Magnets & Motors
Grade : 6
Subjects: Circuits. Currents. Data collection. Electricity. Electromagnetism. Electromagnets. Engines. Generators. Magnetism. Magnets. Observation. Physical sciences. Prediction. Problem solving. Process skills. Science.
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| Abstract |
| Abstract: This curriculum kit, developed for grade 6 as part of the Science & Technology for Children series, introduces students to electricity and magnetism. The STC series offers twenty four inquiry centered science curriculum kits that provide elementary school children with opportunities to learn about topics in the physical, life, and earth sciences and technology through direct observation and experimentation. Each kit includes a teacher's guide, student guide, and laboratory materials. This kit, which builds on the knowledge and skills gained in the STC ELECTRIC CIRCUITS unit, contains materials for sixteen activities. Students explore properties of magnets, investigate the magnetic properties of electric currents, and experiment with ways to vary the strength of electromagnets. They also build and use a magnetic compass, and assemble several increasingly complex electric motors. In a culminating activity, students dismantle, experiment with, and reassemble a manufactured motor, at one point reversing it to form an electric generator they use to light a bulb. For each activity, the teacher's guide provides an overview, objectives, and background information as well as materials needed, preparation and procedural directions, extensions, and ways to evaluate student learning. It also includes post unit assessments of student progress and an annotated bibliography of books teachers and students and helpful information for teachers about electricity. The student activity book, available in English and Spanish, provides a Think and Wonder section for each activity and a Find Out for Yourself section that includes questions, procedures for setting up the activity, and an ideas to explore. A training videotape is also available. (Author/KSR/LCT) |
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Kit includes: 1 teacher's guide (vii, 137 pages : illustrated ; 28 cm.) 15 student activity boos (each, 61 pages : illustrated ; 28 cm.) 1 materials kit: 1 packing list (1 sheet ; 28 cm.) 90 flexible magnets (each, 25 x 20 x 5 mm. with 1 hole) 40 plastic cups with lids, 10 ounce 1 roll of string, 200 feet 2 number 2 pencils 30 wooden sticks (each, 15 x 4 cm.) 15 tongue depressors 15 number 742 white cardboard boxes (each, 10 x 5 x 20 cm.) 10 Bag-o-stuff II 1 box of 100 jumbo paper clips 2 boxes of 100 number 1 paper clips 500 number 10 steel washers 30 magnetic compasses 30 straight pins 90 plastic drinking straws 120 single colored 3/4 in. diameter dots 30 D cell batteries 30 battery holders 30 mini bulbs 60 bulb sockets 1 wire stripper tool 2 12D aluminum nails 30 12D common nails 2 3 x 1/4 inch brass bolts 30 1/2 x 3/8 inch steel bolts 30 3 x 1/4 inch steel bolts 2 1 1/4 x 1/4 inch steel bolts 2 3 x 1/8 inch steel bolts 2 3 x 3/8 inch steel bolts 2 3 x 1/2 inch steel bolts 2 4 x 1/4 inch steel bolts 2 5 x 1/4 inch steel bolts 10 graph grid transparencies 8 transparency marker pens 10 envelopes 1 package of assorted construction paper 60 alligator clips 1 roll number 20 bare copper wire, 50 feet 2 rolls number 20 hook-up wire, total of 50 feet 3 rolls number 22 hookup wire, total of 300 feet 1 roll number 28 enameled wire, 75 feet 20 2 x 2 inch sandpaper squares 6 screwdrivers 30 electric motors 1 roll of electrical tape 60 number 16 rubber bands 60 number 84 rubber bands 1 Magnets and motors discovery deck (32 cards : color illustrations ; 23 cm.) 1 guide to Magents and motors discovery deck (9 pages ; 28 cm.) 1 storage box for the discovery deck, 24 x 32 x 10 cm. 1 Magnets and motors training videotape (VHS, 46 min. 28 sec : sound, color ; 1/2 in.) 1 purple plastic storage container, 32 x 62 x 50 cm. 1 Spanish language student activity book (61 pages : illustrated ; 28 cm.) |
| Table of Contents |
| [Teacher's guide:] Foreword Acknowledgments Goals for Magnet and motors Unit overview and materials list Teaching strategies and classroom management tips Lessons Getting started, pre unit assessment What can magnets do? How can you find out what magnets can do? Measuring magnets Building a compass Using a compass: Which way is which? Creating magnetism through electricity Making magnets through electricity Designing an experiment to test the strength of an electromagnet Testing an electromagnet Showing others what you have learned Making a motor Building a spinning coil motor What is inside an electric motor? How does a motor work? Generating electricity Appendices Post unit assessments Teacher's record chart of student progress Making a mystery box Background: Electric circuits Using a wire stripper Making and repairing alligator leads Setting up a learning center for Magnets and motors Bibliography Materials reorder list [Student activity book, videotape:] Lessons Getting started, pre unit assessment What can magnets do? How can you find out what magnets can do? Measuring magnets Building a compass Using a compass: Which way is which? Creating magnetism through electricity Making magnets through electricity Designing an experiment to test the strength of an electromagnet Testing an electromagnet Showing others what you have learned Making a motor Building a spinning coil motor What is inside an electric motor? How does a motor work? Generating electricity [Discovery deck:] Welcome to the discovery deck Using the discovery deck cards Bibliography Acknowledgments Credits [Discovery deck cards:] Lodestone, magnets, and more Finding magnetic fields Making magnets: May the force stay with you Magnetic boats Making a cassette tape Read it in the rocks Wayfinding Navigation today Orienteering Sea turtles in bathing suits Amanda remembers electric circuits Make your own telegraph Relaying the message Two sides of the same coin Electromagnets make it happen The recycling center 1492: Columbus sails the ocean blue Magnet trick Searching for treasures, and other stuff MRI: Seeing what X-rays can't see Blackout! The war of the currents How vending machines deliver the goods The case of the coiled wire Car motors The power grid It's a spinning thing! Niagara Make a loudspeaker A shoelace in space |