LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

GRADE QUARTER / DOMAIN WEEK & DAY NO.

LEVEL 3rd QUARTER WEEK 6
GRADE 12 General Physics 2

Name : ______________________ Year & Section: ______________

TOPIC: Magnetic fields

LEARNING COMPETENCY:
Differentiate electric interactions from magnetic interactions STEM_GP12EMIIIh-54
Activity No.

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the activity, learners should be able to:
1. Define magnetic field.
2. Illustrate the magnetic field around a bar magnet.
3. Relate magnetic field and strength of a bar magnet.

II. LESSON OVERVIEW

People have been aware of magnets and magnetism for thousands of years. The
earliest records date to well before the time of Christ, particularly in a region of Asia
Minor called Magnesia (the name of this region is the source of words like magnetic).
Magnetic rocks found in Magnesia, which is now part of western Turkey, stimulated
interest during ancient times. A practical application for magnets was found later, when
they were employed as navigational compasses.
Every magnet has a magnetic field, which interacts with the magnetic field of
other magnets and some other objects. Magnetic field is described as the region around a
magnetic material or a moving electric charge within which the force of magnetism acts.
Magnetic fields cannot be observed directly. Therefore, observations of how magnets
interact with other magnets or with different materials, (magnetic and nonmagnetic) is
necessary to collect and analyze information to learn about magnetism and explain how it
works.
Today magnetism plays many important roles in our lives. Physicists’
understanding of magnetism has enabled the development of technologies that affect our
everyday lives. The iPod in your purse or backpack, for example, wouldn’t have been
possible without the applications of magnetism and electricity on a small scale.
III. A.MATERIALS
Activity sheet, Smartphones or laptop
B. REFERENCES
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/cheerpj/faraday/latest/faraday.html?
simulation=magnets-and-electromagnets
IV. PROCEDURE
1. Visit the Phet Simulation at Phet Colorado. Com and Download the Phet sim:
Magnet and Electromagnet
 2. Learners will be given 3-5 minutes to navigate or explore the sims using clickers,
buttons, the click and slide action.
3. Before the activity sheet is handed to the learners allow to explore the sims to
discover the cause and effect and relationship among variables being tested.

Experiment Setup Instructions

1. Click the Bar Magnet tab on the PHeT simulation. The figure above shows what
you should see on your screen.

Illustrate the magnetic field around a bar magnet

2. Use the Compass to find the direction of the magnetic field

3. The Field Meter is used to measure the Total Magnetic Field (B¯), the horizontal
B¯x and vertical components B¯y of the magnetic field and the direction of the
field expressed in degrees Θ. (See figure on the below).

Part A. Strength and Magnetic Field of a bar magnet

Observation:

increasing the strength of decreasing the strength of

a bar magnet a bar magnet
Magnetic field (B)
B
Bx
By
ϴ
Table 1. magnetic field strength and direction

V. Analysis:
 1. What do you notice about the red arrow of the needle compass as you move it
around the bar magnet?
2. What are the ways in which the sim reflects this polarity reversal?
3. Based on your data, what is the relationship between strength of a magnet and
magnetic field?

VI. GENERALIZATION
Let the students generalize what they have learned by answering the following
guide questions.
1. What is magnetic field?
2. What is the direction of magnetic field around a bar magnet?
3. How does the magnetic field changes as the strength of magnet changes?

VII. APPLICATION
1. Ex[plain how magnetic fields works in the following devices/equipment:
a. electric motors
b. generators
c. recycling facilities
d. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
e. computer hard drives

VIII. ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY

Magnetic Field Strength as a Function of Distance
1. Click on the “Field Meter”. Place the cross-hairs (+)
of the meter at the point labeled A on the diagram
below. Measure and Record the magnetic field B¯
in the corresponding blank.

NOTE: Don’t forget to include UNITS .

2. Repeat Step 1 for points B and C.
 Observations
1. Based on your data above, what do you observe about the strength of the
magnetic field as you move further from Earth? Is this what you expected?
Explain.