A simple, easy and fun science experiment was observed at a providers home this week involving magnets!
Collect a sample of objects from around the home (both magnetic and non magnetic), older children could be asked to do this, and place in a tub.
Give each child a magnet (you can get some large, child friendly ones cheaply from various stores) and as them to test the objects to see which ones stick to the magnet and which ones do not.
The children can then sort the objects into two tubs!
A simple way to encourage intellectual development, thinking skills, reasoning, exploration and sorting.
Afterwards the children go go around the home testing which surfaces the magnet will stick to!
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