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Exploring Size - Scented Balloons (NanoDays 2010 and 2011)

[1] : Facilitated activity [2]

Exploring Size - Scented Balloons (NanoDays 2010 and 2011)

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Overview
Exploring Size - Scented Balloons (NanoDays 2010 and 2011)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconMeasMol_photo1kid_01Dec09.jpg [5]
image/jpeg iconMeasMol_photo2molecule_01Dec09.jpg [6]
image/jpeg iconMeasMol_photo3biosensor_01Dec09.jpg [7]

Description: 

"Exploring Size - Scented Balloons" lets visitors use their sense of smell to explore the world on the nanoscale. They learn that we can smell some things that are too small to see, and that a nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
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.

Owning institution:

Sciencenter [8]

Checklist

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

Adaptable Formats

Cart demonstration [9]

Nano Topics

[10], [11]

Audience

[12]

Tags

[13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [24]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Adaptable formats: 

Cart demonstration

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals
Materials, tools, and applications

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

molecule
nano
nanometer
scent
ester
biosensor
balloon
extract
smelly balloons
nanodays
molecules

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

0
Standards

Science and Technology: 

K-4: Understanding about science and technology

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

Science as inquiry: 

K-4: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Resources
Spanish
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Guide [25]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Guide [26]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Sign [27]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Poster [28]
application/msword iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Key [29]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Key [30]
application/msword iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Allergy Notice [31]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Allergy Notice [32]
application/vnd.ms-excel iconExploring Size Scented Balloons- Sources [33]

Spanish files: 

application/msword iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Guide (Spanish) [34]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Guide (Spanish) [35]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Sign & Guide (Spanish) [36]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Poster (Spanish) [37]
application/msword iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Key (Spanish) [38]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Key (Spanish) [39]
application/msword iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Allergy Notice (Spanish) [40]
application/pdf iconExploring Size Scented Balloons - Allergy Notice (Spanish) [41]

Links: 

Getting a Sense of Smell [42]
See FAQ #10 to learn more about downloading NISE Net video [43]

Video: 

Evaluations
Comments

Tie balloons down [44]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [45] on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 11:17.

I found that when doing this activity with a relatively unsupervised group of children, it's very effective to tie all the balloons together in a chain and tie that chain to a table. A 6-foot piece of string, with a balloon every foot, got the students to smell the balloons.

When I just had the balloons loose on the table, the joy of playing with balloons led to lots of active physical play that didn't have anything to do with the learning goal.

(It worked great for most regular museum visitors without modification, but at an afterschool club with only one adult in the room, the string worked wonders.)

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