{"id":1212,"date":"2019-10-31T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T09:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:40:34","slug":"learning-by-doing-in-the-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Learning by Doing in the Primary School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:right\"><em>contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Ms.&nbsp;Ilona&nbsp;Agius,&nbsp;Class&nbsp;4.2<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"881\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rain-gauge-done_censored-881x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rain-gauge-done_censored-881x1024.jpg 881w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rain-gauge-done_censored-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rain-gauge-done_censored-768x893.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rain-gauge-done_censored-232x270.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/rain-gauge-done_censored.jpg 1761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">One of the Social Studies topics covered in year 4 is \u2018Weather\u2019.&nbsp; The three main weather elements; the sun, wind and rain are studied. Among the many related aspects explored, we inevatbly look into weather instruments.&nbsp; Children are fascinated with and curious about how these instruments work and how they are useful to meteorologists.&nbsp; They are then thrilled to learn that they will be making their own instruments and eventually trying them out like meteorologists do.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thermometer-in-making-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thermometer-in-making-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thermometer-in-making-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thermometer-in-making-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thermometer-in-making-1-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Using easily found materials, children work in teams to assemble a wind vane, anemometer, rain gauge and thermometer.&nbsp; While they use the thermometer to manually show different temperatures, the wind vane and anemometer are tried outside after having been assembled by the boys.&nbsp; The rain gauge is left outdoors to measure the amount of rain over a number of days.&nbsp; Excitement is an understatement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/trying-out-rain-gauge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/trying-out-rain-gauge.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/trying-out-rain-gauge-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/trying-out-rain-gauge-203x270.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contributed&nbsp;by&nbsp;Ms.&nbsp;Ilona&nbsp;Agius,&nbsp;Class&nbsp;4.2 One of the Social Studies topics covered in year 4 is \u2018Weather\u2019.&nbsp; The three main weather elements; the sun, wind and rain are studied. Among the many related aspects explored, we inevatbly look into weather instruments.&nbsp; Children are fascinated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1212\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}