A homemade compass

Today we finally got a chance to do the Extra Credit project from Oak Meadow that was assigned last week.
A and I made a compass!
It was actually pretty cool.


She started by magnetizing the needle by rubbing it in one direction against a magnet for several minutes.

 We then stuck the large in of the needle into a piece of wine cork and placed it in a pan of water.

Our home made compass slowly turned and then stopped when the needle was pointing North.

I asked her to draw her compass...

...but she went even further and wrote about how people navigated before compasses.
Definitely a lot of fun! So far we are loving Oak Meadow!

Comments

Megan said…
is that in the history book you bought? or is it science?
Amanda said…
Megan,
It's the history/english book. Still waiting for the science book to get here to the island. It's been sitting in Anchorage for 2 weeks. Gaah!
that is so neat, and really interesting,