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Teach Engineering: Breaking Beams

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Students learn about stress and strain by designing and building beams using polymer clay. They compete to find the best beam strength to beam weight ratio, and learn about the trade-offs engineers make when designing a structure.

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Concepts

civil engineering, engineering, stem

Additional Tags

beam design, beam strength, civil engineering concept, strength testing, structural engineering, weight ratio, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, teachengineering: breaking beams, design trade-offs, civil engineering concepts, material properties

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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