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Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Buildings and Earthquakes

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Do you think you can build a house that can withstand the shaking from an earthquake? In this activity, students design and construct model building that will be tested on a shake table with a force sensor. Activity includes questions that can be answered and saved to be graded by the instructor.

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Concepts
plate tectonics, earthquakes
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Additional Tags
civil engineering projects, design solution, earthquake proof structure, properties of materials, 3-ess3-1, 4-ess3-2, buildings and earthquakes, concord consortium, concord consortium: stem resources: buildings and earthquakes, stem resource, earth and space lab, earthquake
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice