Nanoscale science: activities for grades 6-12

✍ Scribed by Jones; Falvo;Taylor;Broadwell

• Publisher: NSTA Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 171
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Futurists predict that nanotechnology will be the next major scientific revolution one with an even greater impact than the Industrial Revolution. Help middle and high school students understand the big implications of tiny technology with Nanoscale Science. Using guided inquiry with open-ended exploration where possible, the book s 20 investigations teach students about the unique properties and behavior of materials at the nanoscale one-billionth of the size of a meter. The activities are organized around five themes: size and scale, tools and techniques, unique properties and behaviors, nanotechnology applications, and societal implications. All activities use readily available materials and provide clear background, instructions, and formative assessments. stain-resistant fabrics to improved means to clean water, to tumor-targeting nanoshells? How will society change when we use nanolabels to track where people, animals, and materials move around the world?

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
The Authors......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Ch 1-Fact or Fiction: Exploring the Myths and Realities of Nanotechnology......Page 17
Ch 2-That’s Huge!......Page 25
Ch 3-One in a Billion......Page 35
Ch 4-Nano Shapes: Tiny Geometry......Page 43
Ch 5-Biological Nanomachines: Viruses......Page 47
Ch 6-What’s in Your Bag? Investigating the Unknown......Page 57
Ch 7-NanoMagnets: Fun with Ferrofluid......Page 65
Ch 8-Scanning Probe Microscopy......Page 69
Ch 9-It’s a Small World After All: Nanofabric......Page 79
Ch 10-Biomimicry: The Mystery of the Lotus Effect......Page 87
Ch 11-How Nature Builds Itself:Self-Assembly......Page 93
Ch 12-Physics Changes With Scale......Page 99
CH 13-Shrinking Cups: Changes in the Behavior of Materials at the Nanoscale......Page 105
Ch 14-Limits to Size: Could King Kong Exist?......Page 111
Ch 15-NanoMaterials: Memory Wire......Page 125
Ch 16-Nanotech, Inc.......Page 131
Ch 17-NanoMedicine......Page 141
Ch 18-Building SMALL: Nano Inventions......Page 149
Ch 19-Too Little Privacy: Ethics of Nanotechnology......Page 155
Ch 20-Promise or Peril: Nanotechnology and the Environment......Page 159
Appendix-Other Resources about Nanoscience for Teachers......Page 165
Index......Page 169