{"id":37,"date":"2017-07-26T09:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/?p=37"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:15:50","slug":"lab-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/2017\/07\/26\/lab-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab -&gt; Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My experience with LORD, working in the labs has been one that I will <strong>never<\/strong> forget. I wouldn&#8217;t have ever guessed that I could learn so much in such a short amount of time. When I first started at LORD, I was overwhelmed with the information, technology, and resources in front of me. I sort of felt like there was so much technical stuff that there was no way I was going to be able to make this experience applicable to 4th grade and other elementary grade curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>But luckily for me, my mentor had such a simple yet loaded idea for me. <em>Variables<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Once we started talking about how variables affect so many things, from science to day-to-day life, my mind began bubbling with ideas! Then the problem went from <strong>no<\/strong> ideas to <strong>too many<\/strong> ideas. I had to snap myself back to reality and think about what sort of lessons and projects were achievable in my short time. I began working intently in the lab and learning about how my epoxy adhesive could be affected by so many different variables. I could have gone down a rabbit hole with all of the different variables!<\/p>\n<p>When I started to think about classroom applications for variables and curriculum connections, my mind went to slime, <em>literally<\/em>. Then I had to figure out how to take slime and make it a learning experience. <strong>Magnets<\/strong>! Part of the 4th grade science curriculum deals with magnets. Then magnet slime and its variations came to mind. I was so excited to be able to take challenges that scientists face everyday and allow my students to experience that as well as formulate a love of STEM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2017\/07\/IMG_0669-e1501074323651-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2017\/07\/IMG_0669-e1501074323651-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/270\/2017\/07\/IMG_0669-e1501074323651-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My experience with LORD, working in the labs has been one that I will never forget. I wouldn&#8217;t have ever guessed that I could learn so much in such a short amount of time. When I first started at LORD, I was overwhelmed with the information, technology, and resources in front of me. I sort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/2017\/07\/26\/lab-classroom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lab -&gt; Classroom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,9,7,10,11,13],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-challenges","tag-externship","tag-kfp","tag-lord","tag-slime","tag-successes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-canderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}