Would You Buy That?

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Overview

Description:

This program examines and explores social and ethical issues of consumer products from the past, present and future. Audience members are asked to weigh the risks versus the benefits. The audience members are responsible for making choices on what products to buy, question, or not buy for themselves, their families, and their communities in this fun and interactive show.

Objectives

Big Idea:

There are risks and benefits for nearly every consumer product available for purchase. Learning about the risks and benefits of consumer goods, especially as it relates to nanotechnology and nanoscale engineering of products, will encourage audience members to research, question and make educated decisions about what they purchase and why.

Learning goals:

Increase awareness that there are potential positive and negative impacts of nanoscale technology.
Nanoscale technology and nanoscale engineering is a people story.
To encourage the visitor to learn more about nanoscale technology and nanoscale engineering.
To explain the importance of being informed about consumer goods and their risks and benefits.

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.

Scientists and engineers have formed the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology by investigating properties and manipulating matter at the nanoscale.

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanoengineering lead to new knowledge and innovations that weren't possible before.

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:

Science Museum of Minnesota

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Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

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Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

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History and nature of science:

5-8: Science as a human endeavor

9-12: Historical perspectives

9-12: Nature of scientific knowledge

9-12: Science as a human endeavor

Life science:

K-4: Organisms and environments

5-8: Populations and ecosystems

Science and Technology:

K-4: Abilities of technological design

K-4: Understanding about science and technology

5-8: Abilities of technological design

5-8: Understanding about science and technology

9-12: Abilities of technological design

9-12: Understanding about science and technology

Science as inquiry:

K-4: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

K-4: Understanding about scientific inquiry

5-8: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

5-8: Understanding about scientific inquiry

9-12: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry

9-12: Understanding about scientific inquiry

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives:

K-4: Changes in environments

K-4: Personal health

K-4: Science and technology in local challenges

K-4: Types of resources

5-8: Natural hazards

5-8: Personal health

5-8: Populations, resources, and environments

5-8: Risks and benefits

5-8: Science and technology in society

9-12: Environmental quality

9-12: Natural and human-induced hazards

9-12: Personal and community health

9-12: Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges

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"Would you Buy That?' Script

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