Child Development and Pedagogy · Pedagogy
During a discussion on a globe, a Grade 5 student asks: "If people live in the Southern Hemisphere in countries like Brazil and Argentina, are they standing upside down? Why don't they fall off?" Which of the following pedagogical approaches would best clarify the student's confusion regarding Earth's gravity?
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- 1Drop a ball and a feather from a height and show how all things are attracted downwards in a classroom setting.
- 2Stick a pin pointing inward into the lower part of the globe and say, "Look at the pin from different directions; 'up' is always away from the center, anywhere on Earth."✓
- 3Ask them to "Imagine an ant sitting on the lower part of a rotating tennis ball and think if it falls off."
- 4Explain that "Similar to how magnets attract iron, the Earth attracts everything that has mass."
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Stick a pin pointing inward into the lower part of the globe and say, "Look at the pin from different directions; 'up' is always away from the center, anywhere on Earth."
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