{"id":104955,"date":"2020-04-08T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/dyson-creates-44-free-engineering-science-challenges-for-kids-quarantined-during-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-08T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T12:22:27","slug":"dyson-creates-44-free-engineering-science-challenges-for-kids-quarantined-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/dyson-creates-44-free-engineering-science-challenges-for-kids-quarantined-during-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Dyson Creates 44 Free Engineering &amp; Science Challenges for Kids Quarantined During COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pp9U6lyoIqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A heads up: Dyson has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesdysonfoundation.com\/resources\/challenge-cards.html\">\u201ccreated 44 engineering and science activities<\/a> for children to try out while at home during the coronavirus pandemic, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti,\u201d writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2020\/04\/07\/dyson-children-coronavirus-lockdown\/\">the Dezeen website<\/a>. They go on to add: \u201cComprised of 22 science tasks and 22 engineering activities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesdysonfoundation.com\/content\/dam\/pdf\/US%20challenge%20cards%20with%20cover.pdf?\">the Challenge Cards<\/a> can be completed by children using common household items such as eggs, string and balloons.\u201d You can also find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLpBQHVUlKs3qD7-u1bm164Qs3WJ0ZVU6X\">related playlist of videos on YouTube,<\/a> one of which appears above.<\/p>\n<p>This engineering\/science activities have been added to our refreshed collection, <a title=\"Permanent Link to 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_k-12_educational_resources\" rel=\"bookmark\">200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites &amp; More<\/a>. If you know of any great K-12 resources, especially ones that are always free, please add them in the comments below, and we will try to add them to the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2020\/04\/07\/dyson-children-coronavirus-lockdown\/\">via Dezeen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heads up: Dyson has \u201ccreated 44 engineering and science activities for children to try out while at home during the coronavirus pandemic, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti,\u201d writes the Dezeen website. They go on to add: \u201cComprised of 22 science tasks and 22 engineering activities, the Challenge Cards [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,38,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-engineering","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}