AccessNano (Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research)

• Provides a series of 13 teaching resources on nanotechnology. These include PowerPoint presentations, experiments, activities, animations and links to interactive websites.

• Perspectives: powers of 10 – students draw the same object at different magnifications.
• Virtual scanning electron microscopy – an interactive Java tutorial that allows students to view specimens (eg, grasshopper, jellyfish) at different magnifications with a virtual scanning electron microscope.
• Powers of 10 – provides a series of pictures (from the Milky Way to electrons), each of which is an image of something that is 10 times smaller than the one before it.

• List of modules – a number of web-based educational modules about materials. 'Size and scale' includes topics such as 'Defining dimensions' and 'Does size matter?'  with links to relevant online activities. Scanning probe microscope – introduces the theory and application of these microscopes as tools of nanotechnology. The module 'Is smaller better?' has information that is relevant to nanoscience, but there are no online activities.

• Structure matters – explores the molecular structure of matter and how it can affect the physical characteristics of a specific material.

• Small wonders – this activity is on the last page of this PDF file and asks students to design a prototype of a nanomachine. There are also a number of other tasks asking students to find out more about different aspects of nanotechnology.

• Future body – students investigate how electrical signals are used in the human nervous system. They look at how computer chips or electrodes might be used to repair or augment the system.

• Nanosmores and photolithography – students make an edible, layered biscuit to represent the process used to create a patterned silicon wafer using a substrate and a photosensitive chemical.

• From little atoms grow giant molecules – students find out more about the periodic table and use the knowledge they have gained about atomic structure to answer questions about the development of nanoscale computer chips.

• Structures at the nanoscale – shows how students can use LEGO bricks to demonstrate the nanostructure of solids.
• Self-assembly: Building structures at the nanoscale – students make a square pattern of magnetic LEGO bricks using a 'top-down' and a 'self-assembly' approach.
• Educator resources – provides a variety of activities related to nanoscale technology. The activities are presented under three headings – Nanoscale activities, Applications activities, and Societal implications activities.
• Interdisciplinary education group – provides a variety of resources in addition to those mentioned above (eg, 'Nanoworld cineplex of movies' and 'Nanoscale video lab manual').