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Crash Course

How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Saved: Crash Course Engineering #40

12th - Higher Ed
This week we’re going underground to explore geotechnical and seismic engineering. We’ll look at how structures connect to the ground and transmit loads through their foundations, and how those foundations need to provide a high bearing...
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 1

3rd - 6th
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]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Tar Pul Storybook

3rd - 5th
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. [13:57]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Evaluating a Landscape (2)

K - 1st
Students focus on the geotechnical engineering problem of evaluating a landscape as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve a site for a wire cable bridge called a TarPul. [15:26]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Evaluating a Landscape (1)

K - 1st
Students focus on the geotechnical engineering problem of evaluating a landscape as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve a site for a wire cable bridge called a TarPul. [16:18]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Eie: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 2

3rd - 5th
Students think like geotechnical engineers as they take core samples of a model building site and decide how deeply the pier foundations for a model skyscraper should be anchored into the soil. [17:22]