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Exploring Materials: Liquid Crystals
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In this activity, learners discover that the way a material behaves on the macroscale is affected by its structure on the nanoscale.
Water Body Salinities I
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In this activity, learners investigate the different salinity levels of oceans, rivers and estuaries.
Liquid Body Armor
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In this activity, learners explore how nanotechnology is being used to create new types of protective fabrics.
Inverse Functions: Pennies, Pressure, Temperature, and Light
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The major goal of this math lesson is to have learners collect data from a variety of experiments, determine what models best fits their data, and explain why their models are best.
LEGO® Chemical Reactions
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This activity uses LEGO® bricks to represent atoms bonding into molecules and crystals. The lesson plan is for a 2.5 hour workshop (or four 45-minute classes).
Exploring Materials: Ferrofluid
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In this activity, learners discover that a material can act differently when it's nanometer-sized.
Try Your Hand at Nano
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This lesson focuses on two simple activities that younger learners can do to gain an appreciation of nanotechnology. First, learners measure their hands in nanometers.
Handheld Water Bottle Rocket & Launcher
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In this activity, learners build handheld rockets and launchers out of PVC pipes and plastic bottles. Use this activity to demonstrate acceleration, air pressure, and Newton's Laws of Motion.
Water Rocket Launch
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In this activity, learners explore rocketry and the principals of space flight.
Moving Model Glacier
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In this goopy activity (page 2 of PDF under GPS: Glaciers Activity), learners will model glacial movement with “gak,” a white glue and liquid starch mixture.
Oil Spill Solutions
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In this activity, learners explore how environmental engineers might approach solving the problem of an oil spill.
Investigating and Using Biomass Gases
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In this activity, learners will be introduced to biomass gasification and will generate their own biomass gases.
Make a Comet Model and Eat It!
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In this activity, learners build models of comets, using edible materials, to learn about comets' structure.
Corals on Acid
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The objective of this inquiry-based lesson is for learners to gain an understanding of how increasing ocean acidity can affect the calcification of marine organisms.
Mystery Matter
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This interactive demonstration reintroduces learners to three states of matter (solid, liquid, gas), and introduces them to a fourth state of matter, plasma.