The Biggest Problem We're Facing Today & The Future of Engineering

• This video about engineering discusses the many ways we rely on technological advancements and the ways in which engineering can help us sustain and improve the systems we rely on. 
• It covers topics such as infrastructure, clean water, computers, agriculture, carbon sequestration, and preventing nuclear disasters. 
  

Positives

• This video has nice animations and highlighted text to accompany the narrative.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• You may need to play the video at a slower pace or pause between sections to let students take notes or to recap information.
  

Differentiation

• This video could be used as an overview of the different fields of engineering.
• Social studies classes could use this video to connect why standards of living tend to increase with technological advancements and infrastructure development.
• Other resources on this topic include Tokyo's Heat Island Effect, Engineering and Our Planet, and this table of solutions to climate change.
  

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