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DuPage Children's Museum K-5: Marvelous Magnets

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STEM
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Allowed Grades: Kindergarten to 5th Grade

Program Description

Event Details

Grades K-5

DuPage Children's Museum is coming to the library! 

Explore the properties of magnets through building, investigating, and observing magnets and magnetic forces.

  • Magnetic Models – Use washers to create a statue and investigate how they are sticking together!
  • Measuring A Magnet’s Might – Do magnets have different strengths? Can we get our magnet car to move without touching it? Can you pick up a magnet fish with a fishing pole? Come and make observations about a magnet’s magnetic field!
  • Mysterious Matter Observation – What is this stuff? Investigate how different magnets have different effects on a mysterious magnetic substance.

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In the course of daily operations, the library may take photographs within public areas of the library. Written permission is not needed for Library staff to take photographs of groups or crowds including children in the library building or during library sponsored events.