{"id":6667,"date":"2024-03-05T21:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2024-03-05T21:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:29:35","slug":"kites-stem-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2024\/03\/05\/kites-stem-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kites STEM Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children worked in pairs to create a kite using a variety of materials. Lots of skills were being developed through this activity &#8211; for example collaboration, co-operation, problem solving, listening etc.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6667 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/img_0641\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211609\/IMG_0641-765x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211609\/IMG_0641-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211609\/IMG_0641-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211609\/IMG_0641-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211609\/IMG_0641-rotated.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/img_0642\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211620\/IMG_0642-1024x765.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211620\/IMG_0642-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211620\/IMG_0642-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211620\/IMG_0642-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211620\/IMG_0642.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/img_0643\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211631\/IMG_0643-765x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211631\/IMG_0643-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211631\/IMG_0643-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211631\/IMG_0643-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211631\/IMG_0643-rotated.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The wind was blowing so it was great to go and test the kites. The children soon found out that in order to fly the kites well they had to work together.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-6667 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/img_0649\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211643\/IMG_0649-1024x765.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211643\/IMG_0649-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211643\/IMG_0649-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2024\/03\/05211643\/IMG_0649-768x574.jpg 768w, 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Lots of skills were being developed through this activity &#8211; for example collaboration, co-operation, problem solving, listening etc. The wind was blowing so it was great to go and test the kites. The children soon found out that in order to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2024\/03\/05\/kites-stem-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kites STEM Challenge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,10,39,63,19,12],"tags":[18,48,16,49,50,52,55,51,22,47,70,13,56,8,43,20,17],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-craft","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-listening-and-talking","category-maths","category-science","category-social-skills","category-stem","tag-challenges","tag-choice","tag-co-operation","tag-collaboration","tag-communication","tag-connection","tag-continuation","tag-core","tag-creativity","tag-curiosity","tag-engagement","tag-enjoyment","tag-fun","tag-love-life-love-learning","tag-outdoor-learning","tag-play","tag-problem-solving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}