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Your goal is to get your students to think about using standard skills in non-standard ways. Anyone can build a house; not everyone can build Fallingwater. Dig up classic engineering conundrums f...
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Your goal is to get your students to think about using standard skills in non-standard ways. Anyone can build a house; not everyone can build [Fallingwater.](http://www.fallingwater.org/) - Dig up classic engineering conundrums from the past (pyramids, aqueducts, dams) and ask your students how they would solve them. - Find moderately ridiculous but not utterly implausible movie set pieces (Indiana Jones escaping from the rolling rock and shooting darts, not Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear test in a lead-lined refrigerator). Ask your students to design the traps. - Watch some recent _Mythbusters_ episodes. Particularly in the last five years, they've branched out from busting urban legends to testing pop culture myths and viral videos. Look at the kinds of myths they choose to test, and the methods they use, and see what could be adapted.
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