A NanoDays kit is approximately 2.5' x 1.5' x 1.5'. It is a container packed with several hands-on activities (with all supplies needed), resource materials, marketing materials, and more. With this kit you have everything you will need to hold a NanoDays event.
What's in the kit?
I. Hands-on activities complete with instructions, graphics, and supplies for 100 visitors:
- Exploring Fabrication- Gummy Capsules NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Forces- Static Electricity Spanish!
- Exploring Materials- Graphene NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Materials- Hydrogel NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Materials- Nano Gold NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Materials- Thin Films Spanish!
- Exploring Products- Sunblock Spanish!
- Exploring Size- Ball Sorter NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Size- Memory Game Spanish!
- Exploring Size- Powers of Ten Game Spanish!
- Exploring Structures- Butterfly NEW! Spanish!
- Exploring Sturctures- DNA NEW! Spanish!
II. Games (can be staffed or unstaffed)
- Build a Giant Puzzle! NEW! Spanish!
- I Spy Nano! NEW! Spanish!
- What am I? NEW! Spanish!
- Try measuring little things! NEW! Spanish!
III. Program
- Nanotechnology- Small Science, Big Deal (requires advance preparation) NEW! Spanish!
IV. Graphics
- Key concepts posters NEW! Spanish!
- Nano and society posters
V. A set of guides and tools for planning and promoting your event:
- Welcome Letter with Kit Contents list revised
- NanoDays 2012 Planning Guide revised
- NISE Network Brochure (to share with staff and collaborators)
- Large Promotional Banners NEW!
- "I'm Made of Atoms" temporary tattoos
- "I heart Nano" temporary tattoos
VI. Training Materials
- NanoDays orientation Powerpoint slides and notes NEW!
- NanoDays training video guide NEW!
- Tips for engaging visitors NEW!
- Engaging the Public in Nano (guide to key concepts) NEW!
- Universal Design Guidelines for Public Programs in Science Museums NEW!
VII. A Digit Kit USB with electronic copies of materials found in the entire kit, including:
- All hands-on activities
- Digital copies of all NanoDays training materials
- Promotional videos
- Sample press release
- Sample promotional ads
- Publicity photos
- "I heart Nano" t-shirt design
VIII. Educational Media DVD
- Does Every Silver Lining Have a Cloud? NEW!
- How Small is Nano? NEW!
- Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? Spanish!
- Mr. O videos: Getting a Sense of Smell, I Got No Stains on Me, and Molecular Gastronomy NEW!
- Nano and Me videos: Aluminum, Gold, Gravity, Latex, Pants, and Silver NEW!
- What Happens in a Nano Lab? NEW!
- Wonders and Worries of Nanotechnology NEW!
- Zoom into a Blue Morpho Butterfly NEW!
- Zoom into a Lotus Leaf NEW!
VIIII. Staff and volunteer training media DVD
- A Museum Presentation: How NOT to Present NEW!
- A Museum Presentation: How TO Present NEW!
- Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? Spanish!
To find more information, such as vendor contact info, for any physical resource or consumable material in the NanoDays kit, check under the "Resources tab" of the specific Catalog product's page.
