What are Magnets? (Twig film, username and password both: elizabethcollege)

BBC bitesize - magnetic field patterns

Video explaining the importance of the Earth's magnetic field to life

The folders below contain resources you will use during this topic


  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Magnetic materials
  • 3. Magnetic fields (first lesson)
  • 4. Magnetic fields (second lesson)
  • 5. Explaining magnetism
  • 6. Electromagnetism
  • 7 & 8. Uses of electromagnets
  • 9. Motor effect
  • 10. Generator effect
  • 11. Power stations
  • 12. Burning problems
  • 13. Renewable resources
  • 14. Nuclear power
  • 15. Revision