{"id":1617,"date":"2021-11-30T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2021-11-30T17:44:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:44:01","slug":"building-a-house-stem-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/2021\/11\/30\/building-a-house-stem-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a house stem challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weeks stem challenge was to build a house which would withstand strong winds. This was part of our learning about climate change. We discussed how heavy rainfall, flooding and strong winds are some of the effects of climate change and we looked at real photographs of how these have destroyed people\u2019s homes. <\/span><\/p>\n

We worked in groups using a variety of materials including cardboard, straws, lollipop sticks, string, polystyrene, scissors and sellotape. <\/span><\/p>\n

Once we finished building our homes we tested if they could withstand the wind created by a hair dryer. <\/span>\ud83d\udca8\ud83c\udfda\ud83c\udf27<\/span><\/p>\n

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This weeks stem challenge was to build a house which would withstand strong winds. This was part of our learning about climate change. We discussed how heavy rainfall, flooding and strong winds are some of the effects of climate change and we looked at real photographs of how these have destroyed people\u2019s homes. We worked … Continue reading Building a house stem challenge<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-science","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/class1825b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}