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Pbs Learning Media: Design Squad: Truss Bridge Instructional Video

Pbs Learning Media: Design Squad: Truss Bridge Instructional Video

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9th - 10th

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Instructional Video

Pbs Learning Media: Design Squad: Truss Bridge

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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 power tools. [5:55]

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bridge design, bridges

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architectural design, architecture and physics, truss bridge, pbs learningmedia: design squad: truss bridge, truss

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