Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 2

3rd - 6th
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. [11:40]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Designing a Bridge (2)

K - 1st
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Designing a Bridge (1)

K - 1st
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
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
Learn Engineering

Learn Engineering: Truss Analysis: Method of Sections

11th - 12th
Did you know that your first step in the design of a structure is to find its internal forces? This video will show how you can use the method of sections to determine these forces as you complete your structural analysis. [4:05]
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Engineering #26: Skyscrapers, Statics, and Dynamics

9th - 10th
"What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying?" This video looks at the designs of structures. Explore statics and dynamics, static equilibrium, forces, and torques, and how free body diagrams can...