After learning about “grounding” we learned that around the Earth there is a magnetic field and we wondered about magnetism. What do we know about magnets?
After a brief brainstorming and some reading, we saw the connection between the poles in a magnet and the Earth poles, we remembered how magnets work (two different poles attract whereas two same poles repel) and we reflected on many magnets do we use in our real life. Magnets are not only to attach papers on the fridge!
It was time to put all this knowledge into practice and try to solve different questions:
-How can we know the poles on magnet without colours?
-Can we see the magnetic field?
-Can we make a pencil levitate?
We had everything we neeeded to answer the questions: magnets, school objects, compasses, iron fillings and our creativity!
We saw the magnetic field using a magnet and some iron fillings and we found the poles on a magnet using a compass. Making a pencil levitate seemed impossible though!
After watching a tutorial, we realised that we colud make a pencil levitate using magnet properties. Do you want to do it at home?
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