What do slices of pizza and microchips have in common? In this episode, The Chip Kids race to place as many square chips as they can on a circular wafer and learn about space efficiency.
Vocabulary for Students to Define: Molten Silicon, Seed Crystal, Ingot Formation, Boule, Insulator, Resistors, Diffusion, Etching, Mask, Photolithography, Semiconductor
Challenge Question: Why are boules round instead of square?
Lesson & Experiment Activities:
Student Handouts
Advanced 10 part lesson plans for Let the Chips Fall Where They May from NanoHUB.org
