Magnetic attraction on ImpACT Sunday!

This month at Impact we got to learn about magnets.  Magnets are cool and kind of mysterious, but we got to play with them and see for ourselves how they work.  Did you know that all magnets have two poles?  They have a north pole and a south pole, just like the earth!  And that’s no coincidence, because the earth has a giant magnet inside it.  We discovered that a compass is made out of a magnet, too.  You might think that a magnet sticks to all kinds of metals, but we performed some experiments with them, and guess what?  They only stick to few different metals – iron and nickel, to be exact.  Watch out!  We were given magnets of our own so we can keep on investigating at home.