pressure lesson 1 worksheet
DESCRIPTION
2 simple pressure examples without numbers - did the pictures myself - that dog needs a collar tho :(TRANSCRIPT
Some Pressure Tricks!
In the wintertime, Maya’s dog falls through the ice into a pond. She is just
about to run across the ice when she remembers that she is
........................ than he is. She would fall through the ice too. She goes
to get a ladder from her garden shed. She knows that even though she
and the ladder weigh a lot, if she spreads the ..................... out over a
wide ................ , the .............................. will be less, and the ice might
hold. It works, and she saves her dog.
weight force area heavier sharp
pressure
Raj can lie on a bed of nails. Everyone thinks he’s a superman, but Raj’s
secret is that science helps him to do the trick. If he lay on just one nail,
his weight would drive it into him, ouch! But
if he spreads the downward
............................ of his body over a wide
................. containing lots of nails, he won’t
get hurt, because the
............................................ on each nail is
so much less. (He makes sure the nails
aren’t too ........................ , too!)
Use these words!
Use these words!