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=**MAGNETS and ELECTRICITY **=

Here are some fun magnet games that I have adapted from from Jean Warren's website [|Discovery Express]

__** MAGNET MAGIC **__  Try these fun magnet experiments. Then experiment with some magnets on your own.  You will need magnets, paper clips, toy metal cars, other small metal objects. Please check with an adult that everything you have is SAFE!

WARNING! Keep magnets away from computers and electrical items such as TVs


__**MAGNET CARS **__
 *  Attach bar magnets to the fronts of small toy cars with masking tape.
 *  Make sure that the magnets are attached, so that some will repel and some will attract.
 *  Now play with the cars.
 *  Roll two cars toward each other. What happens?
 *  Can you find out a way to push a car without touching it?



__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">MAGNETIC RACE TRACK **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Take turns with this activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Draw a simple race track on a sheet of thin cardboard.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Glue a strong magnet to the bottom of a toy car.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Place the car on top of the race track.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Hold a magnet underneath the cardboard, directly below the car.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Slowly move the magnet along the bottom of the cardboard to make the car move.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Race the car around the track as fast as you can without running off the track.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">MAGNETIC BOARD GAMES **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Use what you have learned to design and make your own board games.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">TRICKY PAPER CLIP **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Put a large glass filled with water on a low table.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Now drop a paper clip into the glass.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Can you think of ways to get the paper clip out of the glass without putting anything in the water or dumping the water out.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Now get a strong magnet.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Hold the magnet against the side of the glass until the paper clip attaches to it through the water and the glass.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Then slowly pull the magnet up the side of the glass.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> The paper clip will come out of the water without the water being touched.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> How can the magnet move the paper clip without touching it?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> What other items could you put in the glass that the magnet will pick up?

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">DANCING PAPER CLIPS **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Fill a jar with water and drop two or three paper clips into the water.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Think how you can make the paper clips dance up and down in the water without touching them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Try moving a magnet up and down outside the jar - what happens?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> How many paper clips can your magnet make dance?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> What would you need to make more paper clips dance?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Can you explain how the magnet can make the paper clips dance without touching them?

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">COMPASS FUN **__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> A compass has a magnet in it to make it work. The north pole has a magnetic field, and the magnet in the compass is attracted to that field. So no matter where a compass is held, the needle in the compass will point to the north.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Set out several compasses. What do you notice? (Make sure that you hold the compasses somewhat apart or the magnetic fields will be disturbed.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> How can you make the needles move around.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Now hold a small magnet next to the compasses. What happens to the needles?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Can you explain why this happens? Click and drag your mouse highlight below to find the answer
 * ==<span style="color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">(The magnetic fields from the magnets are closer and stronger than the one from the north pole, so the needles on the compasses will point to the magnets instead of the pole.) ==

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">MAKING A COMPASS **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Set out a straight pin, a strong magnet, a piece of cork, and a bowl of water.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Magnetize the pin by rubbing it in the same direction across the magnet at least 25 times.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Push the pin through the cork.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Now carefully place the cork in the bowl of water.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> The pin will point north.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> How can you check this? Click and drag your mouse highlight below to find the answer
 * ==<span style="color: #f7f5f5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">(Use a compass) ==


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> What do you think will happen when you twist the bowl around? Click and drag your mouse highlight below to find the answer
 * ==<span style="color: #faf7f7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">(The pin will still point north) ==

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Make sure there the bowl isn't made of metal and there is no metal around the bowl (like a knife or pair of scissors). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Move your compass away from other magnetic fields, like the TV.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Hints **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">MAGNET SORT **__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Collect items that can be picked up with a magnet, such as a metal paper clip, a frozen juice can lid, a washer, and a screw, and items that cannot be picked up by a magnet, such as a rubber ball, a cotton ball, a small plastic toy, and a piece of paper. Now use a magnet to sort the items into two piles, picked up by a magnet and not picked up by a magnet. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> What did the items the magnet picked up have in common?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Click and drag your mouse highlight below to find the answer
 * ==<span style="color: #faf5f5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">(They were all metal) ==

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">HUNT FOR MAGNETS **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Collect several refrigerator magnets.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Hide magnets on metal surfaces throughout your home, such as the refrigerator, the stove, a file cabinet, the washing machine, and a metal toy. (Keep away from computers & TVs).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Tell your family that you have hidden magnets all around your home.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Help your family think of things in your home that are metal where a magnet might "stick."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Now let them go on a hunt to find the magnets.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">MAKE YOUR OWN FRIDGE MAGNET GAMES **__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Collect a variety of different pictures or photos and attach magnets to the backs.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Then play the following games with your family.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> I Spy-Describe one of the magnets to your family.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Have your family try to guess which one it is.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Give as many clues as needed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Then let your family describe a magnet for you to guess.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> SOME MAGNET FACTS **__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Magnets have both a north and south pole; whichever pole of one magnet faces a pole of the other determines whether the magnets attract or not. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Iron is a common material used as a magnet.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> The magnetized needle of a compass points northward because the Earth itself is a magnet, due to electric currents in the liquid part of the Earth's core.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Compass **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Similar poles repel, while opposite poles attract. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> This is why disk magnets will make each other flip around, so the opposite poles are facing each other.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Polarity **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Contact is not needed for magnets to attract; they are able to act on each other at a distance, even in a vacuum.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> No Medium Required **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> All magnetic fields are the result of the motion of electric charges. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> For example, in electromagnets, the field is made by electric currents going around in circles. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> In atoms, it arises from the orientation of electron orbits.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Source of Magnetism **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Magnets are made up of many smaller magnets. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> If you cut one in half, each half will have its own north and south pole. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> No matter how much you cut a magnet up, each piece will have both poles.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Little Magnets **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Here are some links to interactive magnet games to keep you busy during the holiday

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|MAGNETIC FISHING GAME]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|MAGNET SPRINGS] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|MAGNETS AND SPRINGS] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> [|MAGNETIC FORCES] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> [|MAGNETIC POETRY BOARD] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> Hold shift & click word - then type a new word to make your OWN words - great for making poems <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;"> [|WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">[|Game 2] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Game 3

<span style="color: #390ee6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Changing Circuits - Interactive <span style="color: #390ee6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Look around the home for a collection of magnets to bring to school in Term 2

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">These sites have lots of useful links to help your learning.





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