{"id":865,"date":"2021-05-10T08:31:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=865"},"modified":"2021-05-10T08:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:31:21","slug":"build-your-own-balance-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/05\/10\/build-your-own-balance-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Build your own balance scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explore together concepts such as heavy and light, or heavier and lighter, using (unused) face masks.<br \/>\nOk. You&#8217;ll need a clothes hanger too. And the face masks can be replaced with two equal-sized cans with handles if you want.<br \/>\nHang one face mask on each end of the hanger. Be careful that they hang the same distance from the middle to get an accurate scale.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-863\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/g-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/g-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2021\/05\/g.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Then you can start compare different things. You can start by letting the children feel each hand and guess which one is heavier. First perhaps with things that have a little more difference, a raisin and an apple then you can try things closer together.<br \/>\nFor a bigger challenge, swap the clothes hanger for a stick and work together to get the empty scale balanced first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore together concepts such as heavy and light, or heavier and lighter, using (unused) face masks. Ok. You&#8217;ll need a clothes hanger too. And the face masks can be replaced with two equal-sized cans with handles if you want. Hang one face mask on each end of the hanger. Be careful that they hang the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2021\/05\/10\/build-your-own-balance-scale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dBuild your own balance scale\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-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}