Sizing Things Down

Overview

Sizing Things Down

Anders Liljeholm [4]

Description:

This is a card game which can be played with museum visitors. Visitors will learn the relative sizes of various objects. They compete against each other (or you) to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.

Objectives

Big Idea:

Size matters: things in the universe come in different sizes.

Learning goals:

Visitors will be able to compare the relative sizes of various objects.

NISE Net Content Map:

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

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

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.

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

Peer reviewed? check_reviewed

Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Adaptable Formats

Game [6]

Nano Topics

Fundamentals [7]

Audience

All ages [8]

Permissions

[17]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section:

Programs

What kind of program?:

Cart demonstration

Adaptable formats:

Game

Nano topics:

Fundamentals

Audience:

All ages

Content keywords:

size

game

cart

demonstration

card

cards

scale

card game

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K-12:

Standards

Science and Technology:

K-4: Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans

K-4: Understanding about science and technology

5-8: Understanding about science and technology

9-12: Understanding about science and technology

Earth and space science:

K-4: Objects in the sky

5-8: Earth in the solar system

9-12: Origin and evolution of the universe

Physical science:

K-4: Properties of objects and materials

5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter

9-12: Structure and properties of matter

9-12: Structure of atoms

Resources

Spanish

[3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files:

Sizing Things Down - Lesson Plan [18]

Sizing Things Down - Card Game Worksheet [19]

Sizing Things Down - Deck of Cards [20]

Lesson Plan for a Similar Card Game from Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University [21]

Spanish files:

Sizing Things Down - Lesson Plan (Spanish) [22]

Sizing Things Down - Translation Sign (Spanish) [23]

Links:

Sizing Things Down Training Video [24]

See FAQ #10 to learn more about downloading NISE Net video [25]

How Big Is It? A card game from Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University [26]

Nanocos: The Card Game of Nanotechnology Concepts - an online card game that requires two players [27]

Video:

Evaluations

Comments

Full Body adaptation [28]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [4] on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:36.

If you have a large group, you could give each person in the group a card, and then have everyone self-assemble into a single list of largest to smallest.

Then you would read off the big list, pointing out any interesting size relationships.

Sizing Things Down

Sizing Things Down

Description:

Big Idea:

Learning goals:

NISE Net Content Map:

Universal design:

Checklist

Adaptable Formats

Nano Topics

Audience

Tags

Permissions

Catalog section:

What kind of program?:

Adaptable formats:

Nano topics:

Audience:

Content keywords:

Highlight this product during NanoDays?:

K-12:

Science and Technology:

Earth and space science:

Physical science:

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files:

Spanish files:

Links:

Video:

Full Body adaptation [28]