Including an impromptu recreation of Galileo's experiment, as I discover that these kids are at the age where they still think heavier things fall faster.
In second grade, my daughter was assigned to write a paragraph answering the question: Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?
At the point when I first looked over her shoulder, she had written: "A pound of feathers and a pound of lead are just as heavy". I was impressed and proud.
Her finally essay read, in its entirety: "A pound of feathers and a pound of lead are just as heavy. Because feathers are very heavy and so is lead."
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Date: 2011-05-03 02:12 pm (UTC)that these kids are at the age where they still think heavier things fall
faster.
In second grade, my daughter was assigned to write a paragraph answering the
question: Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?
At the point when I first looked over her shoulder, she had written: "A pound
of feathers and a pound of lead are just as heavy". I was impressed and
proud.
Her finally essay read, in its entirety: "A pound of feathers and a pound of
lead are just as heavy. Because feathers are very heavy and so is lead."