Classroom mode
A question for the whole room
One story to open. A room full of ideas to test.
Ready in three steps
- Open the story.Read and try the first pages together.
- Pause for a prediction.At the story’s question, read its choices aloud. Invite a vote and ask, “What makes you think that?”
- Run it. Watch. Wonder.Choose the class’s prediction, run the experiment, and compare what happened with your guesses.
Different guesses are welcome. The experiment gives everyone something to rethink.
Something to put on paper
A one-page prediction and observation sheet. No answers included.
After the experiment: discussion notes
Talk about what happened
- Predict first: if you keep flying away from the Sun, does the pull stop at one spot, or just keep getting smaller? How could you test it?
- Predict first: at double the distance the pull is a quarter. So what is it at four times the distance? (A sixteenth — keep halving-of-halving.)
- If the Sun's pull never reaches a true zero, why do we still say a comet 'leaves' the Sun? What actually changes way out there?
Where it shows up in real life
- Neptune, held in orbit billions of kilometres from the Sun
- Comets from the Oort cloud that loop in from the Sun's faint, distant grip
- Spacecraft like the Voyagers, still gently pulled by the Sun as they head for the stars
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