Metal lab

Metal lab

Materials

• A screw driver

• a magnet

• nails

How to make a screw driver a magnet!

• Put all of your materials on the table

• take the screw driver and try and pick up the nails What are your observations? Keep that in mind when you anwer the questions.

• Now take the magnet and rub it on the tip of the screw driver

• Now try and pick up the nails What are your observations???

• The next slide is a timed question so be prepared and have your whole lab done before

Open Ended

What did you first think when you heard about the lab?

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What were your observations when you first tried and stick the nails to the screw without rubbing the magnat first?

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Did you think this lab was going to work? Why or why not?

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Why do you think the nails stuck to the screw driver once you rubbed it with the magnet?

Now look at this image and rethink your answer

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Revised claim: Why did the nails suddenly restick to the screw driver?

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If you were to do the name exact things but to the nail, do you think it would work? Why or why now?