In the Classroom/Before you go:An excellent resource for helping students to understand gravity is a Magic School Bus video about collisions. Ms. Frizzle’s students play baseball without gravity. Watch the video with the students and then prepare a classroom discussion of forces in general, and specifically, Friction and Gravity.
- What is a force?
- What is Gravity?
- Where can you find it?
- What is Friction?
- Where can you find it?
Ask the students to think about the following questions:
- If we could turn off friction, what would the rides look like? Why?
- If we could turn off gravity, which rides would still work? Why?
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Updated 1/28/2012