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Construction

Within Business
People stand in lines with luggage at airport gates.
22 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A board with figures and a heavy object in the center bends downward in the center. Caption: You see that as the load increases, the bridge bends,
Bridge Design (and Destruction)
Episode 1
5 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A board with interlocking triangular cutout supports running parallel to the board has figures on it and a heavy object in the center. The outermost edges of the triangular supports have buckled. Caption: The outer segments of the truss are the first to break.
Bridge Design (and Destruction)
Episode 2
4 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A multi-story office building has sections of brick, glass and metal walls extending outward from the building center with lifts and trucks parked outside.
Career Connections
Episode 19
4 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing jeans and a white sleeveless t-shirt uses a pipe cutter on a P, V, C pipe. The wall next to him has an open access panel exposing P, V, C piping that is under installation.
Career Connections
Episode 20
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Wide shot of a cement storage plant that has cement silos, tanks, conveyor belts, and a portable building. Caption. Let's look at cement storage.
Concrete Construction
Episode 1
29 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a gloved hand holding a concrete block as concrete coating is applied with a trowel. Caption. He doesn't want to leave any air pockets.
Concrete Construction
Episode 10
43 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Outside view of a multi-story wood formwork. Caption. Vertical formwork can be struck the following day.
Concrete Construction
Episode 11
21 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cement dumper pours cement into a criss crossing steel reinforcement rod framework. Person's legs stand within the framework. Caption. Avoiding disturbing the formwork, reinforcement.
Concrete Construction
Episode 12
33 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of concrete being poured into a form with upside down u-shaped steel rods. Caption. The engineer will tell you what slump is right for your job.
Concrete Construction
Episode 2
41 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Overhead view of poured concrete with a large pole in the middle of the pour. Caption. We should look in more detail at what is meant by compaction.
Concrete Construction
Episode 3
32 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of connecting vertical and horizontal brown metal beams with 3 vertical steel rods extending through the beam connection. Caption. The formwork must provide this finish.
Concrete Construction
Episode 4
35 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a person standing and using a hand-guided circular power trowel on wet concrete. Caption. Are screeded, floated, and trowel finished.
Concrete Construction
Episode 5
40 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Crane hoists precast concrete panel toward a series of vertical and horizontal steel rods. Vertical rod ends bent at 90 degrees face outward. Caption. And make sure that formwork can be lifted out.
Concrete Construction
Episode 6
29 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
View of steel framing on top of a concrete block structure with 2 openings. Text on image reads, "Safety signs." Caption. You'll become familiar with safety signs.
Concrete Construction
Episode 7
25 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital map titled "Battle of Little Bighorn." A black horse runs west towards Little Bighorn River and the Bighorn Mountains. 3 blue labeled banners for Gibbon, Terry and Custer, and Crook surround the horse, each with an arrow pointing in.
Concrete Construction
Episode 8
40 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of 2 side-by-side vertical steel rods and 1 horizontal steel rod touching. Heavy gauge metal wire is looped behind vertical rods and over horizontal rod held in place by someone's fingers. Another wire is under the horizontal rod. Caption. Hairpin tie.
Concrete Construction
Episode 9
35 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A reservoir of water with a dam at one end and water flowing out the other side. Caption: until it's needed by the electric plant.
Eco=Kids Explore
Season 2 / Ep 2
16 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Digital architectural rendering. Aerial view of grassy fields surrounding an ancient Egyptian city by the water.
1 hours 31 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Building with a rounded end under construction. Person working on the roof. Spanish captions.
Everything Changes (Spanish)
Episode 5
23 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Teenage girl wearing a backpack approaches the front door of an office building.
Finding Your Pathway for Students
Episode 5
2 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Small fountains of water erupt from a series of ornamental basins. Manicured greenery in the background.
59 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Color illustration. Bulldozer next to a ditch loading dirt into a dump truck.
9 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Wide shot of a construction site with orange and white cones, stacks of building materials, and a front loader. Text below image reads, "Heavy Equipment Operator."
Health Science Careers and Construction Technology Careers
Episode 2
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 working men wearing hard hats lean over a steel frame looking down in the same direction.
Health Science Careers and Construction Technology Careers
Episode 5
5 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital rendering. Aerial view of an intersection flanked by modern buildings, populated with pedestrians, and scattered with cars. Caption. We often use 3D modeling and computer-based software."
I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A to Z
Episode 21
3 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Panels of glass labeled, "Vidrios," stand to the left of 2 circles that each encapsulate a work glove. Spanish Caption. Juan José Campanella as Narrator. Cuanda se trabaja con vidrios, se utilizan guantes adherentes.
Invisible Science and Technology Surrounding (Spanish)
Episode 11
22 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Digital illustration of a shadowy figure bending over towards the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Spanish title card reads, "Torre de Pisa." Spanish caption. En detener la inclinación de la torre.
Invisible Science and Technology Surrounding (Spanish)
Episode 10
28 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A lighthouse with the sails of ships in the background. Caption: the same natural enemy-- erosion.
13 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bronze sculpture depicts pioneers fording a river in a covered wagon pulled by oxen. Caption. A thematic dry riverbed with rocks cropping out.
54 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Man operates front loader at a construction site. Caption. Backhoe chugging and whirring.
33 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 4
Color illustration of a crane personified with eyes and holding a teddy bear in its fender. Silhouette of city skyline beneath radiant sun in background.
9 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Recently Added
Still image from: Nature Knows Best: Bio-Building
Nature Knows Best
Season 1 / Ep 2
22 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Multiple shiny skyscrapers against a blue sky seen from below looking up.
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 5
7 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of construction at the top of a skyscraper with surrounding cityscape in the distance.
1 hours 24 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.
Science Nation
Episode 115
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Tool emitting bright light cutting circles into wood. Caption: (narrator) Tools, including this laser cutter and wood router,
Science Nation
Episode 170
2 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of a building with plants covering most of the surface area of the roof. Caption: (man) It's a roof of living plants.
Science Nation
Episode 159
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Electrical meter box attached to the outside of a building. Caption: All the entries have to be zero-energy homes,
Science Nation
Episode 185
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person standing at the top of a wind turbine. Caption: to see if they can handle 300-foot heights.
Science Nation
Episode 168
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Buses and taxis drive on a city street lined with trees and buildings. Caption. It is the foundation of the world's infrastructure.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 139
3 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Architectural model of skyscraper with city below. Caption. This skyscraper will cost $100 billion to construct.
15 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
Large rounded rock formation half covered with trees and iridescent light juts out of a forested hillside.
24 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer rendering of a Florentine church. Caption. The church of Santa Reparata was renovated and modified.
52 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Wide shot of Piazza San Marco in Venice looking towards Saint Mark's Basilica and Campanile. Caption. But how did this fairy tale setting come into being.
52 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A large dam spanning across a lake. Caption: It's the world's largest hydroelectric dam.
22 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
C, G, I image of a low wall of ice on the ocean in low light. A much bigger and taller perpendicular wall of ice juts out from it. Caption. What's under the sand and what's under the ice?
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
16 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
C, G, I rendering of a tan pyramid being built using several modern cranes with a mountain range in the background.
Where Did It Come From?
Episode 3
43 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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