Teaching Materials (1-11 of 11)

1. Electromagnetic Claw Game: Diggin' For Fools' Gold: An EngrTEAMS Curricular Unit

   20 Jun 2022 | Contributor(s):: Andrea Appel, Heather Butzlaff, Mandy Mach, Aran Glancy, Murat Akarsu, Jeanna Wieselmann, Kerrie Douglas, Tamara J. Moore

   Electromagnetic Claw Game: Diggin' For Fools' Gold is an engineering design-based STEM curricular unit. The unit aims to facilitate the learning of major science and mathematical concepts and skills within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards...

2. Flood Rescue Mission: An EngrTEAMS Curricular Unit

   20 Jun 2022 | Contributor(s):: David Rafferty, Elizabeth Scheidel, Emily Dare, Felicia Leammukda, Kerrie Douglas, Tamara J. Moore

   Flood Rescue Mission is an engineering design-based STEM curricular unit. The unit aims to facilitate the learning of major science and mathematical concepts and skills within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) respectively. The unit includes...

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. The Micro and Macro Worlds Around Us

   23 Jan 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

   This activity focuses on scale and the importance of using scale bars, 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 . ...

5. Noodling Around: Powers of Ten

   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...

6. Scale Models: A Size and Scale Activity

   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. ...

7. Shrink Me: A Size and Scale Lesson

   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...

8. Nanobacteria: How Fast do Bacteria Grow?

   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...

9. Sometimes We Need Big Numbers

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

   The purpose of this lesson is to help students visualize how small a nanometer is by relating the size to the numbers- millions, billions and trillions and then relating those numbers to how small particles of matter are. It begins to lay the foundation for future learning about atoms in the...

10. Learning about Surface Area and Volume Using "Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!"

    05 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: NNCI Nano

    The purpose of this lesson is to help students extend their knowledge of area, perimeter, and volume to include surface area.  The understanding of these concepts begin in the elementary grades and helps students understand events such as why a hot potato cools down quicker when it is...

11. Ranking Task Warm Up -- exponentials and natural logs

    07 May 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Tanya Faltens

    Class warm up activity to be done in pairs. Students evaluate each of 8 terms and rank them from lowest to highest value. Some terms may have equal value. I have found that this is surprisingly challenging for most of my students. Bonus points can be given to the first team to complete the task...