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1. post test
2. Testing magnetism of different
objects lab
3. Demostration lab
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Learning Activities:
We need to create a pretest for electricity part and one for magnetic
* Day 1: (ENGAGE)
Intro: Play Bill Nye edited version of magnetism
http://www.teachertube.com/video/bill-nye-magnetism-edited-312554
1. Discuss with students after (10 min video)
2. Possibly make up questions for the video
Day 2:
Vocabulary Day and Comprehension
1. Compass, magnet, magnet, magnetic field, magnetic field, magnetic force, magnetic
pole, needle
2. Graphic organizer made for vocabulary: word, definition, picture, sentenc
3. Add to notebooks: make it a flip chart style with post-it notes to add to their notebooks
Day 3:
Magnetic Stations
Students will explore different aspects off magnetism and how they work
Each station has a graphic organizer and writing assessment
Day 4
Reading comprehension: All About Magnets with ten comprehension questions at the end.
This will be done whole class with the smartboard.
Stopping and asking students what they think is important for every paragraph
Day 5
Reading comprehension: The Earths Magnetic Field with 5 comprehension questions at the end
Done as a whole class and added to our notebooks.
Day 6: In their notebooks students will draw pictures of magnetic poles, magnetic fields, and
the earths magnetic field
Students will be given bar magnets and iron fillingsthey are to try to reproduce the picture
displaying magnetic fields
Given fill in the blank notes and will begin reading as a classusing smartboard will have
students go up and fill in the blanks as we read
Day 7: complete reading chapter 9 section 1 magnets and magnetic fields
Then work on section review with students
Day 8: review the vocabulary words: domain, solenoid, and electromganet
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With fill in the blank notes to read chapter 9 section 2: electricity and magnetism
Continue with reading as a whole class, and students will go to board as we find the fill in the
blanks
Day 9:
part of class: students will create a circuit and put a compass next to it. They will then write
what they are observing, students will do this in complete sentences. Students will create a
electro-magnet
Second part of class: students will be listening to and reading max axiom: magnetism
A set of questions will be with the books
Day 10: Class review of chapter, vocabualary
Three different levels of review and tests created.
Day 11
Test
Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (2006). Understanding by Design (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Pearson.
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