Why Dropped Things Fall Down Everywhere, Read and Answer

Draw a circle for Earth and add stick people all around it with arrows pointing to the center. Then weigh a backpack on a bathroom scale and divide by six to find its moon weight.

Read why a dropped basketball falls in Kansas and in Australia, as gravity pulls toward Earth's center. An astronaut is a person trained to travel in space. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Circle the letter of the best answer for questions 1 to 3, and write the answers to questions 4 to 6 on the lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade Earth and space, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with gravity. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Earth's gravity pulls everything toward its center, so down always means toward the middle of Earth. A person in Australia is pulled toward the center just like a person in Kansas, and both feel their feet pressed to the ground.

Mass is the amount of matter in an object and stays the same everywhere. Weight is how hard a world's gravity pulls on it. On the moon, gravity is about one sixth as strong, so a 30-pound backpack would weigh about 5 pounds.

Earth's gravity still pulls on them, a little weaker high up. They float because their space station is falling around Earth so fast that it keeps missing the ground.

Yes. All three gravity sheets have an answer key, with sample answers for the questions children answer in their own words.

3 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 5th Grade students, roughly ages 10-11. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Each one shows the NGSS code it covers on its own page, so you can check the alignment yourself rather than taking our word for it.