Different materials were tested to determine which were attracted to a magnet and which ones magnetic force would travel through.
Putting magnets under dishes with iron filings meant that we could see how the filings lined up in the magnetic fields.
Levitating magnets by putting like poles together was fun! We measured to see which combination of magnets would levitate the highest.
And....we created our own original magnet games and then presented them to the class!
At the end of the unit, we made our own magnetically levitated (mag-lev) train cars. Balancing them so that they would travel down the magnetic track was a challenge, but we persisted and were successful! After testing the mag-lev cars to see what could be done to make them travel farther, we prepared for the final race, using the knowledge we had gained from our experiments!
