{"id":4384,"date":"2015-03-16T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2015-03-16T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T11:48:00","slug":"knex-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/2015\/03\/16\/knex-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"K&#8217;nex Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/files\/2015\/03\/B_-qB3RW8AEaehM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4385 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/files\/2015\/03\/B_-qB3RW8AEaehM-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"kn\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well done to St Mark&#8217;s pupils who took part in St Luke&#8217;s K&#8217;nex Challenge on Friday.\u00a0 Building with a variety of materials encourages play and early engineering skills. A few benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul-bullet\">\n<li>fine motor skill development<\/li>\n<li>pattern making\/understanding<\/li>\n<li>understanding of cause and effect (build\u2026fall down\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>principles of engineering including beams, columns and load<\/li>\n<li>impermanence&#8211;something that gets built eventually gets taken apart<\/li>\n<li>cooperation&#8211;if working with peers<\/li>\n<li>working with a variety of materials<\/li>\n<li>testing and experimentation<\/li>\n<li>creativity and design process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done to St Mark&#8217;s pupils who took part in St Luke&#8217;s K&#8217;nex Challenge on Friday.\u00a0 Building with a variety of materials encourages play and early engineering skills. A few benefits include: fine motor skill development pattern making\/understanding understanding of cause and effect (build\u2026fall down\u2026) principles of engineering including beams, columns and load impermanence&#8211;something that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/2015\/03\/16\/knex-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">K&#8217;nex Challenge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievement","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StMarks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}