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Magnet Fishing

 Materials

  • magnet

  • paper clips

  • paper

  • scissors

  • crayons

  • laminating film

  • stick

  • string

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 Procedures

  1. Draw fish and sea animals on the paper and color them.

  2. Cut the pictures out.

  3. Using laminating film, laminate the pictures.

  4. Cut them out again.

  5. Make a fishing rod. Tie your magnet on the end of string. Tie the other end of the string to the stick you have.

  6. Place half of your fish and sea animals in water.

  7. Hold half of them with paper clips. Place them in water too.

  8. Now let’s go fishing with a magnet and see what sea animals you can catch!

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Science Behind It

Magnets cannot pull things like paper, wood, glass and plastic. That’s because they are Non-magnetic materials. Magnets are only attracted to special metals such as Iron, cobalt and nickel. Metals made of iron or that contain iron attract magnets well. A paper clip is made of steel wire which has iron in it. So you can can catch only the sea animals with paper clips.

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