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Nanotechnology in School, or How to Play Soccer on a Grain of Rice
A nano carbon tube made from balloons. Not to scale. I spent yesterday morning at Nano Connect 2012 at Wheeling High School in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. This two-pronged conference on...
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How to Prepare to Teach Nanotechnology
Last week I shared a bit about Nanotech Connect, a conference on nanotechnology held at a Chicago-area high school. And I mentioned that a nanometer is 10 to the -9th of a meter. Over the weekend the...
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It’s National Chemistry Week
Apparently I’m not the only one talking about nanotechnology because it’s National Chemistry Week and this year’s focus is, yep, nanotech. Click to find an NCW event near you, but don’t feel bad if...
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Visualizing Vastness
In my post on teaching naontechnology, I noted that I (and many others) have trouble visualizing life scaled down to the nano level (10 to the -9 meters), but also really big things, like the vastness...
View ArticleThe Scale of Things. NanoTech redux
I’ve written about nanotechnology before and I’ve mentioned that the first step in teaching about such tiny tech is helping students understand scale. I posted a classic video that demonstrates scale,...
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