Public programs, hands-on activities, and professional development resources about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and their impact on society.
NISE Network offers a digital download of the NanoDays 2009 kit, complete with instructions, lesson plans, supply lists, marketing materials, and multimedia files.
Download the full digital kit
All NanoDays 2009-2016 resources
Kit Contents
I. A set of guides and tools for engaging the public in nanoscale science:
- NanoDays Planning Guidebook
- Bringing Nano to the Public - a Collaboration Opportunity for Researchers and Museums * Public Forums Manual
- Forums
- Nanomedicine in healthcare forum
- Energy Challenges Forum
- Who Decides Forum
- How To Hold a Science Café
II. Hands-on nano activities:
- Exploring Measurement—Ruler
- Exploring Measurement—Human Body * Exploring Tools—SPM
- Exploring Forces—Gravity
- Exploring Properties—Surface Area
- Exploring Materials—Liquid Crystal
- Exploring Materials—Ferrofluid
- Exploring Structures—Buckyballs
III. Additional products for engaging the public in nano:
- Vizualization Lab Zooms
- Everything is Made of Atoms" poster
- Scale Ladder" pamphlet and poster
- Zoom into a Human Hand" interactive media piece (on CD)
- Zoom into a Nasturtium Leaf" interactive media piece (on CD)
- DECIDE Nanotechnology Game
- Additional Activities
- Sizing Things Down
- Magic Sand
- Exploring Measurement—Solutions
- DNA—Exploring Nanostructures
- Balloon Nanotubes
- Forms of Carbon Poster
Additional Materials in physical kit:
- A DVD of two 10-minute plays about societal implications of nano: Let's Talk About It by Richard W. Rousseau and Same Sides by Stacey Parshall
- Books about nanoscale science for youth & adults:
- Nanoscale Science: Activities for Grades 6-12 by Gail Jones
- Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea by Mark A. Ratner & Daniel Ratner
- Nanotechnology: Science Innovation & Opportunity by Lynn E. Foster
- Nanotechnology Demystified: a self-teaching guide by Linda Williams and Wade Adams * What's Smaller than a Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells
- Nanotechnology by Dianne Maddox