Kindergarten Subject Sampler: Motions Investigations
This Subject Sampler will help Kindergarteners explore the interactions between force and motion using magnets and various materials. Students will identify the parts of a magnet (including their poles and magnetic fields) and they will identify that magnets are attracted to certain types of metal such as iron and steel. Each of these activities would be done either in small group rotation and/or individual workstations depending on the activity, and level of the student. The teacher would model the workstation expectations and how the children should move throughout each question in the subject sampler. All of the materials/response sheets can be found below.
1. Go to BrainPop Jr. and watch the video on magnets. Go to the science exploration center and complete the Experiment: How Strong are Different Magnets?
2. First, go to Discovery Education and watch this video on what kinds of things a magnet attracts. Watch this video on Does a Magnet Have to Touch Something to Attract It? Play this game to test out which types of materials are attracted to magnets. Go to the science station and complete the “Will it Stick” sorting activity. Predict whether your object will be magnetic or not magnetic. Then, test it with the magnetic wand. Sort them on your workmat. Leave the workmat at the center for your teacher to review.
3. Go to BrainPop Jr. and play the game on magnets to figure out which types of objects are attracted or repelled by magnets. Next, get a magnet wand from the science center. Using the magnetic wand, go on a magnetic hunt in the classroom and find at least two objects that are magnetic, and two objects that are non-magnetic. In your science journal, make a t-chart and label one side magnetic and the other side not magnetic. Write or draw a picture of your objects under the correct side. Add your objects to our class floor graph by the science center.
4. Go to Discover Education and watch this video on magnets. Next, click on this link to see a picture of a magnet and its poles. Go to this website to see magnets, their poles and which ones repel and which ones attract. You can also go to this website or this website for more information about the poles, which repel and which attract. Cut out the pictures of the bar magnets. Label their poles. Paste them in your science journals. Have S to N and N to N. Glue them into your science journals and then draw arrows to show if they attract or repel. Write the words attract or repel under the magnets.
5. Go to Discovery Education and watch this short video to review the poles of a magnet. Using the magnets and cars in the science center, attach magnets with the tape to the cars to make them “move” using a magnet wand. Think about what we have learned about poles…some will work some will not. Keep testing them until you find one that is the opposite pole as your wand. With a partner, have a Magnetic Race! Place your cards on the start line. Use the magnet wand to move your car down the race track. If the magnet touches the car, the car must return to the starting line. First one to the end wins!
1. Go to BrainPop Jr. and watch the video on magnets. Go to the science exploration center and complete the Experiment: How Strong are Different Magnets?
2. First, go to Discovery Education and watch this video on what kinds of things a magnet attracts. Watch this video on Does a Magnet Have to Touch Something to Attract It? Play this game to test out which types of materials are attracted to magnets. Go to the science station and complete the “Will it Stick” sorting activity. Predict whether your object will be magnetic or not magnetic. Then, test it with the magnetic wand. Sort them on your workmat. Leave the workmat at the center for your teacher to review.
3. Go to BrainPop Jr. and play the game on magnets to figure out which types of objects are attracted or repelled by magnets. Next, get a magnet wand from the science center. Using the magnetic wand, go on a magnetic hunt in the classroom and find at least two objects that are magnetic, and two objects that are non-magnetic. In your science journal, make a t-chart and label one side magnetic and the other side not magnetic. Write or draw a picture of your objects under the correct side. Add your objects to our class floor graph by the science center.
4. Go to Discover Education and watch this video on magnets. Next, click on this link to see a picture of a magnet and its poles. Go to this website to see magnets, their poles and which ones repel and which ones attract. You can also go to this website or this website for more information about the poles, which repel and which attract. Cut out the pictures of the bar magnets. Label their poles. Paste them in your science journals. Have S to N and N to N. Glue them into your science journals and then draw arrows to show if they attract or repel. Write the words attract or repel under the magnets.
5. Go to Discovery Education and watch this short video to review the poles of a magnet. Using the magnets and cars in the science center, attach magnets with the tape to the cars to make them “move” using a magnet wand. Think about what we have learned about poles…some will work some will not. Keep testing them until you find one that is the opposite pole as your wand. With a partner, have a Magnetic Race! Place your cards on the start line. Use the magnet wand to move your car down the race track. If the magnet touches the car, the car must return to the starting line. First one to the end wins!