Magnetism - Magnets and Electromagnets Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Dominoes Game

A comprehensive and fully resourced lesson on magnets and electromagnets plus an enjoyable yet challenging dominoes game.

What’s Covered

• Magnetic materials can be made into magnets.
• Iron, cobalt and nickel and their alloys are magnetic materials.
• Unlike poles attract and like pole repel.
• There is an invisible magnetic field around a magnet made up of field lines.
• Draw the field lines around a bar magnet.
• The closer together the field lines the stronger the magnetic field.
• Draw the field lines around two bar magnets with like and unlike poles facing.
• There are more field lines around the poles where the magnetic field is strongest.
• The magnetic field strength gets less as distance from the magnet increases.
• Field lines point away from the south pole and towards the north pole of a magnet.
• When a magnetic material is made into a magnet, the randomly facing domains all line up to point in the same direction.
• The Earth acts as though there as a south-type pole at magnetic north and a north-type pole at magnetic south.
• Explain how an electric bell, a circuit breaker and a relay work

What’s Included

Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut and stick activity.
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
• Fact sheet
• Homework plus answers
• Fact share worksheet
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Game

• 90 dominos
• Animated PowerPoint explaining the rules and how to play.

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