Nanotechnology and Human Health

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 10.05.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objectives
  2. Background – The Science
  3. Background – The Math
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix A - Teacher Resources
  7. Appendix B - Bibliography
  8. Appendix C - Implementing District Standards
  9. Notes

If You Can See It, It's Not Nano: Working with Numbers at the Extremes

Nancy Rudolph

Published September 2010

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Notes

  1. Shawn Stevens, LeeAnn Sutherland, and Joseph, Krajcik, The Big Ideas of Nanoscale Science and Engineering: A Guidebook for Secondary Teachers, 130.
  2. Ibid, 39.
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_carbon.
  4. Richard D. Booker and Earl Boysen. Nanotechnology For Dummies, 69.
  5. Ibid, 73.
  6. Ibid, 76.
  7. Stevens, Sutherland, and Krajcik, The Big Ideas of Nanoscale Science, 43.
  8. NCTM Mathematics Process Standard: Connections. http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter3/conn.htm
  9. C. Delgado, S. Y. Stevens, N. Shin, M. Yunker, and J. S. Krajcik. "The development of students' conceptions of size," 10.
  10. Tretter, Thomas R., M. Gail Jones, Thomas Andre, Atsuko Negishi, and James Minogue. "Conceptual boundaries and distances: Students' and experts' concepts of the scale of scientific phenomena." Journal of Research in Science Teaching 43, no. 3 (2006).
  11. Konstantinos Zacharos. "Prevailing educational practices for area measurement and students' failure in measuring areas." Journal of Mathematical Behavior 25, no. 3 (2006), 224.
  12. John A. Pelesko. Self Assembly: The Science of Things That Put Themselves Together, 255.
  13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
  14. "Patterns in Nature." http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/modules.
  15. Ibid.
  16. M. Gail Jones, Michael R. Falvo, Amy R. Taylor, and Bethany P. Broadwell. Chapter 1 in Nanoscale Science.

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