Magnets

Magnets

100

What attracts metal objects?

Magnets

200

Name two objects that are not attracted to magnets.

Answers could include: rubber band, quarter, wood, domino, marker. 

300

Name two objects that are attracted to magnets.

Answers could include: paper clip, binder clip, nail, screw, scissors. 

Attract/Repel

100

What is it called when magnets pull toward one another?

Attract

200

What is it called when magnets push away from each other?

Repel

300

What are the two ends of magnets called?

Poles (North Pole and South Pole)

Magnets are helpful

100

How are magnets helpful to people?

Answers could include: magnets are used in toys or magnets are used to hold things up.

200

How are magnets used at your house?

Answers could include: the refrigerator, hanging pictures, hanging things on the refrigerator.

300

How are magnets used in the school?

Answers could include: the hold the closet doors closed, to hang things on the dry erase board. 

Magnetic/Nonmagnetic

100

What does it mean to be magnetic?

Something that is attracted to a magnet or sticks to the magnet.

200

What does it mean to be nonmagnetic?

Something that is not attracted to a magnet or it does not stick to the magnet.

300

Give two examples of things that are magnetic.

Answers could include: paperclips, screw, nail, pipe cleaner, binder clips, scissors.