Exploring Size - Measure Yourself (NanoDays 08, 09, 10, 11)

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Overview

Rae Ostman [4]

MeasBody_photo1chart_01Dec09.jpg [5]

MeasBody_photo2worksheet_01Dec09.jpg [6]

MeasBody_photo3venule_01Dec09.jpg [7]

Description:

"Exploring Size - Measure Yourself" is a hands-on activity in which visitors mark their height on a height chart and discover how tall they are in nanometers. They learn that although being a billion nanometers tall sounds impressive, it doesn't mean they're super tall: it means a nanometer is super small. Visitors can also measure their hands in nanometers.

Objectives

Big Idea:

A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

Learning goals:

A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

NISE Net Content Map:

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

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

Fundamentals [8]

Audience

All ages [9]

Permissions

[16]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section:

Programs

What kind of program?:

Facilitated activity

Nano topics:

Fundamentals

Audience:

All ages

Content keywords:

nanometer

human body

measurement

nanodays

exploring measurement

Highlight this product during NanoDays?:

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12:

Standards

Physical science:

K-4: Properties of objects and materials

5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter

Resources

Spanish

[3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files:

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Guide [17]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Guide [18]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Sign [19]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Hand Sheet [20]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Hand Sheet [21]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Height Chart [22]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself- Sources [23]

Spanish files:

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Sign & Guide (Spanish) [24]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Guide (Spanish) [25]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Hand Sheet (Spanish) [26]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Hand Sheet (Spanish) [27]

Exploring Size Measure Yourself - Height Chart (Spanish) [28]

Evaluations

Comments

Make it Mobile [29]

Submitted by Joe Schwanebeck [30] on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 09:25.

We laminated our poster, and used mounting tabs to attach a long 1" x 2" board down the center of the back. We then took a screen door handle and secured it to the board with short screws. This makes it easy to take the poster out among our exhibits, instead of trying to stick it to a wall.

We provided those little [33]

Submitted by kgorga [34] on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 06:35.

We provided those little metallic star stickers for people to use to mark their height on the wall chart - it looks nicer than marking it with pen or pencil, and they can be removed when too many are collected.

You can see a picture here:
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1442/024rwd.jpg [35]

Exploring Size - Measure Yourself (NanoDays 08, 09, 10, 11)

Exploring Size - Measure Yourself (NanoDays 08, 09, 10, 11)

Description:

Big Idea:

Learning goals:

NISE Net Content Map:

Checklist

Nano Topics

Audience

Tags

Permissions

Catalog section:

What kind of program?:

Nano topics:

Audience:

Content keywords:

Highlight this product during NanoDays?:

K-12:

Physical science:

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files:

Spanish files:

Make it Mobile [29]

We provided those little [33]