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 * Unit 9L: Dam it 3 weeks **
 * ** Topic 1: Dam it ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 294 || Resources ||
 * * Understand how pressure depends on force and area.
 * Describe some situations where high or low pressure is useful.
 * Recall some units for pressure.
 * Use the equation for calculating pressure. || * Starter: Book p 139: read and answer all questions
 * Pressure and lever concept map
 * Book p140-141: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: pressure on your body
 * Wintry sums - worksheet 9La(5) and AT presentation
 * Research: Dams fact file
 * HW: worksheet || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * Equipment and worksheets 9La (2) for pressure on your body practical
 * Quick check 9La
 * Worksheets 9La (5)
 * AT presentation
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE physics section || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Quick check || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9La (1)
 * Must: worksheet 9La (6)
 * Worksheets 9La (7) (most) or (8) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 2: Under pressure ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 298 || Resources ||
 * * Explain why there is pressure from liquids and gases.
 * Describe what happens when a gas is compressed.
 * Recall how water pressure changes with depth.
 * Recall how air pressure changes with height. || * Starter: practical air pressure revision - demonstration
 * Book p 142-143 read and answer all questions
 * Practical: pressure all around – demonstration
 * Practical: pressure in liquids demonstration
 * Research: altitude sickness
 * Practical: decompression - demonstration
 * HW: worksheet || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * Equipment to demonstrate pressure all around and in liquids and decompression
 * Quick check 9Lb
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE physics section || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Quick check || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9Lb (1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 9Lb (5) and (6)
 * Worksheets 9Lb (8) and (9) (most) or (10) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 3: Using pressure ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 303 || Resources ||
 * * Know what hydraulic systems are.
 * Explain why liquids are used in hydraulic systems.
 * Explain why car brakes use hydraulic systems.
 * Work out the force produced by a hydraulic system. || * Starter: machines brainstorm
 * Research: Brunel’s “atmospheric railway’
 * Book p 146-147: read and answer all questions
 * Spraying paint – worksheet 9Lc (3)
 * Research task: CFCs
 * Practical: hydraulic systems - demonstration
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * Equipment for demonstration of hydraulic systems
 * Worksheets 9Lc (3)
 * Quick check 9Lc
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE physics section || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Quick check || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9Lc (1)
 * Must: worksheet 9Lc (2) and (3)
 * Worksheets 9Lc (4) and (5) (most) or (6) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 4: Moment by moment ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 307 || Resources ||
 * * Explain what a moment is.
 * Calculate the moment of a force.
 * Understand the meaning of ‘inequilibrium’.
 * Use the idea of equilibrium to work out forces or distances. || * Starter: balancing - demonstration
 * Practical: balance it
 * Book p 148-149: read and answer all questions
 * Bicycles, levers and moments- AB document
 * Research task: environmental and other consequences
 * Book p 150: read and answer all questions
 * Plenary: Quick quiz revisited
 * Prep: revise for test || * Exploring Science Year 9 text
 * Equipment and worksheet 9Kd (2) for balance it
 * AB document
 * Worksheet 9Kd(6)
 * 789science wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology section || Assessment:
 * End of unit test || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 9Ld (1)
 * Must: worksheet 9Ld (3) and (4)
 * Worksheets 9Ld (5) (most) or (6) (some) ||