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Exploring Structures - Butterfly (NanoDays 2012)

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Exploring Structures - Butterfly (NanoDays 2012)

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Overview
Exploring Structures - Butterfly (NanoDays 2012)
Rae Ostman [4]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconbutterfly.jpg [5]

Description: 

"Exploring Structures - Butterfly" is a hands-on activity in which visitors investigate how some butterfly wings get their color. They learn that some wings get their color from the nanoscale structures on the wings instead of pigments.
Objectives

Big Idea: 

The way a material behaves on the macroscale is affected by its properties on the nanoscale.

Learning goals: 

  • The way a material behaves on the macroscale is affected by its properties on the nanoscale.
  • Some nanotechnologies are inspired by nature.

NISE Net Content Map: 

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

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.

Checklist

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

Adaptable Formats

Cart demonstration [6]
Classroom activity [7]

Nano Topics

[8], [9]

Audience

[10]

Tags

[11], [12]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [13]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Facilitated activity

Adaptable formats: 

Cart demonstration
Classroom activity

Nano topics: 

Art and nature
Information Technology

Audience: 

All ages

Content keywords: 

Light
Blue Morpho butterfly

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

This is a NanoDays product.

K-12: 

0
Standards

Life science: 

K-4: Characteristics of organisms
5-8: Diversity and adaptations of organisms
5-8: Structure and function in living systems
Resources
Spanish
Download zip file [3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files: 

application/msword iconExploring Structures Butterfly - Guide [14]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Butterfly - Guide [15]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Butterfly - Sign [16]
application/msword iconExploring Structures Butterfly - Image [17]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Butterfly - Image [18]

Spanish files: 

application/pdf iconExploring Structures Butterfly - Sign (Spanish) [19]
application/pdf iconExploring Structures Butterfly - Guide (Spanish) [20]
application/pdf iconstructuresbutterfly_image_sp_08nov11.pdf [21]
Evaluations
Comments
Source URL: http://nisenet.org/catalog/programs/exploring_structures_-_butterfly_nanodays_2012

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[4] http://nisenet.org/users/rae_ostman
[5] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/images/catalog/8886/butterfly.jpg
[6] http://nisenet.org/catalog/programs/cart_demonstration
[7] http://nisenet.org/catalog/programs/classroom_activity
[8] http://nisenet.org/category/nano-topics/art-nature
[9] http://nisenet.org/category/nano-interests/information-technology
[10] http://nisenet.org/category/audience/all_ages
[11] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/light
[12] http://nisenet.org/catalog/topics/blue_morpho_butterfly
[13] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[14] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/8886/structuresbutterfly_guide_31oct11.doc
[15] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/8886/structuresbutterfly_guide_31oct11.pdf
[16] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/8886/structuresbutterfly_sign_31oct11.pdf
[17] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/8886/structuresbutterfly_image_31oct11.doc
[18] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/8886/structuresbutterfly_image_31oct11.pdf
[19] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/8886/structuresbutterfly_sign_sp_08nov11_0.pdf
[20] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/8886/structuresbutterfly_guide_sp_08nov11.pdf
[21] http://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/spanish/8886/structuresbutterfly_image_sp_08nov11.pdf