Gravitational Force Activities for 5th Grade Science

Simplify your lesson planning with the Kesler Science Gravitational Force 5th Grade Complete 5E Lesson! This resource offers a complete, student-centered learning experience on gravitational force with minimal prep, ensuring that your students engage in deep, meaningful exploration. The flexible format lets you use materials both in the classroom and virtually, making it easy to adapt to your teaching environment.

Throughout this lesson, students will investigate critical questions about gravitational force and its direction. With differentiated stations, interactive activities, and editable PowerPoints, this resource covers each phase of the 5E Model: Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation. From hands-on experiments and research to student-choice projects, the lesson offers varied, multimodal methods to cater to all learners.

Designed to be as adaptable as your classroom, the lesson includes Spanish translations, digital versions, and easy-to-follow templates to enhance learning. Plus, a bonus challenge station provides enrichment opportunities for early finishers, ensuring every student can grow at their own pace.

The Kesler Science Gravitational Force Station Lab engages 5th grade students in a dynamic, student-led exploration of gravitational force, saving you prep time while empowering students to direct their own learning. Through a series of nine modular stations, students will support arguments about the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects, with differentiated activities to cater to various learning needs.

The stations provide multiple input and output activities, including hands-on demonstrations, research, reading passages, and videos. Students can organize, illustrate, and write about gravitational force, while the Challenge It! station offers advanced learners extension activities. 

With a combination of independent or small group tasks and interactive materials, the station lab is suitable for both in-person and virtual learning environments. Teachers can easily adapt the stations to meet their classroom needs, making this resource highly flexible and comprehensive.

The Kesler Science Gravitational Force Student Choice Projects empower 5th grade students to select a project that aligns with their preferred learning style. Students can choose from six distinct project options or create their own, with a grading rubric that supports assessments by teachers, peers, or the students themselves.

These flexible, dynamic projects foster creativity by offering multimodal options, allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge in personalized ways. Teachers can adjust the rubric to meet their specific grading needs, ensuring the project fits various learning levels and preferences.

The Student Choice Projects are designed to work with common classroom materials such as paper, markers, and scissors, while many projects can also be completed digitally. With differentiated options for remediation or challenge, this resource helps engage every student and can be paired with other Kesler resources for maximum flexibility.

The Kesler Science Physical Science Interactive Notebook bundle engages elementary students in 13 essential physical science topics with both print and digital formats. This versatile resource supports traditional classrooms, 1:1 environments, and distance learning, ensuring all students can actively participate.  

The digital version includes an interactive PowerPoint that can be uploaded to Google Slides and various LMS platforms, with reflection pages, note-taking spaces, teacher answer keys, and a modified version for accommodations. The paper version provides blank and pre-filled templates, along with color photos for guidance.  

Topics range from properties of matter and energy use to gravitational force and circuits. Whether used for interactive learning, differentiation, or student reflection, this notebook bundle makes science more engaging and accessible.