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Above-Ground Storage Tank Design Project
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At this point in the unit, students have learned about Pascal's law, Archimedes' principle, Bernoulli's principle, and why above-ground storage tanks are of major concern in the Houston Ship Channel and other coastal areas. In this culminating activity, student groups act as engineering design teams to derive equations to determine the stability of specific above-ground storage tank scenarios with given tank specifications and liquid contents. With their floatation analyses completed and the stability determined, students analyze the tank stability in specific storm conditions. Then, teams are challenged to come up with improved storage tank designs to make them less vulnerable to uplift, displacement and buckling in storm conditions. Teams present their analyses and design ideas in short class presentations.

Subject:
Physics
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Emily Sappington
Mila Taylor
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Above-Ground Storage Tanks in the Houston Ship Channel
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Students are provided with an introduction to above-ground storage tanks, specifically how and why they are used in the Houston Ship Channel. The introduction includes many photographic examples of petrochemical tank failures during major storms and describes the consequences in environmental pollution and costs to disrupted businesses and lives, as well as the lack of safety codes and provisions to better secure the tanks in coastal regions regularly visited by hurricanes. Students learn how the concepts of Archimedes' principle and Pascal's law act out in the form of the uplifting and buckling seen in the damaged and destroyed tanks, which sets the stage for the real-world engineering challenge presented in the associated activity to design new and/or improved storage tanks that can survive storm conditions.

Subject:
Design Studies
Practical & Applied Arts
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Emily Sappington
Mila Taylor
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Add Compound Metric Units
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about multi-step addition of weights with compound units (metric units) - word problems.

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Add Customary Units of Weight Including Applications
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to give fourth graders an overview of weight-based english-unit word problems.

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Add Subtract and Compare Grams and Kilograms Multi Step Applications
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about solving multi-step weight problems with subtraction (metric units) - word problems.

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Add Subtract and Compare Mass in Grams Multi Step Applications
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about using a scale and multi-step calculations to find weight in grams i.

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Add and Subtract Compound Customary Units of Weight Applications
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about two-step subtraction of weights (english units) - word problems.

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Add and Subtract to Solve Compound Unit Problems
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding of compound units of length (english units).

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Adding Capacities in Compound Units English Units
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about adding capacities in compound units (english units).

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Addition and Subtraction of Liters Applications
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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about one step metric capacity with addition and subtraction - word problems.

Subject:
Foundations
Math
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Provider:
CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:
CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:
05/03/2018
Air Pressure
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Air pressure is pushing on us all the time although we do not usually notice it. In this activity, students learn about the units of pressure and get a sense of just how much air pressure is pushing on them.

Subject:
Physics
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Alex Conner
Geoffrey Hill
Janet Yowell
Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Tom Rutkowski
Date Added:
10/14/2015