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La gravité

Mais qu'est-ce qui nous maintient sur Terre?

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Mais qu'est-ce qui nous maintient sur Terre?

  • script
    Sylvain Charbonneau
  • direction
    Sylvain Charbonneau
  • music
    Denis Larochelle
  • None
    Denis Larochelle
    Pierre Plouffe
  • editing
    José Heppell
  • technical coordination
    Andrée Delagrave
  • narration
    Daniel Picard
  • art direction
    Pierre Grenier
  • animation
    Pierre Grenier
  • infographics
    René Fontaine
  • scientific consultant
    Stéphane Durand
  • production
    Marc Bertrand

Education

Ages 10 to 11
School subjects
Teacher asks students to: - drop two objects of the same shape but different masses from the same height and observe what happens; - create a comic book envisioning life on a low-gravity Earth; - do a research project on Isaac Newton; - think about how their weight, and maybe their muscle mass, would be different on a planet with different gravity; - learn how astronauts adapt to low gravity; - view archival footage of the NASA Moon missions.

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