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This website is designed to introduce kids to engineering. It includes a section with brief career profiles of various engineering career paths, but the real fun is in the videos. Featuring kids engaged in activities that illuminate key concepts in engineering, these videos showcase the work of engineering in a dynamic and exciting format. For example, one video covers the biomechanics of skateboarding -- taking real kids on a field trip to the Etnies Shoes headquarters where they learn how engineers (who are also skateboarders) use science to design shoes that help absorb impact and minimize injury. Another video takes a group of kids to Disney World to experience how Disney engineers transform potential energy into thrilling roller coaster rides. All of the videos feature a related hands-on activity to let students apply the science concepts involved.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Applications of Newton's Laws
- Motion in Two Dimensions
- Newton's First Law
= Inertia in Motion
- Work and Energy
= Conservation of Energy
Other Sciences
- Engineering
- High School
- Middle School
- Informal Education
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Tutorial
- Reference Material
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
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- Learners
- Educators
- text/html
- application/flash
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© 2000 Discover Engineering
Keywords:
amusement park physics, applied physics, careers, center of mass, circular motion, engineering design, kinetic energy, potential energy, roller coaster physics, science games, skateboard physics, torque
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Date Metadata Instance was created September 4, 2003 by Kyle Whipple
Record Updated:
February 6, 2013 by Lyle Barbato
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February 1, 2013
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Discover Engineering (National Engineers Week, Alexandria, 2000), WWW Document, (http://www.discoverengineering.org/).
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Discover Engineering. (2013, February 1). Retrieved May 21, 2013, from National Engineers Week: http://www.discoverengineering.org/
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National Engineers Week. Discover Engineering. Alexandria: National Engineers Week, February 1, 2013. http://www.discoverengineering.org/ (accessed 21 May 2013).
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Is Version Of You Tube: Discover Engineering - The Sum of all Thrills

A You Tube version of the Discover Engineering roller coaster video, which can be more easily downloaded and viewed full-screen.

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