Teacher Recommended Resources - Magnets & Motors

These extensions are brought to you by other teachers who have used this unit. They have not been evaluated by The Einstein Project. REV. 4/24/08

Make a writing machine

Visited a machine shop

Videos: videos from CESA on “Electricity” and “Magnetism”
- Bill Nye video: Magnetism
- Robots

Students build their own robot with a moving part or a part that lights up

I collect various broken small electronic appliances they I have taken apart. The students look for the motor parts in them.

Discovery World in Milwaukee

Alternative energy source unit

Parallel and Series circuits

Computer program:  “Build a Circuit”

Writing: comparison paragraphs on a) electromagnets and flexible magnets, b) straw compass motors and spinning compass motors

Demo of AC motors

Books: Exploring Magnets – Ed Catherall
 Exploring Electricity – Ed Catherall

Speaker: from local Electric Cooperative
  Maintenance supervisor from Emerson Motor
Media specialist came and talked about how magnets damage    computer screens

Used the telegraph lab from the Magnets & Motors reader – students loved it!! Morse code website: www.learnmorsecode.com

Website: http://www.fi.edu/msp/magnetism/index.html - good resource