Fremont Magnet Elementary

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Magnets

Standard:
f.
Students know that magnets have two poles (north and south) and that like poles repel each other while unlike poles attract each other.
 

1. Vocabulary

Magnets attract and repel, do you know what those words mean? Click here to find the answer.  Look for the definition of the words attract,  and repel.  Explain in your own words, or draw a picture of the meaning of these two words. 

Attract  

Repel

 

2. Are all metals magnetic?

You know that magnets stick to your refrigerator  because it is made of metal, but do magnets stick to any kind of metal? 

These are all made of metal.  Which are magnetic?

To find the answer, click on this link.

3. Which poles attract?

If you put unlike poles of a magnet near each other what happens?
  repel
 
attract

If you put like poles of a magnet near each other what happens?
  repel
 
attract

 


 

Review

Click on Revisewise Magnets to review how magnets work.

 

 

 

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