This video about engineering discusses the many ways we rely on technological advancements and the ways in which engineering can help us sustain and improve the systems we rely on.
It covers topics such as infrastructure, clean water, computers, agriculture, carbon sequestration, and preventing nuclear disasters.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This video has nice animations and highlighted text to accompany the narrative.
Additional Prerequisites
You may need to play the video at a slower pace or pause between sections to let students take notes or to recap information.
Differentiation
This video could be used as an overview of the different fields of engineering.
Social studies classes could use this video to connect why standards of living tend to increase with technological advancements and infrastructure development.
The resource explores opportunities for a climate resilient, secured, and sustainable future driven by engineering works. This transformation plays a key role in reimagining and expanding technologies to solve human problems at present and in the future. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
HS-ESS3-4 Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.
ETS1: Engineering Design
HS-ETS1-1 Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
HS-ETS1-3 Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.
