1 - Getting Started ~3 mins
Watch this paperclip. How did it move without me touching it?
2 - Look and Wonder ~3 mins
Look at our tray. Which things do you think the magnet will pull?
Magnet: a special thing that can pull some things to it. Pull: when something jumps or sticks to the magnet.
We wonder, we guess, then we try.
3 - Magnet Station Play ~13 mins
Hold your magnet over each thing on the tray. Feel which ones jump. Take turns with your partner.
4 - Show and Draw ~6 mins
Look at the things the magnet pulled. Choose one. Draw that one on your drawing page.
5 - Make-sense Talk ~3 mins
Which things did the magnet pull? What were they like?
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