Exploring Powers of Ten
Teaching Materials | 03 Dec 2020 | Contributor(s): Joyce Allen, NNCI Nano
Through a series of activities, students will understand why the use of exponents is important in science mathematics, and engineering as well as everyday jobs. The lesson serves as an introduction to the Powers of Ten Notation or Scientific Notation. Included is a homework assignment focused...
Design Challenge: Incorporating Shape Memory Alloys into Rube Goldberg Devices
Teaching Materials | 05 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s): Joyce Allen, NNCI Nano
This lesson consists of two parts. In Part 1, students determine which of set of wires is a unique metal alloy called Nitinol. Nitinol is called a shape memory alloy (an SMA) because it can “remember” its original shape under certain conditions after being bent, twisted, or...
NNCI Reference Sheets
Teaching Materials | 11 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s): Joyce Allen, Nancy Healy, NNCI Nano
This is a series of 5 reference sheets for high school students that have a summarized version of important concepts for courses in: Physics, Physical Science, Chemistry, Biology, and Genetics. These are two sided, with one side introducing nanotechnology and the other containing facts,...
What's the Smallest Thing You Know? A Size and Scale Activity
Teaching Materials | 10 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s): Joyce Allen, NNCI Nano
This lesson is designed to have elementary level students develop an understanding of size and scale. It uses the book What’s Smaller Than A Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells to help students see that a pygmy shrew is among the tiniest of mammals and that a ladybug is even...
Reading and Analyzing Nanotechnology
Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s): Joyce Allen, NNCI Nano
STEM education encourages that students are provided opportunities to read and analyze science outside of their textbooks. This lesson will allow reading across the curriculum by providing students the opportunity to read about nanotechnology. In addition, this will open up an opportunity to...
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