{"id":642,"date":"2021-09-17T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/?p=642"},"modified":"2021-09-17T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:11:28","slug":"howdo-magnets-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/howdo-magnets-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Howdo magnets work ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week the children have been discovering how magnets work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They have been testing out different objects to find out if they are magnetic or not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The children took part in an activity \u2018how far can the ball jump\u2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They started at the starting line, slowly moving the magnetic wand towards the ball.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When the magnet <\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83e\uddf2<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> attracted the ball the children would make a mark where the ball jumped on to the wand then measured the distance using a measuring tape.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some children got very creative and created their own magnetic maze game.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>After they designed their game they used the magnetic wand and ball to make their way through the maze to the finish line.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The mazes were amazing <\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83e\udd29<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-643\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/96B7D49E-74C0-4102-8F6E-60D23BECA625-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/CD5E95C4-0BBE-4BED-A8E8-13558FF8D453-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-645\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/files\/2021\/09\/CEC0D92D-89C7-485C-B4BC-850488D56F9E-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the children have been discovering how magnets work.\u00a0 They have been testing out different objects to find out if they are magnetic or not.\u00a0 The children took part in an activity \u2018how far can the ball jump\u2019.\u00a0 They started at the starting line, slowly moving the magnetic wand towards the ball.\u00a0 When the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/howdo-magnets-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Howdo magnets work ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/oakburn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}