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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about boiling point. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize ...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about particles during a change in state. The probe is designed to find out if stu...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical bonds. The probe is designed to find out if students think bonds ar...
Book Chapter
Fact or Fiction: Exploring the Myths and Realities of Nanotechnology
Will clouds of self-replicating nanobots take over the world, or is this just a scene from a science fiction novel? Nanotechnology is a rapidly growin...
Book Chapter
Biomimicry: The Mystery of the Lotus Effect
One of the most interesting applications of nanoscale science involves nanomimicry—or technology that mimics the unique structures of biomaterials. ...
Book Chapter
How Nature Builds Itself: Self-Assembly
By designing and building models with Legos and placing them in a reaction chamber, students will simulate the process of molecular self-assembly. Thi...
Book Chapter
At the nanoscale, a completely different set of forces and interactions are experienced by molecules and atoms than we experience at the human scale. ...
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Shrinking Cups: Changes in the Behavior of Materials at the Nanoscale
What if you were only one inch tall? This activity explores the behavior of liquids in different sizes and shapes of drinking containers. Students exp...
Book Chapter
Limits to Size: Could King Kong Exist?
Why can’t spiders be ten feet tall? Can an ape grow to the size of King Kong? Surface area-to-volume relationships help shed light on the question o...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ basic ideas about inheritance of genetic traits. The probe is designed to reveal the var...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the characteristic property of boiling point. The probe is used to find out ...
Journal Article
Perspectives: Examining the Learning Cycle
Cognitive scientists tell us that students need to relate new ideas to their experience and place new ideas into a framework for understanding (Bransf...
eBook
Nanoscale Science: Activities for Grades 6-12 (e-Book)
Futurists predict that nanotechnology will be the next major scientific revolution—one with an even greater impact than the Industrial Revolution. ...
eBook
NSTA Guide to Planning School Science Facilities, Second Edition (e-Book)
Science-learning spaces are different from general-purpose classrooms. So if your school is planning to build or renovate, you need the fully updated ...
eBook
Teacher Research: Stories of Learning and Growing (e-Book)
Think you don’t have time to do research? How about professional growth—think that’s out of reach? Let your peers take you on their journeys and...