TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Build an Electromagnet!
Young scholars build electromagnets and experiment with ways to change their strength.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Levitating Magnets: Floating Isn't Just for Magicians
If you ever seen a magician float an object in the air, you might think that levitation is just a magic trick, but the truth is you can use an invisible physical force to levitate a magnet. Try this simple, week-long science project to...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Magnetism and Electromagnetism
In this interactive learning module, students learn about the basic properties of magnetism. Practice problems are provided for ongoing assessment.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Faraday's Electromagnetic Lab
Investigate with a bar magnet and coils to learn about Faraday's law. You can also play with electromagnets, generators, and transformers!
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Slinkies as Solenoids
In this activity, students use an old fashion children's toy, a metal slinky, to mimic and understand the magnetic field generated in an MRI machine. The metal slinky mimics the magnetic field of a solenoid, which forms the basis for the...
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Magnetized
A unit all about magnets! Explore magnetic forces, types of magnets, and more through these informative activities.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 8.3 Forces at a Distance
This unit allows students to investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Physical Science
This guide focuses on four physical science topics that fascinate children and scientists alike. They are motion, magnets, sound, and light. With your guidance and support, these topics provide children with many opportunities to explore...
Open Ed
Open Ed Sci: 8.3 Forces at a Distance
This unit launches with a slow-motion video of a speaker as it plays music. In the previous unit, students developed a model of sound. This unit allows students to investigate the cause of a speaker's vibration in addition to the effect.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Ferromagnetism
This site from the Georgia State University provides a good overview of ferromagnetic materials, introducing concepts such as magnetic domains, hysteresis, the curie temperature, and magnetostriction.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Magnet
Wikipedia.com provides an excellent introductory site on magnets. Including basic information describing different types of magnets and their characteristics.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Magnetism
Detailed information on magnetism, a physics phenomenon. Page includes a hyperlinked table of contents for easy navigation. Wikipedia is an online wiki, popular (not scholarly) in nature.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Electromagnet
Easy-to-read information and an illustration of an "electromagnet," a type of magnet in which the magnetic field is induced by the flow of an electric current.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Curie Temperature
In this experiment, students experience the Curie point--and what happens when a piece of iron gets too hot to attract a magnet.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Going for a Spin Making a Model Steam Turbine
Learners explore how various energy sources can be used to cause a turbine to rotate and then generate electricity with a magnet.
Other
Sc Icentre: Magnets and Magnetism
Gives a simple description of the theory of magnetism and the properties of a magnet. Very good descriptions for beginning level.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Curie Point
Did you know that a piece of iron can lose its magnetism if heated too high? There is a point called the Curie point when iron is heated to a high enough temperature that its iron atoms are scrambled and can't line up to form a magnetic...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Building an Electromagnet
Student teams investigate the properties of electromagnets. They create their own small electromagnet and experiment with ways to change its strength to pick up more paper clips. Students learn about ways that engineers use...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get Your Motor Running
Students investigate motors and electromagnets as they construct their own simple electric motors using batteries, magnets, paper clips and wire.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality
Learners learn about magnets and how they are formed. They investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. Specifically, students learn about magnetic memory storage, which is the reading and writing of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Two Sides of One Force
Learners learn more about magnetism, and how magnetism and electricity are related in electromagnets. They learn the fundamentals about how simple electric motors and electromagnets work. Students also learn about hybrid...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Magnetic Attraction
Students complete a series of six short investigations involving magnets to learn more about their properties. Students also discuss engineering uses for magnets and brainstorm examples of magnets in use in their everyday lives.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Magnetism
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary of magnetism.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Ph Et: Interactive Simulation: Magnets and Electromagnets
Move a bar magnet or an electromagnet around to see how the magnetic fields change. Requires Java.