Knowledge/Skill Building

🌌 Gravity & Spacetime Mini-Lab

Submission Required

Using a stretch fabric spacetime model and weighted balls, the teacher demonstrates mass, gravity, and curvature. Students compare Newtonian gravity and general relativity using a quick diagram in their notebooks, labeling mass, spacetime curvature, and event horizon. The class discusses how gravity near a black hole differs from everyday gravity on Earth.

Plan day
Day 1
Duration
15 min
Grouping
Whole Class
Steps