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30 mins

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Magnets: What Do They Pull?

Children investigate magnets by guessing which everyday objects will be pulled towards them. They test their ideas using chunky magnets at stations and record one object that moved by drawing it.

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1 Getting Started
2 Look and Wonder
3 Magnet Station Play
4 Show and Draw
5 Make-sense Talk
Pupil practice

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Your teacher is running this lesson on the board. Here is the part you can try yourself.

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Ste exploration

Observation

Group discussion

1 - Getting Started ~3 mins

Magnet lifting a paperclip through air, the puzzle that opens the lesson Watch this paperclip. How did it move without me touching it?

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2 - Look and Wonder ~3 mins

The tray of test objects children will guess about, shown clearly Look at our tray. Which things do you think the magnet will pull?

Note

Magnet: a special thing that can pull some things to it. Pull: when something jumps or sticks to the magnet.

Key point

We wonder, we guess, then we try.

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3 - Magnet Station Play ~13 mins

How to hold the magnet over the tray so objects jump up Hold your magnet over each thing on the tray. Feel which ones jump. Take turns with your partner.

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4 - Show and Draw ~6 mins

Look at the things the magnet pulled. Choose one. Draw that one on your drawing page.

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5 - Make-sense Talk ~3 mins

Sorted results: which tray objects the magnet pulled and which it did not Which things did the magnet pull? What were they like?

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Pupil practice · Investigation Journal

Module 3 · Energy and Forces: What Makes Things Go, Pushes and Pulls, and Magnets

Lesson 22 · Magnets: What Do They Pull?

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Magnets: What Do They Pull?

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1 - Getting Started ~3 mins

2 - Look and Wonder ~3 mins

3 - Magnet Station Play ~13 mins

4 - Show and Draw ~6 mins

5 - Make-sense Talk ~3 mins

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