{"id":1767,"date":"2016-08-05T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:30:09","slug":"preparing-for-a-cracker-of-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/preparing-for-a-cracker-of-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for a Cracker of a Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With some dramatic demonstrations or experiments, I would test them out beforehand for a number of reasons, some obvious. Firstly, I had to make sure that it works the way it should. Secondly, to find out if any additional precautions should be taken in addition to the usual etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I would do those &#8220;test&#8221; runs, &nbsp;often, colleagues volunteered to work with me! And of course, some times, they got more than bargained for, which could be a number of blog posts on its own!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In preparation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/dp-chemistry\/both\/dp12-cracking-crackers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cracking Crackers<\/a> lesson with my IB Diploma Year 2 students in Baku, Azerbaijan in the spring of 2010, my buddy Andy and I tested out the crackers. Here&#8217;s the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Preparing for a Cracker of a Lesson\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ClHLtj6DGiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of my buddy Andy and I playing with fire crackers, testing out a demonstration before performing in front of students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Preparing for a Cracker of a Lesson with my buddy @andyvasily","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,24,54],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-azerbaijan","tag-baku","tag-firecracker-chemistry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/preparing-for-a-cracker-of-a-lesson-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Y7Kk-sv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}