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Teaching middle school or high school students? Use these resources to help kids understand what nanotechnology is and how it may impact their lives. You might start by watching Mark Ratner's seminar A Gentle Introduction to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience. Check out the various animations that we have to explain nanoscience concepts. Try running a simple tool online, such as CNTbands.

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  1. What's in your Neighborhood: a size and scale activity

    07 Feb 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

    This activity gives students a sense of size and scale using their classroom and their neighborhood as a frame of reference. The activity focuses on measuring length, for this is the most common feature when presenting nanoscale structures or nanoscale science. Understanding size and scale is...

  2. What's the Smallest Thing You Know?

    11 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Joyce Palmer Allen, NNCI Nano

    The book What’s Smaller Than A Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells helps students see that a pygmy shrew is among the tiniest of  mammals and that a ladybug is even smaller.  But in the book, they will also find even smaller things that they ordinarily do not see.  This is the...

  3. What's the Smallest Thing You Know? A Size and Scale Activity

    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...

  4. When a Cell Talks, Everyone Listens!

    06 May 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Nicole Harper, NNCI Nano

    This is a two part lesson focused on diffusion and cell communication.  In Part 1, students will use the classic starch iodine diffusion activity. This activity can be done in any life science class. It can be used as an introduction to diffusion or as a refresher activity for advanced...