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Moon Adventure Game Extensions

Extending the Moon Game Experience before or after the game allows players to go further in depth with Moon content. Lists of resources include hands-on activities to play before or after the game, imagery, visualizations, audio to add to the game experience.
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Let’s Do Chemistry Train-the-Trainer Online Workshop

ChemAttitudes, a collaborative project between the NISE Network and American Chemical Society, used a design-based research approach to develop a learning framework and a kit of hands-on informal educational activities to stimulate interest, a sense of relevance, and feelings of self-efficacy.
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Kitting materials for 2019 toolkit

Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 Physical Toolkits SHIPPING to 350 partners across the United States!

February 28, 2019
Ali Jackson
The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 physical toolkit have shipped out to 350 institutions nationwide!
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SD Discovery Center

Partner Highlight: A Journey through chemistry from Pierre, South Dakota to the ocean to outer space

February 4, 2019
Dr. Rhea Waldman, SD Discovery Center
What does Central South Dakota have to do with the Ocean and Outer Space? Knowing how everything is connected is essential to understand our changing world, and so is empowering kids to realize everyone can make an impact – no...
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NISE Network members eligible to enter the 2019 Quantum Matters™ Hands-on Science Communication Competition

February 1, 2019
Museum of Science, Boston
NanoDays...now with a Quantum Leap at the Museum of Science in Boston NanoDays is taking a Quantum Leap this year at the Museum of Science . The Museum has rebranded it to reflect that many of its university research center...
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¿Qué es Nano? - Exhibición Nano

Nano es una exhibición entretenida e interactiva para toda la familia acerca de la ciencia, la ingeniería y la tecnología a nanoescala. Los componentes participativos de la exposición se enfocan en las bases de la nanociencia, aplicaciones de la nanoescala en la vida real y las implicaciones sociales y éticas de esta nueva tecnología.
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What is Nano? - Nano exhibition overview and locations

Nano exhibition resources and locations for public audiences. Nano is an interactive exhibition that engages family audiences in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Hands-on exhibits present the basics of nanoscience and engineering, introduce some real world applications, and explore the societal and ethical implications of this new technology.
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Applications for free physical 2018 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkits of hands-on activities due November 1, 2017

August 29, 2017
Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota
The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) is pleased to offer 250 free Explore Science: Earth & Space 2018 toolkits to new and existing eligible partners in the United States. In collaboration with NASA, the NISE Network has assembled...
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Newsletter: August 2017

Welcome to the monthly e-newsletter for the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and community.
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NISE Net partner SEISE events

Partner Highlight: NISE Net partners host stellar line-up of solar eclipse events all across the U.S.

July 31, 2017
Kayla Berry, Museum of Science
The continental U.S. hasn't seen a total eclipse like this since 1918 and so NISE Network partners have been busily preparing for the upcoming August 21st solar eclipse for months. Some, along or near the path of totality, have even...
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You can participate in citizen science solar eclipse projects

July 27, 2017
Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota
The 2017 solar eclipse presents many opportunities for amateur astronomers and lifelong learners to get in on the fun of doing science. This includes research projects about the sun, the moon, other sun-planet-moon systems, and even eclipses in other stellar...
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NASA’s Solar System Ambassadors Program – Don’t Miss Out on this Great Resource for Earth and Space Events and More with Visitors!

June 29, 2017
Christina Leavell
Here at the Science Museum of Minnesota, we just can’t stop talking about how successful our relationship has been with the Solar System Ambassadors program! If you haven’t heard of this program, it’s a public engagement program that works with...
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Newsletter: May 2017

Welcome to the monthly e-newsletter for the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and community.
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Recent improvements to the nisenet.org website

April 28, 2017
Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota
We have recently made some major improvements to the nisenet.org website. The new site features all the same popular content from the existing website but with a fresh new look, a software upgrade, and additional content filtering and searching features...
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Newsletter: April 2017

Welcome to the monthly e-newsletter for the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and community. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Community News: Resources for promoting your Explore Science: Earth & Space events, Getting a Feel for Eclipses tactile book, Reporting for your
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Resources to help promote your Explore Science: Earth & Space events

March 31, 2017
Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota
The NISE Network has created a set of materials to help with marketing and promotion of your Explore Science: Earth & Space event. We have designed materials to be customizable so you can adapt them to fit your needs: Planning...
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Getting a Feel for Eclipses Tactile Book

March 31, 2017
By: Ali Jackson, Sciencenter
We are pleased to be partnering with the College of Charleston in South Carolina to share an educational project designed to help all audiences, including blind and visually impaired participants, learn more about the science surrounding the 2017 total solar...
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The Discovery Museums

Partner Highlight: Renewing Community Partnerships and Zooming into Nano with the The Discovery Museums and Boys and Girls Club in Massachusetts

March 30, 2017
By: Liz Leahey, The Discovery Museums
Last spring, The Discovery Museums in Acton, Massachusetts, were thrilled to have the chance to participate in another successful NISE Net initiative as recipients of a Museum and Community Partnerships Explore Science: Zoom into Nano kit . Through the Zoom...
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The Discovery

Partner Highlight: Using the Explore Science: Earth and Space toolkit to Mobilize Staff Training of Hands On Programming Experiences at The Discovery in Reno, Nevada

March 30, 2017
By: Meghan Schiedel, The Discovery
The Discovery , located in Reno, Nevada, sees an average of 700 visitors a day during spring break! As a recipient of the 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit , The Discovery is advertising this valuable space programming with...
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Building with Biology highlights public engagement activities about synthetic biology at AAAS 2017 Conference

March 8, 2017
By: Building with Biology Project Team
By now, terms such as genetically-engineered or genetically-modified, synthetic biology, and even CRISPR are likely more familiar to you than they were five years ago. Gene-editing has become a scientific breakthrough and topic of popularity both in research and in...
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Newsletter: March 2017

Welcome to the monthly e-newsletter for the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and community. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Community News: Explore Space: Earth & Space physical toolkits have now been delivered!, Building with Biology highlights public engagement activities about synthetic
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Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at the Joseph Moore Museum of Natural History at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana

March 2, 2017
By: Lydia Evans, Joseph Moore Museum
Synthetic or real vanilla—which tastes better? Guests at the Joseph Moore Museum’s Building with Biology event had the opportunity to decide for themselves while learning about bioengineered food at the Bio Bistro station. After tasting cookies baked with synthetic or...
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Port Discovery Children's Museum

Partner Highlight: Zoom into Nano: Bringing Nano to a New Audience in Towson, Maryland

March 2, 2017
By: Sarah Zimmerman, Port Discovery Children's Museum
Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore is committed to providing educational programming to children of all socio-economic backgrounds across Maryland. The Museum and Community Partnerships Explore Science: Zoom into Nano kit was the perfect opportunity for the museum to reach...
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2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space Toolkit

Please check your 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space physical toolkits!

February 13, 2017
KC Miller, Science Museum of Minnesota
All the 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space physical toolkits should now be delivered! As you begin your preparations for your Explore Science: Earth & Space events this spring, we encourage you to go through each activity box sooner rather...
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Newsletter: February 2017

Welcome to the monthly e-newsletter for the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network and community. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Community News: Thank you to NISE Net Partners involved in nano project, Physical 2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkits have shipped
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