Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 186 and 187 from Next Page Science KS3 Complete. Accompanying PowerPoint and word searches available for free from the website.
This exercise covers:
• The three magnetic metals: iron, nickel, and cobalt
• The shape of a magnetic field around a bar magnet and how to plot it using a compass
• Cutting magnets in half and the resulting magnets produced
• Attraction and repulsion and the shape of the magnetic fields
• Induced magnetism explained as to why magnetic metals are attracted
• The earth’s magnetic field and why a compass needle lines up to point in a north-south direction
• Two exercises plotting magnetic fields: bar magnets and horseshoe magnets
• An attract or repel exercise
• A ‘can it be picked up?’ exercise
• Amazing WHAT? facts
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