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General Information
Name of the teacher

:- Sincy Mathew

Name of the School

:- Mahatma High School for Girls,


Chennithala
:- Physics

Subject
Unit

:- Gravitation

Topic

:- Gravitational force

Duration
Stage
Date

:- 40 minutes
:- 13
:- 6/8/15

Content Analysis
Curricular Statement :-Through Experimentation,
Observation and Inference pupil
will get an awareness about
Gravitational force.
Terms
:-Gravitation, Gravitational Force
Facts
:-The change in the reading in the spring
balance is due to the force applied to
pull the hook downwards
Earth exert greater force on the
Coconut.

Concept

:- Gravitational force is defined as the


force exerted by Earth.

Learning Outcomes
Enable the pupil to develop ,
a) Factual knowledge on Gravitational force by ,
(1) Recalling about force
(2) Recognising that earth attracts all the objects
into its surface
b) Conceptual knowledge on Gravitational force by,
(1) Explaining about Gravitational force
(2) By Experimenting the same
c) Procedural knowledge on Gravitational force by ,
(1) Doing activities based on Gravitational force
(2) Raising Questions
d) Metacognitive knowledge on Gravitational force by ,
Focusing on the Idea that the Gravitational force
depends on mass, distance of the body from the
earth, acceleration due to gravity etc.
e) Develops different process skills like observation,
hypothesing, Infering and communicating

f) Develops positive attitude towards science.

Pre-Requisites
Pupil knows about what is force.

Teaching- Learning Resource


Black board, chalk, Spring balance, bottle, water,
Laptop etc.
Classroom Interaction Procedure Expected Pupil response
Teacher Enters the class and
Good Afternoon teacher
wish the students.
Teacher asks Some General
Questions related to the topic to
check their previous knowledge.

Activity -1
Teacher hangs a Spring
balance and pulls its hook
downwards and asks the students
to note down the reading.

Discussion points
(I) What do you observe?

(II)
When does the change
in the reading become greater?
Hook comes downwards
and reading changes
The change in the reading in
when more force is
the Spring balance is due to the
applied.
force applied to pull the hook
downwards and it becomes
greater when more force is
applied on the hook.

Consolidation

Activity -2
Teacher hangs a bottle halffilled with water at the hook of a
spring balance. Then fill the bottle
with water and hang it again and
ask the Student to note down the
readings in the table below.
Sl. Object
Reading
Sl. Object hung from
Reading No. hung
No. the Spring balance
from the
1. Bottle half-filled
Spring
with water.
balance
2. Bottle full of water.
1. Bottle
half-filled 500 g
Consolidation
with
1 kg
When the bottle if full of
2. water.
water, the reading will be nearly
Bottle full
doubled the reading when it is
of water.
half-filled.

Activity -3

Teacher shows some videos,


that is related to the topic and ask
the students to note down their
findings

Discussion points
I. What do you observe?
II. What is the reason?

Consolidation
Earth attracts all the objects
towards it.

Summarisation
Gravitational force is
defined as the force exerted by
the earth and it depends upon the
mass, distance of the body from
the earth etc.

Review Questions
(I) What is Gravitational force? Give examples?
(II)What are the factors that affect Gravitational force?

Follow-Up Activities
Find out more examples for Gravitational force from your
daily life.

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