Science Friday Exploration

We spent the majority of the day learning about magnets.  The children had a lot of fun exploring with different types of magnets, creating figurines from metal cans, and going fishing with magnets.  They also spent some time running tests with different magnets trying to figure out which magnets repel or attract particular objects around our classroom.  Even though magnets are attracted to iron and steel, they were surprised that they were not attracted to all types of metal.  Many students explored with the concepts of using the north and south poles against one another. We learned that "opposites attract" and "like repels." We will continue this exploration more throughout the next week.