{"id":11975,"date":"2020-03-11T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2020-03-11T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T21:47:12","slug":"tinkering-cardboard-automata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/tinkering-cardboard-automata\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinkering – Cardboard Automata"},"content":{"rendered":"

At School we just used @TinkeringStudio’s Cardboard Automata<\/a> project to do some ‘cardboard engineering’ I was pretty pleased with the way it came out<\/a>. I was fairly prescriptive with the first mechanical parts and gave almost no advice for the creative bit.<\/p>\n

Working with a multi-composite class made this pretty interesting. If I’d just had p6-7 I would have probably given them the instruction sheets and let them get on with it helping where needed. As it was I managed to split work into sections and gave verbal and demos for each without, I hope, frustration the older children too much.<\/p>\n

We managed to incorporate a fair bit of maths (measure, division, shape) along with skills for work, problem solving and creativity which I think justified the time spent. I hope to try out some of the other\u00a0TinkeringStudio projects.<\/p>\n

There is a quick video of some of the finished results<\/a>\u00a0on the class blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At School we just used @TinkeringStudio’s Cardboard Automata project. I was pretty pleased with the way it came out. I was fairly prescriptive with the first mechanical parts and gave almost no advice for the creative bit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1237857816456474626"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1108,21,1107,1106],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-cardboard","9":"tag-classroom","10":"tag-steam","11":"tag-stem","12":"kind-note","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":{"id":11976,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":819,"height":413,"file":"2020\/03\/machines.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"machines-620x313.jpg","width":620,"height":313,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines-620x313.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"machines-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"machines-768x387.jpg","width":768,"height":387,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines-768x387.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"machines-668x337.jpg","width":668,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines-668x337.jpg"},"sempress-image-post":{"file":"machines-668x337.jpg","width":668,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines-668x337.jpg"},"rpwe-thumbnail":{"file":"machines-45x45.jpg","width":45,"height":45,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines-45x45.jpg"},"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":{"file":"machines-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines-50x50.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":11975,"source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines.jpg"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/machines.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-379","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11977,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11975\/revisions\/11977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11975"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=11975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}