The Structure of this site

Notes on this Project

This web-site was produced by Year 8 pupils from Heathside School in Weybridge, Surrey. It will eventually form one of the school's first intranet resources when Heathside establishes full intranet provision in September 1998.

The site includes some assessment experiments on electromagnets on which you can learn, compare and contrast with your own work. We have further informative articles on the importance of electromagnets and Hot-Links to other web-sites that you may find interesting and helpful.

As well as being educational there is also an element of fun with our multiple choice ‘Quiz’. You are taught how to build an electromagnet therefore enabling you to create your own experiments and gadgets. If you do produce a gadget or follow our experiments, you can send the results to our site so we can compare results.

We include information not only for pupils, but for teachers too. The following list shows you the structure of this site in more detail, including the contents of each page in the developing project.

CONTENTS :

Electromagnets - Home page (Welcome to the site + a broad overview)

An Introduction to the Investigations carried out and further links to 3 investigation pages

The Key Factors affecting Electromagnetism - a simple checklist

Model Experiment One - The effect of the number of turns in the wire

Model Experiment Two - The effect of voltage on the strength of an electromagnet

The Results from Experiment One - Some data and graphs illustrating our findings

The Theory Page on Electromagnets - and links to further pages on the discovery of electromagnets, practical everyday uses of electromagnets, further simple experiments to try.

How to write up simple experiments - Some advice from our Teacher on how to oroganise writing up science experiments

A quiz - a simple quiz on electromagnets with links to the answers!