MegaWorld: Australia

Product Description

A STEM Curriculum Resource for Engineering and Science students.

Travel to the biggest, fastest, most exciting engineering, automotive and construction projects across the globe. This series highlights a variety of innovative and awing scientific feats in different countries.

MegaWorld is a fun, fast paced, experiential approach to presenting a country or region’s innovations in science and technology. Projects Include: – Manufacturing of the world’s biggest truck – Transportation on Canada’s epic ice roads – Futuristic skyscrapers in the fastest growing cities – Conceptualizing the strongest rocket on the planet -Traveling underwater in a high-tech submersible – Testing and perfecting Formula One race cars – Development of floating house communities – Retrofitting San Francisco’s Bay Bridge

Australia

A whole continent in one country, Australia is a vast landscape best known for its natural beauty. It is also a place where technological and scientific innovation thrives. Highlights include the manufacturing of the world’s biggest truck. Called a “road train”, this monster is a unique solution to moving goods across the vast Australian landscape. Take a ride on the world’s biggest motorcycle as rolls right over a mobile home, and go deep into the “Super Pit” – the biggest open pit gold mine in the country where up to 28 tons of gold is blasted out of the rock every year.