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This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, is designed to introduce middle and older elementary students to nanoscale objects by comparing them in size to the visible world. Students will receive an introduction to exponents, decimals, and the metric system through...

These webinar slides, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), provide introductory information on nanotechnology, nanomaterials, and their uses. Topics covered include: What is Nanotechnology, Benefits of Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Applications, Fabrication, and...

These presentation slides, made available by Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC), provide information for educators on how to introduce nanotechnology to their programs. Nanotechnology is defined as "manipulating and characterizing (seeing, feeling) of matter at the sub-100...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, introduces students to "some of the challenges of making semiconductor chips and waveguides." These parts of electronic circuits will help students to understand the role of nanotechnology and nanofabrication processes and...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, introduces students to "some of the challenges of making semiconductor chips and waveguides." These parts of electronic circuits will help students to understand the role of nanotechnology and nanofabrication processes and...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers the concepts of material properties. Students will use "electrochemistry techniques to generate colloidal silver and then utilize the colloidal silver to determine if the growth of the bacteria Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers the concept of solar ovens. In this lesson, students will learn how "thermal energy flows from the hot air to the cold water via conduction and will indicate that this would continue to happen until the water sample...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers the general concepts of number size by introducing the size of the nanometer. From there, students discuss and visualize the concepts of millions, billions, and trillions in an effort to " lay the foundation for...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, "is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light." SPIE publishes the SPIE Digital Library, containing more than 296,000 research papers from the Proceedings of SPIE and the...

This webinar, provided by the Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC), highlights the journey of a MEMS researcher, Nathan Jackson, assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. During the webinar, Jackson discusses his journey to becoming a MEMS engineer. Jackson begins by talking...