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Well... you could visually demonstrate a magnetic field. Kids like visual learning tools. You can get a big magnet and put a piece of paper over it. Then take some type of metal filings and sprinkle them over the paper. The metal filings will align themselves in the direction of the magnetic field. You can explain to them about north and south poles. How the magnetic field is attracted to the south pole. Also take a compass and bring it close to the paper and you will see the compass moving in the direction that your sprinkled metal filings have fallen.

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