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Exploring Structures - Buckyballs

In this activity, learners fold up a precut shape to make a model of a buckyball.

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.

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  • Paper Buckyball structure being folded into shape
  • top zoomed in view of a diamond ring
  • zoomed in view of a sharpened pencil focusing on the graphite pencil tip
  • Computer generated image of a buckyball molecule
  • Paper Buckyball structure being folded into shape
  • top zoomed in view of a diamond ring
  • zoomed in view of a sharpened pencil focusing on the graphite pencil tip
  • Computer generated image of a buckyball molecule

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.

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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.

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2008
OWNING INSTITUTION

Sciencenter

FUNDING

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.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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