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Send as many questions as you like! Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Hi Dean! Physics Magnetism Curious Kids magnets. Students will also complete a drawing of the experiment. Actually, the Earth's north and south magnetic poles reside deep within the earth's center. This has some interesting information that talks about how the earth has magnetic poles. It clears up misconceptions about this. This lesson challenged the students to think about magnets and allowed them the opportunity to explore and discover on their own the properties of magnet poles.
Some things that I feel I did to make the lesson successful was that I told the students just enough to get them started with their discovery.
When I passed out the magnets I told the students to notice the pick and green sides of the magnets because that would mean something to them later. Then I modeled for the students how to conduct the experiment without actually doing the experiment and giving the results away.
This lesson almost feel apart before it began. I committed a serious error; I did not test my materials far enough in advanced to be sure they would work before I did the lesson with my students. My partner, Ann, was to teach the lesson before me and we assumed, incorrectly, that the poles would attract and repel one another, as they should. They did not. Ann discovered only minutes before her lesson was to begin that they did not work. We were able to get more magnets and do the lesson but what if we did not learn the magnets did not work and we gave them to the students and the students could not do the lesson properly?
This was a valuable learning experience: Always check your materials! There were some teaching methods that I would change about this lesson also. First, I would have explained how they were to draw what they saw happening with the magnets differently or I would not have them draw at all but recorded their observations in a different manner.
I would also have done my creative drama a little sooner during my colloquium to give their discussion more meaning. Instead of waiting until we talked about all the pole combinations and their effects, I would have done the drama after we discussed each one, north to north, south to south, north to south.
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