Scientists in Cobalt Band are currently engaged in authentic sense-making activities meant to deepen their understanding of magnetic and electric forces, including how these two types of forces relate to each other, and how they are used in everyday devices such as electronic circuits, electromagnets, and motors. The learners are practicing thinking abstractly about the mechanisms that they cannot see that lead to observations such as a light bulb lighting or a magnet repelling the like pole of another magnet. They are starting to build a more robust mental model of the nature of matter, especially around the concepts of atoms and electrons…

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