Civil_LP_1

5E Lesson plans developed by participants after a day exploring Civil and Environment Engineering.

|| Student groups will build bridges using five designs (Beam, Arch, Truss, Suspension, and Cable-Stayed). Supplies are limited and pre-set. ||
 * ===**5E Component**=== || ===**Link to Resource**=== || ===**Brief Description of Resource**=== ||
 * Engage || Moment of Inertia Demo || A document describing two demonstrations of moment of inertia. Includes description, discussion questions, and video examples. ||
 * Explore || Bridge Design Activity
 * Explain || [[file:Civil1_explain.ppt|Equilibrium and Torque Powerpoint]] || A PowerPoint activity designed to recap the ideas or Static Equilibrium and Torque. Students will also do a pair share analysis of their bridge activity, and rotational inertia can be included if desired. ||
 * Elaborate || Qualitative Torque Handout





|| A student handout to get students to think about torque qualitatively in some real work situations like what must you do to remove lug nuts off a car if you cannot apply enough force to the lug wrench.

A student handout asking students to quantify torque.

A student investigation involving a meter stick and the balancing of the meter stick on a knife edge clamp to demonstrate static equilibrium by influencing rotation arm of a weight.

A student handout asking students to use their understanding of static equilibrium to quantify the size of the force applied by a structural member such as a guide wire. || Cargo Bridge Challenge Bridge Builder || Two, online bridge building games to evaluate student’s knowledge of the lesson. Also, to assess students understanding of bridge structures and the forces applied on them, they will fill out a //Failed Bridge Report.// ||
 * Evaluate || Teacher Resource