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Important: This lesson comes after contact force, friction and air resistance and refers to these forces. If you are teaching gravity first, you may wish to use the alternative starter activity.

Learning Objectives

• Explain that gravity pulls objects toward the centre of the Earth
• Give some examples of gravity in action
• Explain some examples of where gravity interacts with other forces
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  Lesson Includes
• Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
• Warm-up activity
• Introduction to the keywords
• Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
• Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
• Self-assessment answer slides
• Challenge extension work for higher ability students
• Worksheet (optional)
• Challenge worksheet (optional)
• Group reading
• SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced.
• Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
• EAL adaptations: explicit teaching of vocabulary, word banks and use of visual representation on the slides
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  This lesson is suitable for supply teaching, cover supervisors and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. This presentation is fully editable.