{"id":2216,"date":"2012-01-24T20:39:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T01:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2012-01-24T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T01:39:01","slug":"pennies-and-measuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2012\/01\/24\/pennies-and-measuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennies and Measuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are experiencing a new science experiment that is exploring volume, properties of water, and observation.\u00a0 The children with Mr. Nored there beside them take a dry penny.\u00a0 Then they predict how many drops of water they think they can drop on a penny before it spills off the penny.\u00a0 Was there prediction correct or not?\u00a0 I have seen so much engagement with this experience so I look forward to seeing more of this throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>This week we are talking about what would be the most appropriate tools to measure something.\u00a0 Yesterday we put a straight piece of tape on the ground.\u00a0 Then, I asked them, &#8220;How long is it?&#8221;\u00a0 We talked about what we could use, and we talked about why we thought that tool would be most appropriate.\u00a0 Today we added a zig zag line next to the long line of tape, and I posed the question, &#8220;Which one is longer?&#8221;\u00a0 We had such a great discussion about which one was longer and why they thought that.\u00a0 Then, we talked about which tool would be most appropriate.\u00a0 The zig zag line although it looked shorter was actually longer than the long line of tape.\u00a0 It was such a great experience with the children where I saw their thoughts blossom and be respected among the other peers in their group.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2218\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0658.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2218\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2218\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0658-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason doing the penny\/water experiment!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2217\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2217\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2217\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2012\/01\/IMG_0656-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makayla, Oliver, and Isaac working together to measure the zigzag line.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are experiencing a new science experiment that is exploring volume, properties of water, and observation.\u00a0 The children with Mr. Nored there beside them take a dry penny.\u00a0 Then they predict how many drops of water they think they can drop on a penny before it spills off the penny.\u00a0 Was there prediction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}