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Magnets: Attract and Repel

Magnet attracting metal objects

🟢 BUILD KNOWLEDGE - Magnet Vocabulary

WALT: Identify and understand key vocabulary about magnets

1. Match the magnetic vocabulary to the correct meaning:
Magnet
Attract
Repel
Magnetic
Force
A push or pull that cannot be seen
To pull objects towards itself
Materials that stick to magnets
To push objects away
An object that attracts iron and steel
2. Circle the materials you predict will be magnetic:

Paper clip

Plastic spoon

Steel nail

Wooden pencil

Aluminium foil

Iron screw

🔵 MAKE MEANING - Investigation Table

WALT: Test materials to discover which ones are magnetic

Investigation Question: Which materials are magnetic?

3. Complete the investigation table as you test each object:
Object Prediction Result Magnetic or Non-Magnetic
Paper clip
Plastic spoon
Steel nail
Wooden pencil
Coin
4. What pattern do you notice about magnetic materials?

🟣 APPLY UNDERSTANDING - Scientific Reflection

WALT: Make conclusions about magnetic forces based on observations

5. Complete these scientific observations using sentence frames:

Observation 1: I observed that magnets __________________ objects made of ________________.

Observation 2: I noticed that __________________ materials like plastic and wood __________________ stick to magnets.

Observation 3: When I brought two magnets together, they sometimes __________________ and sometimes __________________.

6. Write one conclusion about what makes something magnetic:

This suggests that _________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

7. EXIT TICKET - Complete this sentence:

Magnets attract __________________ because __________________

8. EXTENSION: Draw and label a diagram showing magnetic attraction and repulsion:

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