This editable differentiated lesson pack focuses on testing the strength of different magnets.
Children will learn why this is a comparative test and design their own test to discover which magnet is the strongest.

The file includes the following resources:
- editable teaching presentation
- editable activity investigation worksheet
- editable cross-curricular activity ideas
- editable lesson plan
- editable focus assessment worksheet

National Curriculum objectives
Science: Year 3
Pupils should be taught to:
•        notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
•        observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others

The working scientifically enquiry type will be: testing
Children will be:
•        Setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
•        Making systematic and careful observations
•        Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data
•        Reporting on findings from enquiries

Updated to the Grammarsaurus Curriculum 2.0...