Physics of the Universe · Week 9 · Forces at a Distance
Magnets and Motors
Investigating how electric current creates magnetic fields and channeling curiosity into persistence when a motor will not spin.
- Students will
- Students plan an investigation of how electric current creates a magnetic field and channel curiosity into persistence when a motor will not spin.
- SEL skill
- Name what you will try next when something does not work, and persist
- What it looks like
- Students practice creative persistence by naming what they try next when something does not work.
- Content focus
- Magnets and motors
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Self-management
Self-management is steering your feelings, thinking, and actions in a way that helps you get where you want to go. More self-management activities
What you get
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Standards
- HS-PS2-5: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP3 Planning and carrying out investigations
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
- Traditional course: Physics
Fits these textbook chapters
- Physics Techbook, Concept 2.1: Fundamental Forces
- Physics Techbook, Concept 2.3: Electric Forces
- Physics Techbook, Concept 3.4: Electricity and Magnetism
- Inspire Physics, Unit 5: Electric Current and Circuits
- Inspire Physics, Unit 5: Magnetic Fields
- Inspire Physics, Unit 5: Electromagnetism
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 5: Electricity and Magnetism
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More self-management activities for Physics of the Universe
- Force and Motion Self-managementAnalyzing motion data to show that net force causes acceleration and identifying the forces that move students toward their goals.
- Balanced and Unbalanced Self-managementModeling balanced and unbalanced forces and noticing when the forces in life feel balanced or out of control.
- Heat Engines and Efficiency Self-managementInvestigating heat flow and efficiency and finding where students lose energy to stress and how to recover it.
- The San Andreas Fault Self-managementModeling how plate motion builds and releases stress along the fault and practicing safe ways to release built up stress.
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