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Nano & Society Posters

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Overview
Nano & Society Posters
Brad Herring [3]
NISE Network product
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Description: 

The "Nano & Society" poster series provide an entry point for exploring the relationship between nanotechnology and society. They can be displayed on their own, used to spark an open-ended conversation, or paired with suggested activities.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

Nanotechnology is relevant to everyone’s lives, and has important societal and ethical implications.

Learning goals: 

  • Nanoscience and nanotechnology lead to new applications.
  • Like any technology, nanotechnology has risks and benefits.
  • Because nanotechnology has new applications, including innovative applications for known materials, we need to evaluate and reevaluate risks and benefits carefully.
  • It is important for scientists, engineers, government officials, and citizens to carefully assess the risks related to nanotechnology, and to implement safeguards protecting the environment, people who work with these technologies, and people in the broader community.
  • Values shape technologies.
  • Technologies affect social relationships.
  • Technologies work because they're part of systems.

NISE Net Content Map: 

  • Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
  • 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.
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 [5]

Checklist

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

Nano Topics

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Audience

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Tags

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Permissions

Creative Commons license image [32]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Media

What kind of media?: 

Print media

Nano topics: 

Society, policy, and economics

Audience: 

11 and up

Content keywords: 

society
implications
posters
nanodays
SEI
poster
ethics
sunscreen
risks
risks and benefits
Ethical
gasoline
teddy bear
bear
nanobot
nanobot
Space Elevator
risk
benefit
values
relationships
systems
flying car
invisibility cloak safe

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

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Standards

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: 

K-4: Science and technology in local challenges
5-8: Risks and benefits
5-8: Science and technology in society
9-12: Natural and human-induced hazards
9-12: Personal and community health
9-12: Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
Resources
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Files: 

application/pdf icon2011 Poster Handouts [33]
application/pdf icon2011 Posters [34]
application/pdf icon2013 posters [35]
application/pdf iconGuide to 2011 and 2013 Nano & Society posters [36]
Comments
Source URL: http://nisenet.org/catalog/media/nano_society_posters

Links:
[1] http://nisenet.org/catalog/media
[2] http://nisenet.org/node/5525/filefield_compress/all
[3] http://nisenet.org/users/brad-herring
[4] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/images/catalog/5525/screen_shot_2010-12-10_at_9.26.14_pm.png
[5] http://nisenet.org/community/organizations/sciencenter
[6] http://nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/society-policy-economics
[7] http://nisenet.org/category/audience/11
[8] http://nisenet.org/category/content-keywords/society
[9] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/implications
[10] http://nisenet.org/category/files-keywords/posters
[11] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/nanodays
[12] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/sei
[13] http://nisenet.org/category/files-keywords/poster
[14] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/ethics
[15] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/sunscreen
[16] http://nisenet.org/category/content-keywords/risks
[17] http://nisenet.org/category/catalog-exhibits/risks-benefits
[18] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/ethical
[19] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/gasoline
[20] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/teddy_bear
[21] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/bear
[22] http://nisenet.org/category/catalog-exhibits/nanobot
[23] http://nisenet.org/category/digital-assets-keywords/nanobot
[24] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/space_elevator
[25] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/risk
[26] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/benefit
[27] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/values
[28] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/relationships
[29] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/systems
[30] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/flying_car
[31] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/invisibility_cloak_safe
[32] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[33] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5525/nise_questions_handout_print.pdf
[34] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5525/nise_questions_posters_print.pdf
[35] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5525/new_nano_and_society_posters.pdf
[36] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/5525/societyposters_guide_rev14nov2012.pdf