Serving Nanoscale Science, Engineering & Technology
Subject: Chemistry, Physical science
Audience: Middle School, High School
Description: Compares diffusion in gelatin to the doping of silicon wafers
Description: Lesson that demonstrates properties of shape memory alloys-materials that "remember" their former shape
Subject: Chemistry, Physical science, Physics
Audience: High School
Description: Lesson looks at the absorption and release of light energy using quantum dots.
Subject: Chemistry, Physics
Description: Exploring nanoscale propulsion systems.
Description: A lesson that explores how catalysts work. This lesson is generally used in conjuction witht the Surface-area-to Volume lesson.
Subject: Biology, Chemistry
Description: Lesson that demonstrates the properties of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials
Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physical science
Description: Lesson that tests the purity of water
Subject: Chemistry, General Science, Physical science
Description: Exploring size and scale and the size effect in chemical reactions.
Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Science and Society
Description: This is a four part unit covering solubility, emulsions, the skin, and ethical issues related to nanotechnology in consumer products.
Subject: Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Physical science
Description: Lessons has students determine how the ratio of surface area to volume changes with shape and size.
Subject: Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Physical science, Physics, Science and Society
Description: Lesson that has students compare how nanotechnology is addressed in fiction and nonfiction literature.
Subject: Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Physics, Science and Society
Description: Students extend their understanding of how nanotechnology is being used today by examining currently available consumer products
Description: Introduces students to the engineering of an interfacial surface at the nanoscale to demonstrate the concepts of hydrophobic and hydrophilic behavior.
