Ideas for incorporating nano content into seasonal and annual events:
WINTER
Snow and Snowflakes:
- Snowflakes: Nano at its Coolest [1] program
- Ready, Set, Self-Assemble [2] group activity
- Exploring Fabrication - Self-Assembly [3] program
Predictions for the New Year (January 1)
- Flying Cars [4] stage presentation
National Bird Day (January 5)
- www.nationalbirdday.com [5] website
- some bird feathers (such as peacock feathers) are iridescent due to nano-sized structures within the feathers: Exploring Materials - Thin Films [6] program
Nuclear Science Week (January)
- www.nuclearscienceweek.org [7] website
- go to the Catalog [8] and explore by topic "fundamentals"
Valentine's Day (February 14)
- Sweet Self-Assembly [9] program
National Engineers Week (February)
- go to the Catalog [8] and explore by topic "materials, tools, and applications"
Great Backyard Bird Count (mid-February)
- www.birdsource.org [10] website
- some bird feathers (such as peacock feathers) are iridescent due to nano-sized structures within the feathers: Exploring Materials - Thin Films [6]
SPRING
NanoDays (March 30- April 7, 2013; March 29-April 6, 2014)
- NanoDays [11]
Groundwater Awareness Week (second full week in March)
- www.ngwa.org [12] website
- Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology [13]
- The Water Race: Hydrophopbic and Hydrophilic Surfaces [14]
World Water Day (mid-March)
- www.worldwaterday.org [15] website
- Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology [13] program
- The Water Race: Hydrophopbic and Hydrophilic Surfaces [14]
World Health Day (April 7)
- Intro to Nanomedicine video [16]
- Exploring Products - Sunblock activity [17]
- Nanotech and Consumer Products [18]
- Nanomedicine in Healthcare [19] forum
- Nanomedicine Explorer [20]exhibit and software
National Robotics Week (second week in April)
- www.nationalroboticsweek.org [21] website
- Shrinking Robots! [22] program
- Is That Robot Real [23] book and graphics
- Robots and Peopl [24]e program
Earth Day (April 22) and National Environmental Education Week (third week in April)
- www.earthday.o [25]rg website
- www.eeweek.org [26] website for National Environmental Education week
- Energy & Nanotechnology [27] stage presentation
- Energy Challenges, Nanotech Solutions [28] forum
- Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology [13]program
- Water Clean Up [29] DragonflyTV episode
- Nanosilver [30] DragonflyTV episode
- Nanosilver: Breakthrough or Biohazard? [31] stage presentation
- Does Every Silver Lining Have a Cloud [32] video
National Poetry Month (April)
- www.poets.org/npm [33] website
- nano-themed haiku at the end of each NanoBite Newsletter [34]
National Children’s Book Week [22](early May) (May 7-13, 2012)
- Shrinking Robots! [22] book (for free download or to order)
- How Small is Nano? [35] book (for free download or to order)
- Ailce in NanoLand [36] book (for free download or to order)
- Selected books about nano [37]
SUMMER
Sun and Sand
- Nano Ice Cream [38] program
- Invisible Sunblock [39] program
- Magic Sand/Nanosurfaces [40] program
- Exploring Products - Sunblock [41] program
- fun outdoor group activity: [2]Ready, Set, Self-Assemble [2] group program
Summer Camp
- Nanotechnology Summer Camp (Ages 8 - 10) [42] framework
- High School Nanotechnology Summer Camp [43] framework
FALL
Back to School (September)
- resources for K-12 teachers [44]
- collaboration with K-12 class on Nanoparticle Stained Glass [45] project
- Theatre School Program [46]
- pencils and writing with graphite - Forms of Carbon [47]
- Exploring Materials - Graphene [48] program (related to pencils, graphite, and tape)
- Material Marvels with Ainissa Ramirez video - Graphene [49] (related to pencils and graphite)
- Afterschool Framework [50]
Earth Science Week (second full week in October)
- www.earthsciweek.org [51] website
- Energy & Nanotechnology [27] stage presentation
- Energy Challenges, Nanotech Solutions [28] forum
- Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology [13] program
- Water Clean Up [29] DragonflyTV episode
- Nanosilver [30] DragonflyTV episode
- Nanosilver: Breakthrough or Biohazard? [31] stage presentation
- Does Every Silver Lining Have a Cloud [32] video
National Chemistry Week (October 21-27, 2012) (third full week in October)
- American Chemical Society's National Chemistry Week [52] website
- NISE Network National Chemistry Week page www.nisenet.org/national-chemistry-week [53]
- Sweet Self-Assembly [9]
- Exploring Size - Scented Balloons [54]
- Exploring Materials - Liquid Crystals [55]
Metric Day (October 10th)
- How Small is Nano? book and poster [35]
- How Small is Nano? video [56]
- Scale Ladder Diagrams [57]
- Sizing Things Down [58]
- Exploring Size - Measure Yourself [59]
- Exploring Size - Powers of Ten [60] card game
Halloween (October 31)
- Nano Dreams and Nano Nightmares [61] puppetry play
- Attack of the nanoscientist [62] stage presentation
- Intro to Nano [63] video for costume ideas
Thanksgiving (November)
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Turkey breast feathers are iridescent due to nano-sized structures within the feathers:
Exploring Materials - Thin Films [6] program - Would You Buy That [64] stage presentation (related to shopping and Black Friday)
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) (2nd week in December)
- www.csedweek.org [65] website
- Zoom into a computer chip poster [66]
- The Future of Computing [67]stage presentation
If you have a suggestion for an addition to this page, please contact us at nanodays@nisenet.org [68] - thanks!