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Frankentoy
In this activity, learners make a “creature” by mixing and matching different parts of toys.
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Dough Creature
In this activity, learners experiment with conductive dough to make a creature and use it to create an electrical circuit.
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Battery Stack
In this activity, learners investigate how to make a voltaic pile, the first kind of battery.
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Automata
In this activity, learners build an automaton, a moving mechanical device that imitates the movement of a human, animal, or other living thing.
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Changing Our Relationship With Science video
In this 8-minute video, scientists from Harvard, Princeton and Duke University imagine the future of science and technology in thirty, or fifty years.
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Nanotechnology and Society Guide
This professional development guide serves as a short introduction to how museum professionals can engage visitors in conversations about nanotechnology and society and help make our science centers a place where the future of nanotechnology is not just imagined, but shaped.
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Improv Exercises
Improv exercises can be used by professionals as icebreakers, getting-to-know-you activities, and as tools to empower educators to facilitate positive, learning conversations with visitors.
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Exploring Nano & Society - Invisibility Cloak
In this activity, learners explore how refraction can be used to make a glass stir rod "disappear" in a cup of baby oil, while having conversations about new technologies.
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Exploring Nano & Society - Flying Cars
In this activity, learners imagine and build a flying car out of small foam pieces while having conversations about future technology.
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Wonders and Worries of Nanotechnology: Ask and Research
In this 3-minute video, actors portray characters in a 1950s style public service film about how to have a high-quality conversation about science and society.
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