facilitation strategies

Hear from project team members as they discuss the Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry project research findings and a framework for designing and facilitating informal hands-on chemistry activities with public audiences, and how they might be applied to other chemistry...

Gum and Chocolate is a fun (and gross!) activity in which participants can experience a chemical reaction in their mouths. This activity involves real gum and real chocolate, which could conflict with your organization's policies around food, allergens, or chokeables,...

Atoms to Atoms is an activity that can be used as a engaging game for training facilitators in talking about chemistry and our perceptions around it, or as a longer activity to supplement the hands-on activities in your kit. Atoms...

This funny video will help you and your facilitators run activities in a way that encourages participation and positive attitudes towards learning about chemistry.

These materials will help your facilitators run engaging, enjoyable chemistry activities at your event. Facilitator guides for individual activities are included on each activity's NISENet page, but this section includes additional resources for longer or more complex supplementary activities, including...

Learn how your organization can be part of a larger movement to change public discourse about climate change to be positive, productive, and solutions-focused! Meet members of the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation ( NNOCCI ), which...

This is a recording of a NISE Network online brown-bag conversation held in 2013; participants discuss ways to supplement and extend visitor interactions about nano using a mobile device, like an iPad. Nano apps, facilitation strategies, and unconventional uses of...