DESCRIPTION
This is a card game which can be played with museum visitors. Visitors will learn the relative sizes of various objects. They compete against each other (or you) to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
Please see the newer version of this card game (2016):
DESCRIPTION
This is a card game which can be played with museum visitors. Visitors will learn the relative sizes of various objects. They compete against each other (or you) to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
Please see the newer version of this card game (2016):
TRAINING VIDEOS
OBJECTIVES
BIG IDEA
Size matters: things in the universe come in different sizes.
LEARNING GOALS
Visitors will be able to compare the relative sizes of various objects.
NANO CONTENT MAP
Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
DOWNLOAD FILES
- Sizing Things Down - Lesson Plan (DOC)
- Sizing Things Down - Card Game Worksheet (DOC)
- Sizing Things Down - Deck of Cards (PDF)
- Lesson Plan for a Similar Card Game from Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University (PDF)
- Sizing Things Down - Lesson Plan (Spanish) (DOC)
- Sizing Things Down - Translation Sign (Spanish) (DOC)
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.
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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