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Small Science, Big Decisions

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Small Science, Big Decisions

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Small Science, Big Decisions
Ali Jackson [4]
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Description: 

The objective of this facilitated activity is for participants to come to a consensus over the distribution of federal funds for nanotechnology in different research areas. Participants are assigned a specific area of nanotechnology research and are provided with background materials in that area. They go through the materials of their assigned area and choose three benefits to research in that area and three perceived risks. They share these benefits and risks with the whole group, and then collectively the group decides how to distribute funds among the areas.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

Nano is our society and our future: Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

Universal design: 

  • Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement
Credits

This product is created by another institution or funding from another grant.

Funding: 

This activity is a product of the Institute for Chemical Education and the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Material is based upon work supported the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-0832760. A

Owning institution: 

Institute for Chemical Education and the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Adaptable Formats

Classroom activity [6]
Facilitated activity [2]

Nano Topics

[7], [8], [9], [10]

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Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Adaptable formats: 

Classroom activity
Facilitated activity

Nano topics: 

Bio and medicine
Energy and environment
Information Technology
Society, policy, and economics

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

This product would be useful for K-12 teachers.
Resources

Links: 

Nano Decisions Web site [11]
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[9] http://www.nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/information-technology
[10] http://www.nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/society-policy-economics
[11] http://ice.chem.wisc.edu/NanoDecisions/index.html