{"id":3371,"date":"2017-02-20T17:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2017-02-20T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:12:58","slug":"k-beach-fourth-grade-engineering-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2017\/02\/20\/k-beach-fourth-grade-engineering-design\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Beach fourth grade engineering and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth grade students were guided through the engineering design process by a parent who is an engineer! Hands-on learning included brainstorming, designing, constructing, testing, and redesigning. The three day tower project included seismic, wind, and strength tests. Winners were determined based on their performance. We had a lot of fun and learning!<br \/>\n&#8220;We are thankful for our involved parents, Mr. and Mrs. Winslow, who visited our class for the three day tower project with the K-Beach fourth grade students!&#8221; &#8211;Jason Daniels, fourth grade teacher, K-Beach Elementary School<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1895.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3372\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1895-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1895\" width=\"517\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1905.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1905.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3374\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1905-225x300.png\" alt=\"IMG_1905\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1907.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3375\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1907-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1907\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3376\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1914-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1914\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3377\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1915-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1915\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3378\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1916-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1916\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1917-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3379 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1917-cover-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1917 - cover\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3380\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1920-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1920\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3381\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_1923-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1923\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth grade students were guided through the engineering design process by a parent who is an engineer! Hands-on learning included brainstorming, designing, constructing, testing, and redesigning. The three day tower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2017\/02\/20\/k-beach-fourth-grade-engineering-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;K-Beach fourth grade engineering and design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[372,373,559],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-stories","tag-engineer","tag-engineering","tag-k-beach-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}