Nanoscale science: activities for grades 6-12

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