I Can Do

Directions: Draw a simple illustration

of what will happen around us if there
is no gravity. Write your answers on
your answer sheet.
DAY 4

Rizalinda M. Redito
Science Teacher
What’s In

Directions: Read the following items carefully and

tell whether the statements are True or False. Write
TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is
wrong. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
________1. Gravity is a force pulling
two objects towards each other.
________2. Gravity keeps all objects on
Earth on the ground.
 What’s In

Directions: Read the following items carefully and tell whether

the statements are True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is
correct and FALSE if it is wrong. Write your answers on your
answer sheet.
________3. An object thrown upward
flies upward and never comes back.
________4. Only bigger objects have
gravity.
________5. Gravitational force is always
an attractive force.
What’s New

Do Activity 1

By Group

Activity 1: A Great Come Back

 What is It

Earth’s gravity pulls all objects down

towards its center regardless of the objects’
position or state of motion. Thus, gravity
affects the movement of all objects on Earth
and the universe as a whole.
 What is It

In the activity, gravity affects the movement

or motion of the crumpled paper as it moves
up and down. As the object goes up, the
movement of the crumpled paper slows
down because gravity pulls it towards the
ground.
The direction of the gravitational force is
towards the ground opposite the direction of
the paper’s motion, which is upward. As the
object goes down, the movement or motion
of the crumpled paper increases or becomes
faster because the Earth pulls the paper in
the same direction of the paper’s motion.
 As a summary, if the object moves
opposite the direction of gravity, it slows
down, but if the object moves in the same
direction of gravity, it moves faster.
DAY 5

Rizalinda M. Redito
Science Teacher
 What’s More
Activity 2: Big and Strong
Gravity is the universal force that affects all
objects in the universe. It holds together the
entire solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and
other galaxies. It is the same force that keeps the
planets revolving around the sun and the moon
orbiting the earth.
 1. Which heavenly body has the
smallest mass?
 2. Which heavenly body has the
greatest mass?
 3. Which heavenly body has the smallest
value of gravitational force?
 4. Which heavenly body has the biggest
value of gravitational force?
 5. On which heavenly body does
object move slowest?
6. On which heavenly body do
objects move fastest?
DAY 6

Rizalinda M. Redito
Science Teacher
 What I Have Learned
Directions: Complete the following statements
by choosing the word that best completes the
following sentences from the parenthesis per
item.

1. Gravity (increases, decreases) the

motion of objects going down.
 What I Have Learned
Directions: Complete the following statements
by choosing the word that best completes the
following sentences from the parenthesis per
item.

2. Gravity (increases, decreases) the

motion of objects going upward.
 What I Have Learned
Directions: Complete the following statements
by choosing the word that best completes the
following sentences from the parenthesis per
item.

3. Gravity is (greater, lesser) if the mass of

the object is (bigger, smaller).
 What I Have Learned
Directions: Complete the following statements
by choosing the word that best completes the
following sentences from the parenthesis per
item.

4. If gravity between two objects is (greater,

lesser), the movement or motion of the object
is (faster, slower).
 Activity 3: Gravity in Action
Directions: Read and analyze the scenario given below. Answer the
question and write your answer on your answer sheet.

A stone is dropped from a height of 20 meters on the

Earth’s surface, and an identical stone is dropped from
the same height at the same time on the moon. Which
stone will hit the ground first - the stone on Earth or the
stone on the moon? Select your on the next slide.
 Activity 3: Gravity in Action

a. The stone dropped on the Earth will fall faster

because the Earth has bigger gravity than the moon.

b. The stone dropped on the moon will fall

faster because the moon has smaller
gravitation or gravity than the Earth.
 Effects of Gravity
Write on the first column how gravity works in your everyday life and in the
second column, write the corresponding effect if there is no gravity. Use the chart
below to figure out how life with gravity is now and how life would be different
without gravity.
Life with Gravity Life without Gravity
   
Example: I can throw a ball. Gravity Example: If I will throw a ball it will
will pull the ball back towards Earth just float away.