{"id":80210,"date":"2015-04-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=c27b8308a3438d2d9c367191a91fdae6"},"modified":"2015-04-23T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"scratch-as-a-computational-modelling-tool-for-teaching-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=80210","title":{"rendered":"Scratch as a computational modelling tool for teaching physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scratch online authoring tool, which features a simple programming language that has been<br \/>\nadapted to primary and secondary students, is being used more and more in schools as it offers<br \/>\nstudents and teachers the opportunity to use a tool to build scientific models and evaluate their<br \/>\nbehaviour, just as can be done with computational modelling programs. In this article, we briefly<br \/>\ndiscuss why Scratch could be a useful tool for computational modelling in the primary or secondary<br \/>\nphysics classroom, and we present practical examples of how it can be used to build a model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scratch online authoring tool, which features a simple programming language that has been<br \/>\nadapted to primary and secondary students, is being used more and more in schools as it offers<br \/>\nstudents and teachers the opportunity to use a tool to build &#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-80210","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\/80210","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=80210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}