When Things Get Small
K-12 Educational Standards
Standards for Grade(s): 8
Focus on Physical Science
Structure of Matter
Standards for Grade(s): 9-12
Physics
Electric and Magnetic Phenomena
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California State Board of Education Content Standards
First Aired: 3/20/2006
27 minutes
What could a stadium-sized bowl of peanuts, a shrinking elephant, and a crazed hockey player have to do with nanoscience? Those are just a few of the goofy excursions that await you when witty host Adam Smith and wacky physicist Ivan Schuller take you on an irreverent, madcap, comically corny romp into the real-life quest to create the smallest magnet ever known. (#6577)







