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Mission Possible: Adding Engineering to the K-12 Curriculum
At the Sciencenter in Ithaca, N.Y., a NISE Net partner, children study the feet of a leopard gecko. Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, managed by the University of California, Berkeley,--also a NISE Net affiliate--are studying the nano-sized hairs on gecko feet to make synthetic sticky tape.
Credit: Gary Hodges for the NISE Network
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NISE Net partners explore the properties of nanoscale coatings in a professional workshop at the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, a NISE Net partner.
Credit: Emily Maletz for the NISE Network
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Using the Engineering is Elementary® curriculum, teacher Bob Imber gives materials to his fourth-grade students at the Rice Square School in Worcester, Mass. They will work as green engineers to design solar ovens that are effective at getting and staying hot and have minimal environmental impact.
Credit: Engineering is Elementary, Museum of Science, Boston
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Nanoscientists can manipulate matter at the scale of atoms and molecules. Children at the Sciencenter in Ithaca, N.Y.--a NISE Net partner--talk about a model of a carbon nanotube.
Credit: Gary Hodges for the NISE Network
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Ioannis Miaoulis is president and director of the Museum of Science in Boston.
Credit: Reena Bammi for the Museum of Science, Boston
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