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© 2005 The Regents of the University of California
Lawrence Hall of ScienceUniversity of California,
Berkeley
• Hands-on exhibits• Computer interactives• Live demonstrations• Informational videos• Animations• Facilitated activities • Companion website
University of California, Berkeley
nanoZone© is an experimental, NSF-supported exhibit at the Lawrence Hall of Science that opened in Summer 2004. This exhibit introduces basic nanoscale and nanotechnology science to an 8-14 year-old audience. Content focuses on nanoscale size, scientists as people, and nanotechnology applications. nanoZone© educates visitors about the top scientists in the field by making their work accessible in ways kids can understand.
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nanoZone© includes an extensive companion website showcasing exhibit materials and documentation focusing on experimentation and evaluation. Ph.D.-level scientists, graduate school researchers, museum professionals, and evaluation experts have all contributed to this unique resource for the education field.
For more Information:Darrell Porcello
Marco Molinaro (PI) [email protected]
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Measure Yourself in Nanometers
You may know your body measurements in feet and inches, even meters and centimeters, but what about in nanometers (billionths of a meter)? See how you measure up in this hands-on, feet-on, one-of-a-kind activity.
Hands-on exhibit
How tall are you?Vertical height slider just like in the doctor’s office
Measure your feetStand-on shoe prints just like in the shoe store
Measure your handsWall handprints to match against your own
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What the Heck is Nanotech?
Young actors answer core questions about nanotechnology and illustrate concepts from this rapidly changing technology frontier. What the heck is nanotech? How small is a nanometer? Who works in nanotechnology?
Video
For many visitors, a trip to the nanozone exhibit will be the first time they have heard the word nanotechnology.
“ Nano means small – really small – ULTRA small. So, nanotechnology is the science of the ultrasmall.”
“Nanotechnology scientists study everything from medicine to physics – even bugs and geckos – but on a nanoscale.”
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Seeing Small
Meet a Scanning Electron Microscope expert and get an ultraclose look at the technology of seeing small in this brief video.
Video
The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) lets scientists see some of the smallest things that exist.
“Today, with the Scanning Electron Microscope, or SEM, scientists can see and study the tiny structures that an ordinary light microscope misses. What do the spinnerets of a spider and the silk they make look like at this scale?”
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Look Familiar?
Familiar items look very different when magnified hundreds or thousands of times under the microscope. Can you recognize these four common items? Lift the flaps for clues and answers. You’re in for a big surprise!
Hands-on exhibit
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Moth Wing
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Shop the NanoMall
What new products could nanotechnology create? Animated ads introduce visitors to nanotech products that someday could be as common as blue jeans or duct tape. Information cards explain the science behind the cool stuff.
Animated ads and product “stat cards”
NanoSolar-Cell Vest Tiny, lightweight solar cells made with nanotechnology are already turning clothing into power sources to run your laptop computer, MP3 player, and DVD player anywhere
you are.
Stain-Resistant NanoPantsYou might be wearing a pair of “nanopants” right now, since more and more clothing manufacturers are using nanotechnology to create new fabrics. Molecular “whiskers” make spills just bead right off.
NanoScreenNanotechnology will lead to the smallest, thinnest electronics you’ve ever seen, even a TV screen that rolls up like a window shade!
No Smell NanosocksAfraid to take off your sneaks because your socks are so stinky? Nanotechnology is going to change that, and the rest of your laundry too.
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Scientist Stats Cards
Get the “stats” on leading nanotech scientists, based on popular questions kids have for scientists. What were they good at when they were young? What weren’t they so good at? What did they play with? What do they study now?
Laminated info cards
Paul Alivisatos played with ERECTOR® sets; now he develops nanocrystals. Tejal Desai played with LEGO® bricks; now she has designed a biocapsule to protect cells implanted in the body. Erik Scher played with Transformers®; now he designs solar cells of the future. Robert Full played baseball; now he has found nanosize split ends of gecko toe hairs, that could help design new ultra-sticky tape. Arun Majumdar played soccer; now he works with an incredibly small tool that could find disease early. Jorge Gardea-Torresdey played basketball; now he turns plants into biological “factories.”
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Scientists’ Life Stories
Nanotech scientists started out as curious kids. What events in their lives led them to explore the very, very small? Watch animated stories of scientists from when they were young to their current work as researchers.
Animations
Dr. Angela Belcher – Nanowires made with virus “nanoworkers”
Dr. Tejal Desai – Biocapsule to protect cells implanted in the body
Arun Majumdar – Microcantilever tool to detect the tiniest signs of disease
Dr. Erik Scher – small, flexible solar cells that can be mounted anywhere
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The Case of the Green Milk
If some of the cows on a farm are giving green milk, how would you test for which ones are sick? Design the right tool and send the sick cows to the vet!
