Magnetism and Electricity CA Focus Questions from LHS on 06-09

Investigation 1: The Force Part 1: Magnets and Materials What is a general rule about what magnets stick to? What happens when two magnets come together? Part 2: More Magnetic Properties How can you make a temporary magnet? Part 3: Breaking the Force What happens to the strength of attraction between two magnets as the distance between them increases? Part 4: Detecting Magnetic Fields What is a compass and how can you one? Investigation 2: Making Connections Part 1: Charge What is a general rule for how charged objects interact? Part 2: Lighting a Bulb How can you make a circuit that will light a lightbulb using just three componentsone D-cell, one lightbulb, and one wire? What kinds of energy conversion did you observe when you made electric circuits? Part 3: Making a Motor Run How can you make a circuit that will run a motor? What does a motor do in a circuit? A switch? Part 4: Conductors and Insulators How do you know if a material is a conductor or an insulator? How are objects that conduct electricity and objects that stick to magnets alike? How are they different? Part 5: Mystery Boards How can you figure out where the wires are in the mystery board? Investigation 3: Advanced Connections Part 1: Building Series Circuits Why do you think the two lamps are dim in a series circuit? How you make the two lights in a series circuit brighter?

Part 2: Building Parallel Circuits How can you light two bulbs brightly with just one battery? How are series and parallel circuits the same? Different? Part 3: The String-of-Lights Problem How can you design a string of lights that would not all go off when one lightbulb burns out? Investigation 4: Current Attractions Part 1: Building an Electromagnet How can you make a magnet that turns on and off? Part 2: Number of Winds How does the number of winds on an electromagnet core affect the strength of the magnetism? Part 3: More Electromagnets How else can you change the strength of an electromagnet? Investigation 5: Click It Part 1: Reinventing the Telegraph How is the telegraph you made like the one Morse made? Part 2: Long-Distance Messages How can you connect two telegraphs together to send long-distance messages?