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How Small is Nano? video

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Overview

Description:

What is a nanometer? What things are measured in nanometers? Is a red blood cell bigger or smaller than a bacteria? This video takes you on an adventure of scale from the macrosize to the microsize to the nanosize!

Objectives

Big Idea:

Step down in size to find out the answers and learn about different types of units that are used to measure very tiny things.

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Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement

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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.

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Nano Topics

Bio and medicine

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