Syeda Zahra Bukhari

The City School

Academic Year 2019-20
Topic: Magnets and springs
Unit: Magnet
Week 6
Worksheet # 3
Class 3

Carrie’s mum has a message board at home. She sticks memos

(notes) to it with magnets like these:

Carrie took the plastic cover off one of the memo magnets. It
looked like this inside:
Q. 1: This drawing is a cross-section of the memo magnet. It shows
what the magnet would look like if you cut it in half.
Label the diagram using words from the box.

iron magnet plastic cover

Q. 2: Carrie did an investigation in school, and found out that
magnets do not work through iron.
She could only make paper clips stick to one side of the memo
magnet.
Draw a paper clip on the diagram to show which side the paper clip
would stick to.

Q. 3: Carrie tested two of the magnets to see if they would stick

together.
The diagrams show what she found out.
Finish off the sentences to explain Carrie’s results.
The first one has been done for you.
a) The memo magnets stuck together like this because
the magnet in the left hand one will attract the iron in the right
hand one.

b) The memo magnets stuck together like this because

the magnet in the left hand will attract the iron

c) The memo magnets did not stick together like this because

they are plastic and plastic do not stick togather