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Ruth Patrick Science Education Center: Shaking It Up With Earthquake Engineering

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Students will learn basic information about earthquakes and their impact. They then follow the engineering design process as they construct earthquake-resistant buildings using toothpicks and marshmallows. The buildings are tested using a shake table.

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NGSS
4-ESS3-2