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Eie: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 3
Watch footage of lesson where students perform a controlled test of three types of bridges to see how much weight the bridges can support. [13:07]
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Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 4
This model lesson shows students applying their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges. [14:07]
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Ei E: Evaluating a Landscape (1)
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]
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Ei E: Water, Water Everywhere: Designing Water Filters Lesson 3
View a portion of this model lesson where students test a variety of filter materials to see how well they remove particles and color from contaminated water. [12:25]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 2
This model lesson shows students thinking like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [11:54]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 3
Watch as a teacher engages her fifth-grade students in several experiments to learn more about the properties of magnets. [7:03]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 4
Watch as students use their knowledge of the properties of magnets and the Engineering Design Process to design a maglev transportation system. [13:50]
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Ei E: Designing Model Membranes: Biology Meets Technology
In this video [12:44] students think like bioengineers as they match natural objects with technologies that have similar functions.
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Museum of Science, Boston: Andre Filiatrault Earthquake Engineering
Structural engineer Andre Filiatrault at the University of Buffalo explains what happens when an earthquake occurs and how scientists measure them so they can reproduce them in a controlled setting. They use this information to study...
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Ei E: Designing a Model Membrane (2)
Students focus on the bioengineering problem of meeting the basic needs of an organism as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own model membrane.
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Eie: Engineering Is Elementary: A Magnetic Personality
Students engage in several experiments to learn more about the properties of magnets.
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Eie: Engineering Is Elementary: Designing a Hand Pollinator (1)
Students apply their knowledge of materials, the pollination system, and agricultural engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own hand pollinators.
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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]
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Eie: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 3 Part 1
Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [11:51]
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Ei E: Thinking Inside the Box: Designing Plant Packages Lesson 3 Part 1
Students determine the needs of the plant and the consumer for which they are designing their plant packages. [13:38]
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Ei E: Water, Water Everywhere: Designing Water Filters: Saving Salila's Turtle
Observe a teacher's lesson, and see her introduce the engineering challenge of designing water filters with a picture book. In this story, Salila, a girl from India, learns about environmental engineering as she designs her own water...
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Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 2
Students think like civil engineers in this model lesson as they observe how forces affect structures and implement engineering solutions to balance forces and prevent structural failure. [9:58]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 1
Watch as a teacher introduces an engineering challenge with the story, Hikaru, where a boy from Japan, learns about transportation engineering as he attempts to design a small Maglev transportation system for his parents' toy store. [14:21]
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Eie: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 3 Part 2
Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [9:04]
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Ei E: Designing a Maglev System
Students use their knowledge of the properties of magnets and the Engineering Design Process to design a maglev transportation system.
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Eie: Engineering Is Elementary: Designing a Hand Pollinator (2)
Students apply their knowledge of materials, the pollination system, and agricultural engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own hand pollinators.
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Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Mariana, a girl from the Dominican Republic, learns about agricultural engineering as she designs a hand pollinator to use in her garden. [15:33]
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Eie: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 2
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]
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Museum of Science: How the Sem Works
This resource gives a quicktime movie or slide show shows how the Scanning Electron Microscope is used in the world today.