Lesson Six – Magnetic Games
This science scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to design and build a game involving magnets to explain and illustrate scientific concepts related to magnetic force and how magnets work on different materials.
The class can demonstrate how magnets can work through different materials to move something as part of a game such as a car moving down a race track.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to design and build a game involving magnets to explain and illustrate scientific concepts related to magnetic force and how magnets work on different materials
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and explain some true and false facts about how magnets work and a set of worksheets to plan and build games to prove and illustrate different concepts about magnetic force acting on a range of materials.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to build a game to explain and illustrate scientific concepts of magnets.
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to practise conducting a range of fair tests to identify and compare different materials based on magnetism and friction that can occur between surfaces. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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Ordering and Changing
Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less
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Changing Hundreds
Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits
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Digit Changes
Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values