Powers of Ten with the Blue Morpho Butterfly (Middle and High School curriculum lesson)

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Description
This activity is designed to help students understand the concept of scale and magnification when examining a Blue Morpho butterfly wing. The activity requires the use of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) but images are provided if there is no access to an SEM.
Product category
K-12 Lesson Plans
Programs and Activities
Audience
Ages 11 - Adult
K-12 Educators
Topics
Nanotechnology
Engineering and Technology
Light and Optics
Physical Sciences
Animals
Life Sciences

Objectives

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Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
Scientists and engineers have formed the interdisciplinary field of nanotechnology by investigating properties and manipulating matter at the nanoscale.

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Funding

National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) funded by the National Science Foundation

Owning institution

National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN); © 2013 The University of California, Santa Barbara and Georgia Institute of Technology

Photo Credit: Johan J. Ingles-Le Nobel

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