Content transformation for experimental teaching nanoscale science and engineering to primary teachers

Abstract

This study is a response to the need to examine the educational perspective of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering field (NSE) in all grades of education. Specifically, we address to educate primary teachers about essential concepts, applications and phenomena of the NSE discipline. In order to do so, we first seek to establish, the salient concepts, principles and phenomena that should be introduced to primary teachers, as a result of the transformation of the content, to content appropriate for the target population. In addition, to address the challenges of making the formatted content structure accessible to primary teachers, a variety of experimental activities were designed, which we present in detail.