Introduction to nanotechnology: a short course for high school students

Alexey V. Markin

doi:10.1117/12.2229398

21 April 2016 Introduction to nanotechnology: a short course for high school students

Alexey V. Markin

Proceedings Volume 9917, Saratov Fall Meeting 2015: Third International Symposium on Optics and Biophotonics and Seventh Finnish-Russian Photonics and Laser Symposium (PALS); 99171N (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229398
Event: Saratov Fall Meeting 2015, 2015, Saratov, Russian Federation

Abstract

This report devoted to presenting results of development and implementation of a short course (4 hours) entitled "Introduction to Nanotechnology" that was specially designed for familiarizing high school students with nanomaterials and nanotechnology. The course contains introduction to nanotechnology, essential definitions, short overview of history, descriptions for various examples of nanomaterials and their classifications, performing demonstration experiments. All these parts of the course are briefly analyzed from pedagogical effectiveness point of view. Finally, results of course testing, problems and perspectives of nano-oriented education at high school are also discussed shortly.

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Alexey V. Markin "Introduction to nanotechnology: a short course for high school students", Proc. SPIE 9917, Saratov Fall Meeting 2015: Third International Symposium on Optics and Biophotonics and Seventh Finnish-Russian Photonics and Laser Symposium (PALS), 99171N (21 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229398

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