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\nSimple Machines\n

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\nA collection of five lessons and activities introduce young engineers to simple and compound machines. Groups use the engineering design process to design a Rube Goldberg machine to move a circus elephant into a rail car, a pulley system...\n
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\nScienceWeb Australia: Years 9-10\n

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\nScience Web Australia presents a collection of three units designed for English speaking high schoolers and utilizing resources available online. The first unit focuses on ecosystems, the second on plate tectonics, and the third on the...\n
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\nCareer Connections | Civil Engineer\n

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\nLike to work outdoors? Like to build massive things? Or little models of those massive things? An informative video details how a civil engineer gets to do all these things. \n
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\nCivil Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #2\n

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\nYou might have Hippodamus of Miletus to thank for your city blocks. An informative video explains the history of civil engineering, from the Pyramid-builder Imhotep to the Greeks (including Hippodamus) and the Romans, and to the first...\n
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\nReal-Life Math | Civil Engineer\n

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\nBuild the foundations for an solid understanding of volume. Scholars view a video where a civil engineer describes math used in the profession and then poses a volume of cylinders question. They work in pairs to solve the problem and...\n
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\nDesigning a Safe City Like a Civil Engineer\n

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\nStudents study civil engineering, safety apparatuses in their city, and design their own city. In this civil engineering instructional activity, students discuss their towns safety apparatuses and define civil engineers. Students then...\n
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\nWorking Together to Live Together\n

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\nWhose home is it anyway? Design teams plan a housing development in which they must also protect a native species. The teams consist of a project manager, civil engineer, environmental engineer, and graphic designer. Teams present their...\n
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\nDesign a Green Rooftop Garden\n

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\nDesign and construct buildings with rooftop gardens. Junior engineers work in groups to build two buildings and then perform experiments to determine whether or not a garden affects the building's temperatures. They graph and interpret...\n
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\nBuilding Bridges\n

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\nProvide a comprehensive exploration of bridges and civil engineering. First, learners discuss the different types of bridges. Then, they identify the characteristics of a suspension, beam, and arch type of bridge. In addition, they learn...\n
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\nDiscoverE Challenge: Critical Load\n

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\nTake a load off .. and put the weight on a house of cards. Scholars learn about civil engineering and critical loads by building the sturdiest house possible out of a dozen playing cards. They conduct tests by placing pennies or other...\n
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\n\"Bridge Designer\" Lab\n

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\nStudents become civil engineers and assist in designing a Truss Bridge to carry a two-lane highway across a river valley using the West Point Bridge Designer 2003 Software. They construct bridges based upon budget and demos. Students...\n
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\nFarming in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Ancient Civil Engineering Problem\n

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\nSixth graders identify the major obstacles in farming in Mesopotamia. They work together to design and build a model that solves these problems. They write a short essay that describes the problems and their possible solutions.\n
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\nCivil Engineering: Designing Bridges\n

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\nLearners examine the bridges of the United States. They discuss the concept of balance. They draw their own design of a suspension bridge.\n
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\nSTEM Camp—Urban Infrastructure\n

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\nBuild a bridge to learning in a STEM-aligned unit about urban infrastructure. Young engineers explore the many aspects of civil planning and design in a five-day unit. Content includes the challenging aspects of balancing building with...\n
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\nSkyscrapers: Engineering Up!\n

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\nLearners build their own newspaper skyscrapers with limited materials and time. They identify several different structural engineering principles relating to skyscrapers. They explain how their towers resisted the wind load.\n
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\nNewspaper Tower\n

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\nStudents design and construct a tower out of newspaper using a limited supply of newspaper, tape, and scissors. After completing their designs, they identify which designs can withstand the self-weight of the newspaper tower as well as...\n
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\nMarshmallow Towers\n

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\nStudents explore geometry by completing a marshmallow activity in class. In this architecture lesson, students identify the jobs of civil engineers and architects while identifying different geometric shapes as well. Students utilize...\n
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\nCarve That Mountain\n

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\nYoung scholars investigate major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, hills, oceans and plateaus). They build a three-dimensional model of a landscape depicting several of these landforms. Once they have built their model, they...\n
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\nIntro to Civil Engineering and Hydrology\n

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\nStudents identify the processes involved in the water cycle. In this math lesson, students explain what civil engineers and hydrologist do. They watch a video about flooding in Texas.\n
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\nBridges, Buildings and Beyond Activity Packet: Grades 6-8\n

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\nPour a solid foundation of engineering into the minds of future engineers. Scholars take part in three activities to learn about civil engineering. They build a model of a cable-stayed bridge, conduct an experiment to see the effects of...\n
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\nAn Uphill Swim\n

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\nStudents explore the concepts and engineering principles used in a canal lock system and apply those concepts to navigate a boat through a working model of a canal lock waterway.\n
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\nWhat's an Engineer?\n

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\nThere has been an earthquake! Can you listen to the description of damage given by callers in order to determine the epicenter? The 11th of 20 lessons has pupils read a script of one emergency caller. The class records the information on...\n
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\nAsphalt Lab\n

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\nStudents are introduced to basic engineering principles, road construction and material science. They explore how material properties and strength can be affected. Students become Civil Engineers by both creating Asphalt cookies and by...\n
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