light or heavy? by: cecily flores
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LIGHT OR HEAVY? By: Cecily Flores. Have you ever tried to carry a cooler full of ice?. Have you ever carried a puppy?. Why do you think you could carry the puppy but not the cooler?. A puppy feels light when you pick it up. A cooler feels heavy. This is because they have different weights. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• A puppy feels light when you pick it up. A cooler feels heavy. This is because they have different weights.
• Sometimes we pick things up to guess if they are heavy, light, or about the same weight.
• Other times we can use scales to find out the exact weight. The heavier thing makes the scales go down.
• Luggage is weighed at the airport before it is loaded onto a plane, if a plane were overloaded it could not fly safely.
• So let’s review…
Sometimes we guess the weight of things.
Sometimes we use scales to know the exact weight.
Things can be heavy or light.
And it is very important that we know about weight because we use it everyday.