7.+Student+Activity+Guide

This is the "launching off" page that your students will use to complete activities, download documents, access links, complete assessments, etc.

Students, please complete each task on this page in numerical order from top to bottom.
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1. Watch the **Electromagnetism You Tube** video below.

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2. Go to the 4th grade Science Page

*Once you are on the the interactive page Click on Magnets and Electricity to get started. *Next you will navigate your way through the following sub-pages.

1. How do magnets work?
 * Record new vocabulary words in the Google Doc-Magnetism/Electricity Vocab.
 * Review at the bottom of the page

2. How does a compass work?
 * Complete the Magnet Challenge
 * Watch Brain Pop movie about how magnets work
 * Watch Brain Pop movie about how compasses work
 * Follow all steps on the Student Page

3. What is an electromagnet?
 * Update vocabulary words in your Google Doc.
 * Watch Brain Pop movie about electromagnets
 * Follow all steps on the Student Page

4. Static Electricity - Why do I get shocked when I touch a doorknob?
 * Review what you have learned
 * Watch a Brain Pop movie about how static electricity works
 * Where do positive and negative atoms come from? Click to see an animation.
 * Follow all steps on the Student Page

5. What are conductors and insulators?
 * Update vocabulary words in your Google Doc.
 * Continue to follow all of the steps on the page

6. What is a parallel circuit and a simple series?
 * Take the review quiz
 * Continue to follow all of the steps on the page
 * Interactive review quiz on new knowledge

7. Electricity and Magnetism Quiz
 * Complete the quiz and print it out

3. Group Wiki **Open**  Project Wiki With your group you will create a wiki page using all of the information you have learned about Magnetism and Electricity throughout this unit. Here are the steps you are to take to complete an acceptable wiki:
 * Brainstorm as a group-this is key. Decide what you think are they most important facts that need to be included on your page
 * Refer to your Google Doc for important vocabulary
 * Make real life connections to magnetism and electricity. Electricity and magnetism are related effects that have many useful applications in everyday life. What drives these forces together?
 * Use pictures and video *BE CREATIVE*