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Magnet activities
By JohnV

Some possiblilities, depending on grade level:

1. Experiment by trial and error to find that there are two poles on the magnet and that depending on their combinations, they either attract or repel each other.

2. Put
a magnet under a sheet of paper and then sprinkle iron filings on the paper to reveal the shape of the magnetic field.
3. Use a magnet to classify other forms of matter according to whether they are magnetic (i.e. attracted to the magnet) or nonmagnetic.
4. Use wire wrapped around a nail and hooked up to a battery to make an electromagnet.
5. Find magnets and electromagnets in

use. They are in speakers and electric motors for example. You can probably get students to bring in non-working appliances and such to be taken apart.

6. Teach how a magnetic compass works.

Hope this helps.

John