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Conceptualizing Nanoscale

The Science Teacher—December 2006

One strategy for enhancing students’ understanding of nanoscale is to shift students’ existing understandings of relative scale by helping them conceptually transport their strongest scale benchmark—themselves—into the nanoscale world. This article describes a set of activities to scaffold high school students’ nanoscsale conceptions and to help them appreciate the scale at which nanotechnology operates, both in a relative and an absolute sense.
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