Buildings and Bridges

1. ABCD's Bridge Design Tips for Kids  (site info) Provides tips for bridge-building projects, including topics such as form, connections, properties of balsa wood, links, and a bibliography. http://www.abcdpittsburgh.org/kids/kids.htm 2. Physics Balsa Bridge Building Contest  (site info) Records, rules and tips for this twenty year old contest along with hundreds of photographs of bridges. http://www.balsabridge.com/index.htm 3. Bridge Building  (site info) Offers a number of scenarios for which students must select bridge features. http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/civeng/marketing/civeng... 4. Bridge Building - Art and Science  (site info) Detailed, illustrated history of bridges across the world, with diagrammatic explanations of the basic types of bridges, examples and many links. http://www.brantacan.co.uk/bridges.htm 5. ShakeZone for Kids  (site info) Classroom exercises and video footage of earthquake damage and shake table testing of building models. http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/ShakeZone.htm 1-5 of 20. Next »