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Teach Engineering: Fairly Fundamental Facts About Forces & Structures
This lesson will introduce students to the five fundamental loads: compression, tension, shear, bending, and torsion.
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Teach Engineering: Glue Stick Activity
In this activity students will use hot glue gun sticks to show tension, compression and torsion.
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Teach Engineering: Investigating Torque
This lesson focuses on torsion as a force acting upon structures. Students will have the opportunity to design something to withstand this force.
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Teach Engineering: Testing Fundamental Loads
Students will conduct several simple lab activities to learn about the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students break foam insulation blocks by...
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Teach Engineering: Forces on the Human Molecule
Students will conduct several simple lab activities to learn about the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students will play the role of molecules...