Description
Product Code: GH4206
UPC: 631865420629
ISBN: 978-1-61867-074-8
Grade Level: 6-12
Media Type: DVD
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
France
MegaWorld: France explores that country’s cutting-edge contributions transforming science in the air, on the sea and on land. Highlights include the construction of the massive “wingbox” at the heart of the new Airbus – the largest passenger plane in the world, the French Navy’s specialized dive team, and the NH90 Eurocopter, the world’s first fly-by-wire helicopter. Also see the Ariane 5 rocket, the strongest rocket on the planet, and the Paul Ricard Race Track, where F1 drivers learn to drive to the max in safety.
