Explore Gravity! With 25 Great Projects

Illustrated by Bryan Stone. AGES 6–9, GRL W What’s getting you down? If it’s trying to understand gravity, Explore Gravity! can provide the lift you need! With 25 hands-on activities that include connections to toys, sports, and everyday items like scales, elevators, and water towers, young scientists will explore the invisible but powerful force that is responsible for keeping the entire universe in place. By creating a working model of a scale, readers learn what “weight” really means and how it is affected by gravity. By playing with various weights to make a marvelous mobile, readers learn about center of balance and how martial artists use this knowledge to throw their weight around. Spinning a basketball on a finger illustrates how satellites, moons, and planets stay in orbit. Projects are easy to follow, require little adult supervision, and use commonly found household items, many from the recycling box. Words to Know highlighted and defined on each page reinforce new vocabulary.