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The activities — hands-on experiment cards
Card 1 · Kids hands-on
The Oil Drop Under Water
Gravity never turns off — yet the oil drop RISES. The truth is a seesaw: the heavier water sinks past and shoves the lighter oil up — the honest explanation for every helium balloon.
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Card 2 · Kids hands-on
The Drop Race
A heavy ball and a light ball, same size, same height — and they land at the same instant. Gravity pulls all matter alike. Galileo argued this; today the floor settles it.
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Every World Pulls
Earth is not the only thing with gravity — the Moon pulls too, just about one-sixth as hard. The same jump that clears a step here would sail you over a kitchen table there.
A peek ahead → how hard things fall and what weight really is — a lesson coming soon (Lesson D-7).
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The song
In the student binder
📖OverviewThe big idea — gravity pulls everything toward the center, no off switch, and hands builders vertical & horizontal.⬇
✎CopyworkSee it, trace it, write it — gravity, vertical, horizontal, in big primer handwriting.⬇
🗂️WorksheetMatch plumb bob & level to the house, draw every child's down-arrow on the globe, predict the oil drop and the drop race — then weigh and certify.⬇
🎵Song sheetThe "Down Means Toward the Middle" lyrics — down isn't under, down is IN.⬇
Everything that's included
- 1 watercolor poster — Down Means Toward the Middle, four children round the globe, every arrow meeting at the center
- 2 experiment cards — the Oil Drop Under Water and the Drop Race, each with a predict-first box
- Student binder — Overview, Copywork, Worksheet (inspector matching + globe arrows + weighing chart), Song sheet
- Teacher guide, opening oration, and supply list
- Original song — "Down Means Toward the Middle" + lyric sheet
- Every sheet is 8.5×11; the core packet is black-and-white printer-safe