1. MAGNETS ATTRACT
THAT’S A FACT

2. Magnetic Attraction What objects are attracted to magnets?
What is not attracted to a magnet?
What are the differences between these materials?
What do these things have in common?

3. State Standards:
Life Science: Motion and Forces Students shall demonstrate and apply knowledge of motion and forces using appropriate safety procedures, equipment, and technology.
Communicate observations orally, in writing, and in graphic organizers: • T-charts • pictographs • Venn diagrams • bar graphs
Develop questions that guide scientific inquiry
Make predictions in teams and as individuals based upon empirical evidence
Classify objects based on two or more properties
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4. Initial Ideas Do you know what this is? What does it do?
What will it attract?
Why?

5. Experiment Gave each student an object Gave each student a magnet
Made predictions about each object
Attract/not attract?
What do these have in common?
Gave each student a magnet
Tested and recorded the results
Looked at the results to see what the things that were attracted/not attracted had in common

6. Summarizing Questions
Asked each student to draw a picture of something a magnet would attract & something a magnet would not attract
Asked each student to write down one thing they learned about magnets

8. Conclusion How did it go? What did I like/not like?
How did the students feel about it?
Did they learn anything?