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Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9L: Pressure and moments
Section 2: b. What is pressure?

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Objectives

Children should learn:
  • to present and listen to arguments based on scientific understanding

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Ask pupils to take the role of a sales manager, select one item and make a spoof written report of a 'new, improved' version where the item in question exerts high pressure instead of low, or vice versa. They then have to 'sell' it, explaining its features, eg the smallest snowshoes in the world, guaranteed to sink as far and as fast as possible; or the drawing pin with a new, improved thick pin.
  • show, by the ability to apply 'reverse logic', that they have grasped the key ideas of pressure

Sections in this unit

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1. a. What is pressure?
2. b. What is pressure?
3. a. What are pneumatics and hydraulics?
4. b. What are pneumatics and hydraulics?
5. c. What are pneumatics and hydraulics?
6. Checking progress
7. a. How do levers work?
8. b. How do levers work?
9. a. How do things balance?
10. b. How do things balance?
11. c. How do things balance?
12. Reviewing work