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Exploring Forces - Gravity (NanoDays 08, 09, 10)

[1] : Facilitated activity [2]

Exploring Forces - Gravity (NanoDays 08, 09, 10)

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Overview
Exploring Forces - Gravity (NanoDays 08, 09, 10)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconForcesGravity_photo1bigcup_01Dec08.jpg [5]
image/jpeg iconForcesGravity_tinycup_Apr09.jpg [6]
image/jpeg iconForcesGravity_photo3droplet_01Dec09.jpg [7]

Description: 

"Exploring Forces - Gravity" is a hands on activity in which visitors discover that it’s easy to pour water out of a regular-sized cup, but not out of a miniature cup. They learn that size can affect the way materials like water behave.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

A material can act differently when it's nanometer-sized.

Learning goals: 

  • A material can act differently when it’s nanometer-sized.
  • Different physical forces dominate when things get very, very small. For example, gravity is very apparent to us on the macroscale, but it’s hardly noticeable on the nanoscale.

NISE Net Content Map: 

  • Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Universal design: 

  • Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement
Credits

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.

Owning institution:

Sciencenter [8]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed
Peer reviewed? check_reviewed
Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Nano Topics

[9]

Audience

[10]

Tags

[11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [20]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

force
Van der Waals
Van der Waals
teacup
teacup
gravity
gravity
nanodays
tiny tea cup

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

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Standards

Science and Technology: 

K-4: Abilities of technological design

Physical science: 

K-4: Properties of objects and materials
5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter
9-12: Motions and forces
9-12: Structure and properties of matter

Science as inquiry: 

K-4: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
5-8: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Resources
Spanish
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Forces Gravity - Guide [21]
application/pdf iconExploring Forces Gravity - Guide [22]
application/pdf iconExploring Forces Gravity - Sign [23]
application/pdf iconExploring Forces Gravity - Teacup Fobs [24]
application/msword iconExploring Forces Gravity - Sources [25]

Spanish files: 

application/pdf iconExploring Forces Gravity - Sign & Guide (Spanish) [26]
application/msword iconExploring Forces Gravity - Guide (Spanish) [27]
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[6] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/ForcesGravity_tinycup_Apr09.jpg
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[21] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/1915/forcesgravity_guide_15nov10.doc
[22] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/1915/forcesgravity_guide_15nov10.pdf
[23] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/1915/forcesgravity_sign_15nov10.pdf
[24] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/2008/07/3066/forcesgravity_teacupfobs_dec09.pdf
[25] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/2008/07/3066/forcesgravity_materialssources_dec09.doc
[26] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/1915/2_sp_forcesgravity_guide_fb_15feb2011.pdf
[27] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/1915/sp_forcesgravity_guide_20feb2011.doc