Today in class, we made electromagnets. Except these ones we didn’t wrap all the way around the bolt(with the wire). So, me and my science group used wire, a few paperclips, a bolt, a battery, and a battery holder.

We first wrapped the wire to a quarter of the bolt. Then, we attached the wire to the battery holder with the battery inside. We tried to get the paperclips to “stick” to the electromagnet. It didn’t stick. We recorded(wrote) what happened on a sheet of lined paper. After that, we wrapped the wire a little further down the bolt, around the middle. We tried to pick up the paperclips, but it didn’t work. Then we wrote our thoughts down. A little later, we wrapped the wire to a third of the bolt. We attempted to pick up the paperclips, and we succeeded! Then we  scribbled our words down. We finally wrapped it all the way to the end, where we found that it was much easier to pick the paperclips up. We were given sheets with questions on them.

If someone asked me,”What did you learn about electromagnets?” I would have answered,” I learned that electromagnets are not permanent, but temporary. That’s because you can disassemble them, or they might run out of power.”If someone also asks me”What questions do you have about magnets?” Then I would have said” How are magnets made? What are magnets made out of? Can a magnet be made out of ordinary metal?”This was a great opportunity for me to learn more about magnets.