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Engineering for Earthquakes
Duration: 60 min
Grade Levels: 3-5
In this design challenge, you’ll engineer a structure and see if it can survive an earthquake you create!
Grade Levels: 3-5
Duration: 60 minutes
Concepts/Skills: Structural engineering, Forces, Natural hazards: Earthquakes
Objectives:
- Observe and explain simulations of the forces at play during an earthquake. • Use strong engineering principles to design a structure that will withstand the shaking of a simulated earthquake.
- Compare solutions, reflect and iterate to improve their designs.
The Tech Challenge
This resource was developed to prepare students for the 2019 Tech Challenge. Each year The Tech Challenge invites teams of students in Grades 4-12 to use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.
Learn about this year's Tech Challenge.