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Exploring at the Nanoscale

This lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted our society and how engineers have learned to explore the world at the nanoscale. Learners participate in hands-on activities to understand exactly how small the nanoscale is, explore how surface area changes at the nano scale, and work in teams to develop futuristic applications of nanotechnology. Specifically, teams of learners examine and measure blocks of tofu or gelatin to determine the...

Keywords:: Social Sciences, The Nature of Technology, History/Policy/Law, Units of Measurement, Structure and Properties of Matter, NSDL, Biological Science, Scale, Physics, Silver, Medical Technology, Engineering and Technology, Surface Area, Conducting Investigations, Nanoscale, Geometry, Health/Medicine, Chemistry, General, Science and Society, Materials Science, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Technology and Society, Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering, Life Science, Nanotechnology, Physical Science, Equations and Inequalities, Invention and Innovation, Communicating Results, Antimicrobial, Measurement, Size, Mathematics, Gathering Data, Size and Scale, Engineering, General Science, Solid Geometry, Technology, Impacts of Technology, The Design Process, Education, Algebra, Formulating Explanations