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Students are out of the field and back into the classroom. In this chapter, students are provided with a Forestry Data Summary Sheet to help them focu...
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The Foundational Science Content
Four of the big ideas represent the basic science content: Size and Scale, Structure of Matter, Forces and Interactions, and Quantum Effects. And all ...
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Self-assembly is the process of matter organizing autonomously and without human intervention (Whitesides, Mathias, and Seto 1991; Withesides and Bonc...
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Development of new tools and instruments helps drive scientific progress. Recent development of specialized tools has led to new levels of understandi...
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Scientists use models and simulations to help them visualize, explain, and make predictions and hypotheses about the structures, properties, and behav...
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Science, Technology, and Society
The advancement of science involves developing explanations for how and why things work and using technology to apply that knowledge to meet objective...
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As our society becomes more dependent on nanoscale science and engineering (NSE) technologies, children globally will grow up in a world in which they...
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Applying the Foundational Science Content
The four big ideas discussed in Chapter 1 provide the foundation for developing understanding of nanoscale phenomena. Two additional big ideas—Size-...
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The six big ideas of NSE discussed so far have been directly related to science content necessary for understanding nanoscale phenomena. The two big i...
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The final big idea of NSE is different from the others. It describes the natures of science and technology and how society affects and is affected by ...
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Concepts relating to size and scale (and geometry) affect students’ abilities to build understanding in a variety of scientific disciplines, includi...
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Materials consist of building blocks that often form a hierarchy of structures. Atoms interact with each other to form molecules. The next higher leve...
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The content related to forces and interactions is important to most science disciplines. While chemistry is the most obvious place to introduce these ...
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Quantum theory is an extremely advanced and complicated model. However, some aspects are accessible and useful for building an appreciation and unders...
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The properties of matter can change with scale. In particular, during the transition between the bulk material and individual atoms or molecules, a ma...