Bridging the Years explores the creation of Britain's first commercial waterway, the Bridgewater Canal, and the construction of the Manchester Ship canal over 100 years later. Stories, multimedia clips, a timeline, and numerous maps are...

NOVA ferrets out long-forgotten secrets of architects and engineers of the early civilizations. Content focuses on the trebuchets of medieval Europe, the pharaoh's obelisks of ancient Egypt, the moai statues of Easter Island, the...

This is an interesting project that explores which geometrical shapes make the strongest bridge truss structures. It is a good introduction to the engineering design process. You'll design three different trusses, and use online...

Charles bridge with Prague Castle in the background

Simone de Beauvoir Bridge (Paris)

Lesser Town Bridge Towers (Prague)

Bac de Roda Bridge (Barcelona)

Bunker Hill Bridge (Boston)

Liberty Bridge (Budapest)

An image of the S. Bridge, National Road.

How can we use questioning to create lead sentences and details in order to create a purposeful paragraph? This PDF instructional activity offers an organization technique that asks learners to pre-plan paragraphs by brainstorming...

This site gives a general description of one of Euler's contributions, topology. It also presents one of the more famous problems of mathematics, The Bridges of Konigsberg.

An image of "Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole", created by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1796 (Oil on canvas, 73 x 59 cm).

An image of "The San Rocco Bridge and the Grand Waterfall at Tivoli", created by Francois-Marius Granet, c. 1806 (Oil on canvas, 62 x 49 cm).

Students learn about probability through a LEGO MINDSTORMS NTX-based activity that simulates a game of "rock-paper-scissors." The LEGO robot mimics the outcome of random game scenarios in order to help students gain a better...

Delve into your community's history. Who is the guy that a bridge or street is named after in your town? Why was he or she important? This project encourages students to get to know the history of the community better.

Kids don't have to be residents of Michigan to enjoy this site! There is lots of information as well as fun activities contained in six sub-categories: Yikes! Central (safety), sightseeing, way back when, you.gov, our backyard, and map it.

Kids don't have to be residents of Michigan to enjoy this site! There is lots of information as well as fun activities contained in six sub-categories: Yikes! Central (safety), sightseeing, way back when, you.gov, our backyard, and map it.

A collection of government approved drawings and designs for hundreds of objects including ships, bridges, flags and more.

This site from the Pennsylvania State University provides a hands-on activity to bridge the gap between right triangles, 30-60-90 and 45-45-90 theorems, and trigonometry, and what every student wants to know, "When will I ever use this?"...

Radio created a mass entertainment culture that could bridge the gap between those in California and those in New York. Read about the advent of radio stations, and the companies that owned them. See why the federal government had to...

A map of England, Wales, and southern Scotland between (1642-1651) subtitled "The Civil War." The map shows several important battlefields of the wars, including Powick Bridge, Edgehill, Ardwalton Moor, Chalgrove, Braddock Down, Hopton...

A map of the vicinity of Springfield, New Jersey, showing the battle site during the American Revolutionary War (June 23, 1780). "The stream with branches, and running in a southerly direction, is the Rahway River; (a) is the house of...

A map of Dundee, Scotland vicinity from 1914. The map shows landmarks of Dundee, railroads and waterways, major roads, bridges and ferry routes across the Firth of Tay, and neighboring cities and towns.