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Tensile Structure 
  
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This Wikipedia page provides an overview of tension structures and describes the important architects and engineers who use this form of construction. The page includes the history…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile_structure
TryEngineering: Build Your Own Robot Arm 
  
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This lesson plan, appropriate for grades 6-9, asks students to create a robot arm from common household materials that include paper clips, fishing line, cardboard, brads, pencils,…
https://tryengineering.org/resource/lesson-plan/build-your-own-robot-arm...
Dean Kamen's Artificial Arm 
  
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This 6-minute video chronicles the efforts of inventor/physicist Dean Kamen to develop a robotic arm with the functionality and dexterity of its human counterpart. "Prosthetic legs…
https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/biomedical/bionics/dean-kamens-artificia...
Robot Arm Tutorial 
  
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This tutorial provides background information on robotic arm technology and practical instructions for building your own. The author includes free-body diagrams, schematic drawings,…
https://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_arm_tutorial.shtml
NOVA: Making Stuff 
  
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This is a four-part series exploring materials that could shape our future, such as plastics that will dissolve in landfills, silk designed to be stronger than steel, smart pills,…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/making-stuff/episodes/
PhET Simulation: Forces and Motion 
  
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This interactive simulation provides four components for exploring balanced and unbalanced forces. In the introductory activity, users choose from among 5 objects of different…
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/forces-and-motion
PBS LearningMedia: Segway Technology: What's Newton Got to Do with It? 
  
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In this 8-minute Flash video, physicist/inventor Dean Kamen talks about his design of the Segway personal transporter and the IBOT wheelchair. The Segway is a 2-wheeled electric…
https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfw.segway/seg...
PBS: Building Big 
  
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This large collection of labs, activities, and interactive tutorials allows kids to explore large structures and what it takes to build them. They will investigate bridges, dams,…
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/
American Journal of Physics
Student understanding of static equilibrium: Predicting and accounting for balancing 
  
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L. Ortiz, P. Heron, and P. Shaffer, Am. J. Phys., 73 (6), 545-553 (2005).
We report on an investigation of student ability to account for static equilibrium in the simple familiar case in which an object is balanced on a frictionless pivot or fulcrum.…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1862640
TryEngineering: Design a Dome 
  
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This is a lesson plan that explores principles in civil engineering and architecture, developed to help teachers integrate engineering practices in the classroom. Students work in…
https://tryengineering.org/resource/lesson-plan/design-dome/
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