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Learning Objectives
Science P rocess Skills Reading Skills
• Describe how magnets act on objects • Explore the relationship between Skill Focus Genre: Expository
and other magnets electricity and magnetism • Inferring Skill Focus
• Explain how Earth is a magnet • Understand how people continue to S u p p o rting Skills • Identify main idea
• Identify discoveries that people use magnets to solve problems • Communicating and details
have made throughout history
• Observing • Relate words
about magnetism
• Interpreting data S u p p o rting Skills
• Make generalizations
• Summarize
• Identify cause-and-
effect relationships
66 The Mystery of Magnets
Focus on Reading
Before Reading columns with partners. They Vocabulary Strategy:
can return to the chart after Relate Words
Activate Prior Knowledge reading to identify what they Activity Master, Page 70
Have students look at the cover learned and what they still Have students read the title of
of the book and then ask them want to find out. the book, The Mystery of
to think about what they know Preview Magnets. Explain to students
about magnets. Ask: Give students time to preview that the vocabu l a ry words they
What is a magnet? What the book, paying attention to will be learning all relate in
does it do? ch apter titles, photos, captions, some way to magnets and
and special features. Ask: magnetism. Students can use
How can you use magnets?
the glossary to find the
What information is shown in
Write students’ ideas on a meaning of each word.They
the photos?
K-W-L ch a rt . Explain that in then write a sentence telling
the first column, students will What do the headings tell how each word relates to
write what they know about you about the topics covered magnets and magnetism.
magnets and magnetism. In in this book? Students will be using
the second column, they will Set Purpose these words:
write what they want to know Ask students whether this book attract
or questions they have about reminds them of other books compass
magnets and magnetism. they have read. Ask: electromagnet
magnetic field
Have students copy the K-W-L What do you want to find out pole
chart into their notebooks by reading this book? repel
and complete the first two
attract
compass
e l e c t romagnet
magnetic field
pole
repel
Chapter 1 Main Idea: Magnets are objects that can attract or repel objects
without touching them.
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Chapter 2 Main Idea: Throughout history, people have discovered new things about magnets.
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You will write a re p o rt about an invention that uses magnets to help people
do work.You can write your re p o rt on an invention from the book or you
can find one on your own. Use the outline below to organize your ideas for
your re p o rt .
A.
B.
A.
B.
III. How this invention uses magnets (Include a simple sketch in the space below or on the back
of this page.)
A.
B.
IV. Who benefits most from this invention or who uses it most often
A.
B.
Include other interesting information you found. Write your report on a separate sheet of paper.
1. You try to put three pieces of paper up on the refrigerator with one magnet, and all the
papers fall down. What can you infer happened?
2. You want to connect two magnets together. One magnet has the north pole marked N and
south pole marked S. The other magnet’s poles are not marked. How can you infer which
end of the unmarked magnet is the north pole?
3. You are filling a backpack to go hiking. As you put a compass into the backpack, the needle of the
compass moves as it goes past the magnetic clasp on the backpack. What can you infer about why
the compass needle moved?
4. You have a metal object placed near a magnet, but the magnet does not attract the metal
object. You move the object closer to the magnet, and then the magnet attracts it. What can
you infer about the strength of the magnet?