Magnetic Materials
Your child knows a magnet pulls some materials, like iron and steel, but not wood or plastic. Two magnets can pull together or push apart.
In curriculum terms
Observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others
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Can your child test a magnet on different objects around the house and predict which ones will stick?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify how forces can be exerted by one object on another and investigate the effect of frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces on the motion of objects
recognise that materials can be changed physically without changing their material composition and explore the effect of different actions on materials including bending, twisting, stretching and breaking into smaller pieces
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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