{"id":1050,"date":"2011-03-16T00:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2011-03-16T00:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:53:11","slug":"geiger-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/03\/16\/geiger-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"Geiger Counter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been planning my last science teaching lesson for tomorrow and decided to use Geiger Counter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vernier.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vernier<\/a> as a model of data collection. it also has a very relevant link to our students today as we all are thinking of the catastrophe in Japan.\u00a0 Although few people might use it in the elementary science classroom, I want to show it to science teachers. I bought some &#8220;No Salt&#8221; salt and Brazilian nuts to show different sources of radioactivity. The figure below shows background radiation in my office&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orau.org\/ptp\/collection\/consumer%20products\/brazilnuts.htm\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/electronic\/cwillis\/rad\/nosalt.html\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geiger_counter\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/Radiation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1051\" title=\"Radiation background in my office\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/Radiation-300x193.png\" alt=\"Radiation background in my office\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/Radiation-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/Radiation-1024x661.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2011\/03\/Radiation.png 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radiation background in my office with Vernier Geiger Counter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been planning my last science teaching lesson for tomorrow and decided to use Geiger Counter from Vernier as a model of data collection. it also has a very relevant link to our students today as we all are&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2011\/03\/16\/geiger-counter\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geiger Counter&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6899,795,6989,6981,6900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-collection-and-analysis-sensors","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-interactivity-in-the-classroom","category-overcoming-technology-barriers","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}