{"id":1632,"date":"2009-09-06T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1632"},"modified":"2009-09-06T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T19:10:30","slug":"teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-magnet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/06\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-magnet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Physical Science with Children&#8217;s Literature: What Makes a Magnet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/anns-book-picture.jpg\" title=\"anns-book-picture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/anns-book-picture.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"anns-book-picture.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/What-Makes-a-Magnet\/Franklyn-M-Branley\/e\/9780064451482\/?itm=1&amp;usri=1\" title=\"What Makes a Magnet?\">What makes a Magnet?<\/a>, written by Franklyn M. Branley and\u00a0illustrated by True Kelley, is an engaging and colorful book that clearly explains what a magnet is and how it works.\u00a0 It also offers examples of simple, yet fun, classroom activities to experience using magnets and making magnets.<\/p>\n<p>This is a clever book that is upbeat and quick, yet informative.\u00a0 It begins with an exercise that shows you what happens when you put a magnet near various items.\u00a0 It then shows how the student can make a simple magnet.\u00a0 It also explains that the earth is a magnet, and then shows how to make a compass, and how that works with the earth&#8217;s magnet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong>:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/What-Makes-a-Magnet\/Franklyn-M-Branley\/e\/9780064451482\/?itm=1&amp;usri=1\" title=\"What Makes a Magnet?\">What makes a Magnet?<\/a> is a good source for teaching the characteristics of a magnet, how and why magnets work, and how a compass relates to magnetism.\u00a0 The activities in the book could easily and inexpensively be done in the classroom for an effective hands-on experience to reinforce the concepts relating to magnets.\u00a0 SOL 2.2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/school.discoveryeducation.com\/curriculumcenter\/magnetism\/activities.html\" title=\"magnets\">&#8220;Discovery Education&#8221;<\/a> offers two hands-on activities:\u00a0making a compass and\u00a0making a magnet.\u00a0 Depending on the maturity level of the students, it may be better to to do them as a group activity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/home.howstuffworks.com\/science-projects-for-kids-magnets-and-metal2.htm\" title=\"magnets\">&#8220;How Stuff Works&#8221;<\/a> offers\u00a0a really cool experiment.\u00a0 Iron-fortified cereal can be crushed up to see if it is attracted to a magnet.\u00a0 This is simple and inexpensive, but also reinforces that anything with iron is attracted to a magnet.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quia.com\/rr\/42166.html\" title=\"magnets\">Quia website <\/a>provides a fun way for students to review their knowledge about magnets by playing the &#8220;Magnet Millionaire&#8221; game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/What-Makes-a-Magnet\/Franklyn-M-Branley\/e\/9780064451482\/?itm=1&amp;usri=1\" title=\"What Makes a Magnet?\">What makes a Magnet?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author:\u00a0<\/strong> Franklyn M. Branley<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrator:\u00a0<\/strong> True Kelley<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0 HarperCollins<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:\u00a0<\/strong> 1996<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong>\u00a0 32<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:\u00a0<\/strong> K-3<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:\u00a0<\/strong> 0-06-026441-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 What makes a Magnet?, written by Franklyn M. Branley and\u00a0illustrated by True Kelley, is an engaging and colorful book that clearly explains what a magnet is and how it works.\u00a0 It also offers examples of simple, yet fun, classroom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/06\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-magnet-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-physical-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}