Matter and Energy Unit Part 6: Magnetism

This unit includes 5 lessons (50 minutes each) and 7 pages of printable work bundles. The Work Bundles have students fill-in critical notes, conduct exciting hands-on activities such as building electromagnets, simple motors, and linear magnet accelerator, answer questions, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. A Quiz Game concludes for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, materials list, video links, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning.

Magnetism is defined with a red slide. Students then use magnets and poles are discussed. Students learn that opposite poles attract while the same poles repel. Some optional activities are presented that have students build a magnet motion machine, and magnetic linear accelerator. Directions and visuals / links are provided. Neodymium magnets are needed for the linear magnetic accelerator. An activity with magnets and iron fillings is presented with directions to create a magnetic field with the help of some white paper. The Earth's EM field is described. An activity on how to use a compass is also included with visuals and step by step directions. A neat lab activity has students construct simple electrical motors using some 22 gauge wire, paper clips, D battery, sharpie marker, and some wire with clamps. Directions, visual of set-up, questions, and answers are provided. Faraday's Law is described in a sequence of slides and directions are included for students to build their own electromagnets from copper wire, a nail, and batteries. This is a really neat PowerPoint full of activities. If you can't conduct all of the activities, explanations are always presented at the end. Please see the entire unit that this PowerPoint is a part of described below before purchase.

This PowerPoint includes critical notes (Red Slides), exciting visuals, challenge questions, activities with directions and more. Text is usually placed at the top of the slide so it can be read from all angles of a classroom. Color coded slides, as well as a shade technique is used to increase student focus and allows the teacher to control the pace of the lesson. These PowerPoints are meant to be interactive as possible and ask many questions, provides built in review opportunities, explains directions to activities, and much more.

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