{"id":2146,"date":"2013-01-22T20:05:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2013-01-22T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:08:33","slug":"making-science-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2013\/01\/22\/making-science-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Science Relevant&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/DSCF1044.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2147\" title=\"Inversion...\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/DSCF1044-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/DSCF1044-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/DSCF1044-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Being a science teacher is not a job, to me it is a way of life&#8230; A few days ago I experienced a very interesting phenomenon &#8211; an air inversion &#8211; when the temperature on the ground in cooler than the temperature in the mountain. As a result, you might have clouds in the city (as Vancouver) and very clear skies in the mountains&#8230; While I have heard about it before, I have never experienced it the way I experienced it a few days ago. This is a photo taken by my husband from West Lion Peak a few days ago that shows Vancouver covered in the clouds&#8230; What a great opportunity to discuss science in class that truly relates to everyday lives of our students&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a science teacher is not a job, to me it is a way of life&#8230; A few days ago I experienced a very interesting phenomenon &#8211; an air inversion &#8211; when the temperature on the ground in cooler than&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2013\/01\/22\/making-science-relevant\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Science Relevant&#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":[795,31,236255,236258,6696,236253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","category-physics-education","category-science-and-society","category-science-education","category-science-in-everyday-life","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","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=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}