Will it Float or Fall?

In the Haifa class today, we furthered our questioning and knowledge about space. Yesterday we established that there are lots of things that are different between Earth that we live on, and space. Space doesn't have animals, schools, toys, water, or people, but Earth does. Today, we talked about a little thing called gravity. The kids knew that things float in space, but had never really thought about why before. So today, we had a lot of fun talking about whether things would float or fall on Earth and in space. We tested our theory of gravity on Earth by dropping different things to the ground. While we thought a heavier object would fall faster, we realized that the objects fell at the same time! We spent the rest of the day going through choice time figuring out if the things we were using would float or fall in space!

-Alison and Sauci