One item the children have used often is a magnet. They are used in the classroom to spell words, make pictures, and are even on some refrigerators at home. What I heard a lot from gathering prior knowledge was that magnets "stick" and only to things made of metal. We experimented with a magnet wand and tested out different objects to see if it was magnetic.
From there I talked with the children about the terms attract and repel. We found that magnets can go towards each other or away from each other. We saw that magnets that were the same wanted to go together when they were on opposite sides.
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| "repel" "attract" make note of the magnets in the picture |
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