Catalyst nanoparticle shapes – Resource
Students construct different shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder) using modelling clay, and calculate surface area:volume ratios, to understand how shape and size affects activity of nanoparticles as catalysts.
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Teaching and Learning Approaches
Student activities are the main feature of this collection, along with a variety of resources for teachers to use in exploring Nanoscience.
List of Teaching and Learning Approaches resource items
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Measure a molecule – Resource
In this activity, students create a single layer of detergent molecules on water, and use measurements and calculations to determine the length of the molecules.
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Probing fridge magnets – Resource
In this activity, students use a fridge magnet to explore some of the principles of a magnetic force microscope.
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Seeing the invisible – Resource
This activity is analogous to how a scanning probe microscope works. Students will collect and record data, and use that data to create 2D and 3D images of an unseen surface.
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Social issues and nanotechnology – Resource
In this activity, students may come to realise that they are growing up in a world in which nanotechnology could make a huge impact, and social issues need to be thought about before changes happen without controls.