Magnet Lesson

OK, for all of my other blog readers, I apologize, but this was the easiest way to get my lesson plan to our co-op since I couldn't make it. If you want to teach your kids about magnets as well, feel free to copy.

Coloring sheet

Art that shows magnetic fields because I never could find a place in town that sold lead shavings. Though, if you have them, it would be so fun to show them in person.

Magnetic field of the earth (we have talked about the poles of the earth being like the poles on the ends of the magnet, but this was a good visual I hadn't used yet).

Questions to read over--we've read some books on magnets and done a few experiments already, so although this might not be exactly review (it's been two weeks for these 5 year olds, since they've seen the material), it'd be good to talk about. I was planning on completeing this orally, as a discussion, not an assignment.

Then, I have been letting them just have at it with my magnet set at the end of each lesson, to play with the forces and pull and such. I'm sorry I didn't make it accessible for this. Perhaps some refrigerator magnets would be just as fun?