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Handout
BBC

Bbc: The Channel Tunnel

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated feature provides a history of the Channel Tunnel, the train tunnel connecting France and Britain under the English Channel, officially opened in 1994.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Wgbh: Building Big: Tunnels

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of resources about tunnels that includes basic facts about tunnels, challenges faced by tunnel diggers, famous tunnels from around the world, and a lab that helps you understand the kinds of forces that keep tunnels from...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Meeting in the Middle

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate how precise measurments and effective communication skills are needed when engineering and digging a tunnel.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: 10 World Engineering Marvels

For Students 9th - 10th
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...