Mississippi Science PHY.5.1

ScienceGrades 9–12Physics

The Standard

PHY.5: Students will investigate the key components of electricity and magnetism.

Analyze and explain electricity and the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Electricity and Magnetism

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Trace current through a closed circuit and explain how it creates a magnetic field. Explain how moving a magnet near a coil can produce current.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student predicts that reversing current will reverse a nearby compass needle's deflection. They explain why a meter connected to a coil responds when a magnet moves through it, but not when the magnet stops.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think only permanent magnets make magnetic fields. Some expect a stationary magnet beside a coil to keep generating current.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, ask: What happens to a compass near a wire when the current reverses? When will a meter connected to a coil respond as a magnet enters, stops, and leaves?

Lesson moves

Wrap insulated wire around a cardboard tube, briefly connect it to an AA battery, and check compass deflection when the leads are swapped.
Ask students to explain in two sentences why a powered wire turns a compass but a stationary magnet produces no current in a nearby coil.
Give pairs cards showing current on, off, or reversed and a magnet entering, leaving, or resting in a coil; have them sort predictions.
Show a hand-crank flashlight diagram and ask students to mark the moving part, the changing magnetic field, and the path of induced current.

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