Spectacular Failures: Investigating Stability and Change Through Engineering Disasters

Teaching with the Library: Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators

04/07/2026 11:00 AM EDT

Engineering failures can reveal when systems that appear stable suddenly change. Examining such events through primary sources can help students explore the crosscutting concept of Stability and Change while thinking like engineers investigating what went wrong.

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