Lesson Planning

Teaching

Activities

  1. Play a game to revise and reinforce knowledge of how magnets attract and repel depending on which poles are facing.
  2. Work in a group to devise a magnetic game or challenge for visitors to a science fair.
  3. Assemble and make resources to run activity including signs to introduce the challenge.
  4. 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