What is gravity?

How high can you jump?

It is required, as a part of this course that we work in partners to create and teach four sequential science lessons. Since Alicia and I live together and have our working placement at the same Primary school we decided it would be best if you teamed together.

Since my class was already learning about Space, we decided to take a group of four boys and have them feel special by being part of our ‘special science club.’ They are amazing children and really benefit from the special treatment. They ask me everyday “do we have Science with you and Miss Sousa today?”

We’ve been ‘probing’ their knowledge of gravity and it’s amazing how much they already know!

They were all too smart for our lessons really! Alicia and I went home after being thrown through such a learning curve and decided our lessons should be a little more challenging in the future.

I loved the boys explanation about gravity after we asked them “Why can’t you jump up to the roof of the school? Why did you come back down to the ground?”

The boys: “it’s a gigantic magnet in the earth and we’re all like metal and it doesn’t want to let us go and it wants to pull us back down!”