{"id":6393,"date":"2022-05-07T15:39:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2022-05-07T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:39:58","slug":"magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/2022\/05\/07\/magnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The children in the Orchard bubble have been exploring magnets and how they work.\u00a0 They used horseshoe magnets to find out what was magnetic in the nursery garden.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A basket of items made from different materials was sorted into magnetic and non-magnetic items.\u00a0 The children were very interested to find out that not all metals are magnetic and a magnet will only attract certain metals such as iron or steel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The children investigated if a magnet would still attract a metal paper clip if it was covered over by different materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The children used their senses to help understand that when two magnets are near each other they either repel or attract each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We looked at an information book about magnets to learn that a magnet is strongest at its two ends and found out that they are called the north pole and the south pole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The children were also interested to learn from the information book that earth is a giant magnet and we can use a compass to find where the magnetic north is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The children in the Orchard bubble have been exploring magnets and how they work.\u00a0 They used horseshoe magnets to find out what was magnetic in the nursery garden. A basket of items made from different materials was sorted into magnetic and non-magnetic items.\u00a0 The children were very interested to find out that not all metals … Continue reading Magnets<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[189,171,4725,135],"class_list":["post-6393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci","tag-literacy","tag-mathematics","tag-problem-solving","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}