Thursday, December 10, 2009

Day 10

A Compass

We made our own compass for Science.

Supplies: yogurt lid, water, sewing needle, magnet, permanent marker and a cork

Directions: magnetize your needle by rubbing a magnet on it in the same direction a few times, put the needle through a small piece of cork, write N, S, E, W on each side of the inside of the yogurt lid, fill with water and float the needle on it.

Result: it will always point north...no matter how many times you pick it up and turn it around the other way.

1 comment:

Jonesey said...

Cool! We haven't done that one yet.