Modeling Self Assembly High School Version

By Roquel Stanley; NNCI Nano1

1. National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

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There are two activities in this lesson, the Fly Prison and the Water Maze.  The Fly Prison is a hands-on modeling activity designed to introduce students to the area of nanotechnology and give them a basic understanding of how researchers build very small devices by the self-assembly of molecules. Students will be given a group of materials with which to determine the correct order for assembling them on a "silicon wafer". The water maze is a follow-up activity to give the students a chance to practice and demonstrate what they have learned.

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NNIN Site at the University of Washington NSF ECCS 0335765

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  • Roquel Stanley, NNCI Nano (2020), "Modeling Self Assembly High School Version," https://nanohub.org/resources/32093.

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  1. biology
  2. chemistry
  3. high school
  4. K-12
  5. molecular attraction
  6. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  7. NNCI Educational Materials
  8. self-assembly