Five ways of exhibiting magnetic field patterns.
Teaching Guidance 14-16
The term ‘basic magnet’ is intended to avoid the mistake in early theories of calling the domains ‘molecular magnets’. Tell...
Distinguishing–eliciting–connecting. How to:
Teaching Guidance 11-14
This is a common conflation. Children know that magnets are associated with a magnetic force and that there is magnetism...
Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14
Some pupils will argue that air is needed to enable magnets to attract and repel each other.
The very idea of a magnetic field is a demanding one to get hold of. The fact of the matter is that the magnetic field is a...
Our experience over many years of directing pupils to scatter iron filings around bar magnets has shown that the magnetic...
The point was made in the Physics Narrative that the Earth's magnetic pole in the Northern Hemisphere is, in fact, a south...
There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to try these strategies.
An electromagnet certainly looks quite different to a permanent bar magnet. It is therefore understandable that learners might...
When making an electromagnet in class, pupils are likely to wrap a coil of insulated wire around a nail or some other piece of...
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