Student WebQuest

Teacher Notes - Electromagnet Fields
Created by: JoAnne Towles
Diocese of Orange
URL: http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons99/electro-t.html
URL:  http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/CTS99/electro-t.html 
Suggested Grade Level:Intermediate grades  4-5-6

California Science Content Standards:

Physical Sciences: number 1 a-b-c-d-e-
Investigation and Experimentation number 6 a-b-c-d-e-f 
 

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Background:
 
What do the students need to know prior to beginning WebQuest? 
  • In a permanent magnet, spinning electrons produce a magnetic field. Likewise, electrons moving through  a wire produce a magnetic field.
  • In an electromagnet,the coil is the source of the magnetic field. An iron is not necessary but is nearly always used

    • because it  intensifies the field. The core is made from material that does not become a permanent magnet.
     

    Source-Teacher Edition-Science in Your World-Grade 4 -MACMILLAN/McGRAW-HILL page 260  (1991)
     
         


Skills:
Science --- Interpreting Data, Making Inferences, Making Comparisons, Forming Hypothesis,
Making Predictions, Graphing, Drawing Conclusions

Connections with  Language Arts---Listening Skills, Comprehension, Following Directions,Drawing conclusions.

Connections with Math --- Counting,Comparison (greater-less), Fractions.

Computer literacy  and fluency
 

Effective use of Internet resources
 
 

Assessment:

Presentations -PowerPoint or Hyperstudio, Student created web page, worksheet, peer evaluation, rubric

Quiz:Complete the following sentences.

1.An electric current flowing through a  coil of wire produces a(N)_____________________.
2.An electromagnet is  an example of a _________________.
3.Acoil of wire moving through a magnetic field produces a(n) ____________________.
4.Electromagnets are used in many household appliances that have ______________________.

Homework
 

1.How  does an electromagnet  work?
2.How are electromagnets  useful  to us?

Enrichment:
(Examples)
Presentations -PowerPoint or Hyperstudio, Student created web page.
Follow-up  Activity (Suggested  for next  day)
All these activities -Quiz, Homework, and Follow-up are taken  with  much gratitude from the 
TEACHER EDITION SCIENCE IN YOUR  WORLD-GRADE 4  MACMILLAN/McGRAW-HILL (1991 edition)
Quiz-Independent Practice-#188  (#21-22-24-25)
Homework-page 265 Lesson Review (#1 and #3
Follow-up Activity -page 266 (all)
 

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E-Mail: jmtowles@hotmail.com
 
 

August 21, 1999
Revised August 9, 2000