Electromagnets

Electromagnet at work

Electromagnet Tools

An electromagnet is a thin coil of wire wrapped many times around a nail. There is left over wire attached to the nail that touches the positive and negative sides of a D battery. The nail becomes a magnet and will be able to pick up objects like paperclips, staples and the pointy part of a tack. The more times the wire wraps around the nail the more it attracts these objects. The class drew models of the electromagnets in their interactive science notebooks and labeled all of the parts like the nail wire and battery and finished their lab.