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Sunflower Grade 2
 
Watch It Move
 
All About Magnets
 
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    		• Magnets pull, or attract, some kinds of things.
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    		• Poles are the places where a magnet's pull is strongest. Poles are at the ends of a bar magnet or a horseshoe magnet.
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    		• A magnet has a North pole, or N pole. A magnet has a South pole, or S pole.
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    		• The N pole of a magnet attracts the S pole of another magnet. Similarly, the S pole of a magnet attracts the N pole of another magnet.
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    		• Poles that are the same repel, or push away, each other.
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    		• The N pole of a magnet repels the N pole of another magnet. Similarly, the S pole of a magnet repels another S pole.
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    		• Magnets have many uses.