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Magnets
and Motors: Curricular Integration
The following Curricular Integration Ideas were generated to
better serve the Elementary teacher s of the Vancouver School
District.
If you have any of your own Curricular Integration Ideas, please
send them to me (Kris Skrutvold at the following email address:
kskrutvo@vansd.org) and I will post them on the Kit Resources
web-site. (Currently being developed)
Math
Measurements
Rate of rotation of the coil
Ratio of number of coils vs number of clips picked up
Averaging results
RPM charts
Language
Arts
Writing to research--keep a science log
Write to describe--sequence, cause and effect
Write a story: a day without magnetism or a day without electricity
Electric safety rules
Social
Studies
Map reading with compass
Research local electrical energy production and costs and compare
to national production and costs
Make a time line accounting the use and development of magnetism,
electricity and electromagnetism
Distinguish between engines and motors
Inventors
Uses of magnets in industries
Location of magnetic North
History of electricity
When magnet/magnetic field first discovered
Vitual Fieldtrip with Henry Ford Museum
History of motors-pottery wheels, steam engines, nuclear, etc.
Magnetic levitation
Reading
The Way Things Work
Hatchet (survival using compass) by Gary Polson
Cry in the Wilderness (movie)
Ben and Me (movie)
Books on magnetic field, kinds of electricity, motors, how they
work, uses
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