Learners' understanding and thinking about magnetism

Some examples from ECLIPSE of what students have said relating to magets and magnetism:

Magnets are not much to do with electricity

The north pole and the south poles go together because one of them is coming out and one is going in

This is just one of a wide range of science topics that learners have talked about in ECLIPSE projects.


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