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Teach Engineering: Construction Technologies: Construct the Strongest Bridge ActivityTeach Engineering: Construction Technologies: Construct the Strongest Bridge Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Activities & Projects
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Lexile Measures
1450L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Construction Technologies: Construct the Strongest Bridge

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In this activity, students will work in pairs to create three simple types of bridges. They will observe quantitatively how the bridges work under load and why engineers use different types of bridges for different places. They also will get the idea of the parts needed to build a bridge, and what they are for.

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Concepts

bridges, civil engineering, compression, engineering, suspension, stem

Additional Tags

arch, bending, bridge building, bridge structure, civil engineering project, torsion, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, beam, shear effect

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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