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West Lafayette, Indiana – High school and middle school science teachers from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio attended a workshop at Purdue University on 9-20 July 2007 to enhance their understanding of nanoscience. The workshop, led by Department of Physics Professors Lynn Bryan and Nicholas Giordano, is part of the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering and provides teachers with the opportunity to conduct nanoscience experiments and to develop methods for introducing nanoscience into the classroom. The workshop emphasized the big ideas of nanoscience including Size and Scale, Properties of Matter, Dominant Forces, Self-Assembly, and Modeling. NCLT teachers conducted nanoscience lessons focused on the big ideas and interacted with researchers at Purdue University to get exposure to current trends in nanoscience research. In addition to the lessons provided by the NCLT, teachers developed their own nanoscience lessons for classroom use and will report back throughout the year on the results of the lessons they are to take back to their classrooms. The NCLT is in its third year as a partnership between Purdue University, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory, Alabama A&M University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Morehouse College, and the University of Texas at El Paso. The NCLT is funded by the National Science Foundation. Contact Information: |
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