Lesson Materials

Per Student

• science notebook

Per Class

• Our Growing Ideas chart

• class model

• Magnets (book in slides)

Per Class

• Magnet Strength and Distance Test

  • 1 digital scale ring magnet securely taped to it

  • ruler

  • 3 ring magnets

Prep

Review 

• Lesson Plan

• Slides

• Following Student Sensemaking (Lessons 9-11)

• Assessment

Prepare 

• Have ready a print copy of the Magnets book or plan to project the slide deck to read this text aloud.

• Create small group testing stations that include a digital scale with a ring magnet taped to it, a ruler to measure distance, and three additional ring magnets to test with. See the Strength and Distance Investigation Setup reference for pictures of the materials and setup for each test.

• To clean up materials after testing magnets, have students place the items back into the bins. Magnets will be used again.

• Depending on the number of stations available and the number of groups you have, a group may need to take turns running their fair tests of magnet strength and direction. If so, have groups rotate between collecting data and then answering questions on their handout while another group collects data.

• Please review the general safety protocols for demonstrations and hands-on activities that use magnets found here: General Safety Guidance for Using Magnets.