Multimedia Zoom Into a Human Hand

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Description:

This interactive zoom, inspired by Eames "Powers of Ten," allows visitors to travel from the familiar scale of their hand down to DNA deep within a cell. This zoom is designed as a stand-alone visitor experience, or to be used as part of a presentation to orient visitors to the size of the nanoscale. Follow the instructions included with the file to install the free Adobe Air application.

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Learning goals:

Human beings are made of smaller and smaller parts. Very small things are inside the human body.

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Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement #ESI-0532536. 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.