{"id":5332,"date":"2016-03-18T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nogginbuilders.com\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2016-03-18T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T03:22:28","slug":"littlebits-gadgets-chemical-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/2016\/03\/littlebits-gadgets-chemical-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"littleBits Gadgets &#038; Chemical Reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Curious Kids \/ STEM K-1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week, both Curious Kids and STEM K-1 learned that when a chemical reaction takes place something changes that can\u2019t be changed back. We turned slime into bubbling foam, and we observed chemical reactions with our senses using pipettes to add vinegar (an acid) to baking soda (a base). We discovered that once you pop popcorn, you can\u2019t \u201cunpop&#8221; and made predictions with our kernels. An exciting moment was when we made \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Glove\u201d inflate with carbon dioxide during\u00a0a chemical reaction!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">STEM Explorers 2-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After learning how littleBits worked last week, we spent this week\u2019s class creating our own projects using circuits. We made flashlights with our LED lamps, used motors to create cars with spinning wheels and robots with moving parts, and used our lamps and bar graphs to build a scary dragon with a face that lights up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">DI Club<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In DI Club 3-5 we learned about the importance of roles on a team and practiced using different roles to complete our instant challenge.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We also started a design project to explore wheels, axles and the iterative design and build process.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(This year one of the DI challenges is to build a vehicle that can travel 14 ft while carrying a team member, so learning about wheels is useful!) \u00a0DI Club K-2, we practiced paper folding skills and built some very tall towers with only paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0426.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5357\" src=\"http:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0426-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0426\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0426-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0426-510x383.jpg 510w, https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0426-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0426-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0426-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">IMPORTANT REMINDER:\u00a0We do have class next week (Mon-Thurs) and then classes are on hiatus\u00a0March 25 &#8211; April 1 for Spring Break.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We have camps each day 9am-12pm during spring break if you are looking for fun, hands-on activities to keep your child engaged.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the activities in class this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-at-noggin-builders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}