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Guidelines for the Design and Use of Scale Ladders

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Guidelines for the Design and Use of Scale Ladders

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Guidelines for the Design and Use of Scale Ladders
Jennifer Frazier [3]
NISE Network product
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Description: 

To understand why the nanoscale is different, we need to appreciate just how small it is. One common way to represent the nanoscale visually relies on scale ladders, diagrams that show how objects are related by size. Using existing research on understanding size and scale, the Visualization Laboratory carried out a series of experiments to develop a scale ladder and guidelines for their design and use. These guidelines are based on several rounds of formative evaluation, and provide insight into what aspects of a scale ladder are most critical in communicating with visitors, and how they might be used most effectively in educational settings.
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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.

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Nano Topics

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Audience

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Catalog section: 

Tools and Guides

What kind of tool or guide?: 

Guides: Development & Implementation

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals
Materials, tools, and applications

Audience: 

scientists

Content keywords: 

scale
size
scale ladder
diagram
communicating size and scale
cell
atom
model
poster

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application/pdf iconNISE Network Scale Ladder Guidelines [18]
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[10] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/scale-ladder
[11] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/diagram
[12] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/communicating_size_scale
[13] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/cell
[14] http://www.nisenet.org/category/catalog-exhibits/atom
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[18] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/ScaleLadderGuidelines_Chart_May10.pdf