Why doesn't the moon just crash into the Earth? And why doesn't the Earth crash into the Sun? What are orbits exactly and why do they happen? Well, it has to do with gravity and velocity. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks to us about how these things work and why we don't need to worry about the moon colliding with us. [4:30]

Concepts

gravity, velocity

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Additional Tags

orbit, orbits, crash course, crash course for kids, ms-ps2-4, ohio 5.ess.1.a, orbits are odd

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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