Powers of Ten with the Blue Morpho Butterfly

By Nancy Healy1; Marilyn Garza2; NNCI Nano3

1. Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 2. Univeristy of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 3. National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

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Abstract

This activity is designed to help students understand the concept of scale and magnification when examining a Blue Morpho butterfly wing. The activity requires the use of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) but images are provided if there is no access to an SEM.

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This lesson was developed with support of the National Science Foundation, NNIN and the NNIN RET Program.

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  • Developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology NNIN RET Program.

  • Nancy Healy, Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano (2017), "Powers of Ten with the Blue Morpho Butterfly," https://nanohub.org/resources/25547.

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  1. biology
  2. high school
  3. K-12
  4. magnification
  5. middle school
  6. nanoscience/technology education
  7. physical science
  8. scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
  9. size and scale