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A screenshot of the zoom into a human hand interactive starting with a hand.

Multimedia Zoom Into a Human Hand

This downloadable and online interactive allows learners to travel from the familiar scale of their hand down to DNA deep within a cell.
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Computer chip across ten orders of magnitude poster with annotation

Zoom Into a Computer Chip posters

This poster features a computer chip across ten orders of magnitude.
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Image showing the full butterfly's wing poster with annotation

Zoom Into a Butterfly Wing poster

An illustrated poster showing a butterfly's wing across ten orders of magnitude; various printing formats with and without annotation included along with formative evaluation.
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Hyman bloodstream across ten orders of magnitude poster with annotation

Zoom Into the Human Bloodstream poster

An illustrated poster showing the human bloodstream across ten orders of magnitude; various printing formats with and without annotation included along with formative evaluation.
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a scale ladder from the macro to the nano size

Scale Ladder

This poster uses a scale ladder approach to convey the size of the nanoscale and show how objects are related by size.
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a scale ladder from the macro to the nano size

Guidelines for the Design and Use of Scale Ladders

Professional development training tool to prepare staff and volunteers to facilitate activities that use scale ladders and diagrams to explain how extraordinary small nano is.
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Facilitator with Sizing Things Down card game

Sizing Things Down card game

In this activity, learners compete against each other (or the activity facilitator) to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
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Learner cuts a paper ruler in half

Exploring Size - Tiny Ruler

In this activity, learners investigating just how small a billionth of a meter is by repeatedly cutting a paper ruler in half.
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A facilitator holds a bottle while a learner wafts a scent to her nose

Exploring Size - Scented Solutions

In this activity, learners sniff a series of diluted scent solutions to discover they can smell nano-sized particles they can't see.
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Profile image of an interactive exhibit of the At the Nanoscale exhibit

At the Nanoscale exhibit

An exhibit that was part of the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition that aims to show just how super small one billionth of a meter, or one nanometer, really is.
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