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Pbs Learning Media: The Bridge Challenge HandoutPbs Learning Media: The Bridge Challenge Handout
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PBS
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9th - 10th
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Science
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1420L
Handout

Pbs Learning Media: The Bridge Challenge

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This interactive activity, from the Web site developed for the PBS series "Building Big," use your knowledge of bridge design to match the right bridge location in a fictitious city.

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Concepts

bridges, critical thinking

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bridge construction, bridge types, building bridges, pbs learningmedia: the bridge challenge, teachers' domain, wgbh, problem solving, bridge building

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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