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Teach Engineering: Breaking Beams

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Students learn about stress and strain by designing and building beams using polymer clay. They compete to find the best beam strength to beam weight ratio, and learn about the trade-offs engineers make when designing a structure.

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Concepts
civil engineering, engineering, stem
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Additional Tags
beam design, beam strength, civil engineering concept, strength testing, structural engineering, weight ratio, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, teachengineering: breaking beams, design trade-offs, civil engineering concepts, material properties
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional