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Exploring Tools - Mitten Challenge (NanoDays 2011)

[1] : Facilitated activity [2]

Exploring Tools - Mitten Challenge (NanoDays 2011)

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Overview
Exploring Tools - Mitten Challenge (NanoDays 2011)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg icontoolsmitt.jpg [5]

Description: 

"Exploring Tools - Mitten Challenge" is a hands on activity in which visitors build a Lego® structure while wearing mittens. They learn that it is difficult to build small things when your tools are too big.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

Scientists and engineers need special tools and equipment to work on the nanoscale.

Learning goals: 

  • Scientists and engineers need special tools and equipment to work on the nanoscale.
  • In the field of nanotechnology, researcher study and make tiny things that are measured in nanometers.

NISE Net Content Map: 

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

Universal design: 

  • Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement
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 [6]

Checklist

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

Nano Topics

[7]

Audience

[8]

Tags

[9], [10], [11], [12], [13]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [14]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Nano topics: 

Materials, tools, and applications

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

tools
nanodays
mittens
lego
build

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

This product would be useful for K-12 teachers.
Standards

Science and Technology: 

K-4: Abilities of technological design
5-8: Abilities of technological design
9-12: Abilities of technological design
Resources
Spanish
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge - Guide [15]
application/pdf iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge - Guide [16]
application/pdf iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge - Sign [17]
application/msword iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge - "Build a House" Sheet [18]
application/pdf iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge - "Build a House" Sheet [19]
application/vnd.ms-excel iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge- Sources [20]

Spanish files: 

application/msword iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge- Guide (Spanish) [21]
application/pdf iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge- Guide (Spanish) [22]
application/pdf iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge- Sign & Guide (Spanish) [23]
application/pdf iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge- "Build a House" Sheet (Spanish) [24]
application/msword iconExploring Tools Mitten Challenge- "Build a House" Sheet (Spanish) [25]
Comments

Lego fun! [26]

Submitted by MSUSuzi [27] on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 16:30.

We solicit our university staff for donations of used Legos so we can create some replicas of this kit to send out to schools in rural Montana. Thanks for this great activity!

--Suzi Taylor, Montana State University

Source URL: http://nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_tools_-_mitten_challenge_nanodays_2011

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[5] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/images/catalog/5415/toolsmitt.jpg
[6] http://nisenet.org/community/organizations/sciencenter
[7] http://nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/materials-tools-applications
[8] http://nisenet.org/category/audience/all_ages
[9] http://nisenet.org/category/files-keywords/tools
[10] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/nanodays
[11] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/mittens
[12] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/lego
[13] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/build
[14] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[15] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5415/toolsmitt_guide_15nov10.doc
[16] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5415/toolsmitt_guide_15nov10.pdf
[17] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5415/toolsmitt_sign_15nov10.pdf
[18] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5415/toolsmitt_house_15oct10.doc
[19] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5415/toolsmitt_house_15oct10.pdf
[20] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5415/mitten_challenge_sources.xls
[21] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/5415/sp_toolsmitt_guide_20feb2011_0.doc
[22] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/5415/sp_toolsmitt_guide_20feb2011.pdf
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[24] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/5415/sp_toolsmitt_house_20feb2011.pdf
[25] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/5415/sp_toolsmitt_house_20feb2011.doc
[26] http://nisenet.org/print/5415#comment-302
[27] http://nisenet.org/users/msusuzi
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