Has your class been repelled by your previous magnetism lesson plan? Try a fun interactive instead! The activity, part of the Static Electricity series, challenges scholars to infer the charges of a group of magnets based upon their interaction with one another. Three levels of questioning help you determine their level of understanding with ease.

Concepts

negative charges, positive charges, charged particles, electric charge, magnetic attraction, making inferences, magnets, magnetism, static electricity

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Add the activity to a chemistry or physics lesson to reinforce the concepts of charge and attraction
• Give learners magnets with positive and negative poles and have them recreate each question as they work through the interactive
  

Classroom Considerations

• Students should have some knowledge of magnetism
  

Pros

• The resource allows users to select their answers as they work through each problem, which is helpful for beginners getting used to working with charges
• Teacher materials make planning fast and easy
  

Cons

• None