This lab sheet walks your student through five sequential activities built around observing properties of magnets and magnetic fields. The first procedure has students bring a magnet near six specific objects, including a paper clip, iron nail, wood, plastic, glass, and a coin, recording yes or no in a structured attraction table. From there, your student uses a compass to identify North-seeking and South-seeking poles, then tests like and unlike pole behavior with two magnets. The final two procedures guide students through sprinkling iron filings over a sheet of paper to draw the field pattern, with an optional compass field map as an extension. This lab is well suited for grades 4 through 6 in a homeschool setting.

The sheet fits naturally into a physical science unit study on magnetism or electricity and magnetism. It works as a standalone one-session lab or as the opening experiment in a sequence on electromagnetic force. A completed sheet shows that your homeschooler can form a hypothesis, follow a multi-step procedure, record observational data in a table, produce a sketch from a physical phenomenon, and draw a conclusion that connects to a real-life example of magnetism.