{"id":3640,"date":"2020-12-02T20:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:04:14","slug":"s-t-e-m-castles-and-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/2020\/12\/02\/s-t-e-m-castles-and-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T.E.M Castles and Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been studying a variety of building techniques and tools. We have also been exploring properties of different materials and applying this knowledge in our designs.<\/p>\n<p>We have taken part in a weekly S.T.E.M (Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics) Challenges to apply our maths and design skills. We have tried to build the tallest turret, a free standing castle wall and the strongest bridge. We built a model castle to showcase our learning, using a variety of attachment techniques and accurate measuring using a ruler.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143609-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3641\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143609-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_153105-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3642\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_153105-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_153044-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3643\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_153044-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143743-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3644\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143743-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143703-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3645\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143703-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143503-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3646\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143503-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143328-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3647\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143328-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143222-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3648\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143222-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143127-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3649\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143127-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143101-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3650\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/files\/2020\/12\/20201209_143101-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been studying a variety of building techniques and tools. We have also been exploring properties of different materials and applying this knowledge in our designs. We have taken part in a weekly S.T.E.M (Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics) Challenges to apply our maths and design skills. We have tried to build the tallest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/2020\/12\/02\/s-t-e-m-castles-and-bridges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S.T.E.M Castles and Bridges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1623b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}