DESCRIPTION
What is a nanometer? What things are measured in nanometers? Is a red blood cell bigger or smaller than a bacteria? Step down in size to find out the answers and learn about different types of units that are used to measure very tiny things. This children's book may be purchased on Amazon. See Resources tab for links.
DESCRIPTION
What is a nanometer? What things are measured in nanometers? Is a red blood cell bigger or smaller than a bacteria? Step down in size to find out the answers and learn about different types of units that are used to measure very tiny things. This children's book may be purchased on Amazon. See Resources tab for links.
OBJECTIVES
BIG IDEA
Nano is very, very, small.
NANO CONTENT MAP
Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
DOWNLOAD FILES
- How Small Is Nano? - downloadable book (PDF)
- How Small Is Nano? - banner - 1 (PDF)
- How Small Is Nano? - banner - 2 (PDF)
- How Small Is Nano? - poster - 1 (PDF)
- How Small Is Nano? - poster - 2 (PDF)
- Nano Books 2008 Formative Evaluation (PDF)
- Key Concepts 2011 poster - scale ladder (JPG)
Credits
Sciencenter
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.
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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