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A Magnetic Personality

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders experiment to discover how many paper clips different types of magnets can pick up. They make predictions, carry out the experiment and collate the data.
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Magnetic Art (3+)

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the different fields of force of magnets and magnetized objects through the movement of metal filings. They use a magnet and metal filings to create a work of art.
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Electric and Magnetic Fields

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study the concept of magnetic and electric field.  In this magnetic lesson students participate in a lab using magnets.
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Magnetic Art

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the different fields of force of magnets and magnetized objects through the movement of metal filings. They create a work of art.
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How Are Magnetic Fields Related To Sunspots?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discover that sunspots are the result of intense magnetic forces on the photosphere of the sun by observing images from the SOHO satellite.
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Exploring Magnetism

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study magnetism.  In this solar wind lesson students complete several activities on space and weather.
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Monster Magnet Rally

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the properties of the N and S poles on a magnet. They attach small bar magnets to the top of "match box" cars and attempt to crash them into each other. They each write a summary describing their findings.
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Electricity and Magnetism

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars use the Launchball computer site to complete a game for magnetic pennies. For this magnetism lesson, students visit the given link to discover the properties of magnetism using magnets and pennies.
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Exploring Magnetism

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore several activities that allow them to gain a better understanding of magnetism.  In this investigative lesson students are given an activity by a teacher that has to do with magnetism. 
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Simple Circuit: Electric Currents and Circuits

For Teachers 4th
Through inquiry and exploration, 4th graders will learn and understand the functions of open and closed circuits. They will break into 2 groups, define vocabulary, hypothesize how to light a bulb, then test their hypothesis 4 different...
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Science Matters

Static Electricity

For Teachers 4th
Working with static electricity is sure to give the class a charge! Budding scientists experiment with balloons and different materials to discover how to create static electricity. They learn about the transfer of electrons and the...
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Three Ways to Generate Electricity

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Get your hands on electricity. Pupils investigate magnetic fields and make the connection to generators in the fourth lesson in a series of six lessons on wind versus solar energy. Learners use a small electric motor as a generator to...
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Orienteering - Lesson 9 - Declination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What's the difference between true north and magnetic north? Lesson 9 has your class practicing mapping using a compass and taking the correct declination into account. This lesson is one part of a 10 lesson unit on orienteering. There...
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Magnetometer Extension Activities

For Teachers K - 12th
Students observe magnetic fields and locate the position of "ore deposits" patterns using models and maps.  In this magnetometer lesson students complete a hands on activity and a reading/writing exercise. 
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A Magnetic Personality

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about magnets and how they are formed and used. In this magnet lesson, students investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. They specifically learn about memory storage.
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Magnetic Fields and Bermuda Triangles

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use a compass to determine the direction of a magnetic field at any point in space. They explain how two magnetic fields combine, then predict the location of areas where two fields can cancel each other to leave no resultant...
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The Magnetic Field in a Current Carrying Coil

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the relationship between a current in a coil and the magnetic field.  In this physics lesson students complete a lab activity using a magnet and batteries. 
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Magnetic Bookmarks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students design magnetic bookmarks with healthy living messages. They decide on the shape, length, color, and type of material to use for creating their bookmark. Students write in an "inventor's journal" about their design and...
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Teach Engineering

Changing Fields

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Eddy currents, Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law provide the connection between train brakes and and MRI machines in a lesson that asks teachers to provided the material needed so the pupils can understand the properties of changing magnetic...
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Compass Deviation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify and describe the difference between the magnetic north pole and true north. They consider why sailors could not steer a straight course to the New World from the Old.
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Going My Way?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students, in groups, study how a magnet works and how people use the Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves.
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Paper Clip Walk

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the behavior of magnetism using magnets. They discuss magnetic force, and conduct an experiment, testing how many paper plates can be stacked together before the force of the magnetic field no longer affects a...
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Motions and Forces

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the construction of a magnet and the force it produces. They identify various materials as magnetic or non-magnetic, discuss the properties of magnetic properties, and conduct an experiment with a compass and...
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Strange Attractor

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Learners explore magnetism. In this magnet activity, students assemble a magnet pendulum. Learners observe the pendulum noting the location of the magnetic poles as they construct the pendulum so that the free-swinging magnet comes as...

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