{"id":6704,"date":"2021-02-18T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T23:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2021-02-18T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T23:48:19","slug":"we-are-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2021\/02\/18\/we-are-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children have been working with a variety of materials, tools and technologies that promote creative and critical thinking.\u00a0 They also encourage problem solving skills (persevering when something doesn&#8217;t work and being flexible enough to try different ways of doing things) and working effectively in a group (working respectfully and constructively with others).\u00a0 These were the challenges presented to the children;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keva Blocks &#8211; create a structure by stacking wood planks using no glue or connectors<\/li>\n<li>Snap Circuits &#8211; build a variety of circuits that do something like turn on a light or run a fan<\/li>\n<li>Coding Safari &#8211; learn the fundamentals of coding through this animal themed logic game<\/li>\n<li>Chatter Pix &#8211; use oral language skills to create a picture that talks<\/li>\n<li>Marble works &#8211; create a structure that uses chain reactions to move a marble through chutes<\/li>\n<li>Bee Bots &#8211; program the little robot to move in many directions\u00a0 (a pre-cursor to coding)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/0CAC15D2-0A04-449F-8F59-DDCE2E6781AE-e1613687584178.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6690\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/0CAC15D2-0A04-449F-8F59-DDCE2E6781AE-e1613687584178.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/EB95B214-0CAA-486E-80D9-B9A00901D402-e1613690555874.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6697\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/EB95B214-0CAA-486E-80D9-B9A00901D402-e1613690555874.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/5FA80A79-36A5-4781-954F-50710EF84E53-e1613690594847.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6700\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/5FA80A79-36A5-4781-954F-50710EF84E53-e1613690594847.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/ED6AD395-00F2-43D2-995E-39C9E8F4E08A-e1613690661943.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6684\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/ED6AD395-00F2-43D2-995E-39C9E8F4E08A-e1613690661943.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/1C4A2BDE-BD34-4661-ADE5-01566CE388C4-e1613690711390.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6696\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/1C4A2BDE-BD34-4661-ADE5-01566CE388C4-e1613690711390.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/64D8209F-B826-4B81-9852-774206921669-e1613690786550.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6680\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2021\/02\/64D8209F-B826-4B81-9852-774206921669-e1613690786550.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children have been working with a variety of materials, tools and technologies that promote creative and critical thinking.\u00a0 They also encourage problem solving skills (persevering when something doesn&#8217;t work and being flexible enough to try different ways of doing things) and working effectively in<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2021\/02\/18\/we-are-engineers\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}