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 Funded with Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS), the modules employ four advanced technology tools—NASA Image 2009 (NI2K9), an educational image processing and analysis (IPA) tool developed for the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center and updated by Science Approach; ImageJ, a professional IPA tool freely available from the NIMH; My World geographic information systems (GIS) software developed by the GEODE Initiative at Northwestern University; and the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information—in inquiry-based explorations of ten challenges related to the mission of NIEHS. The ten Powers of Inquiry modules are organized in a “Powers of Ten” format, starting with an examination of the impact of global warming on the oceans and human health, and then working through successively smaller levels of analysis to arrive at quantifying why certain nanoparticle shapes may be more hazardous to human health than others.
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