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1b Students know how to build a simple compass and use it to detect magnetic effects, including Earth's magnetic field.
Holistic Rating: Moderate coverage of this standard.
| Pages 328-332 provide moderate coverage of this standard. |
Aspects that do not help student learning:
Make sure students know that there is no large bar magnet in the middle of Earth (as shown on page 332). Students can get confused that the north pole of a compass is a north-seeking pole but Earth's north pole is not north-seeking. Instead, it attracts north-seeking poles (see CONTENT TIP).
Suspending a bar magnet rather than a magnetized needle makes it harder for students to connect their experience with a commercial compass.
Teacher's Edition that we used cited these pages as addressing this standard, but we did not find a significant correlation:
341-342, 343-344, 346-347.
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