{"id":941,"date":"2017-01-26T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/?page_id=941"},"modified":"2017-02-08T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T21:07:29","slug":"super-strong-glasses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/super-strong-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Super Strong Glasses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The particles that matter is made of are too small to see even with a very powerful microscope, so students are asked several times to <strong>imagine<\/strong> what they would see with <strong>\u201csuper strong glasses\u201d<\/strong> that are more powerful than any microscope. We suggest having a microscope or a strong magnifying glass on hand so you can make the point that the particles are too small to see even with these instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Some teachers try to help students engage with imagination by having them cut out and even decorate their own cardboard super strong glasses using cardstock paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/References\" target=\"_blank\">(Loughran, Mulhall, &amp; Berry, 2004)<\/a>. Then, anytime an activity calls for students to imagine what they would see with such glasses, the teachers ask students to put them on. We\u2019ve included a template for the cardstock cutouts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/superstrong-glasses-template.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Alternatively, if you have a class set of safety glasses\/goggles, you can ask students to wear them and pretend they have \u201csuper strong\u201d magnification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/orange-glasses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/orange-glasses-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"orange-glasses\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/orange-glasses-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/orange-glasses-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/orange-glasses-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The particles that matter is made of are too small to see even with a very powerful microscope, so students are asked several times to imagine what they would see with \u201csuper strong glasses\u201d that are more powerful than any microscope. We suggest having a microscope or a strong magnifying glass on hand so you<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/super-strong-glasses\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-941","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/941\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}