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Skyscrapers: Engineering Up! Lesson PlanSkyscrapers: Engineering Up! Lesson Plan
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Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!

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Students build their own newspaper skyscrapers with limited materials and time. They identify several different structural engineering principles relating to skyscrapers. They explain how their towers resisted the wind load.

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civil engineering, skyscrapers, technology resources

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civil engineering, design forces, skyscrapers
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
STEM
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
Instructional Strategy
Inquiry-Based Learning
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