All about physics....Part II

Here is the rest of our unit......

Part II

Magnets

Electricity

To see Part I follow the link below....

Part I

Big Bang

Forces and Motion

Light

Sound

We used Usborne's book What's Physics All About? as a spine...

I love this book also from Usborne, 365 Science Activities many an experiment was taken directly from this book!

We also used Brainpop Junior and Brainpop videos/activities/quizzes.  *Note* Brainpop is a subscription based website.. several DL schools will have a subscription you can access... if not I highly recommend adding it to your homeschooling budget, it is worth every penny!!

I also used a number of printables from TeachersPayTeachers....
Sweet Pea wanted some notebooking elements that I was too lazy to make!

Magnets

We read the corresponding chapter on magnets in What's Physics all About?

Great videos...
Brainpop Jr - Magnets 
Brainpop- Magnetism

We also read this book together.. love the Magic School Bus chapter books;
Amazing Magnetism

Here you can find a lapbook based on this book... we used some of the printables.

More great videos....
Bill Nye the Science Guy- Magnetism
Scishow- Animal Magnetism

This is a fabulous science kit.. lots of great ideas and an easy to follow format for experiments... Magnetic Science.

 There are a billion great magnet projects out there...
 do a quick search and do whatever catches your eye!

Here are a few we enjoyed....
 Playing with our compasses and hiding things in the backyard to create a scavenger hunt...
The kidlets spent entirely too much time playing with the magnets in their science kit....
Find the magnetic iron in your breakfast cereal....


Electricity
We read the corresponding chapter on electricity in What's Physics all About?

 We made a potato battery!
 So fun... we didn't have a led light so we used our fancy volt meter instead :)

Here are some great videos...

Brainpop- Electricity
Electric Circuits
Bill Nye the Science Guy- Electricity
Magic School Bus- Gets Charged
 

Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip

 Our scientist study was two fold.... Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.

 The kids also love working on projects with Snap Circuits!

 

Hope you enjoyed our foray into physics... sorry it took me so long to post Part II :)