{"id":533,"date":"2012-06-12T21:39:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=533"},"modified":"2012-06-11T21:49:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T21:49:05","slug":"stem-central-and-electric-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/06\/12\/stem-central-and-electric-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Central and Electric Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"lightbox[3778]\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2012\/05\/STEM-Central12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"STEM Central\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2012\/05\/STEM-Central12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringthefuture.info\/team.html\"> Engineering the Future <\/a>colleagues for highlighting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/electric-motorcycle.htm\">this link <\/a>which could be used to enrich learning around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/stemcentral\/contexts\/transport\/index.asp\">STEM Central electric transport <\/a>context. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/electric-motorcycle.htm\">Meet the Inventor of the World\u2019s Fastest Electric Motorcycle <\/a>Michael Czysz talks about making his dream a reality, and what it feels like to travel at 200 mph on a motorbike hearing only the sound of the air.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about sustainable transport as a context for learning? Along with the world\u2019s fastest electric motorcycle, what about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/btd\/innovations\/wind-propelled-ships.htm\">freight ships towed by massive kites <\/a>to reduce fuel demand? Scope for creative design and practical\u00a0investigative work with learners in sciences and technologies? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glowscience.org.uk\/mindmap\/#!\/earth_science\/earths_resources\/future_of_energy_resources\">Glow Science Eco-Transport video <\/a>could provide a useful starter for this learning.<\/p>\n<p>For more on electric transport see\u00a0 our 13th May blog post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/2012\/05\/13\/stem-central-electric-transport-and-the-smarter-smart-car\/\">STEM Central Electric Transport &amp; the smarter Smart car<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to our Engineering the Future colleagues for highlighting this link which could be used to enrich learning around the STEM Central electric transport context. In Meet the Inventor of the World\u2019s Fastest Electric Motorcycle Michael Czysz talks about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/06\/12\/stem-central-and-electric-transport\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4753,3522,608,631],"tags":[672,1586],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum-levels","category-electric-transport","category-sciences","category-technologies","tag-creativity","tag-sustainable-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}