Magnet
Electricity and Magnetism
Thinking about actions to take: Electromagnets at Work
Teaching Guidance
for 11-14
There's a good chance you could improve your teaching if you were to:
Try these
- relate the actions of electromagnets to those of permanent magnets
- be very clear to separate electrical loops from magnetic fields
- construct careful step-by-step accounts of the action of devices
Teacher Tip: Work through the Physics Narrative to find these lines of thinking worked out and then look in the Teaching Approaches for some examples of activities.
Avoid these
- conflating the field with the coil producing the field
Teacher Tip: These difficulties are distilled from: the research findings; the practice of well-connected teachers with expertise; issues intrinsic to representing the physics well.
