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Uploaded by on May 23, 2008

for engineering day,my students built a super strong bridge. See how many dictionaries it can hold!

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  • U mormon? Just wondering cuz ur from utah

  • @MountainxDrew Yep. Not everybody here's Mormon, but there sure are a lot of us.

  • This was with a regular 4th grade class.

  • i realize that these are young children you are teaching but.. it held so many dictionaries because of the weight displacement being spread almost to the edges of the bridge, it also looks like the edges of the dictionaries were at the strongest points of the bridge. put the weights in the middle on a smaller point and it will collapse

    the kids did a good job though, that is for sure, cool that you bring engineering into your curriculum, as a future engineer i loved the video

  • We had an engineering day where students rotated through different activities (build a K'Nex robot, build a paper tower, build a popsicle bridge). They really only had about 12 minutes to build it (we let the glue dry overnight).

    I posted this video not because it is an excellent example of engineering, but that it held so much more than any other bridge made in my class. My goal was to get them excited--I think it worked.

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  • And to think the English language is among the most word heavy languages of the world.

  • WOW IT CAN HOLD UP TILL 15 DICTIONARYS

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  • I wish I had you as my teacher.

  • Taping it down actually strengthens the structure because it has flexibility and it just moved the covers so that the actual strain on the flexibility of the bridge was less...

  • GEEZUS

  • Sweet im mormon too! :)

  • the weight is shared equal

  • u made it so all the weight in the bridge is shared equally but in a real bridge it would not be equal and it is very short

  • 1:54 LOL pulled out a different brand of dictionary because he ran out of the others!!!

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