The huge potential of nanoscience

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Physics.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Yashaswi Nalawade who is currently working on her PhD in Professor Jonathan Coleman’s Laboratory at Trinity College in Ireland. The team is working on the synthesis of low-dimensional nanostructures which will help usher in the next generation of nanotechnology across a range of fields.
• This resource also contains an interview with Yashaswi. If you or your students have a question for her, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Yashaswi will reply!
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Yashaswi’s research and includes a link to a TedX Talk given by Professor Coleman.
• The PowerPoint reiterates the key points in the article.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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