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