Can you make a boat that will move by magnetic force?

 This is the process of making magnetic boats.  To make an magnetic boats you need materials. The materials are magnets, cereal box, emty bottles, toilet paper tubes, paper towel tubes, duct tape, string, tissue box, popsicle  sticks, rubber bands, lumanem foil. When you’re done you need a nother magnet to guide the boat in the water. If your boat big and heavy it will sink and if it also has holes it will also sink. Some of the problems mite face is sinking, falling apart, to wide, to heavy, and to big. And that’s how you make a magnetic boat’s.

                                                        Mason Elliott and Kyle Johnson

 

 

Making electromagnets!

                                                                          Electromagnets                                                                  

We made electromagnets for science. We wrapped wire around the nail witch is called coils. Our group had some problems like we didn’t wrap the coils around the nail tight enough. Also we didn’t know where the magnetic pull was. When the teacher told us that we had to wrap the coils tighter than we did it. Also we had to wrap around a lot of coils around the nail. Then the teacher said that the magnetic pull was at the core. And our activity worked!

By Dmitry and Edward

Electromagnets... How do they work?

In the Wonder Room last week, we created an electromagnet. Ours worked, but it was very weak. Here's a video showing a stronger electromagnet. It also reminds you of the three ways to make an electromagnet stronger. 

I wonder... What is magnetism?

Magnetism

Today we went to the Wonder Room and did 5 stations about magnets. Our 1^st station was about attracting and repelling 2 magnets to each other. One side there was a North Pole and the other side of the magnet was the South Pole.

Our 2^nd station was about what materials are attracted and some that don’t attract are ruler, wood, and plastic. Some materials that are attracted are: scissors, nails, and binder clip.

Our 3^rd station was how many paperclips you can fit on a magnet. Boyce and Cameron got 65 paperclips on the magnet. This worked because the paperclips were metal.

Our 4^th station was how strong is the magnets if you put a paper between them. When we put the magnets to our shirt it stuck together.

Our 5^th station was shavings to a stick that had iron on the bottom of the stick. It worked because the iron is magnetic and it attracted to iron shavings.

Our 6^th station was to make an electromagnet. It worked because we made coils around a nail to make it a magnet. We know it worked because we could feel a tiny pull from the paperclip.  

By: Boyce and Cameron