Droehm Team:
Learning Is a Journey
Quest 5: Non Contact Forces
With Data Evidence and Relationship Statements
Q5P1: Non Contact Forces Labs
Google Classroom: Q5P1: Non Contact Forces Lab Doc
Checkins: Check in every 2 stations you complete until you are completely finished.
Check in with Mrs. Roehm. She will give you feedback on your lab document and give you a signature on your Assignment Tracker.
Station 1: Ghostly Pop Can
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Set two empty aluminum pop cans on their side on a flat table at the “Starting Line”.
3. Hold the PVC pipe a few inches away from the FRONT of the pop can and see if you can make it move without touching it.
4. Two students need to get a PVC Pipe and a piece of wool.
5. Rub the PVC pipe vigorously with the wool. Be careful not to get the wool wet! Keep it away from the sink.
6. Hold the PVC pipe a few inches away from the FRONT of the pop can.
7. Slowly move the PVC pipe closer to the pop can (without touching the can) until it moves.
8. See who can move the can along the “racetrack” without touching the can to the “Finish Line” first.
9. Answer the lab questions.
Station 2: Iron Filing Topagraphy
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Underneath the different “trays” there are bar magnets. DO NOT MOVE THE MAGNETS. DO NOT MOVE THE MAGNETS. At no point should you pick up the tray or the magnets!
3. Place a white piece of paper on top of the tray.
4. Gently shake iron filings onto the white paper with the SHAKER BOTTLE. (Not the Cup)
5. Observe: The filings instantly shift, aligning into beautiful, distinct curved loops that perfectly trace out the physical boundary and geometry of the invisible magnetic field lines!
6. Pick up the white paper hot dog style and funnel the filings into the empty plastic cup. Be careful not to spill them!
7. Answer the lab questions.
Station 3: Universal Simulator
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Test Gravity: Take the tennis ball and drop it at various angles.
What does the ball do each time?
3. Test Electricity: Take the balloon not connected to the string
and rub one side on your shirt. Try to get the balloon to stick to
the wall.
4. Test Electricity: Take the balloon not connected to the string
and rub one side on your shirt. Then, slowly move the side of the
balloon you rubbed towards the balloon that is hanging from the
string.
5. Test Magnetism: Take the magnets and point the 2 north ends
towards each other. What do the magnets do?
6. Test Magnetism: Take the magnets and point 1 north end and 1 south end towards each other. What do the magnets do?
7. Make sure the lab materials stay grouped together like they are in the picture.
8. Answer the lab questions.
Station 4: Magnetic Bumper Cars
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Point the front of Car A (North) toward the back of Car B (South). Push Car A forward. It will magnetically latch onto Car B and pull it along (Attraction).
3. Turn Car B completely around so its North pole is now facing Car A's North pole. Try to push Car A into Car B.
4. Answer the lab questions.
Station 5: Battle Ship Magnets
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Split your group into 2 teams. Decide who will be Team A and Team B.
3. Team A secretly places a magnet under their cardboard grid on one of the coordinates (the "ocean"). Tape it down so it cannot move.
4. Then, set up the coordinate grid so that it is elevated using 4 cups, one in each corner.
5. Team B calls out a coordinate (like A4).
6. Team A places the compass HOVERING OVER that coordinate without directly touching the cardboard.
7. Team B identifies the direction of the compass to help them predict their next move. 8. Team B gets the opportunity to call and track 5 more coordinates. Then, they have to make a guess where the magnet is.
9. Switch the roles of Team A and Team B and repeat the process.
10. Answer the lab questions.
Station 6: Millimeter Snap Test
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Place the paper clip at 5 cm.
3. Start the strong magnet at 15 cm and slowly slide it closer to the paperclip by millimeters. Record the exact millimeter mark where the paperclip suddenly breaks friction and snaps to the magnet.
4. Repeat this with the weaker magnet to see how distance affects the magnetic force's reach.
5. Answer the lab questions.
Q5P2: Non Contact Labs #2
Google Classroom: Open the Q5P2: Gravity Lab Stations Doc.
Checkpoints: After 2 Stations, At the end
Check in with Mrs. Roehm. She will giveyou feedback on your lab document and give you a signature on your Assignment Tracker.
Station 1: Balloon and Water
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Get a balloon from Mrs. Roehm.
3. Blow up the balloon.
4. Rub the balloon back and forth on one person’s hair many times.
5. Run the water in the faucet (Not too strong!)
6. Make sure the balloon NEVER touches any water during this experiment.
7. Starting in the middle of the faucet, far away from the stream of water, slowly bring the side that you rubbed on the hair towards the stream of water slowly.
