Guest Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Is magnetism worth doing with Reception? What do you do to introduce it and what do you hope to get out of it? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Although we use lots of magnetic letters/numbers/shapes and have magnets to explore we don't teach about magnetism itself, I often wonder if we should or whether that's for upper year gps-will be interested to know what others do too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Just keep the magnets away from any computer screens (speaking from experience!!!!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Haha! My younger brother put some geomag stuff on top of our new tv and left it for a few hours. The green patch in the top corner of the screen didn't go completely for days after! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flutter Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 We have just done magnetism as a small part of a Materials topic. We went on a magnetic hunt with wand magnets, outside and in the school corridor, in small groups. The children recorded what they found with the digital camera. We used the pictures to create a time line of where they had been to. Also had magnetic discovery bottles on KUW table and magnets and metal objects (magnetic and non-magnetic) in the sand. The children discovered that not all metal objects are magnetic and had FUN searching and recording their findings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 i use a tray that has a selection or items that the children can sort into two boxes ones that attract and ones that dont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_3139 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Draw a road on a piece of thin card and provide a couple of small cars. Attach a small magnet to a ruler and run it under the card moving the cars around. I tape the card to 2 tables with a gap in between It's great to see the childrens faces when you show how the 'green' end of the train and the 'red' end of the train like each other and attract, but green on green and red on red dont like each and repel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_4544 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 We always find that the children love investigating using magnets. We have some ring magnets (like polo mints) and it always fascinates the children when they can make them 'float' up a pencil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 We are a nursery school and we tend to have magnets all around. We have the trains and carriages with magnets, we have a set of bricks that are different colours which attract to each other and colours which repel. We have two different sets of magnet activities to use indoors and outdoors. We also have magnetic letters and numbers and magnetic shapes to use on boards. We have them as part of continuous provision with examples of vocabulary to emphasise when the children are accessing them. We also have specific focused activities similar to those mentioned when introducing magnetism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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