To know the properties of
magnets.
Write down as
many scientific
key words as
you can to
describe these
To know the properties of
magnets.
Success criteria Describe a simple test for magnetic
materials.
 Describe the interactions between
combinations of magnetic poles.
 Describe that when a magnetic material is
placed near a magnet it also becomes a
magnet.
 Describe an appropriate approach to
answer a scientific question using a limited
range of information.
To know the properties of magnets.
Investigation
1. Investigating magnetic
materials
2. Investigating magnets
through materials
3. Investigating poles
4. Investigating magnetic field
Observations
What I found out
To know the properties of
magnets.
1. Investigating magnetic materials
• Go around the classroom, what materials are
magnetic?
• Try the materials in the cup, which are
magnetic?
To know the properties of
magnets.
2. Investigating magnets through materials
• Do the magnets still work through paper?
• What about other materials?
• What happens to a paper clip when you put it
on a magnet?
• Why?
To know the properties of
magnets.
3. Investigating poles
Which poles attract?
Which poles repel?
To know the properties of
magnets.
4. Investigating magnetic
field
• What does a magnetic
field look like?
• Prove it!
• Use a compass to plot
the magnetic field of a
magnet
To know the properties of
magnets.
To know the properties of
magnets.
To know the properties of
magnets.
Never lose your loose change
again. Who needs a piggy bank
when you’ve got a magnet?
Magnetic
Pennies
Grab this stuff…
Flash cash!
Use the magnet to fish for pennies.
Try to get a penny to spin really fast.
Get a penny to roll uphill.
Impress your mates with amazing penny sculptures.
Use the magnets to find out in what year they started adding steel
to the pennies
To know the properties of
magnets.
Loadstone is a
magnetic rock.
What do you
think this
means?
To know the properties of
magnets.
Loadstone refers to naturally
occurring pieces of intensely
magnetic magnetite that were
used for magnetizing compasses.
Iron, steel and ordinary magnetite
are attracted to a magnetic field,
including the Earth’s magnetic
field. Only magnetite with a
particular crystalline structure,
lodestone, has the coercivity to
act as a permanent magnet and
attract and magnetize iron.
To know the properties of
magnets.
Success criteria Describe a simple test for
magnetic materials.
 Describe the interactions
between combinations of
magnetic poles.
 Describe that when a
magnetic material is
placed near a magnet it
also becomes a magnet.
 Describe an appropriate
approach to answer a
scientific question using a
limited range of
information.
1.
How do you know if
something is magnetic?
2. Which poles attract and
repel?
3. What happens to pennies
when they are put near
and magnet and why?
4. What doe sit mean that
loadstone is a magnetic
rock?
To know the properties of
magnets.