Engineering Mega-Projects: video worksheets, differentiated.

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The film showcases some of the people, techniques and machinery of six civil engineering projects: China’s South–North Water Transfer Project; Bingham Canyon Mine, the world’s largest open-cast mine; diving with maintenance engineers in the raw sewage of Mexico City’s pumping system; construction of the world’s biggest container-ships in South Korea; loading and unloading in Ulsan; London and Tokyo underground train systems. We see the scale of these projects, some of their challenges and solutions. Many featured engineers are women, and good role-models for girls considering STEM subjects.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s BBC Earth Science channel for “This is How Humans Have Changed the World | Generation Earth | BBC Earth Science”.

14 questions for the 16-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Good subtitles, typed in by a human, not auto-generated nonsense. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc and .pdf of all sheets,link to film on all sheets.