{"id":135670,"date":"2015-10-23T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=1274b2c9079fe42c7bddd3707a79de04"},"modified":"2015-10-23T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T23:00:00","slug":"solar-current-output-as-a-function-of-sun-elevation-students-as-toolmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=135670","title":{"rendered":"Solar current output as a function of sun elevation: students as toolmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar current is an increasingly important aspect of modern life and will be even more so crucial in<br \/>\nthe students\u2019 future. Encouraging students to be the \u2018toolmakers\u2019 allows students to take ownership<br \/>\nof scientific investigations, as well as forcing them to refine their research questions and<br \/>\nhypothesis, including the design and refinement of their tools. The modern day has seen an<br \/>\nunprecedented opportunity for toolmaking, in the form of adapting and programming apps that use the<br \/>\nmicro-electro-mechanical sensors that are an intrinsic part of smartphone technology. A sample<br \/>\nin-class experiment and an experimental investigation are presented; these represent an increase in<br \/>\ntoolmaking and student ownership with a corresponding decrease in teacher guidance. Toolmaking<br \/>\nprogresses from the construction of a physical sunspotter, using a hand lens and cut-off tube, using<br \/>\napps, to future considerations such as programming, adapting pre-existing code samples to be able to<br \/>\nmanipulate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar current is an increasingly important aspect of modern life and will be even more so crucial in<br \/>\nthe students\u2019 future. Encouraging students to be the \u2018toolmakers\u2019 allows students to take ownership<br \/>\nof scientific investigations, as well as fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}