Why Do Falling Objects Speed Up
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- Format
- Interactive (Online), Printable (PDF)
- Grades
- 5678
- Subjects
- science
- Standards
- NGSS MS-PS2-2
What's included
About this worksheet
Why Do Falling Objects Speed Up? is a one-page scaffolded science sheet that answers a question students ask constantly and rarely get a straight answer to: why does a falling object keep getting faster instead of falling at a steady speed? A complete answer key is included.
A four-word Word Bank (faster, acceleration, 9.8, free fall) supports four fill-in-the-blank statements that build the idea in order — falling objects speed up, that increase in speed is called acceleration, near Earth it measures about 9.8 m/s², and an object with only gravity acting on it is in free fall.
The heart of the sheet is a speed-versus-time data table. Students complete the missing speeds for a falling object at 2 and 3 seconds, then extend the pattern past the data they were given to predict the speed at 5 seconds. That final step is the difference between filling in a table and actually reasoning from one, and it is where the abstract number 9.8 m/s² finally becomes something students can feel.
A Think question and a Quick Check confirm the core ideas, and a one-sentence summary line lets students state the concept in their own words.
What's included: 1 student page (PDF) plus 1 answer key with a sample summary. Sheet 3 in the gravity series.
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