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...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

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.

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

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...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Our experience over many years of directing pupils to scatter iron filings around bar magnets has shown that the magnetic...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

The point was made in the Physics Narrative that the Earth's magnetic pole in the Northern Hemisphere is, in fact, a south...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to try these strategies.

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Distinguishing–eliciting–connecting. How to:

Teaching Guidance 11-14

An electromagnet certainly looks quite different to a permanent bar magnet. It is therefore understandable that learners might...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

When making an electromagnet in class, pupils are likely to wrap a coil of insulated wire around a nail or some other piece of...

Teaching Guidance 11-14