8. Move it up and down along the stream to see what happens. Also play around with the angle of the balloon if you are not seeing anything.
9. Answer the lab questions.
Station 2: Levatating Tinsel
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Rub the PVC pipe with the wool cloth to give it a strong negative charge.
3. Hold a strip of the plastic bag up in the air in the
middle of the strip so that two sides are hanging
down together
4. Move the PVC pipe upward towards the plastic bag
piece from UNDERNEATH and see if you can use it to
separate the two strips.
5. Observe: The plastic strips should separate in the
air on either side of the pipe without touching
anything.
6. Answer the lab questions.
Station 3: Floating Rings
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Try to stack the magnets on the dowel so that they all slam together (attraction).
3. Then, flip every other magnet over. The magnets will now magically hover in mid-air, bouncing against each other without touching (repulsion).
4. See if you can make a few of the designs from the challenge cards.
5. Answer the lab questions.
Station 4: Puppet Maze
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Put the figurine at the starting line of the maze.
3. Place the magnet under the table with the side that causes attraction.
4. Use the magnet to take the figurine through the maze.
5. Repeat the process with all the magnets.
6. Flip the magnets over and see if you can make the figurine move with the side of the magnet that repels.
7. Answer the lab questions.
Station 5: Magnetic Spinning
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. IMPORTANT: Be very careful not to bend the wire at all.
3. IMPORTANT: Do NOT ever take the magnets off the battery.
4. Set the copper wire away from the magnet. Notice its motion (or lack of)
5. Gently set the point of the "heart" top of the wire on top of the top of the battery.
6. The wire should start to spin! If it doesn't start spinning, get Mrs. Roehm. DO NOT attempt to bend the wire to fix it yourself. Only Mrs. Roehm can do this!
7. Answer the lab questions.
Station 6: Mystery Crash
1. Read the Big Ideas:
2. Place 3 steel spheres on the “net side” of the magnet.
3. Place 2 steel spheres on the other side of the magnet in the middle of the track (not touching the magnet).
4. Roll 1 steel sphere down the ramp (opposite end from the net).
5. Answer the lab questions.
Q5P3: Electromagnet Lab
Google Classroom: While this assignment is in Google Classroom, you will have to complete this lab on paper because there is a graph you need to create.
Checkpoints: After every test/station
Safety: Be careful of the place where the wire meets the battery….it can get hot!
Important Constant: When picking up the paper clips, you must move the nail and touch the paper clip to pick them up. You may not pick up the paper clips and place them on the nail.
**Some of the tests will NOT pick up any paper clips and that is ok! But, if none of them are picking up clips, let Mrs. Roehm know!
Core Test
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Get a Zip Lock Bag Kit labeled "Type of Core."
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It is important to note that Mrs. Roehm wrapped both the pencil and the nail with the exact same number of coils.
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Clip the alligator clips to the ends of the copper wire that are attached to the pencil.
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Observe how many paper clips it can pick up.
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Unclip the alligator clips from the pencil and clip them to the nail.
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Observe how many paper clips it can pick up.
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Clean up your kit and return it to the counter you got it from.
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Answer the lab questions.
Coil Test
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Get a Zip Lock Bag Kit labeled "Number of Coils."
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It is important to note that Mrs. Roehm wrapped one nail with a large number of coils and one nail with a small number of coils.
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Clip the alligator clips to the ends of the copper wire that are attached to the nail wrapped with less coils.
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Observe how many paper clips it can pick up. Record your data in your lab document.
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Unclip the alligator clips from the pencil and clip them to the nail with the large number of coils.
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Observe how many paper clips it can pick up. Record your data in your lab document.
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Answer the lab questions.
Battery Test
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Get a Zip Lock Bag Kit labeled "Number of Batteries."
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Get the "One Battery" pack. Clip the alligator clips to the ends of the copper wire that are attached to the nail.
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Observe how many paper clips it can pick up. Record your data in your lab document.
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Get the "Two Battery" pack. Clip the alligator clips to the nail.
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Observe how many paper clips it can pick up. Record your data in your lab document.
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Answer the lab questions.
Check in with Mrs. Roehm and show her your answers and graph.
Q5P4: Reassess
From Your Folder/Binder: Get out your Forces and Motion Learning Target Page.
Reassess only on targets FM.5 (Non Contact Forces), SEP7 (Data Evidence), and SEP6 (Relationship Statements).
Show Mrs. Roehm your completed self assessment tell her which target is your biggest strength and which is your biggest challenge (FM5, SEP7, or SEP6). Mrs. Roehm will give you a signature on your Assignment Tracker.