HEBAT Bacaan BI

Unit 12

UNIT 12 :
NANO TECHNOLOGY

What is How was What are the Why is it Can you name a
nanotechnology? nanotechnology benefits of this important in product using
developed? kind of our everyday nanotechnology?
technology? lives?

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TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR BEGINNER LEVEL

BY THE END OF THE i. Write antonyms and synonyms.

LESSON, ii. Find and select relevant information in a text.
STUDENTS CAN: iii. Respond to innovations related to nanotechnology.

Reading Strategy: Skim and Scan

5W1H
STRATEGIES/ LOTS: Understanding
APPROACHES HOTS: Analysing
21st Century Learning

VALUES Diligence

LEARNING/ Worksheet
TEACHING AIDS Flash cards
SITUATION Public
Educational
TEXT FORMAT Single
TEXT TYPE Descriptive
COGNITIVE Scan and locate
PROCESS Represent literal and gist meaning
*refer to HEBAT Bacaan Bahasa Inggeris Reading Strategies **refer

to 21st Century Learning: Cooperative Learning Structures

***refer to Guide to Using HOTS in a Reading Classroom

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ACTIVITIES SKILLS/ APPROACHES

STEP 1
LOTS:
a. Students read TEXT 1. Understanding
b. Students fill in the blanks with correct synonyms and
antonyms (WORKSHEET 1). Reading Strategy:
c. Class discuss answers. Skim and Scan

STEP 2
Reading Strategy:
a. In pairs, students read TEXT 1 again and answer 5W1H
5W1H* questions in WORKSHEET 2.
HOTS:
b. Students discuss answers with their face partner**. Analysing

21st Century Learning:

Think-Pair-Share

STEP 3
HOTS:
a. In groups, students answer questions in a World Analysing
Cafe** activity (WORKSHEET 3).
b. Students discuss and answer the questions. 21st Century Learning:
World Cafe

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TEXT 1

WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY?

What is it?

The 'Nano' part is referring to the size of the thing being made.

A 'nanometer' is absolutely tiny, being a billionth of a metre. This is hard to imagine,

so to give you an idea, the smallest atom in the universe is the hydrogen atom. You
can line up ten hydrogen atoms in one nanometer.

So nano-technology is making devices at the atomic scale.

How did it come about?

It has been around for about 15 years. Maybe one of the most significant starting
points was when scientists developed a device that could spell 'IBM' on the surface
of a crystal by moving individual atoms around. They won the Nobel Prize for that.

Then along came a molecule going by the wonderful name of 'Buckminster-

Fullerene'. This is an arrangement of 60 carbon atoms in the shape of a football. It
showed that it was possible to make things at the atomic scale.

So thousands of researchers around the world started to look at what could be

made. Some looked at new materials with properties never-before seen. Others had
ideas to put atoms together in the shape of tubes and rods to see what they could
do.

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The more over-excited scientists wrote books about tiny machines traveling
through your blood, fixing you from the inside-out, or making anything you
want from nano-glob, a bit like the star-trek machine that makes coffee from
nothing.

So what has it really done for us?

Medicine

Nano-technology has produced better ways of delivering vital drugs to the right place
in your body - but not in the shape of a tiny submarine! Nano-cages trap the drug
molecules and then carry them to where they are meant to go.

Materials

Nano-particles are added to steel and

plastics to give them improved properties.
For example:

A new type of carbon fibre, developed at

the University of Cambridge, could be
woven into super-strong body armour for
the military and law enforcement.

Input Sensors

Nano-technology is used to make very sensitive, tiny sensors for detecting various
physical effects. For example there are now sensors used in modern cars that can
detect the car being in a potentially lethal situation (i.e. crash), so allowing brakes
and safety devices to be used effectively in an emergency. MEMS = "Micro Electro-
Mechanical Systems".

Electronics

This is probably the most significant area for nano-technology. For the past fifty
years, engineers have made smaller and smaller devices; today they can make
electronics down to about 60 nano-metres.

There is a bit of leeway left, but around 35nm is just about the last stage engineers
can go before they have to take a different way. Transistors start to behave in weird,
unpredictable ways when they get smaller than this because individual atoms begin
to have an effect. These are called 'quantum' effects. With nano-technology you will
often see the word 'quantum' crop up.

It is early days, but nano-technology is making it possible to build up devices from

atoms, so devices will become ever smaller.

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