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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Engineering
- A curriculum unit to introduce engineering to junior high school students
- Lesson 7: MAKING A MODEL OF YOUR CLASSROOM
- Lesson 3: SUSTAINABLE BUILDING
- Principles of Engineering
- Sustainability Across the Engineering Curriculum
- Bridges of Oregon
- Tacoma Bridge Disaster
- Archimedes' Principle: Whatever Floats Your Boat?
- What is Engineering
- Engineering Interact - quiz
- Bridges
- Diagram Illustrating Power Distribution
- Cleaning an Oil Spill Using the Engineering Design Process-Grades One and Two
- Ergonomic Chair Design
- Children's Engineering: Stability in Design
- Spring Scale Engineering
- Teach Engineering - Biodome
- Teach Engineering - Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
- What is Measurement?
- Lesson: Construct a Road Sign Support
- 7th Grade Technology Curriculum- Bellmore Merrick Central High School District
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Introduction:
This lesson will be the introduction for the 8th grade bridge unit. Through the videos and other computer resources the students should have a basic understanding of how bridges work.
Group Size: Any
Learning Objectives:
The students will be able to identify 4 types of bridges. The students will be able to list the major materials involved in bridge construction
Guiding Question:
In the 1940s the Tacoma Narrows bridge, also known as "Galloping Gurdy" collapsed. What kind of bridge was this and why did this happen?
Materials:
Discovery- Understanding Bridges http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=974C3630-156E-4809-9A2E- B81171AEB0B3 PBS- Building Big http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/ West point bridge builder http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/
Procedures:
Show students the Discovery video on understanding bridges. This is broken up into 5 parts. Stop between each section for discussion. The following day use the PBS design challenge and the west point bridge program
Assessment:
Students will build a bridge out of tooth picks that will hold a minimum of 20 lbs.
Answer Key or Rubric:
none
Benchmark or Standards:
Standard 5 for technology- Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers and develop solutions.
This lesson will be the introduction for the 8th grade bridge unit. Through the videos and other computer resources the students should have a basic understanding of how bridges work.
Group Size: Any
Learning Objectives:
The students will be able to identify 4 types of bridges. The students will be able to list the major materials involved in bridge construction
Guiding Question:
In the 1940s the Tacoma Narrows bridge, also known as "Galloping Gurdy" collapsed. What kind of bridge was this and why did this happen?
Materials:
Discovery- Understanding Bridges http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=974C3630-156E-4809-9A2E- B81171AEB0B3 PBS- Building Big http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/ West point bridge builder http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/
Procedures:
Show students the Discovery video on understanding bridges. This is broken up into 5 parts. Stop between each section for discussion. The following day use the PBS design challenge and the west point bridge program
Assessment:
Students will build a bridge out of tooth picks that will hold a minimum of 20 lbs.
Answer Key or Rubric:
none
Benchmark or Standards:
Standard 5 for technology- Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers and develop solutions.
