Cracking Dams
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| Audience/Grade: | 0 - High School Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Civil Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Premier Award Winner |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Case Study |
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| Description: | One of the cases in the SimScience web-site devoted to areas of science where computer simulations are at the forefront of discovery. Cracking Dams asks: What happens when a dam cracks? What's a dam? How do things crack? Can engineers model the cracking of a dam? - Crackling Noise What is the link between predicting earthquakes and crumpling a piece of paper? Will understanding one help engineers understand the other? The site is divided into 3 groups of grade levels. beginning: grades K-4 or general beginners; intermediate: grades 5-8; advanced: grades 9-12. Age appropriate questions, lesson plans, teacher's guides, java simulations, case histories, scenariios, quizes, glossaries, help and webquests are provided for each level. Case studies are supplemented with digital movies. |
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| Keywords: | structural engineering |
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Case Study and Interactive Simulation Three groups of grade levels. beginning: grades K-4 or general beginners; intermediate: grades 5-8; advanced: grades 9-12 |
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| Publication Date: | December 2006 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://simscience.org/cracks/index.html |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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