Lesson Plan

Kemeisha Reid – Onfroy

ID #: 2201010162

School of Education: Moneague College (Linstead)

ED213PCB: Curriculum for Upper Primary

Lecturer: Mrs. Rashanna Sinclair- Townsend

November 7, 2023
Grade: 5

Date: November 7, 2023

Subject: Science

Duration: 60 mins

Focus Question: What are some types of forces and how do they act?

Theme: Energy, force and matter

Topic: Magnetism

Prior knowledge: Students should already know:

● What is a force
● Types of forces

Attainment Target(s): To enable pupils to:

● Investigating effects of forces

● Recognize the importance of energy to life processes, everyday life, and the relationship
between energy and matter.
● Gain an understanding of and apply aspects of the scientific method. Begin to appreciate
the influence and limitations of science.
● Demonstrate a positive attitude towards the use of scientific language
● Investigating effects of focus.

Key Vocabulary: magnet, attract, repel, North Pole, South Pole

Key Skills: observe, communicate, think critically, infer, estimate, investigate, and distinguish

Materials/Resources:

 Whiteboard and markers

  Visual aids (diagrams, charts)

 Toy cars or objects for demonstrations

 Spring scales (or alternatives like rubber bands)

 Worksheets with questions and problems

 Safety goggles

Objectives:

Students should be able to:

1. Use a magnet to investigate the types of objects that it is attracted to during a

demonstration with 90% accuracy.
2. Correctly differentiate between the north and south poles of a magnet after a
demonstration.
3. Correctly define the term magnetism during a class discussion.
4. Accurately give real-life examples of things in their environment that attract or repel
magnets after a class discussion.
5. Value individual effort and teamwork through investigations.

Content Outline

A magnet is a rock or a piece of metal that can pull certain types of metal toward itself.
The force of magnets, called magnetism, is a basic force of nature, like electricity and gravity.
Magnetism works over a distance. This means that a magnet does not have to be touching an
object to pull it, this makes it a non-contact force.
Magnets strongly attract objects that contain iron, steel, nickel, or cobalt. Magnets also
attract or repel (push away) other hard magnets. This happens because every magnet has two
opposite poles, or ends: a north pole and a south pole. North poles attract the south poles of other
magnets, but they repel other north poles. Likewise, south poles attract north poles, but they
repel other south poles.
Engage:

Students will say a poem entitled “What is force?” and participate in a discussion about what
force is.

Possible questions:

1. Why would you need to apply force to a nail?

2. What force do you think you can use to move an object close to you without touching one
of the objects?
Based on the student's response, the teacher will state the objectives of the day’s lesson as well as
the topic of the day.

Explore:

Students in their groups will participate in various experiments.

Group 1 and 2

Students will participate in another experiment where they will be given two bar magnets.
Students will be given instructions and questions to draw conclusions based on how the magnets
work. See information
1. Look at the shape of the magnets.
2. Why do you think they are called bar magnets?
3. Push the two north poles together. What can you feel? Are the ends of the magnet
attracting or repelling each other?
4. Now push the North Pole towards the south pole of the other magnet. What can you feel?
Are the ends of the magnet attracting or repelling each other?

Group 3 and 4

Students will use a table to predict how magnets work and what objects they are attracted to base
on observation and record actual results/findings. Students will use objects in their classroom.

Objects Predictions Results

Based on the results from the predictions students will tell the different objects that magnets
attract and why they attract such objects.
Explain

⮚ Students will engage in a class discussion. The teacher will clear up misconceptions

where necessary.

⮚ Based on the experiments, students will share their findings.

⮚ Students will use the information on pages 77–78 about magnets in their First Step in

Science textbook to help with their discussion. They will:

⮚ Discuss the types of materials that magnets are attracted to.

⮚ Discuss how the north and south poles of a magnet work. Two opposite poles will attract,
and two of the same poles will repel.

⮚ Define magnetism in their own words.

Elaborate

⮚ Students will discuss things in their environment that will attract or repel magnets.

⮚ Students will be asked to name some things in their environment that use magnets.

Expected answers: refrigerator, building toys, debit and credit cards, door, chair, coin etc.

Evaluate:

Group 1 and 2

Answer the following questions by choosing or writing the correct answer.

1. Magnetism is a kind of ________________ (electricity, gravity, force)

2. Which of these would not be attracted by a magnet? (sewing needle, steel paper clip,
plastic comb, nail)
3. How would you separate tiny pieces of metal from salt?
4. Which of these objects would be attracted to a magnet? (Leather purse, steel key, plastic
ruler, wooden pencil?
 5. What two names are given to the ends of a bar magnet? ___________ and __________
6. Name two objects that are attracted by a magnet. ______________________________
7. Identical poles on a magnet (repels, attracts) each other.

Group 3 and 4

Draw bar magnets showing how two poles attract each other and how two poles repel each other.
Use the colour red to represent the north poles and blue to represent the south poles.