Object: Toy magnet (Note: Be prepared with a magnet and several objects that will be attracted to it. Little metal figures would be very helpful!)

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever experimented with a magnet? Do you know what a magnet does? (Responses.) Do you understand how a magnet works? Well, without being too technical, a magnet is a piece of metal -- usually iron, steel, cobalt or nickel -- which has been charged with a magnetic field so that it attracts other particles of like metals. I have with me a magnet. Now, if I pass this over the spot where other bits of metal are, what do you think will…