Human Impact and Engineering · Engineering & Design

Engineering Solutions for Natural Hazards

Designing and testing structures or systems that mitigate the effects of natural disasters.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can we design buildings to better survive a major earthquake?
  2. 2What technologies can help us predict and prepare for floods?
  3. 3How do cost and material availability limit the solutions we can build?

Common Core State Standards

MS-ESS3-2MS-ETS1-2
Grade: 6th Grade
Subject: Science
Unit: Human Impact and Engineering
Period: Engineering & Design

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