The Galt Explore & Discover Magnetic Lab introduces young learners to magnetism through 10 hands-on experiments. Children make a racing car move without touching it, create rattlesnake sounds with magnets, perform a levitation trick, design mazes for magnetic marbles and make funny hairy faces.
Each activity shows a different property of magnets, such as attraction, repulsion and how magnetic force acts at a distance, and the kit needs no batteries. The Magnetic Lab won the 2019 Progressive Preschool Award for Best Preschool STEM Range.
The experiments are short and playful, which makes the kit a good fit for early primary science lessons on forces, small-group investigation stations or after-school STEM clubs, where children can predict, test and talk about what they observe.