Nano-CEMMS educators provide one-day hands-on workshops for up to 30 elementary, middle and high school teachers.  These workshops are intended to introduce science, mathematics, and industrial arts teachers to nanotechnology.  Emphasis is placed on project-based teaching and the need for a focus on promoting an interest in science, mathematics and engineering among their students.  The workshops are often conducted during in-service days.

Teachers learn basic nanotechnology concepts through a series of learning modules that have been developed by Nano-CEMMS educators and teachers who have attended the summer institutes.  During a typical workshop teachers:

• Work and collaborate with other teachers in a interdisciplinary model
• Get a basic introduction to nanotechnology
• Learn about the future economic impact of nanotechnology and the importance of developing a pipeline for U.S. engineers
• Experience nanotechnology products
• Experiment with several “smart materials”
• Make a nanotechnology material
• Engineer a control system
• “See” things at the Nanoscale
• Role play about the societal impacts of nanotechnology

Workshops can be held at your school if travel expenses are covered.