{"id":2929,"date":"2012-02-20T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2012\/02\/blowing-in-the-wind\/"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:38:42","slug":"blowing-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2012\/02\/20\/blowing-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowin&#8217; in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true every time: give the students raw materials and minimal instructions and they&#8217;ll create some really amazing things. We all saw this last week at Land Art Day and I saw it again this afternoon when grades 6-8 gathered for their weekly CAS session. <\/p>\n<p>In the long term our students are focusing on environmental improvements to the school, but today it was all about inquiry learning and exploring the physics of windmills. Armed with only a pile of materials such as recycled bottles, beads, and a glue gun and the guidance of Anja Rohrdanz, the students got work creating model windmills. <\/p>\n<p>Today was about asking big questions and testing answers to those questions. How many blades does a windmill need? How big should those blades be? What angle should they be set at? What materials work best? How might this small project be replicated in the real world?<\/p>\n<p>Four periods and lots of trial and error later, the students had produced a nice variety of models that all spin in the wind. It was a great afternoon of exploration&#8211;and hopefully one that inspires the students to greater &#8220;green&#8221; things in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163237.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163237.jpg\" alt=\"20120220-163237.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163308.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163308.jpg\" alt=\"20120220-163308.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163315.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163315.jpg\" alt=\"20120220-163315.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163326.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163326.jpg\" alt=\"20120220-163326.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163334.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120220-163334.jpg\" alt=\"20120220-163334.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true every time: give the students raw materials and minimal instructions and they&#8217;ll create some really amazing things. We all saw this last week at Land Art Day and I saw it again this afternoon when grades 6-8 gathered for their weekly CAS session. In the long term our students are focusing on environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,29,30,31,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-and-service","category-grade-6","category-grade-7","category-grade-8","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}