Magnetism groupwork
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Using electromagnets
Aims:
Pupils should be aware of how some of the following: bells, relays, loudspeakers and telephone ear pieces work. They should also have the opportunity to utilise their speaking and listening skills to learn from each other in a jigsaw activity.
Outcomes:
Each pupil should have completed 3 out of the 4 the sheets and stuck them into their books by the end of the lesson.
Needs:
Bell relays loudspeaker telephone handset pritt Jigsaw activity sheets stopwatches (8) Text books
Assessment:
Formative by feedback on the information on the sheets. Informal by listening into the groups as they work.
Diff:
By putting instructions on the board and by providing at least some sheets that are purely wordfill and some activities that are sorting and copying.
Links:
To previous work on electromagnets
Time needed:
One 1hr session
Set up:
Prepare the slips of paper with the appliances on plus sufficient 1 and 2 slips to cover the number of people in the class. Set up 8 `expert group' stations round the room, each with one task sheet and the associated worksheets. Each station will need 16 worksheets. Each station should be named 1 or 2, that is where the number comes in) i.e. bell 1 and bell 2 etc. Both the relay and loudspeaker activities have the panic at the publishers sheets to direct them. Put the associated object with each expert group location. Take account of number in the class, may have to juggle with some smaller groups. The resources needed are in the form of a zip file or as the word document (longer download time).
Intro:
Give each pupil a slip of paper with either bell, relay, loudspeaker or telephone written on as they enter the room plus a number 1 or 2. form up into the home groups with one of each appliance in it i.e. groups of 4. Explain aims of lesson. Pupils to go into expert groups and carry out the task in that group. There will be two expert groups for each appliance. When the task is done, the expert groups will disassemble and reform home groups, each expert will need to take their own worksheet and 3 other sheets for each member of the home group. They will have 12 min from the start in which to do the expert group task. Pupils will then have 8 minutes for each expert to feedback their knowledge to the others, during which time the blank worksheets are filled in. Home groups to use the stopwatches to time.
Activity:
Expert groups to set themselves up, synchronise stopwatches and carry out expert group task.
Activity:
Reform home groups, synchronise stopwatches and do the home group task.
Close:
Ask some questions about how the bell etc work, or ask pupils to feed back one thing that they know now that the did not know at the start of the lesson.
resources zip file
resources word document