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Waves, magnets and heat: High school science

Physics: waves, electricity and magnetism, and heat. A free High school lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students work toward: physics: waves, electricity and magnetism, and heat.

Hook (5 min)

  • Ask the class: How can a spinning magnet make electricity?
  • Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.

Teach (15 min)

  • Say the big idea in one plain sentence: waves, magnets and heat.
  • Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
  • Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.

Practise (20 min)

  • Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
  • Learn: Waves and Light (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-waves-and-light)
  • Learn: Electricity and Magnetism (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-electricity-and-magnetism)
  • Learn: Heat, Energy and Entropy (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-heat-energy-entropy)
  • Learn: Earth's Magnetic Field (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-earths-magnetic-field)

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about waves, magnets and heat, and one question I still have.
  • Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.

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