{"id":7187,"date":"2016-10-21T02:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2016-10-21T03:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T03:25:36","slug":"the-smokestack-not-all-its-stacked-up-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/2016\/10\/21\/the-smokestack-not-all-its-stacked-up-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smokestack \u2013 Not All It\u2019s Stacked Up To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button Vivacity Infotech BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/2016\/10\/21\/the-smokestack-not-all-its-stacked-up-to-be\/\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-size=\"small\" data-width=\"450\" data-share=\"1\" ><\/div>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button Vivacity Infotech END -->\n<p><strong>Science Teaching &amp; Technology by Multimedia Science<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Industrial Experience &amp; the Science Classroom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Question: Does industrial experience help a teacher to explain science concepts in the classroom?<\/p>\n<p>My findings after spending 15 years in chemical engineering and 30 years teaching chemistry and physics at the high school level is a resounding YES.<\/p>\n<p>The link below leads to a story about one of my first jobs as a chemical engineer working for Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. \u00a0My students always found this real life story about climbing smoke stacks to do air pollution testing both amusing and interesting. \u00a0It helped them to understand how what they were learning was used in the real world and gave them a taste of what a real world job required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7178&amp;action=edit\">The Smoke Stack &#8211; Not All It&#8217;s Stacked Up To Be<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SANY0426-e1436898783164.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7181 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SANY0426-e1436898783164-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SANYO DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SANY0426-e1436898783164-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SANY0426-e1436898783164.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brought to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teacherspayteachers.com\/Store\/Multimedia-Science\">Multimedia Science<\/a>, creators of science software and materials and teacher tools to create games for any grade or curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Teaching &amp; Technology by Multimedia Science Industrial Experience &amp; the Science Classroom Question: Does industrial experience help a teacher to explain science concepts in the classroom? My findings after spending 15 years in chemical engineering and 30 years teaching &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/2016\/10\/21\/the-smokestack-not-all-its-stacked-up-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,12,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-effective-teaching","category-physics","category-science","category-stem","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7191,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darngoodsolutions.com\/blogA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}