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Curated Video
Bridge Structure and Aesthetics
Discover the different types of bridges, ranging from ancient to modern designs. This video highlights the basic structure and function of beam bridges, truss bridges, and cantilever bridges. Additionally, it mentions that many bridges...
Curated Video
Ruby Bridges and the Fight for Integration in Education
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist.
She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...
She is the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...
Mr Henry's Music World
Music of Japan for Kids: Learn About Traditional Instruments and Fun Facts
Learn about music from Japan as Mr. Henry and Mr. Fite take a musical adventure.
Curated Video
Understanding Idioms: Don't Burn Your Bridges
In this video, the teacher explains the meaning of the idiom "to burn bridges" using context clues. The lesson emphasizes that idioms cannot be understood by looking at the literal meaning of each word, and instead, learners should rely...
MinutePhysics
The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy
Prove your textbook wrong! A detailed video lesson debunks a traditional explanation for the collapse of a bridge in Tacoma in the 1940s. The narrator outlines why resonance is not the culprit and explains the concept of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Train Truss Animation
This animated video segment from "Building Big" demonstrates how a truss bridge is designed to balance the weight of a train as it travels over it. [0:39]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bend, Twist and Break: The Bridge
Dr. Chris Muhlstein explains that the arrangement of atoms in a material determines the properties. He drops an iPod to illustrate how the arrangement of atoms can protect it from damage; he narrates footage of the collapse of the Tacoma...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Design Squad: Truss Bridge
In this video segment adapted from Design Squad, a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges, students employ the concepts of tension and compression as they build a truss bridge without the aid of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Designing a Paper Bridge
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a bridge from a single piece of paper. Will it be strong enough to hold a hundred pennies? [3:41]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Clifton Suspension Bridge
This video segment from "Building Big" illustrates the basic design principles of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. [2:00]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Investigating a Suspension Bridge
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast builds a suspension bridge from a couple of chairs, some cardboard, and rope. [2:52]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Design Squad: Suspension Bridge
In this video segment adapted from Design Squad, a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges, students employ the concepts of tension and compression to build a suspension bridge without the aid of...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Animations: What Is a Truss?
Narrated animation that visually explains what supports and distributes the load on a truss bridge. (30 secs) Uses Quicktime.
Museum of Science
Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Suman, a boy from Nepal, learns about geotechnical engineering as he helps evaluate a site for a TarPul. [13:09]
Museum of Science
Ei E: Designing a Bridge (2)
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Designing a Bridge (1)
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Bridging Understanding (1)
Students perform a controlled test of three types of bridges to see how much weight the bridges can support.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Physics: Bridge Design (And Destruction!) Part 2
This is a two part video that introduces the different types of bridges. [4:31]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Physics: Bridge Design and Destruction! (Part 1)
This is a two part video that introduces the different types of bridges. The bridge types will be introduced in historical order from simple (beam and arch) in the first video to more complex (truss and suspension) in the second video....
Museum of Science
Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 2
Students think like civil engineers as they observe how forces affect structures by pushing and pulling and implement engineering solutions to balance forces and prevent structural failure. [15:44]
PBS
Pbs: End of Track: Dale Creek Gorge
This video explores Dale Creek Gorge which was an obstacle for railroad construction. The graters had to cut through granite to build a bridge to cross the canyon. The bridge was considered an engineering marvel but caused safety...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Science Behind Strong Bridges
Ira and guests talk about bridge engineering and our nation's infrastructure.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Building Better Bridges
Engineers have been building bridges for hundreds of years. But are better designs, techniques, and materials available today?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Time to Overhaul America's Aging Bridges?
Experts say some 8000 bridges are in dire need of repair -- but at what cost?