2. Magnets have been around forever! The Chinese and Greeks thought magnets were magical! Those magical rocks were called lodestones . We looked at them on Monday.
3. In 1600, William Gilbert, an English doctor, was the first to say that the earth is a giant magnet, and he predicted that the ends of the Earth were magnetic. That was over 400 years ago!
4. Are some parts of magnets stronger than others? The ends of a magnet are where the magnetic effect is the strongest. These are called “poles.” Each magnet has 2 poles – 1 north, 1 south.
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6. Poles that are the same, push away from each other. Poles that are different, pull each other together.
