INQUIRY: Paper Bridge Design Challenge [K-2]
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Kid's view: Sydney Harbour Bridge
Whether you've driven or walked across it, sailed under it, flown above it or climbed its arch or pylons, there's no avoiding Sydney's famous bridge. Can you see why locals call it the Coat Hanger?
SOURCE: SciShow Kids (2014), posted on YouTube, [1:10 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/ZnO6QSxJjn4
Matagarup Bridge - Arch Lifting Animation
View the animation to see how the steel arches for Matagarup Bridge will be sequenced and lifted into place.
SOURCE: Main Roads W.A. (2018), posted on YouTube, [2:18 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/b0tzmvGadvI
Also Matagarup Bridge: 6 months in 45 seconds https://fb.watch/5JMGyLQgLc/
What Makes a Bridge so Strong?
A SciShow Kids viewer wrote us to ask how bridges are strong enough to carry cars and trucks! Jessi and Squeaks can explain -- with blocks!
SOURCE: SciShow Kids (2015), posted on YouTube, [3:44 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/oVOnRPefcno
World’s Most Extreme Bridges | Masters of Engineering
To gain the other side, to cross the bay, a curiosity, then an obligation which pushed the Man, from the first times of its history, to develop techniques of construction to overcome these obstacles. From the first bridges in liana, through the Roman aqueducts to the viaduct of Millau which spans the valley of the Tarn to 270 m in height, the genius of the man was expressed in the civil engineering…These technical feats, traits of union between men, are, in the broad sense, true works of art. Thus man has developed, thanks to science and its applications, a way to get closer to other men and to become master of time, and space…
SOURCE: Free Documentary (2020), posted on YouTube, [52:06 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/g0WSPkdf1OE