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Exploring Structures - Buckyballs (NanoDays 08, 09, 10)

[1] : Facilitated activity [2]

Exploring Structures - Buckyballs (NanoDays 08, 09, 10)

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Overview
Exploring Structures - Buckyballs (NanoDays 08, 09, 10)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconStrucBucky_photo1folding_01Dec09.jpg [5]
image/jpeg iconStrucBucky_photo2diamond_01Dec09.jpg [6]
image/jpeg iconStrucBucky_photo3graphite_01Dec09.JPG [7]
image/jpeg iconiStock_bucky_gray_comp.jpg [8]

Description: 

"Exploring Structures - Buckyballs" is a hands-on activity in which visitors fold up a precut shape to make a model of a buckyball. They learn that buckyballs are tiny, soccerball-shaped molecules made of carbon.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

Buckyballs are tiny, soccerball-shaped molecules made of carbon.

Learning goals: 

  • Buckyballs are tiny, soccerball-shaped molecules made of carbon.

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 [9]

Checklist

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

Nano Topics

[10], [11]

Audience

[12]

Tags

[13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [32]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals
Materials, tools, and applications

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

buckyball
nanodays
carbon
buckyballs
cut
bucky
ball
bucky ball
balls
accucut
mark iv
accu cut
die
die-cut
diecut
pre-cut
shape
die-cut machine
die-cutting

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

0
Standards

Science and Technology: 

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

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
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Guide [33]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Guide [34]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Sign [35]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Poster [36]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 1 [37]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 2 [38]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 3 [39]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 4 [40]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 5 [41]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 6 [42]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 7 [43]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Diecut 8 [44]
application/pdf iconHow to Order Your Own Buckyball Die [45]
application/pdf iconCustom Die Agreement Form [46]
application/pdf iconCustom Die Order Form [47]

Spanish files: 

application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Sign & Guide (Spanish) [48]
application/msword iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Guide (Spanish) [49]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Buckyballs - Poster (Spanish) [50]

Links: 

How do I order the pre-cut paper buckyballs models? - FAQ 18 [51]
Evaluations
Comments

Buckyball from Carbon Nanotube [52]

Submitted by Denise LeBlanc [53] on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 12:58.

We've had our Nano mini-exhibit less than two weeks, and already visitors have built a buckyball!
Denise LeBlanc
The Discovery Museums
Acton, MA

Obtaining more pre-cut paper buckyballs [56]

Submitted by Christina Akers [57] on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 10:41.

To request pre-cut paper buckyballs please contact your regional hub contact, who may have additional limited supplies.

Regional hub contacts and a map can be found on our Network Community page: http://www.nisenet.org/community [58]

default member photo

Buckyball die cut paper template [59]

Submitted by Christine Roman [60] on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 13:47.

Can you provide directions on how to order refills of the Buckyball die cut paper templates? I ordered 600 last year from MOS and we used all of them last weekend during out NanoDays 2009 event. We had unhappy kids and parents when we ran out!

I have researchers calling from nearby universities and medical schools asking where they can purchase their own for outreach activities -- and I need to re-order some as well.

Thanks,
Chris Roman
Saint Louis Science Center

Great poster [61]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [62] on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 09:57.

The Forms of Carbon poster in the nanodays kit was a huge hit with my volunteers. They were getting lots of detailed questions from visitors, and that poster had all the answers.

Source URL: http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_structures_-_buckyballs_nanodays_08_09_10

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