Exploring Magnets

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Exploring Magnets

Description:

Students explore the concepts of magnetic force with a variety of magnets and experiments, making predictions, recording observations and data, and drawing conclusions.

Education Levels:

1, 2, 3, 4

Subject:

Physical Sciences

Resource Type:

Unit of instruction

Fee Status:

Partially Free

Online provider:

The NEED Project

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Keywords:

Magnetism, Atoms, Magnets, Nucleus, Neutrons, Force, Electrical charges, Electrons, Protons

Mediator:

Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

The NEED Project

Is Part Of:

http://www.need.org/

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Science

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

National Science Education Standards (1995)

Content Standard E: Science and Technology

Understandings About Science and Technology

People have always had questions about their world. Science is one way of answering questions and explaining the natural world.

Conforms To

Core Content for Science Assessment (1999)

Conceptual Understandings: Physical Science

Properties of Objects and Materials

Objects have many observable properties such as size, mass, shape, color, temperature, magnetism, and the ability to react with other substances. Some properties can be measured using tools such as metric rulers, balances, and thermometers.

Conforms To

Science Curriculum Standards (2000)

IV. Physical Science

Units of Study: Changes in Matter, Magnets

B. Magnetism

1. Magnets attract and repel each other and certain kinds of other materials.

Conforms To

National Science Education Standards (1995)

Content Standard B: Physical Science

Properties of Objects and Materials

Objects are made of one or more materials, such as paper, wood, and metal. Objects can be described by the properties of the materials from which they are made, and those properties can be used to separate or sort a group of objects or materials.

Conforms To

National Science Education Standards (1995)

Content Standard D: Earth and Space Science

Properties of Earth Materials

Earth materials are solid rocks and soils, water, and the gases of the atmosphere. The varied materials have different physical and chemical properties, which make them useful in different ways, for example, as building materials, as sources of fuel, or for growing the plants we use as food. Earth materials provide many of the resources that humans use.

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