Investigating Magnetism: What are Magnets and Why Do They Attract or Repel? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a classroom lab in which students observe and investigate how magnets interact with each other and the objects around them.

Introduction to Open and Closed Electrical Circuits part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Students will act out open and closed circuits and is followed by individual journal writing and a class discussion.

Exploring Magnetism: Investigating the forces of magnets part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a classroom and lab investigation of magnetism. Students gather results of experiments involving the forces of magnets. They use this data to develop their own experiments to test properties of magnets.

Investigating How to Create a Stronger Electromagnet part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a guided inquiry investigation where students will propose a question on what makes an electromagnet stronger. They will conduct a controlled experiment to answer their own question.

Why Placing Wires Correctly on a Light Bulb Is Important for the Successful Lighting of the Bulb part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a lab investigation/teacher directed inquiry, in which a student discovers the pathway of an electric current from a battery source, through a light bulb's inner structure, and then back to the battery source to complete a simple circuit.

Investigating Magnetism part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a lab investigation where students work in groups to develop their own electromagnets.

Investigating Static Electricity: Creating Lightning on a much smaller scale part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a guided exploration of how static electricity works and how it relates to lightning.

Iron in my cereal part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a hands on activity where students will gather information on their findings about iron in different cereals. Then use their finding and give reasonings of the differences and similarities.

Getting the Lightbulb to Light Up part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a lab where the students try to make a lightbulb light up using two wires, a battery and a lightbulb.

Conductor or Insulator? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity involves an investigation into whether items in a classroom are conductors or insulators. The students predict and then test the items using a complete circuit they have built.

Discovering the "Hidden" Properties of Magnets part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Students will become familiar with the properties of magnets. They will design a data collection sheet to show where magnets are hidden in a closed box with their explanation of their findings. They will also design a game or activity using magnets and present their activity to the class.

Mother Nature's Funnest Play Things: Magnets part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
These two activities are just a small part of overall fun students will have in discovering the wonders of magnets and how they apply to us every day.

Investigating Electricity: Building circuits in Elementary Science class part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a guided inquiry of electrical circuits.

Static Electricity--Thunder and Lightning part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This whole-class activity will involve students in creating static electricity and developing a model to explain what happens when static electricity is formed from wool, plastic, and a paper clip.

Current Electricity-Lights On part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This small group/individual classroom activity is a guided inquiry lesson in which students experiment, observe, and record various ways to connect a flashlight bulb, wire and a D cell battery to make the light come on.

Building an Electromagnet part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Students construct electromagnets and determine that the more winds of wire coil around the core will increase the strength of the electromagnet.

4th Grade Students Investigate Electric Circuits Through Construction and Illustration part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
As an activity related to FOSS unit Magnetism and Electricity, 4th grade science students use a computer download to explore electrical circuits and to generate illustrations of electrical circuits for physical models built in class

Investigating Electricity: Testing for Electrical Conductivity (Conductors and Insulators) Using a Variety of Materials part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
In this lab, the students will test a variety of materials to discover which items are conductors and which items are insulators. They will discuss, classify, record data, and develop new questions relating to electricity.

Detect a Magnet's Field part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a physics lab to detect a magnet's field.

Investigating Iron-Fortified Food part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection