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aligned to 7th grade science standards

uses the cards from the workshop

students blow the scale up of items to allow students to conceptualize the nano-scale relative to humans size and the size of the United States.

includes a nice scale chart with mall items listed on it

SIMSTsandy.doc (105.5 KB)

Research link:  http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/

Suggested software: Comic Life  available for about $30.

Lesson plan:

• Lesson-JillKT.ppt (31.5 KB)
• NanoProductAdvLesson-JillKT.pdf (31.68 KB)

Grading Rubric:

• NanoTechRubric.xls (38.5 KB)
• or as a .pdf 
• NanoTechRubric.pdf (20.76 KB)

Sample advertisement:

• NanoTechPosterSample.pdf (487.39 KB)

• www.nanokids.rice.edu/workbook/English/interactiveNotebook.htm 
• magnetic mystery boxes & random things that would or would not stick
• create a graph for amount of repulsion
• iron filings on top of magnets to see magnetic field strength

NgaDawnNanoscale.ppt (1.98 MB)
Lesson Plan:
InquiryNanoScaleDM.doc (33.5 KB)

Lesson using legos suspended in liquids; they listed the Australian Academy of Science as a resource in planning. 

ManuModelsSelfAssembly.doc (31.5 KB)

Bonus activity discussed by Peggy & Debra about using smores to model photolithography..... nanosmores.pdf (139.18 KB)
.pdf file came from http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu/education/
however I could not find a direct link to the files origin.

How to use the Particle Accelerator consisting of ruler, magnets and ball bearings.

Particle Acceleration.pdf (43.1 KB)
editiable version:
Particle Acceleration.ppt (38.5 KB)

Aimed at high school students; practice measuring, scale card sort, videos & discussions of atom arrangement.

Video Links: (don't know links, please post URL as a comment)
Blue diamond cutting video
Cells Alive, How Big,
Strange Matter Exhibit Zoom In

Scale of Atoms.pdf (56.69 KB)
editable version:
Scale of Atoms.ppt (37.5 KB)

Michael and Christina's lesson involves understanding the scale of nano.  Lesson Links:

• Zoom Simulation
• Cell's Alive "How Big?" Simulation
• Simpsons Powers of Ten: Season 15 episode 14 "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"
• Electromagnetic Spectrum Poster

Lesson Download:  (2 pages long, each file is one of the pages)
IntrotoNanoScale.doc (38 KB)
IntrotoNanoScalepg2.doc (33 KB)

Alfonso's activity involving magnets, & iron filings for students to map unknown surfaces.

Alfonso.doc (28.5 KB)

VocabWordLinkChart.doc (30 KB)
    This will help you to teach vocabulary to students.


VennDiagram.doc (26.5 KB)
    Use this to compare and contrast concepts.  (It is an easy way to use the Bloom's Taxonomy; SWBAT: Compare ____ with _____.)


CornellNotes.doc (25.5 KB)
    Use for taking notes; this is what is used by the upper grades in social studies, language arts and some science classes.  Click here for more details on this style of note taking.


AVID Closures.doc (40 KB)
     Print this AVID closure poster 200% normal size (o.k. maybe only 150%- do a print preview first) and you'll have a poster for your wall with a quick write prompt you can use to close any lesson.  (For more ideas, do a gogle search for "lesson closure ideas")