Computer game
Based on the work of Arun Majumdar, this game invites players to design and test a microcantilever tool to detect the tiniest signs of disease.
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Zoom In
Use cool tools like a magnifying lens, an optical telescope lens, and a simulated Scanning Electron Microscope to examine magnified blue jean fabric, pollen, a bee’s body parts, and an ultrasmall medical device.
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Save Ratty
In this interactive game, players learn how a nanotechnology device may help cure diabetes. Inspired by the work of Dr. Tejal Desai, players “become” nanotech designers in biomedicine.
Computer game
How would you design a tiny biocapsule to protect new cells implanted in the body? Why is the size of tiny holes in the capsule so important?Based on the work of Dr. Tejal Desai, this game educates players on how a biocapsule can protect cells implanted in the body.
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Chester McZoom
To power a video player as small as a postage stamp, you need nanowires. How would you design viruses to make nanowires for you?
Computer game
Based on Dr. Angela Belcher’s nanovirus re-search, players learn how viruses can be designed to to construct nanowires.
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Nano Fab Lab
Nanotechnology scientists come from many fields. Meet the newest generation of researchers and learn about their interests, who inspired them and why they think nanotechnology is special.
Multi-player computer interactive
This inquiry game incorporates video clips of interviews from Nanotechnology Scientists at UC Berkeley.
“Having a big back yard to go exploring in helped inspire me to become a scientist.” – Alex Mastroianni
“Nanotechnology research is special because it reveals so many ways to use new discoveries. Some of the most exiciting applications are quantum computing, new display technology and chemical sensors.” – Justine Shaw
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What is Nanotechnology?
What do kids want to know most about nanotechnology? A touchscreen with full words allows visitors to form their own questions, and hear the answers from a computer-generated human image!
Computerized Q&A Kiosk
With a database of over 500 answers, visitors can easily ask questions and find answers to almost everything about nanotechnology.
• How small is a nanometer?
• How does nanotech work?
• How will nanotech change the future?
• Where can I buy nanotechnology?
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How Small is Small?
Construct your own Size Wheel to learn more about measuring things on the macro, micro and nano scales.
Make and take activity
A facilitator at the Idea Lab Activity Station will provide you with materials and instructions to build a Size Wheel to take home. As you build your Size Wheel, you select the best place for stickers with pictures of objects of different sizes. The Size Wheel will provide you with many ways to challenge and sharpen your understanding of scale.
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How Small is That?
Test your knowledge of the macro, micro and nano scales by identifying photos of things so big they can be seen by the human eye, or so small they can be seen only under special types of microscopes.
Facilitated activity
What are the smallest of the small? • Viruses? • Bacteria? • Blood cells?
A facilitator at the Idea Lab Activity Station will present you with a matching challenge involving magnified images of small objects, then take you through an imaginary trip to understand small units and scales, and finally challenge you to identify the scale of the objects in the pictures.
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Live Demonstrations
Learn about cutting-edge nanotechnology tools that real scientists are inventing and using. Demonstrators use larger-than-life models to depict developments in the ultrasmall.
Facilitators, PowerPoint slides
Cancer-Detecting NanoWire highlights the work of Dr. Charles Lieber in his attempts to detect the first indicators of disease.
Implantable Nanoporous Biocapsule explains some of Dr. Tejal Desai’s research efforts in developing a cure for diabetes.
Scanning Probe Microscopes helps visitors understand how special microscopes can peer into realms smaller than light waves.
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Fishing for Fun!
Work with a partner to build a bridge by answering multiple choice questions about featured scientists and the work they do.
Computer interactives
To expand on the science briefly touched upon during the Scientists’ Life Stories, visitors can engage in this cooperative game. Players can work together or play on their own to test their knowledge of nanotechnology research, the featured scientist’s personal history, or basic science by using visual facts to answer questions.
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Talk to the Scientist
Using audio clips from a scientist’s interview, visitors can hear about state of the art research in the scientist’s own words.
Audio recordings
Visitors can go beyond reading information on nanotechnology by listening to narrated answers to a select set of questions in the scientist’s own voice. Visitors can explore questions about current nanotechnology research and the life of the featured scientist.
• How do you have fun in the lab?
• What are your greatest challenges?
• How would you explain your work to kids?
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Pull up a Seat
Circular stool seats are really photos of tiny things magnified: ant head, quarter, lint, nanowire, silk, mosquito eye, horsehair, red blood cells…
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