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QCA

Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9L: Pressure and moments
Section 12: Reviewing work

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • to use the ideas of this unit

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Identify a range of situations where the turning effect of a force is used, eg tools, gymnastics.
  • Ask pupils a range of questions related to pressure and the principle of moments, requiring both numerical and descriptive answers. Discuss their answers with the pupils, asking them to explain their methods and the reasoning used.
  • show, by their answers, that they have grasped the key ideas

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