Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Revise and reinforce knowledge of attraction and repulsion between magnetic poles through participation in an active game.
- Devise and prepare activities (for visitors to a science fair, that use magnetic force.
Activities
- Play a game to revise and reinforce knowledge of how magnets attract and repel depending on which poles are facing.
- Work in a group to devise a magnetic game or challenge for visitors to a science fair.
- Assemble and make resources to run activity including signs to introduce the challenge.
- Consider what each activity will teach visitors about magnetism.
Investigation - exploring
Develop a game or activity that uses magnetic forces by trying out a variety of ideas.
Vocabulary
Magnetic, non-magnetic, attract, repel, attraction, repulsion, poles, time, record, force