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Overview
Students investigate the concepts
of physical science. Students explore the natural
and human-made worlds by observing and manipulating
materials in focused settings using simple tools
Learning Expectations:
Understand the interrelationship between the force and energy
of electricity and magnetism.
- Observe the interaction of permanent magnets with a variety
of common materials.
- Discover that magnets display forces of attraction and repulsion.
- Measure the change in force between two magnets as the distance
between them changes.
- Identify materials that are conductors and insulators.
- Understand and construct simple open, closed, parallel and
series circuits.
- Learn how to make an electromagnet.
- Experience the relationship between the number of turns
of wire around an electromagnet core and the strength of the
magnetism.
- Use their knowledge of electromagnets to make a telegraph.
- Identify a simple problem and propose a solution.
- Evaluate a product design.
- Know basic energy types, sources and conversions.
- Communicate a problem, design, and solution.
- Acquire vocabulary associated with magnetism and electricity.
- Apply language, art, social studies, and math skills in
the context of magnetism and electricity investigations.
- Develop and refine the manipulative skills required for
making investigations in magnetism and electricity.
- Use scientific thinking processes to conduct investigations
and build explanations: observing, communicating, comparing,
and organizing.
- Work collaboratively and use tools and scientific
techniques to make better observations.
- Understand science
safety and follow safe practices during investigations.
Assessments:
- Lab experiments
- Performance assessments
- Reflective journals
- Teacher created assessments
- End of unit projects
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Homework/Class work
- Teacher observations
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Magnetism
and
Electricity
Full Option
Science System
Module
(FOSS)
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Content: Physical
Science
Develop students’ understanding of
the characteristics of organisms
- Magnets attract and repel each other and certain
kinds of other materials: electricity in circuits can produce
light, heat, sound, and magnetic effects; electric circuits require
a complete loop through which an electric current can pass.
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Internet Links:
FOSS.com
pde.state.pa.us/k12/lib/k12/scitech.doc
education-world.com/
standards/national/science/index.shtm
umtsd.org/Science_list
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