What to do for Experiment #1 – How do magnets act with another magnet?
• All magnets have a North Pole and a South Pole. Take a look at the earth globe. You can see the North and South Poles. The poles of a magnet point in their own direction. • Try matching up the two South Pole ends of the two magnets. What happens? • Try matching up the two North Pole ends of the two magnets. What happens? • Try matching up a magnet’s North Pole with another magnet’s South Pole. What happens? Experiment #2- Which objects will be attracted to or cling to a magnet? • Set out all the little objects from paper clips, coins, pencils, socks, stones, thumbtacks to pieces of aluminum foil and wire. • See which objects will be attracted to a magnet. What Is Happening Magnets are typically made of a metal we call iron. Many things we see and use that are magnetized are made out of steel or have iron in them. One of the metals in steel is iron. Iron, like everything else, is made of little building blocks we cannot see that we call atoms. In things that are not magnetized, the li
