DESCRIPTION
"Exploring Structures - Buckyballs" is a hands-on activity in which visitors fold up a precut shape to make a model of a buckyball. They learn that buckyballs are tiny, soccerball-shaped molecules made of carbon.
DESCRIPTION
"Exploring Structures - Buckyballs" is a hands-on activity in which visitors fold up a precut shape to make a model of a buckyball. They learn that buckyballs are tiny, soccerball-shaped molecules made of carbon.
TRAINING VIDEOS
OBJECTIVES
BIG IDEA
Buckyballs are tiny, soccerball-shaped molecules made of carbon.
LEARNING GOALS
Buckyballs are tiny, soccerball-shaped molecules made of carbon.
NANO CONTENT MAP
Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
DOWNLOAD FILES
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Guide (DOC)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Guide (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Sign (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Poster (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 1 (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 2 (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 3 (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 4 (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 5 (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 6 (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 7 (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 8 (PDF)
- How to Order Your Own Buckyball Die (PDF)
- Custom Die Agreement Form (PDF)
- Custom Die Order Form (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Sign & Guide (Spanish) (PDF)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Guide (Spanish) (DOC)
- Exploring Structures Buckyballs - Poster (Spanish) (PDF)
Credits
Sciencenter
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.
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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