NanoSense: The Basic Sense behind NanoScience

与化学家，物理学家，教育工作者和纳米科学家密切合作，SRI产生纳米感-纳米科学活动，建立在他们的化学感活动。 该课程框架扩展到包括五个或六个纳米活动-创建，课堂测试和传播-以帮助高中学生理解纳米科学的基本原理，应用和影响。 这些单元帮助学生可视化管理纳米尺度粒子行为的物理，化学和生物学原理。 有些活动是简单的，为期一天的充实活动，而其他活动则跨越几个课时。 这项工作引入了一个跨学科的元素到不相交的高中课程，并提供了真实的世界的例子，科学和技术的行动。 研究沿着发展决定了学生如何提高他们对纳米科学概念和技术应用的理解，以及教师如何使用这些工具和活动来支持学生的话语和理解。 科学教育工作者和研究人员和纳米科学研究人员的邀请研讨会是确定和优先考虑一组连贯的概念和潜在的想法，这些概念和想法是理解纳米尺度和宏观尺度之间的尺度连续性的基础，可以建立教学材料研究和证书课程。

Working closely with chemists, physicists, educators and nanoscientists, SRI generates NanoSense -- nanoscience activities that build on their ChemSense activities. That curricular framework is extended to include five or six nanosense activities -- created, classroom tested and disseminated -- to help high school students understand the underlying principles, applications and implications of nanoscale science. These units help students visualize physical, chemical and biological principles that govern the behavior of particles at nanoscales. Some of the activities are simple, one-day enrichment activities, while others span several class periods. The work introduces an interdisciplinary element into the disjoint high school curriculum and provides real world examples of science and technology in action. Research along with the development determines how students improve their understanding of nanoscience concepts and technological applications improve over time and how teachers use these tools and activities to support student discourse and understanding. An invitational workshop of science educators and researchers and nanoscience researchers is to identify and prioritize a coherent set of concepts and potential ideas that underlie an understanding of the scale continuum between nanoscale and macroscale on which instructional materials research and certificate programs can be built.