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Greening Schools Greening Schools is a joint effort of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IL EPA) and the Illinois Waste Management and Research Center (WMRC). The purpose of the project is to help schools provide a safe and healthy environment that can save money, improve learning conditions, and increase efficiency. The project is also designed to provide teachers with standards-based tools to introduce the concepts of waste reduction and pollution prevention to students.
NanoHUB What is nanoHUB? The nanoHUB is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 790 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices.
The NanoTechnology Group K-12 Outreach Projects – this page was developed for teachers/students who are looking for nanotechnology educational materials.
HowStuffWorks How Nanotechnology Works – there's an unprecedented multidisciplinary convergence of scientists dedicated to the study of a world so small, we can't see it – even with a light microscope. In this article, we'll learn about what nanotechnology means today and what the future of nanotechnology may hold.
Bugscope The Bugscope project provides free interactive access to a scanning electron microscope (SEM) so that students anywhere in the world can explore the microscopic world of insects. This educational outreach program from the Beckman Institute's Imaging Technology Group at the University of Illinois supports K-16 classrooms worldwide.
London Science Museum Engineering on the nano-scale isn't a new thing. Animals and plants have long been using the unique properties of nanoparticles and nanostructures in their shells, skins and wings.
eSchool News eSchool News Online connects you to all the latest news, information, and resources on how today's K-20 educators are using technology to improve school management and student learning.
Center for Nanotechnology – Miami University Humans were not the first to use nanotechnology, Mother Nature was. Every time a wave crashes into the shore, spray of water shoots into the sky. As the water evaporates, nanocrystalline materials made from the salts in the water form in the atmosphere. These nanocrystals are so small that they can remain in the air for very long periods of time.
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) Educational Nanotechnology Educational Resources and Activities for K-12 Teachers
Discover Nano at Northwestern University Nano 101, Using Nanotechnology, Nano Art Gallery, The History of Nano
National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Nanotechnology Image Gallery
Wikipedia Nanotechnology refers broadly to a field of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale, normally 1 to 100 nanometers, and the fabrication of devices within that size range. It is a highly multidisciplinary field, drawing from fields such as applied physics, materials science, interface and colloid science, device physics, supramolecular chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
HeadJam Teaching Guide Science, math and critical thinking skills come to life in HEADJAM, the award-winning, educational, six-episode video series for middle school students. These zany, brainy programs explore multi-disciplinary skills in a highly entertaining way.
K-12 Exploring the Nanoworld These materials have been created in conjuction with the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Teachers Program and the K-Through-Infinity Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
K-12 Exploring the Nanoworld:
Kits and Activities		 The University of Wisconsin - Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Interdisciplinary Education Group (IEG) uses examples of nanotechnology and advanced materials to explore science and engineering concepts at the college level and brings the "wow" and potential of nanotechnology and advanced materials to the public.
MRSEC K-12 The National Science Foundation established the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to carry out research in the formation, characterization, and exploitation of materials at the nanoscale - the scale of individual atoms. It aims at the fundamental understanding of topics of substantial technological importance, and at the communication of this understanding to the public.
NanoKids™ The NanoKids educational outreach program, headed by Dr. James M. Tour, Chao Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, is dedicated to increasing public knowledge of the nanoscale world and the emerging molecular research and technology that is rapidly expanding internationally. Based on actual anthropomorphic molecules synthesized in the laboratory, the NanoKids visual concept utilizes universally recognized forms exhibiting human characteristics to instruct, motivate, and entertain.
NanoScale Science Education In this unique software you explore characteristics of viruses with the use of atomic force microscopy to figure out what is making a puppy ill. The program involves you in experimenting with the capsid to determine the shape of the virus, testing for DNA or RNA, and determining the size of the virus to make your diagnosis.
Nanotechnology for grades 1-6+ ImagiNations, produced by Lehigh University.
National Nanotechnology Initiative What's Your Nano IQ? Find out HERE! Take a fun quiz on the National Institute of Standards and Technology web site!

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a federal R&D program established to coordinate the multiagency efforts in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. This site contains photos, cartoons, and information about carbon nanotubes and nanotechnology.
Science Friday Kids Connection Beginning in October 2002, the Kids Connection debuted as a teacher-friendly educational component. It offers discussion ideas, activities, selected resources, and related science standards. These link programming to the classroom curriculum and are designed to help teachers freshen and energize the required curricula in middle schools.
