Topic: book1

Book 1

In Book 1 in which Millie meets two electrons and her adventures begin, children get to know Millie and learn in a simple and playful way about electrons: the intrinsic nature of their spin, and their wave-particle duality. Children love this book. Here are some of their comments: I like Mil...…

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How can Millie get so small?

Millie’s books are full of magical adventures! When magic is involved, the most unexpected and unexplainable things can happen. Have you ever heard of Alice in Wonderland? She shrinks when she drinks a magical potion or takes a bite of an enchanted mushroom. Or how about Puss in Boots? He ca...…

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Milli, micro, nano, and pico

Millie's shrinking formula was not chosen at random. Milli, micro, nano, and pico are prefixes (= a group of letters added before a word to modify its meaning) used in the measurement of smaller and smaller quantities. People are more familiar with the prefixes used in the measurements of larger an...…

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Micro, nano or pico?

Search on the Internet the sizes of the following items in order to put them in the right category: MICRO NANO PICO Do you know of anything else to add to the lists?…

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Millie micro nano pico

If you could use Millie's magic words and shrink as much as you wish, where would you like to go? Write or draw your answer and send it to Millie by email millie@milliem…

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Interview an electron

Millie needs you help to write a list of questions to ask the electrons. Write your questions and send them to Millie by email millie@milliemicronanopico.com.

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Discovery of the electron

In the article on elementary particles, we read that, in 1804, John Dalton demonstrated the existence of atoms, which he imagined as hard spheres. More than 90 years later, in 1897, the experiments of Joseph John Thomson, a British physicist, showed that atoms contain electrons, tiny particles...…

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