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Teach Engineering: Earthquake in the Classroom

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Students will learn how engineers construct buildings to withstand damage from earthquakes by building their own structure with toothpicks and marshmallows. Students will test how earthquake-proof their buildings are by testing them on an earthquake, simulated in a pan of Jell-O.

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Concepts
civil engineering, engineering, stem
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Additional Tags
civil engineering project, earthquake safety, earthquake-proof, structural integrity, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, earthquake, earthquake damage, earthquake proof structure
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
NGSS
4-ESS3-2