Exploring Nano & Society - Tippy Table

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Overview

Description:

"Exploring Nano & Society - Tippy Table: is an open-ended conversational experience in which visitors have additional blocks to place on the tippy table component of the Nano Mini-Exhibition. Conversations around where visitors place these new blocks lead them to explore how technologies and society influence each other and how nanotechnologies are part of a bigger system.

Objectives

Big Idea:

Nano is part of our society and our future.

Learning goals:

Technologies and society influence each other.
Nanotechnologies work because they’re part of systems.

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

Universal design:

Repeat and reinforce main ideas and concepts.

Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement

Provide physical and sensory access to all aspects of the program. Visitors can touch, see and hear different elements of the program.

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

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

Peer reviewed? check_reviewed

Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Nano Topics

Society, policy, and economics

Audience

7 and up

Permissions

Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Standards

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives:

K-4: Science and technology in local challenges

5-8: Science and technology in society

Resources

Download all files (ZIP)

Files:

Tippy Table - Guide

Tippy Table - Sign

Tippy Table - Blocks

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