Online games and activities

The DIY Nano app allows families to experience and learn about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology at home! The app provides free hands-on activities. Each activity includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed explanations. The activity materials are easy to find, inexpensive to purchase, and you probably have many of them in your own home! Our app includes an extensive list of family friendly video links and helps you browse the whatisnano.org public website for more information, activities, and videos. The DIY Nano app was created by the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net). Funded by the National Science Foundation, NISE Net is dedicated to engaging all audiences with fun, educational activities about nano. ......................... Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

The Nanomedicine Explorer is an interactive, updateable multimedia kiosk and media package, that is also available as a component of the Nanomedicine Exhibition. Visitors can explore a variety of topics and specific research areas in cancer nanomedicine through vivid animations and video story-telling up close with a diverse group of researchers. Interactive features include games, polls, and options to dig deeper into the material. Fully bilingual English/Espanol. Visitors can text message or email themselves a link to the companion website. The multimedia package can also be loaded into any generic computer display or custom-built cabinet to augment existing health, medicine,and nanotechnology exhibits.

This interactive animation is a modern version of the classic powers of ten video. It takes you all the way from the (estimated) outer reaches of the universe down to the length of a Planck. Somewhere in the middle, the animation let's you explore the nano-scale. Click on different objects as they zoom by to learn more.

This interactive, Flash-based, website takes you on a virtual journey of discovery into the nanoworld.