{"id":2727,"date":"2017-12-08T11:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:33:34","slug":"stem-challenge-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"STEM Challenge &#8211; Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2740\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_6208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2740\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/files\/2017\/12\/IMG_6208-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our orchestra!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Primary 4-7 \u00a0have been learning about sound as part of their science topic this term. \u00a0They boldly took on the challenge of designing and constructing an instrument capable of making sound. \u00a0Many skills were used such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>identifying how sound might be produced<\/li>\n<li>selecting and joining materials<\/li>\n<li>using maths to calculate water volume ratios<\/li>\n<li>modifying the design to overcome problems<\/li>\n<li>testing<\/li>\n<li>decorating for visual appeal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was an impressive array of creative ideas using pitch, percussion and wind to produce sound in a variety of ways. \u00a0Barbara judged the winning designs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Rowan Harbottle<\/li>\n<li>2nd Livvy Cumming<\/li>\n<li>3rd Lee Gaunt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>#Successful learners<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary 4-7 \u00a0have been learning about sound as part of their science topic this term. \u00a0They boldly took on the challenge of designing and constructing an instrument capable of making sound. \u00a0Many skills were used such as: identifying how sound might be produced selecting and joining materials using maths to calculate water volume ratios modifying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=2727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STEM Challenge &#8211; Sound&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}