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Make your own
compass!
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You will need a magnet, a
cork, a nail, a shallow dish approximately eight or nine inches in
diameter, a twelve inch square piece of stiff card, and a ballpoint
pen or indelible marker.
- 1. Mark the four points of the
compass along the edges of the card square. Include NE, SE, NW,
and SW if you choose.
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- 2. Magnetize the nail by
rubbling it, in one direction only, with one pole (end) of the
magnet.
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- 3. Press nail through the
length of the cork until the cork is centered on the nail.
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- 4. Fill the dish with water
and place it in the center of the card square.
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- 5. Place cork in the shallow
dish of water.
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- 6. Line up the north mark on
the card square with the pointed end of the nail.
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