{"id":1634,"date":"2009-09-06T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1634"},"modified":"2009-09-06T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T18:51:47","slug":"teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/06\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-magnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Physical Science with Children&#8217;s Literature: What Makes A Magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/magnetjpeg.jpg\" title=\"magnetjpeg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/magnetjpeg.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"magnetjpeg.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Makes-Magnet-Lets-Read-Find-Out-Science\/dp\/0064451488\" title=\"Amazon Book List\">What Makes A Magnet<\/a> written by Franklin M. Branley and illustrated by True Kelley explores the exciting world of magnets.\u00a0 This whimsical book explains what a magnet is, what types of materials magnets are attracted to and how to make a magnet.\u00a0 <em>What Makes A Magnet <\/em>also explains how and why the &#8220;ends of a magnet are different&#8221; (pg. 18) and the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. The book explores why &#8220;magnets are strongest at the poles&#8221; (pg. 19) by creating a fishing experiment which demonstrates that magnets attract things made of iron.\u00a0 <em>What Makes A Magnet <\/em>explains how &#8220;magnetism is everywhere on this Earth of ours.\u00a0 It goes through air and water, glass and walls, cardboard and tabletops.&#8221; (pg. 32)<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few excerpts from the book.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A magnet picks up only things\u00a0 that have a lot of iron in them.&#8221; (pg. 10)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Earth is a magnet because it contains a lot of iron.\u00a0 The moon does not have as much iron, so it is not a magnet.\u00a0 Your compass would not work on the moon.&#8221; (pg. 21)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Like poles repel each other; unlike poles attract.&#8221; (pg. 27)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections:<\/strong><em><br \/>\nWhat Makes A Magnet<\/em> is a colorful, educational read-aloud for children in\u00a0 kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. For kindergarten and first grade, this book will allow students to investigate and understand that magnets have an effect on some materials, make some things move without touching them, and have useful applications.\u00a0 Furthermore, <em>What Makes A Magnet <\/em>demonstrates that moving objects exhibit different kinds of motion. (VA SOL K.3 and VA SOL 1.2)\u00a0 For second grade, <em>What Makes A Magnet<\/em> is the perfect book to explain slightly more advanced ideas of the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field and the north and south poles of a magnet. Students will also be able to investigate and understand that natural and artificial magnets have certain characteristics and attract specific types of metals. <em>(VA SOL 2.2)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach-nology.com\/themes\/science\/magnets\/\" title=\"Magnet Teaching Website\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach-nology.com\/themes\/science\/magnets\/\" title=\"Magnet Teaching Website\">Te<strong>A<\/strong>chnology<\/a> is an online website that offers a wide range of introductory lessons to teachers about magnets, the magnetic field and other themes important to magnets and electricity.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/coreknowledge.org\/CK\/resrcs\/lessons\/K.htm\" title=\"Magnet Leasson Plan\">Core Lesson Plan<\/a> helps teachers design experiments for kindergartners to aid in their understanding of the subject material and capture their attention.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Makes-Magnet-Lets-Read-Find-Out-Science\/dp\/0064451488\"><em>What Makes A Magnet<\/em><\/a> offers several activities throughout the text to help students understand the concepts of attraction\/repulsion and the north pole\/south pole of magnets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Makes-Magnet-Lets-Read-Find-Out-Science\/dp\/0064451488\" title=\"Book\">What Makes A Magnet<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> Franklyn M. Branley<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrator:<\/strong> True Kelley<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher: <\/strong>HarperCollins<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> July 1996<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong> 32 Pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:<\/strong> Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:<\/strong> 978-0060264413<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Makes A Magnet written by Franklin M. Branley and illustrated by True Kelley explores the exciting world of magnets.\u00a0 This whimsical book explains what a magnet is, what types of materials magnets are attracted to and how to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/06\/teaching-physical-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-magnet\/\">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-1634","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\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}