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This guide includes a brief overview of the technology and some of the methods used to create microstructures, or MEMS (Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems), including an overview of the three basic building blocks: deposition, lithography, and etch.

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers size, scale, and measurement. In the first part of the activity, students will view the classic Power of 10 video before measuring various objects in the classroom. In the second part, size effects in chemical...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, teaches students which patients, from a variety of samples, have diabetes. Students will measure "...the glucose concentration of several synthetic blood and urine samples..." This contains a 13-page teacher guide, that...

This role playing activity, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers both methods of scientific inquiry and problem solving. In this activity, students will "use the skills of scientific inquiry to uncover the most likely perpetrator of a crime, and employ a paper...

This activity is from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, which is a digital library of web-based learning objects. Barbara Liang created this resource, and it examines nanotechnology applications that are based on cell membrane structure and function. The brief activity contains animated...

In the growing field of nanotechnology, engineers are creating countless new microscopic materials. They're used in thousands of consumer goods, from cell phones to cosmetics and sunscreen. But how safe are they? Andrew Maynard is a physicist and director of the Risk Science Center at the University...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the concepts of material properties. Students will use "electrochemistry techniques to generate colloidal silver and then utilize the colloidal silver to determine if the growth of the bacteria Saccharomyces...

In this lab, from National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, students will study nanoparticles, specifically dilutions of gold and silver. Students will study brine shrimp and explore "...the effects of exposing living organisms to different nanoparticles at various concentrations." There...

This website provides information and articles about the future of nanotechnology and other technologies. Information on measurement, buckyballs and nanotubes, how nanotechnology is being used today, types of nanomaterials, nanotechnology risks, nanobots, and nanotechnology articles is provided. 

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the metric system of measurement. In this activity, students will "relate the size and scale of objects to various metric units, including the very small nano-scale." This activity will take two 50 minute...