Making a Compass

We have been doing a lot of work with magnets and this week we used a magnet to make a compass. We placed the magnet on some foam that was floating in a basin of water. The North Pole of the magnet pointed North straight away and no matter how many times we changed it around, it always turned towards the North. This is how a compass works.










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