Magnetism - Magnets and Electromagnets Fully Resourced lesson Plus Save the School Nurse Escape Room KS3

This is a comprehensive and enjoyable introduction to magnetism and electromagnets for middle school science students. The fully resourced topic comes with an engaging animated PowerPoint and a collection of ten worksheets, guided notes, activities and homework. A one – page flow chart lesson plan shows where logical choices can be made between resources if time requires. The PowerPoint includes an animated investigation into how increasing the number of turns on the coil increases the strength of an electromagnet. The student is required to plan the investigation and design a results table. A set of results is included so that the student can draw a graph and a conclusion should apparatus not be available.

To reinforce learning at the end of the topic or for test prep, an enjoyable yet challenging “Save the School Nurse” escape room is included.

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

Escape Room
PowerPoint – scene setting and instructions (sound effects and built-in timer);
crossword
word search
dominoes activity
worksheet
code breaker sheet
answers
lesson plan.

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