What Is a Magnet?

Magnets pull some things without touching them.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 44

A magnet can pull some things toward it without even touching them! This magnet picked up a paper clip and a safety pin.
When a magnet pulls something toward it, we say it attracts it. Attract means pull toward.
A magnet's pull even goes through paper! Slide a magnet under a paper plate, and a paper clip on top moves along with it.
But magnets don't pull everything. The pencil, the teddy bear, and the feather stayed on the table.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S1P2.b — Plan and carry out an investigation to demonstrate how magnets attract and repel each other and the effect of magnets on common objects.