Serving Nanoscale Science, Engineering & Technology
Subject: Biology
Audience: Middle School, High School
Lesson has students relate real-world applications to mathematical concepts by monitoring bacterial growth over one week
Subject: Biology, General Science, Tools and Technology
Lesson has students experience how a scanned probe can create an image of an object
Subject: Chemistry, Physical science
Audience: High School
A lesson that explores how catalysts work. This lesson is generally used in conjuction witht the Surface-area-to Volume lesson.
Subject: Biology, Chemistry
Lesson that demonstrates the properties of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials
Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physical science
Lesson that tests the purity of water
Subject: General Science, Science and Society
This lesson introduces students to social and ethical issues related to nanotechnology
Subject: General Science, Physical science
Review of the metric system
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.
Subject: Physical science, Physics
Students will observe the diffraction behavior of light waves from a CD and DVD and examine AFM images of the two disks
