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NASA eClips™ V.A.L.U.E. Bundle
Magnets

NASA eClips™ Videos
Our World: The Sun, A Real Star
Learn about the important relationship between Earth and the sun. Find out about the layers of the sun and how Earth's magnetosphere acts like a giant handkerchief to protect us from all kinds of space weather.
Real World: Mercury's MESSENGER Reveals Mysteries
MESSENGER, NASA's first mission to Mercury in 30 years, has captured stunning imagery helping to determine the composition of the surface and measure Mercury's unusual magnetic field.
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Revealing Magnetic Fields
In this activity participants will use iron filings to observe aa magnetic field around a bar magnet.
NASA Spotlite Videos
Student-produced videos confronting misconceptions.
Magnets and Metals
Student producers from Hampton City Schools in Hampton, Virginia confront the misconception that all metals are attracted to magnets.
Magnets and Attract
Student producers from Hampton City Schools in Hampton, Virginia confront the misconception that all metals are attracted to magnets.
NASA Spotlite: On the Hunt for Magnetic Metals
Student producers confront the misconception that all metals are attracted to metals.
NASA Spotlite Design Challenge
Design Challenge
Teams are challenged to produce a video to improve scientific literacy. The goal of the video is to engage other students in doing activities that can help change their misconceptions about a topic in science.
Join the NASA Spotlite Production Team!
Help others correct misconceptions about magnets.
NASA Spotlite Interactive Lessons
Magnets and Metals (Teacher Packet)
Magnets and Metals (Student Packet)
Through watching a student-produced video, completing activities, explaining relevant concepts using new vocabulary using a Frayer Model, and applying new information, students will develop an understanding of the science content and how to correct the science misconception about magnets and metals.
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Science Inquiry

Solar System Magnetism
In this activity, polystyrene spheres and strong magnets are used to represent the Sun and Earth and their distinct magnetic fields. Participants construct and use a “field detector” to predict where the magnetic fields are, and “field bits” to form loops and trace the invisible magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth.
Online Interactives
  • iMAGINETICspace Where Imagination, Magnetism, and Space Collide
  • The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

    MMS investigates how the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect, explosively transferring energy from one to the other in a process that is important at the Sun, other planets, and everywhere in the universe, known as magnetic reconnection.

  • NASA Sun-Earth Day: Exploring Magnetic Field Lines

    Exploring Magnetic Field Lines When discussing space weather or how Earth’s magnetosphere protects us, we often see diagrams with lines wrapping around the globe. What are these lines? Can we see these lines if we were in space looking back at Earth? This activity lets us explore the magnetic field of a bar magnet and serves as a good introduction to understanding Earth’s magnetic field. It is also a good way to demonstrate why prominences are always “loops”.