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TryNano.org 
  
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This is the portal for TryNano.org, a website for anyone interested in learning about nanoscience and nanotechnology. Users can explore nanomaterials, read about timely discoveries…
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TryNano: Nanotechnology Lesson Plans 
  
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This page contains a set of standards-aligned lessons for Grades 2-12 that allow students to explore the nanometer scale and learn how nanotechnology has impacted society. Lessons…
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TryNano Lesson: What Is A Nanometer? 
  
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This resource is a standards-aligned lesson for Grades 4-8 developed to promote understanding of just how tiny a nanometer is. Learners measure common classroom objects and convert…
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AAPT/PTRA Teaching About Kinematics  [ Book ]
  
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This AAPT/PTRA Teacher Resource Guide covers approaches to teaching and learning kinematics. Based on physics education research, the book provides teachers with the resources needed…
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A Question of Scale: Quarks to Quasars 
  
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This site consists of a series of pages, each depicting and describing an object(s) on a different order of magnitude. There are 42 pages of this in all, for 42 powers of ten,…
http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm
CSERD Interactivate: Surface Area and Volume 
  
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This Java-based activity lets students manipulate a 3-D rectangular prism or triangular prism to explore surface area and volume. The geometric model is designed to help secondary…
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CSERD: Interactivate 
  
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This resource is a set of free interactive Java-based courseware for science and mathematics structured around collections of activities, lessons, and discussions. The interactive…
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Illuminations: Hay Bale Farmer 
  
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In this lesson for grades 6-8, learners calculate and compare volumes of cylinders and rectangular prisms, using bales of hay as the common unit. Students must use mathematics to…
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Illuminations: Cubes 
  
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This simple Java applet for grades 5-8 lets users explore how volume is calculated in a box-shaped object. The user fills the box, layer upon layer, with small cubes to see why…
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Illuminations: Popcorn, Anyone? 
  
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In this lesson for grades 6-12, learners explore the relationship between dimension and volume. Using colored paper, students create two rectangular prisms and two cylinders to…
https://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=2927
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