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Making Your Own Compass

Materials

  1. Needle

  2. Good options

  3. Sewing needle

  4. Paper clip

  5. Hair pin

  6. Safety pin

  7. Bowl

  8. Water

  9. Coin sized piece of cork

  10. A Magnetizer

    1. Magnet

    2. Fur

    3. Hair

    4. Screw

 

Creating Your Compass

  1. Rub your needle on your magnet in a clockwise motion

  2. Put needle through your cork and place in water

  3. Your needle should float

  4. If your compass is working you will slowly see your needle twisting clockwise

  5. Line up a real compass with it to see where is north and where is south then mark it on you cork.

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