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Abstract:
How do you teach 6th through 9th graders the meaning of a billion? Students at UNM's Nano Camp began by weighing the amount of salt in a tenth of a gram of salt, then estimating the volume a billion grains would take. The concept of a billion is approached in a number of ways as teachers and professors try to bring the abstract into the concrete world of middle school students.

UNM Nano Camp Helps Students Understand the Extremely Small

Albuquerque, NM | Posted on July 7th, 2008

The three week camp is a pilot project to look at whether a sustained focus on the opportunities and problems posed by dealing with extremely small material will improve the understanding of both the students and teachers. The teachers are learning ways to bring the concepts in nanoscience alive for students they will teach later in science classes in the Albuquerque and the Laguna-Acoma School Districts.

The students are exposed to complex concepts that are more detailed than the science courses normally taught in schools. The course costs are underwritten by a UNM grant from the National Science Foundation.

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