{"id":202743,"date":"2021-05-26T20:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=202743"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:27:00","slug":"solar-power-in-grade-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2021\/05\/26\/solar-power-in-grade-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power in Grade 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our unit work in Grade 4, the students have made windmills and water wheels&#8230; and now a solar water heater. The students filled two straws, one black and one pale coloured, with water and sat them outside in the sun for 5 minutes. Which water was going to be hotter? Can you guess?<\/p>\n<p>In real life, black pipes are used to produce solar hot water and we discovered why.<\/p>\n<p>This also gave us the chance to revise the scientific method when writing about what we did.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3535.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202742 lazyload\" width=\"1000\" height=\"744\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3535.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3535-980x729.jpg 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3535-480x357.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/744;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3534.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202741 lazyload\" width=\"1000\" height=\"707\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3534.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3534-980x693.jpg 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img_3534-480x339.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/707;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our unit work in Grade 4, the students have made windmills and water wheels&#8230; and now a solar water heater. The students filled two straws, one black and one pale coloured, with water and sat them outside in the sun for 5 minutes. Which water was going to be hotter? Can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":202732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}