DESCRIPTION
At the Nanoscale is a static component that aims to show just how super small one billionth of a meter, or one nanometer, really is. A Billion Beads is an activity where visitors inspect tubes that hold quantities of one thousand tiny beads, one million beads, and one billion beads. To the naked eye, the tube containing one thousand beads appears nearly empty. Visitors see that the next tube, partially filled, contains one million beads. Finally, to compare, a four-foot tall container nearly full contains approximately one billion beads. This component is mounted to the backside of the Intro to Nanotechnology video kiosk.
This exhibit was part of the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition which toured the Arkansas Discovery Network beginning in 2010.
DESCRIPTION
At the Nanoscale is a static component that aims to show just how super small one billionth of a meter, or one nanometer, really is. A Billion Beads is an activity where visitors inspect tubes that hold quantities of one thousand tiny beads, one million beads, and one billion beads. To the naked eye, the tube containing one thousand beads appears nearly empty. Visitors see that the next tube, partially filled, contains one million beads. Finally, to compare, a four-foot tall container nearly full contains approximately one billion beads. This component is mounted to the backside of the Intro to Nanotechnology video kiosk.
This exhibit was part of the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition which toured the Arkansas Discovery Network beginning in 2010.
OBJECTIVES
BIG IDEA
Things at the nanoscale are super small.
NANO CONTENT MAP
Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
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- At the Nanoscale Brochure
- At the Nanoscale Construction Drawings
- At the Nanoscale Media Diagram
- At the Nanoscale Manual
- At the Nanoscale Graphic Panel 1 of 5
- At the Nanoscale Graphic Panel 2 of 5
- At the Nanoscale Graphic Panel 3 of 5
- At the Nanoscale Graphic Panel 4 of 5
- At the Nanoscale Graphic Panel 5 of 5
- Graphic NSF Credit
- At the Nanoscale Application Screen 1 of 7
- At the Nanoscale Application Screen 2 of 7
- At the Nanoscale Application Screen 3 of 7
- At the Nanoscale Application Screen 4 of 7
- At the Nanoscale Application Screen 5 of 7
- At the Nanoscale Application Screen 6 of 7
- At the Nanoscale Application Screen 7 of 7
- At the Nanoscale Audio
- Exhibits and Programs Year 5 Summative Evaluation
- At the Nanoscale Audio Spanish
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.
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