Serving Nanoscale Science, Engineering & Technology
Subject: General Science, Physical science
Audience: Middle School, High School
A unit on scale.
Optics and refraction are explored in a 3 part lesson consisting of 1) refraction tank, 2) geletin waveguides, and 3) optical fibers.
Subject: Biology
Lesson has students relate real-world applications to mathematical concepts by monitoring bacterial growth over one week
Subject: General Science
Audience: Middle School
In this first lesson students will be instructed on how to build a solar oven
Subject: Biology, General Science, Tools and Technology
Lesson has students experience how a scanned probe can create an image of an object
Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physical science
Lesson that tests the purity of water
Review of the metric system
Subject: Chemistry, General Science, Science and Society, Tools and Technology
A forensic lesson using paper diagnostics.
Subject: Biology, General Science, Science and Society, Tools and Technology
This lesson examines a new inexpensive diagnostic technology and the societal impact it might have.
Provides opportunity for students to develop a working knowledge of the SI system of measurement as well as learn about the nanoscale and nanotechnology.