CPN SMIST Breakthroughs

Just in case you're like me an the binders all end up jumbled in the closet, here are the lesson titles (links included if available online).

• Introductory Design Challenge: Jumping Marbles (The Tech Museum - see file titled Physics of Roller Coasters which includes this activity)
• Black Bag
• Exploring Magnetic Fields with a Scanning Probe Model
• Exploring Forces with Magnets
• Discoveing the Properties of Magnets
• Magnetic Force Microscope
• Atomic Force Microscopy
• bb Model of Grain Boundaries and Defects (Exploratorium - no longer offered online)
• Particle Accelerator (a basic 'Gauss Gun')
• Experiments with Nano-Tex the Nano Fabric (Exploratorium - no longer offered online)

Please leave links, and details on the favorite lessons and activities you demonstrated at the Stanford Nano Technology Institute as comments.  Thank you!

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)

www.keepvid.com

• put video URL into field
• need to downlad free
• FLV viewer software