Transcript MagnetsAttract

MAGNETS ATTRACT
THAT’S A FACT
Magnetic Attraction
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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
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references:
https://mail.nwacc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://arkansased.org/teachers/pdf/science_k8_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
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How did it go?
What did I like/not like?
How did the students feel about it?
Did they learn anything?