Force and Motion Book

Do you know why you fall or why you milk drips? That is the question the author poses at the beginning of this book. It goes on to ask more questions like why balls fall down when you throw them up. We then learn about gravity, a force that helps us stay on the ground. Everything falls at an equal speed, except things like feathers or tissues. We learn that on the moon there is no gravity. We see that when you tie two shoes to a rubber band, if one is heavier, the rubber band will stretch longer. This is due to the force of gravity. The book ends by explaining that if we weigh more, we fall faster.

I did not like this book, because I thought it was a little all over the place. There was not really a plot line. It started out a simply read, but the words got harder quickly.

I could use this in my classroom to talk gravity in science classes. It provides examples of gravity that I think the kids could easily catch onto.