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Teaching Materials (101-120 of 272)

1. The Water Race: Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces

   Teaching Materials | 23 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Alondra Droege, NNCI Nano

   This high school chemistry lesson provides an introduction to the engineering of an interfacial surface at the nanoscale. It demonstrates concepts of hydrophobic and hydrophilic behavior. Students will create (through chemical reactions) a hydrophobic and hydrophilic surface using a 2 nanometer...

2. Using Media to Explore Social and Ethical Issues in Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies

   Teaching Materials | 23 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Deborah Bassett, NNCI Nano

   This lesson introduces students to social and ethical issues related to  nanotechnology. The lesson demonstrates possible social issues through case studies using popular films, books, and news stories. The lesson is intended to stimulate discussion about social and ethical issues related...

3. 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...

4. Noodling Around: Powers of Ten

   Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

   This activity develops a K–12 student’s skills in measurement by using a pool noodle to measure objects. The activity encourages students to consider features that are useful when developing or using a measurement tool. This lesson introduces scale by demonstrating scales as factors...

5. Diagnostics for All: Teaching Relevance of Science and Engineering to Solving Societal Problems

   Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: J. Marc Abelard, NNCI Nano

   This a cross-disciplinary lesson that connects chemistry with social and ethical issues. It is tied to a new and promising inexpensive form of diagnostics called paper diagnostics. The issue discussed focuses on HIV Aids.

6. The Pinch Test: The Right Tool for the Right Object

   Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Pamela Gilbert-Smith, NNCI Nano

   This lesson will be used to assess student knowledge of size or SI prefixes and which equipment/tools you would need to view objects of particular sizes. The lesson can be used to see how much students know before teaching; to introduce them to the topic; or to assess what they have learned...

7. Properties of Fluids

   Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Astrid Hernandez, NNCI Nano

   This lab explores the properties of water flow. This inquiry-based lab consists of 2 sections: the Guided Lab Activity and the Going Further (research) portion. The guided lab activity, performed on the first day, is designed to help students observe and understand the way fluids interact with...

8. Scale Models: A Size and Scale Activity

   Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

   This lesson introduces scale by demonstrating scales as factors of ten. This facilitates the introduction and reinforcement of the metric scale and paves the way to the discussion of lengths that are smaller than what can be seen with the naked eye. ...

9. Scanning Probe Microscopy: "Feeling" What You Can't See at the Nanometer Scale

   Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Sandrine Martin, NNCI Nano

   Scanning probe microscopes are important tools that allow researchers to examine nanoscale objects and materials. In this lesson, students simulate the function of a scanning probe microscope.This activity works best in groups of 3 students. Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) of various types...

10. Shrink Me: A Size and Scale Lesson

    Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

    This activity focuses on measuring length, for this is the most common feature when presenting nanoscale structures or nanoscale science. Understanding size and scale is fundamental to learning about nanotechnology as size defines the nanoscale (1-100nm in one dimension). Size is often divided...

11. SI System and Nanoscale Science

    Teaching Materials | 21 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Linda Duke, NNCI Nano

    This two-part unit provides activities for students to learn about the metric system of measurement. A connection to the nanoscale is made by having students read the How Stuff Works article –“How Nanotechnology Works” and answer questions about the article. Further...

12. Nanomotors: Nanoscale Propulsion

    Teaching Materials | 15 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Paul Longwell, Chantelle Smith, Stephen Stillanos, NNCI Nano

    This lesson is designed to engage students in hands-on experiments that explore nanoscale propulsion principles and guide students in recognizing and analyzing differences between macroscale and nanoscale propulsion systems.

13. Nanoparticles Land to Ocean: Understanding the Effect of Nanoparticle Pollutants

    Teaching Materials | 15 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Chloe Figuerido, NNCI Nano (editor)

    Pollution, both macroscopic and microscopic, is an important environmental issue for aquatic ecosystems. For this lab, students will model how nanoparticle pollution travels from land to water. This lab isa 2-part series of labs designed to help students understand the effect that nanoscale...

14. Nanotechnology and Cosmetics

    Teaching Materials | 15 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Rochelle Lofstrand, NNCI Nano

    This is a series of four lessons which build upon each other to explore the use of nanotechnology in cosmetics as well as the social and ethical issues associated with nano-based cosmetics. The purpose of these lessons is to familiarize students with the chemistry of cosmetics and the anatomy...

15. Nanobacteria: How Fast do Bacteria Grow?

    Teaching Materials | 15 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Joe Donahue, NNCI Nano

    Students will calculate surface area, draw graphs, and approximate the populations of  bacteria and nanobes. Before starting this lab, the student should understand how to 1) calculate the surface area of a circle, 2) draw and label a graph, 3) define circumference and radius. This...

16. Modeling Self Assembly Middle School Version

    Teaching Materials | 15 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Roquel Stanley, Angela Berenstein, NNCI Nano

    This is the middle school version of a more complex high school lesson. 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...

17. Quantum Dots: Real-world Particles in a Box

    Teaching Materials | 15 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Joyce Allen, NNCI Nano

    The purpose of this activity is to show that nanosize particles of a given substance often exhibit different properties and behavior than macro or micro size particles of the same material. The property studied in this activity is the absorption and reflection of light which is based on energy...

18. Modeling Self Assembly High School Version

    Teaching Materials | 15 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Roquel Stanley, NNCI Nano

    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...

19. Doping to Create a Semiconductor: Changing conductive properties through diffusion

    Teaching Materials | 14 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Kaye Sheets, NNCI Nano

    In the semiconductor industry scientists take advantage of diffusion to “dope” or introduce atoms into a silicon wafer to change its conductive properties. The lesson simulates the diffusion of a gas phase substance (ammonia) into a solid substrate (gelatin)  and compares the...

20. Electrodeposition and Synthesis of Nickel Nanowires

    Teaching Materials | 14 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s):: Stephen Stillanous, Paul Longwell, Zulekia Torres, Ronald Redwing, Mary Shoemaker, NNCI Nano

    This is a two part lesson for high school chemistry students. In part 1, the lab is designed to introduce students to the applications of forcing a chemical reaction using an electrical current. Students will discover how a flow of electrons allows cations in solution to revert to a solid state...