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Write Design: Graphic Organizers
This site explores what graphic organizers are and why they are such valuable instructional tools. Five main types of organizers are addressed: webs, charts, trees, chains, and sketches.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Load It Up!
Students take a hands-on look at the design of bridge piers (columns). First they brainstorm types of loads that might affect a Colorado bridge. Then they determine the maximum possible load for that scenario, and calculate the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Boom Construction
Student teams design their own booms (bridges) and engage in a friendly competition with other teams to test their designs. Each team strives to design a boom that is light, can hold a certain amount of weight, and is affordable to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Does It Work? Test and Test Again
Testing is critical to any design, whether it be in the creation of new software or building a bridge across a wide river. Despite risking the quality of the design, the testing stage is often hurried in order to get products to market....
Mathigon
Mathigon: Euclidean Geometry: Origami and Paper Folding
This lesson focuses on a different way to construct geometric figures without tools, Origami. The goal is to make objects out of one or more sheets of paper, without any additional tools like glue or scissors. You can create incredibly...
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Maryland: Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge
Sole surviving example of the first successful all-metal bridge design to be adopted and consistently used on a railroad.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Suspension Bridge
This photo shows a common type of bridge known as a suspension bridge. The Clifton Suspension Bridge stretches over the River Avon in Bristol, England. It was designed by a famous civil engineer named Isambard Kingdom Brunel. For more...
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Unesco: Spain: Vizcaya Bridge
Vizcaya Bridge straddles the mouth of the Ibaizabal estuary, west of Bilbao. It was designed by the Basque architect Alberto de Palacio and completed in 1893. The 45-m-high bridge with its span of 160 m, merges 19th-century ironworking...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Missouri: Eads Bridge
This steel bridge was built in 1874, at a total length of 6,442 feet (1,964 m). It was designed by Captain James B. Eads, who used a system of cantilevers to allow for the bridge's long length. At the time of its construction, the Eads...
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Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Sequence
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "sequence" mold, including a ranking table, continuum scale, cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events chain, and a problem/solution outline.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cost Comparisons
Students learn about the many types of expenses associated with building a bridge. Working like engineers, they estimate the cost for materials for a bridge member of varying sizes. After making calculations, they graph their results to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Strength of Materials
Students learn about the variety of materials used by engineers in the design and construction of modern bridges. They also find out about the material properties important to bridge construction and consider the advantages and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Building the Seed Cathedral
Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, and a power station. And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a...
Library of Congress
Loc: Built in America
This collection documents achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories. Highlights of the collection include windmills, bridges, and buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Maine Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: Longfellow's Ripple Effect: Journaling With the Poet
This is a series of six lessons, designed to help students become familiar with Longfellow's work, as well as to strengthen their writing and reflection skills.
PBS
Pbs Kids:activities and Videos: Structures
PBS site provides videos and activities are hands-on challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
A&E Television
History.com: 10 World Engineering Marvels
These remarkable feats of design and construction transformed the ways that people travel, communicate and live. For thousands of years, mankind has engineered remarkable structures such as the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of...
Other
Civil War Traveler: Multimedia Civil War
This organization provides podcast tours of twenty-six Civil War battles. These recordings were designed to accompany a walking tour of each battle field. All podcasts are designed to download on a multimedia player.
Curated OER
Unesco: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and during the Austro-Hungarian period in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostar has long been...
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Capriccio: A Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, With Buildings at Vicenza
An image of "Capriccio: a Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, with Buildings at Vicenza", created by Canaletto during the 1740's (Oil on canvas, 60,5 x 82 cm).
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Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Sequence
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "sequence" mold, including a ranking table, continuum scale, cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events chain, and a problem/solution outline.
Curated OER
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Sequence
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "sequence" mold, including a ranking table, continuum scale, cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events chain, and a problem/solution outline.
Curated OER
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Sequence
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "sequence" mold, including a ranking table, continuum scale, cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events chain, and a problem/solution outline.
Curated OER
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Sequence
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "sequence" mold, including a ranking table, continuum scale, cycle, bridging snapshots, series of events chain, and a problem/solution outline.