Lesson 1
Purpose Question: What do you want to know?
What's the Attraction?
Test the objects in your bag with the magnet.
Sort the objects into the table below.
Hypothesis: State what you think will happen.
Experimental Design: Make sure your experiment
helps you answer your question.
Independent Variable(s) (things you change)
Attracted
Not Attracted
Dependent Variable(s) (what you are testing)
Control (what stays the same each time)
Results: Write 2 to 3 sentences telling your
results.
Lesson 2
Floating Magnets
Conclusions: Write 2 to 3 sentences about why
you think you got the results.
Lesson 3
Purpose Question: What do you want to know?
Strong, Stronger, Strongest
Hypothesis: State what you think will happen.
Experimental Design: Make sure your experiment
helps you answer your question.
Independent Variable(s) (things you change)
Dependent Variable(s) (what you are testing)
Control (what stays the same each time)
Results: Write 2 to 3 sentences telling your
results.
Lesson 4
Testing the Force Field
Record your data in the table below after each
experiment.
Distance from
magnet (cm)
0
Conclusions: Write 2 to 3 sentences about why
you think you got the results.
2
4
6
8
10
12
Number of paperclips
attracted
Purpose Question: What do you want to know?
Results: Write 2 to 3 sentences telling your
results.
Hypothesis: State what you think will happen.
Experimental Design: Make sure your experiment
helps you answer your question.
Independent Variable(s) (things you change)
Dependent Variable(s) (what you are testing)
Control (what stays the same each time)
Conclusions: Write 2 to 3 sentences about why
you think you got the results.
Lesson 7
Purpose Question: What do you want to know?
Through Thick and Thin
Hypothesis: State what you think will happen.
Experimental Design: Make sure your experiment
helps you answer your question.
Independent Variable(s) (things you change)
Dependent Variable(s) (what you are testing)
Control (what stays the same each time)
Results: Write 2 to 3 sentences telling your
results.
Conclusions: Write 2 to 3 sentences about why
you think you got the results.
Lesson 8
Make a Simple Compass
How to Make a Simple Compass:
1. Place a cup of water on a circle on a sheet
of paper labeled “north” and “south”.
2. Align the paper so the word “NORTH” is
pointing north.
3. Stroke a needle on a magnet 50 times.
**Stroke it in the same direction!**
4. Place a small piece of paper (about 1”x1”) on
top of the water, making sure it floats.
5. Place the needle on top of the floating
paper.
6. The needle should turn and point north while
floating on the paper.
Explain why the needle points north.______________
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