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Pbs Learning Media: Raising an Obelisk: An Engineering Puzzle

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This video segment adapted from NOVA follows two teams as they each test a different engineering design in an effort to explain how ancient Egyptians raised a giant stone obelisk. [5:21]

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Concepts
constraints, engineering design, levers
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Additional Tags
criteria, design problem, obelisk, hs-ets1-1, ms-ets1-2, teachers' domain, wgbh, ancient egyptian obelisk, erecting an obelisk, raising the obelisk, stone obelisk, engineering design process concepts, obelisks
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)