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Physics: Structures

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Antarctica: A Challenging Work Day  

Antarctica: A Challenging Work Day
What happens when the ground under your feet is ice and it's moving? This video segment adapted from NOVA features some of the dangers faced by scientists conducting research in Antarctica.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Antarctic Ice Movement: Part I  

Antarctic Ice Movement: Part I
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains why ice sheets move. To find out how fast they move, scientists carve a tunnel through a glacier.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Astronauts in Hard Hats  

Astronauts in Hard Hats
This media-rich series of interviews from the NOVA Web site explores the unique challenges faced by astronauts doing construction work in outer space.

6-12 HTML Document
Beavers  

Beavers
This video segment explores the world of the beaver, including the biology of the species and, more importantly, its ability to transform an ecosystem for its own benefit.

K-5 QuickTime Video
Build a Bridge  

Build a Bridge
Survey potential bridge sites, research bridge design, and select the right bridge for the right location in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 Shockwave Interactive
Construct an Aqueduct  

Construct an Aqueduct
Think like an engineer and build an aqueduct in this interactive activity from the NOVA Web site.

3-12 Shockwave Interactive
Demolition Woman  

Demolition Woman
Find out how controlled explosions are used to demolish multi-story buildings in this interview from the NOVA Web site.

6-12 HTML Document
Fire Safety in High Rises  

Fire Safety in High Rises
This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how the sprinkler revolutionized fire safety and also features developments in fire-safety design for high-rise buildings.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Flood: Farming and Erosion  

Flood: Farming and Erosion
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists investigate how farming along the Mississippi River impacts floods and what can be done about it.

3-12 QuickTime Video
The Grand Canyon: Conservation and Development  

The Grand Canyon: Conservation and Development
This video segment adapted from NOVA explores the effects of the Glen Canyon Dam on the beaches, wildlife, and vegetation of the Colorado River.

3-12 QuickTime Video
The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks  

The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks
This video segment adapted from NOVA features the youngest rock formations in the Grand Canyon, lava dams, and how they are subject to the eroding power of water.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Grass Bridge  

Grass Bridge
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, watch residents of the Peruvian Andes build a suspension bridge made entirely of grass.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Hurricanes: New Orleans Under Threat  

Hurricanes: New Orleans Under Threat
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW exposes how decades of development and geography combined to make the potential damage from a hurricane uniquely devastating in New Orleans, Louisiana.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Igloo 101  

Igloo 101
Learn what it takes to build an igloo—from the best kind of snow to the most effective tools—and other little-known facts about these traditional Canadian Inuit structures in this interactive activity from NOVA.

3-8 Flash Interactive
The Leaning Tower: Where It Stands Today  

The Leaning Tower: Where It Stands Today
Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa give way to gravity? In this interview from the NOVA Web site, engineer John Burland relates the difficult job of saving the tower.

6-12 HTML Document
A Nanotube Space Elevator  

A Nanotube Space Elevator
In this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, find out about the discovery of a new building material, the carbon nanotube, whose physical properties could theoretically enable the creation of a 22,000-mile elevator to space.

6-12 QuickTime Video