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Exploring Size - StretchAbility (NanoDays 2010)

[1] : Facilitated activity [2]

Exploring Size - StretchAbility (NanoDays 2010)

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Overview
Exploring Size - StretchAbility (NanoDays 2010)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconMeasStretch_photoVs_15Nov09.jpg [5]
image/jpeg iconMeasStretch_photo1spinner_01Dec09.jpg [6]
image/jpeg iconMeasStretch_photo4DNA_01Dec09.jpg [7]
image/jpeg iconMeasStretch_photo5chip_01Dec09.jpg [8]

Description: 

"Exploring Size - StretchAbility" is a hands and feet-on game that explores the different sizes of things in the world. Visitors learn that a nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

Things come in different sizes - and size is important!

Learning goals: 

  • Things come in different sizes - and size is important!
  • A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

NISE Net Content Map: 

  • Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
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 [9]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed
Peer reviewed? check_reviewed
Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Nano Topics

[10], [11]

Audience

[12]

Tags

[13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [21]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Nano topics: 

Fundamentals
Materials, tools, and applications

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

nano
nanometer
nanoscale
microscale
macroscale
game
StretchAbility
nanodays

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

0
Standards

Science and Technology: 

K-4: Understanding about science and technology

Physical science: 

K-4: Properties of objects and materials
5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter
9-12: Structure and properties of matter

Science as inquiry: 

K-4: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Resources
Spanish
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Guide [22]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Guide [23]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Sign [24]
application/msword iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game- Chart [25]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Chart [26]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Mat Circles [27]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Mat [28]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Spinner [29]
application/msword iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Sources [30]

Spanish files: 

application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Sign & Guide (Spanish) [31]
application/msword iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Guide (Spanish) [32]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Chart (Spanish) [33]
application/msword iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Chart (Spanish) [34]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Mat Circles (Spanish) [35]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Mat (Spanish) [36]
application/pdf iconExploring Size StretchAbility Game - Spinner (Spanish) [37]
Evaluations
Comments
Source URL: http://nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_size_-_stretchability_nanodays_2010

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[3] http://nisenet.org/node/4128/filefield_compress/all
[4] http://nisenet.org/users/rae_ostman
[5] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/MeasStretch_photoVs_15Nov09.jpg
[6] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/MeasStretch_photo1spinner_01Dec09.jpg
[7] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/MeasStretch_photo4DNA_01Dec09.jpg
[8] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/MeasStretch_photo5chip_01Dec09.jpg
[9] http://nisenet.org/community/organizations/sciencenter
[10] http://nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/fundamentals
[11] http://nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/materials-tools-applications
[12] http://nisenet.org/category/audience/all_ages
[13] http://nisenet.org/category/catalog-exhibits/nano
[14] http://nisenet.org/category/catalog-exhibits/nanometer
[15] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/nanoscale
[16] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/microscale
[17] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/macroscale
[18] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/game
[19] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/stretchability
[20] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/nanodays
[21] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[22] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_guide_15nov10.doc
[23] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_guide_15nov10.pdf
[24] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_sign_15nov10.pdf
[25] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_chart_15nov10.doc
[26] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_chart_15nov10.pdf
[27] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_matcircles_15nov10.pdf
[28] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_matfullsize_15nov10.pdf
[29] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_spinner_15nov10_0.pdf
[30] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/4128/sizestretch_sources_dec09-1.doc
[31] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/4128/16_sp_sizestretch_guide_21feb2011.pdf
[32] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/4128/sp_sizestretch_guide_20feb2011.doc
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[34] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/4128/sp_sizestretch_objects_20feb2011.doc
[35] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/4128/sp_sizestretch_matcircles_19mar2010.pdf
[36] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/4128/sp_sizestretch_board_19mar2010.pdf
[37] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/4128/sp_sizestretch_spinner_24jan2011.pdf