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Preview: "Magnets & Motion" On-Demand Video Lesson
Your students will form “strong attractions” to these kinetic projects that are all about Balanced and Unbalanced Forces, Predicting Paths of Motion and Magnetic Energy. Plenty of open-ended creativity and exploration in this workshop too!
Grade: 3-5
Length: 60-90 minutes.
Group Size: 15-150 students.
Students need: Magnets and Motion” Toymaker Kits, colored markers, tape, scissors
More Info: Your intermediate students will experience a fun-filled, hands-on toy-building adventure that directly supports and extends national science standards around the topic of Magnets and Motion.
Professional toy inventor and nationally recognized educator Rick “Mister Toymaker” Hartman provides the instruction with a Video-Guided (On-Demand) lesson teeming with scientific surprises, entertaining demonstrations and informative content.
Your students will use simple materials like wood blocks, wheels and rubber bands to build two fascinating toys that demonstrate important concepts studied in classrooms. Topics like: magnetic forces and fields, attraction and repulsion, paths of motion, and engineering design.
Perfect for curriculum enhancement, "In-School Field Trips," and other special occasions, the "Magnets and Motion" workshop promises to be a "Best Day Ever" for students, teachers, and parent volunteers alike!
Magnets & Motion (2-5) Class Pack Special
3-PS2-1 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interaction
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
3-PS2-2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interaction
Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
3-PS2-3 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interaction
Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
3-PS2-4 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interaction
Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.
3-5-ETS1-1 Engineering Design
Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3-5-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
3-5-ETS1-3 Engineering Design
Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.