MAGNETS ATTRACTTHAT’S A FACT

Magnetic Attraction

• What objects are attracted to magnets?• What is not attracted to a magnet?• What are the differences between these materials?• What do these things have in common?

State Standards:• Life Science: Motion and Forces

Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of motion and forces using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology.

• Communicate observations orally, in writing, and in graphic organizers: • T-charts • pictographs • Venn diagrams • bar graphs

• Develop questions that guide scientific inquiry • Make predictions in teams and as individuals based upon empirical

evidence • Classify objects based on two or more properties

•  references: https://mail.nwacc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://arkansased.org/teachers/pdf/science_k-8_011006.pdf

Initial Ideas

•Do you know what this is?•What does it do?•What will it attract?•Why?

Experiment

•Gave each student an object▫Made predictions about each object

Attract/not attract?▫What do these have in common?

•Gave each student a magnet•Tested and recorded the results•Looked at the results to see what the things that

were attracted/not attracted had in common

Summarizing Questions

•Asked each student to draw a picture of something a magnet would attract & something a magnet would not attract

•Asked each student to write down one thing they learned about magnets

Conclusion

•How did it go?•What did I like/not like?•How did the students feel about it?•Did they learn anything?