Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Develop scientific method and thinking, using curiosity to generate questions.
- Answer questions by testing and sorting items using magnets.
Activities
- Play a guessing game to encourage theories and predictions on which items will be magnetic.
- Turn their theories into questions that can be answered through scientific enquiry.
- Methodically test, classify and sort different items/materials and thus raise more questions to consider.
- Record findings and report back on them to the class.
Investigation - exploring/predicting/classifying and identifying
Investigate how magnets attract some materials and not others. Compare and group materials.
Vocabulary
Magnetic, non-magnetic, attract, attraction, theory