Magnetic Wand

During free centre time, a student tried using a magnetic wand to move materials to the top of a plastic bottle.

During Free Centre time, this boy was at the light table with the plastic bottles filled with pipe cleaners and pompoms and a magnetic wand. He concentrated on his task, using the magnetic wand to bring the pipe cleaners up the bottle.  He said, “It’s going up!” -- he was able to bring 3 pipe cleaners up the walls of the bottle. He was also trying to get the pompoms to go up the wall.

When asked, “What about the pompoms?”, he replied that because they were balls, they run away.