Gravity and Sir Isaac Newton

• Grade: 6
  

• Standard 4: The Physical Setting

Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

• Key Idea 5: Energy and matter interact through forces that result in changes in motion. Students should be able to observe and describe relative positions between objects in their world. Exploring the observable effects of gravity and magnetism may help students develop an understanding of the reason for the direction of an object’s motion. Manipulation and application of simple tools and machines may help students learn about the relationships between forces and motion.

• PERFORMANCE INDICATOR 5.1

Describe the effects of common forces (pushes and pulls) of objects,
such as those caused by gravity, magnetism, and mechanical forces.
**Reference**

Student's will be exploring gravity and the individual credited for acknowledging its existence. Students will be broken into various roles such as scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, architect all exploring the wonders of gravity.

Student will use the internet and various websites in order to obtain the needed information. Students will then create blogs presenting the information they found.
The scientist will provide facts about Isaac Newton and explain what has changed about his finding.
The person playing Isaac Newton will provide blogs in the form of journal entries by Isaac Newton about his ideas about the importance and purpose of gravity.
The architect will explain the way gravity effect the way our areas look, how gravity effects our building? Specifically The leaning Tower of Pisa.

What is gravity?
What roles does it play in our lives?
How does it effect architecture?

Links:
Read Up on Newton's Laws of Motion historian
Read Up on, What is Gravity? Newton
The Gravity Song
Gravity
Architects and scientist (present day)