Exploring Products - Liquid Crystal Displays (NanoDays 2013)

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Exploring Products - Liquid Crystal Displays (NanoDays 2013)

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"Exploring Products - Liquid Crystal Displays" is a hands-on activity in which visitors investigate temperature-sensitive liquid crystal sheets and liquid crystal displays from a calculator. They learn that liquid crystals change color as a result of nanoscale shifts in the arrangement of their molecules.

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Big Idea:

The way a material behaves on the macroscale is affected by its structure on the nanoscale.

Learning goals:

The way a material behaves on the macroscale is affected by its structure on the nanoscale.
The liquid crystals in this activity change color as a result of nanoscale shifts in the arrangement of their molecules.

NISE Net Content Map:

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.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement

Provide physical and sensory access to all aspects of the program. Visitors can touch, see and hear different elements of the program.

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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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Sciencenter

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Physical science:

K-4: Properties of objects and materials

5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter

9-12: Structure and properties of matter

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Exploring Products - Liquid Crystal Displays (NanoDays 2013)

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