Lesson Planet
Search educational resources
  • Sign In Try It Free
  • AI Teacher Tools
    • Discover Resources Search reviewed educational resources by keyword, subject, grade, type, and more
    • Curriculum Manager (My Content) Manage saved and uploaded resources and folders To Access the Curriculum Manager Sign In or Join Now
    • Browse Resource Directory Browse educational resources by subject and topic
    • Curriculum Calendar Explore curriculum resources by date
    • Lesson Planning Articles Timely and inspiring teaching ideas that you can apply in your classroom
    • Our Story
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Testimonials
    • Contact Us
  • Pricing
  • School Access
    • Your school or district can sign up for Lesson Planet — with no cost to teachers
      Learn More
  • Sign In
  • Try It Free

Hi, what do you want to do?

Create a lesson plan
Create a lesson plan
Generate resources with 80+ AI teacher tools
Generate resources with 80+ AI teacher tools
Search 200,000 instructional videos
Search 200,000 instructional videos
Find a teaching resource
Find a teaching resource
Teach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality Lesson PlanTeach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality Lesson Plan
Publisher
TeachEngineering
Resource Details
Curator Rating
Educator Rating
Not yet Rated
Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Science
2 more...
Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audiences
For Administrator Use
1 more...
Lexile Measures
1100L
Lesson Plan

Teach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality

Curated by ACT

Students learn about magnets and how they are formed. They investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. Specifically, students learn about magnetic memory storage, which is the reading and writing of data information using magnets, such as in computer hard drives, zip disks and flash drives.

3 Views 0 Downloads

Concepts

engineering, stem, memory

Additional Tags

electromagnet, hard drive, magnetic storage, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, magnet, magnetic field, permanent magnet, types of magnets

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

See similar resources:

Lesson Plan

Getting Current: Generating Electricity Using a Magnet

Energy for Keeps
Give your class a magnetic charge with this creative experiment designed to teach emerging scientists about electromagnetism. Pupils construct a model that demonstrates the function of an electrical generator and test this creation in a...
5th - 8th Science
Lesson Plan

The Earth as a Magnet

PHET
Everyone loves playing with magnets and iron filings. Here, young scientists first observe and then participate in an activity demonstrating magnetic fields. After completing their observations, they apply this knowledge...
5th - 8th Science
CCSS: Adaptable
Activity

Teach Engineering: Cereal Magnets

TeachEngineering
In this activity, students will design a process that removes the most iron from the cereal. This activity is meant for the students to experiment with different materials using what they know about iron, magnets, and forces to design...
3rd - 5th Career & Technical Education
Activity

Teach Engineering: A Recipe for Air

TeachEngineering
Students use M&M's to create a pie graph that expresses their understanding of the composition of air. The students discuss why knowing this information is important to engineers.
3rd - 8th Science
Activity

Teach Engineering: A Tasty Experiment

TeachEngineering
Students conduct an experiment to determine whether or not the sense of smell is important to being able to recognize foods by taste. They do this by attempting to identify several different foods that have similar textures. For some of...
3rd - 5th Career & Technical Education
Activity

Teach Engineering: A Case of Innovation

TeachEngineering
A white paper is a focused analysis often used to describe how a technology solves a problem. In this literacy activity, students write a simplified version of a white paper on an alternative electrical power generation technology. In...
3rd - 8th Science
Lesson Plan

Terrabagga Activity Using a Magnetometer

Curated OER
Clever! Earth science learners construct a model of a planet containing a magnetic core. The planet, Terrabagga, is made out of a paper grocery bag, magnets, a dead D battery, and rubber bands. Pictures of each step of the construction...
5th - 12th Science
Activity

Magnetic Pendulums

Exploratorium
Passing a copper wire coil through a magnetic field influences another coil to also sway. It is with this demonstration that you can teach your physical science fans about electromagnetism. Note that the assembly requires about an hour,...
5th - 8th Science
Activity

Teach Engineering: Whose Field Line Is It, Anyway?

TeachEngineering
Students teams each use a bar magnet, sheet of paper and iron shavings to reveal the field lines as they travel around a magnet. They repeat the activity with an electromagnet made by wrapping thin wire around a nail and connecting...
5th - 8th Science
Lesson Plan

Teach Engineering: Where's the Water?

TeachEngineering
In this lesson plan, the students will conduct an investigation to purify water. Students will engineer a method for cleaning water, discover the most effective way to filter water, and practice conducting a scientific experiment.
5th STEM
Try It Free
© 1999-2026 Learning Explorer, Inc.
Teacher Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Resources

Sign up for the Lesson Planet Monthly Newsletter

Open Educational Resources (OER)

  • Health
  • Language Arts
  • Languages
  • Math
  • Physical Education
  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • Special Education
  • Visual and Performing Arts
View All Lesson Plans

Discover Resources

  • Our Review Process
  • How it Works
  • How to Search
  • Create a Collection

Manage Curriculum

  • Edit a Collection
  • Assign to Students
  • Manage My Content
Contact Us Site Map Privacy Policy Terms of Use