{"id":1660,"date":"2024-08-19T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T06:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T06:30:34","slug":"how-long-is-the-paper-in-a-toilet-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2024\/08\/19\/how-long-is-the-paper-in-a-toilet-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"How long is the paper in a toilet roll?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple experiment where you can think about units of length, estimation of length and how can so much paper fit on a still quite small roll.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1658\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/08\/pexels-vlada-karpovich-3958198-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/08\/pexels-vlada-karpovich-3958198-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2024\/08\/pexels-vlada-karpovich-3958198.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Let the children write their name on a piece of paper that is then attached to its own stick.<\/li>\n<li>Draw a starting line.<\/li>\n<li>Let the children put the stick down in the ground where they think the paper will run out.<\/li>\n<li>Roll out the paper starting from the starting line.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The roll will probably roll longer than the kids guessed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB!\u00a0<\/strong>Check that you have sufficient space to roll it out before you start to roll it with the children. It&#8217;s quite a stretch on a full roll!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple experiment where you can think about units of length, estimation of length and how can so much paper fit on a still quite small roll. Let the children write their name on a piece of paper that is then attached to its own stick. Draw a starting line. Let the children put the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2024\/08\/19\/how-long-is-the-paper-in-a-toilet-roll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dHow long is the paper in a toilet roll?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}