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Nano Dreams and Nano Nightmares

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Nano Dreams and Nano Nightmares

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Overview
Nano Dreams and Nano Nightmares
Stephanie Long [4]
NISE Network product
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Description: 

Nano Dreams and Nano Nightmares is a big comedy about small things for families with children under the age of ten. This fifteen minute play incorporates puppetry and humor to introduce audiences to nanoscale science.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

Things on the nanoscale are very, very small and behave differently than they do at the macro scale.

Learning goals: 

  • Understand that molecules and atoms are always shaking, sticking and sliding.
  • Understand that things on the nanoscale behave differently than on the “big” or macro scale.
  • Be aware that there are potential positive and negative impacts of nanoscale technology.

NISE Net Content Map: 

  • Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
  • Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

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

Nano Topics

[9], [10]

Audience

[11]

Tags

[12], [13], [14]

Permissions

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Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Museum theater

Nano topics: 

Art and nature
Fundamentals

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

young audiences
art & nano
theatre

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

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K-12: 

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Standards

Science and Technology: 

K-4: Understanding about science and technology
5-8: Understanding about science and technology

History and nature of science: 

K-4: Science as a human endeavor
5-8: Science as a human endeavor
Resources
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Files: 

application/msword iconNano Dreams - Lesson Plan [16]
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[3] http://www.nisenet.org/node/2248/filefield_compress/all
[4] http://www.nisenet.org/users/stephanie_long
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[9] http://www.nisenet.org/category/nano-topics/art-nature
[10] http://www.nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/fundamentals
[11] http://www.nisenet.org/category/audience/all_ages
[12] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/young_audiences
[13] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/art_nano
[14] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/theatre
[15] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[16] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/2008/08/3066/nanodreamsnightmares_lessonplan_may10.doc