{"id":8364,"date":"2013-10-01T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:12:12","slug":"teach-how-to-measure-rainfall-with-a-rain-gauge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/teach-how-to-measure-rainfall-with-a-rain-gauge\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach Measurement Using a Rain Gauge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Standing in the Rain, Teaching: Video<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyMabcRzUcw?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rain gauges measure rainfall by collecting a small sample and measuring how deep the water is. The trouble is, we are interested in very small units \u2013 in the metric system, rainfall is measured in millimetres\/millimeters. How can you accurately measure such small amounts?<\/p>\n<p>How can we use everyday examples to teach measurement?<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video: I explain how a rain gauge amplifies the depth of water collected to make it easier to measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in the Rain, Teaching: Video Rain gauges measure rainfall by collecting a small sample and measuring how deep the water is. The trouble is, we are interested in very small units \u2013 in the metric system, rainfall is measured in millimetres\/millimeters. How can you accurately measure such small amounts? How can we use everyday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/teach-how-to-measure-rainfall-with-a-rain-gauge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teach Measurement Using a Rain Gauge&#8221;<\/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":[51,24,12],"tags":[33,52,9,53,54,55,56,25,34,11,26],"class_list":["post-8364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecting-math-experience","category-real-life-mathematics","category-teaching-mathematics","tag-math-for-kids","tag-math-in-the-home","tag-mathematical-thinking","tag-measurement","tag-millimeters","tag-millimetres","tag-rainfall","tag-real-life-mathematics","tag-statistics","tag-teaching-math","tag-video-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}