Nano Museum Labels (Graphic Signs) (NanoDays 2013)

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Overview

Nano Museum Labels (Graphic Signs) (NanoDays 2013)

Description:

This series of museum labels are designed for general use in your museum or institution to highlight existing connections to nanoscale science, engineering, or technology. NISE Net partners are already coming up with creative ways to use these labels to showcase nano. For example, you can make a scavenger hunt or special tour to encourage visitors to find all the connections! Additional templates (.doc and .indd) are also provided so that you can create your own signage and content.

Objectives

Big Idea:

Nano is part of many different fields of scientific study, and nanotechnologies and phenomena connect to a variety of existing and future products and natural objects.

Learning goals:

Nano sized things can behave in surprising ways. Nano is all around us, in nature and in technology. Nanotechnologies are becoming part of our daily lives. What we imagine today will shape future technologies.

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Scientists and engineers have formed the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology by investigating properties and manipulating matter at the nanoscale.

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanoengineering lead to new knowledge and innovations that weren't possible before.

Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement

Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.