{"id":281,"date":"2006-09-15T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-09-15T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T18:34:23","slug":"lofty-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Lofty Estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lofty Estimates&#8221; is an example of a project-based lesson from the Salvadori Center, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvadori.org\">salvadori.org<\/a> .<br \/>\nKubi, an architect-educator, teaches middle school students how to use a giant protractor in the field, demonstrating how trigonometry helps surveyors determine the height of a building that is far away. The students help each other to use a tape measure and a trig table that they call &#8220;that tangent thing&#8221;, to make their calculations. <\/p>\n<p>From 1992-2006, we worked closely with Mario Salvadori and the Salvadori Center.  The Center is dedicated to teaching math and science through the built environment to inner city and at-risk kids, from kindergarten through high school.   We created many video programs for them using our documentary approach to teaching their method:  we depct the archtect and engineer-edustors in actio in the classroom and in the field with kids of all ages.  More examples of the video curriculum work we did for them can be found at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvadori.org\/kids\">http:\/\/www.salvadori.org\/kids<\/a><br \/>\nThe purpose of these shorts was to help teachers to see how easy it is to implement these lessons, and to demonstrate how actively engaged their students were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle school students use a giant protractor in the field, learning how trigonometry helps surveyors determine the height of a building that is far away. The students help each other to use a tape measure and a trig table that they call &#8220;that tangent thing&#8221;, to make their calculations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-weve-done"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}