{"id":21399,"date":"2022-07-01T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=21399"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:20:55","slug":"cart-mill-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/07\/01\/cart-mill-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cart Mill Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the children have been very busy in the Construction area.<\/p>\n

They used their team working skills to discuss and create a plan to build a new bridge and roads.<\/p>\n

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They spoke about the different shapes and sizes of the blocks and how they would join together so that the road didn\u2019t have \u2018bumps\u2019 on it .<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need big muscles to be able to carry the big blocks\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis block is wider than that one\u201d<\/p>\n

“We can make a ramp so the cars can go up and down, \u00a0the car can\u2019t jump up\u201d<\/p>\n

They added in \u2018funny shaped blocks\u2019 to create\u00a0 roundabouts for the cars to go round.<\/p>\n

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Once all the pieces were joined together for the road, they looked for bigger blocks for the bridge.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis big one can be the start of the bridge and then we\u2019ll add 4 bigger ones it will be so tall\u201d<\/p>\n

The children used their problem solving skills as they worked together to make the roads and bridge safe for the cars to drive on. They carried out a test run and a final check, then the bridge was complete.<\/p>\n

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Today the children have been very busy in the Construction area. They used their team working skills to discuss and create a plan to build a new bridge and roads. They spoke about the different shapes and sizes of the blocks and how they would join together so that the road didn\u2019t have \u2018bumps\u2019 on … Continue reading Cart Mill Engineers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508,187,185,135,446938],"tags":[446333,446334,446568,13089,445980,185,446625],"class_list":["post-21399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-numeracy","category-science","category-technologies","tag-creativityskills","tag-problemsolving","tag-discovery-room","tag-imagination","tag-measuring","tag-numeracy","tag-stem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21408,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions\/21408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}