Magnetism - Magnets and Electromagnets Fully Resourced Lesson Plus 7 Game Compendium KS3

A comprehensive and enjoyable introduction to magnetism and electromagnets plus a compendium of seven enjoyable and challenging games on suitable for all abilities. Each game is fully resourced, comes with full instructions and is easy to run. This versatile games pack can be used to enhance a lesson, for revision or for cover lessons, even when taken by a non-specialist as most come with answers. It is also the ideal end of term/year pack.

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.
• Function of the electric bell, circuit breaker and relay

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

Games Included

• Find the Pair Team Game
• Dominoes
• 42 Question Board Game
• Save the School Nurse Escape Room
• Smart Board Bingo
• Wildcard & Snap

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