Mechanical Engineering Magazine Online Lots of interesting nano articles from the last ten years. Search for nanotechnology articles. Example articles include 'nanoscale armor', Sep 06, 'Korea's Nano Future', Aug 07 and 'no small risk', Sep 06.
NASA NASA's nanotechnology gallery including images, presentations, webcasts, and movie clips.
kqed.org Watch this excellent movie clip where researchers work to unlock the potential of nanoscience to battle global warming and disease.
google video Visualizing productive nanosystems and molecular manufacturing is a major challenge in communicating the power of this technology. To help address this problem, Nanorex www.nanorex.com and the Foresight Institute www.foresight.org established a challenge grant to fund the production of a new computer-generated animated short film called "Productive Nanosystems: from Molecules to Superproducts".
molecular animation Molecular Machinery Gallery – This is the MarkIII(k), a nanoscale planetary gear designed by K. Eric Drexler. A planetary gear couples an input shaft via a sun gear to an output shaft through a set of planet gears (attached to the output shaft by a planet carrier). The planet gears roll between the sun gear and a ring gear on the inner surface of a casing. This animation was rendered with Qutemol by reading PDB files from a NanoEngineer-1 molecular dynamics simulation. A section of the casing atoms have been hidden to expose the internal gearing assembly.
online book Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution ©1991 by K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, and Gayle Pergamit – Technology-as-we-know-it is a product of industry, of manufacturing and chemical engineering. Industry-as-we-know-it takes things from nature – ore from mountains, trees from forests – and coerces them into forms that someone considers useful. Trees become lumber, then houses. Mountains become rubble, then molten iron, then steel, then cars. Sand becomes a purified gas, then silicon, then chips. And so it goes. Each process is crude, based on cutting, stirring, baking, spraying, etching, grinding, and the like.

Trees, though, are not crude: To make wood and leaves, they neither cut, grind, stir, bake, spray, etch, nor grind. Instead, they gather solar energy using molecular electronic devices, the photosynthetic reaction centers of chloroplasts. They use that energy to drive molecular machines – active devices with moving parts of precise, molecular structure – which process carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and molecular building blocks. They use other molecular machines to join these molecular building blocks to form roots, trunks, branches, twigs, solar collectors, and more molecular machinery. Every tree makes leaves, and each leaf is more sophisticated than a spacecraft, more finely patterned than the latest chip from Silicon Valley. They do all this without noise, heat, toxic fumes, or human labor, and they consume pollutants as they go. Viewed this way, trees are high technology.
nanotubes & buckyballs The buckyball, being the roundest of round molecules, is also quite resistant to high speed collisions. In fact, the buckyball can withstand slamming into a stainless steel plate at 15,000 mph, merely bouncing back, unharmed. When compressed to 70 percent of its original size, the buckyball becomes more than twice as hard as its cousin, diamond.
history of nanotechnology A short history of nanotechnology from Feynman in 1959 to 1985 when the buckyball was discovered to the first nano company Zyvex founded in 1997 to molecular manufacturing in 2006.
PSU CNEU Penn State University Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization – Nanotechnology Video Modules: Introduction to Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Education Opportunities, Nanotechnology Influence in Industry, Career Choices in Nanotechnology – and Webcast: Design and Implementation of an Educational Laboratory for Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology. The CNEU is dedicated to research, development, and education across all aspects of micro- and nanotechnology. The Center resources are focused on addressing the incorporation of nanotechnology into secondary education, into post-secondary education, and into industry applications.
The Concord Consortium The Molecular Literacy Project – this three-year project worked to enhance science and technology teaching in grades 10-14 by providing Molecular Literacy content in support of careers in biotechnology and nanotechnology. The project developed new materials that used highly interactive molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics models, and embed these models in learning activities that are appropriate for both core science courses and specialized courses teaching biotechnology and nanotechnology workplace competencies. Click on View Our Database Activities for online course materials and animations. In developing these materials, the Concord Consortium worked with its partner, Middlesex Community College, Bedford, Massachusetts, as well as its feeder high schools, additional community colleges (including Roxbury Community College, Parkland College, and Wachusetts Community College), biotechnology and nanotechnology companies, and CORD, an educational non-profit in Texas, which provided national dissemination. Check out the other exciting Concord Consortium online educational materials!