Archimedes Principle Class VIII

• English
• WO
• Studiejaar 6

Learning Outcome 

• Understand and Explain Archimede’s principle and buoyant force.
  
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  Identify areas where the principle can be applied.    
• Identify details, characters & main ideas while reading.
  
• appreciate a poem, and enjoy its rhythm and language.
  
• answer factual, inferential, referential questions.
  

 

Do you know any famous scientists and their discoveries? Share some examples with the class.

What is Archimedes principle?
Have you heard of the term Buoyant force?

Let's Restate

Archimedes' principle, physical law of buoyancy, discovered by the ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes, stating that any body completely or partially submerged in a fluid (gas or liquid) at rest is acted upon by an upward, or buoyant, force, the magnitude of which is equal to the weight of the fluid

Share any two places/things/situation where Archimedes principle is applied?

Application of the principle

• Designing ships and submarines.
• Lactometers based on Archimedes' principle are used to measure purity of a sample of milk.
• Hydrometers used to measure density of liquids are based on Archimedes' principle.

E- Recitation 

Using OUP

Expected Learning Goal

• Frame their own answers with the help of value points.
  

• State the value of remarkable discoveries that can be made through everyday activities in life and answer evaluative questions.

Identify the tone of the poem. 

Identify poetic devices in the first and second stanza. 

What had the Sicilian King ordered? 

 Why did the king suspect that the jeweller had cheated him? 

Summaries the poem highlighting the principle.

Elaborate the central idea of the poem. 

It is said that the king had the mixed feeling when he got the news. What would he have felt happy about? What would his feelings have been towards Goldsmith? What would he have done on account of these different feelings.