PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Designing a Paper Bridge
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members make a bridge from a single piece of paper. Will it be strong enough to hold a hundred pennies? [3:41]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Clifton Suspension Bridge
This video segment from "Building Big" illustrates the basic design principles of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. [2:00]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Investigating a Suspension Bridge
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast builds a suspension bridge from a couple of chairs, some cardboard, and rope. [2:52]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Design Squad: Suspension Bridge
In this video segment adapted from Design Squad, a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges, students employ the concepts of tension and compression to build a suspension bridge without the aid of...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Animations: What Is a Truss?
Narrated animation that visually explains what supports and distributes the load on a truss bridge. (30 secs) Uses Quicktime.
Museum of Science
Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Suman, a boy from Nepal, learns about geotechnical engineering as he helps evaluate a site for a TarPul. [13:09]
Museum of Science
Ei E: Designing a Bridge (2)
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Designing a Bridge (1)
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
Museum of Science
Ei E: Bridging Understanding (1)
Students perform a controlled test of three types of bridges to see how much weight the bridges can support.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Physics: Bridge Design (And Destruction!) Part 2
This is a two part video that introduces the different types of bridges. [4:31]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Physics: Bridge Design and Destruction! (Part 1)
This is a two part video that introduces the different types of bridges. The bridge types will be introduced in historical order from simple (beam and arch) in the first video to more complex (truss and suspension) in the second video....
Museum of Science
Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 2
Students think like civil engineers as they observe how forces affect structures by pushing and pulling and implement engineering solutions to balance forces and prevent structural failure. [15:44]
PBS
Pbs: End of Track: Dale Creek Gorge
This video explores Dale Creek Gorge which was an obstacle for railroad construction. The graters had to cut through granite to build a bridge to cross the canyon. The bridge was considered an engineering marvel but caused safety...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: The Science Behind Strong Bridges
Ira and guests talk about bridge engineering and our nation's infrastructure.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Building Better Bridges
Engineers have been building bridges for hundreds of years. But are better designs, techniques, and materials available today?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Time to Overhaul America's Aging Bridges?
Experts say some 8000 bridges are in dire need of repair -- but at what cost?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Designing a Bridge for Earthquake Country
Inside the world's longest self-anchored suspension bridge being built in quake-prone San Francisco Bay.