Play with fire and Slinkies in a zero-gravity environment. A video from the Veritasium playlist records the experience in a zero-gravity and hypergravity environment. The narrator shows how a flame and a Slinky change their behaviors in the absence of gravity.

Concepts

gravity, force of gravity, acceleration

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Pause the video and ask pupils to explain the changes in gravity at 1, 1.8, and 0 G
• Incorporate screenshots of the flame and Slinky experiment in a lesson presentation

Classroom Considerations

• Expects knowledge of the acceleration due to gravity

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Explains each step in the process of the experiment
• Shows experimental results that teachers cannot create in a classroom setting

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2 RST.9-10.7 RST.11-12.7