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Early Explorations (2020)
NISE Network product

Exploring Science Practices: Early Explorations (2020)

This activity gives caregivers and their children an opportunity to practice scientific ways of thinking that are developmentally appropriate for early learners. In this case, we’re doing so while getting a feel for some properties of water. But rather than...

Project
Space and Earth Informal STEM Education Project
Kit
Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit
Product
NISE Network product

Evaluating the NISE Network: Reflections from the Evaluation Workgroup

At the end of the NISE Network’s 10th year, the Evaluation workgroup created a reflection document to describe how we managed the evaluation of the NISE Network, one of the largest informal education networks ever formed. This document goes into...
Project
Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
Product
NISE Network product

Process Evaluation of the Diversity, Equity, and Access Working Group's Partnership Pilot Project

In 2010, the NISE Network’s Diversity, Equity, and Access working group undertook a partnership pilot project to identify strategies for engaging youth from underrepresented backgrounds in nanoscale informal science learning experiences. To carry out the project, three museums developed partnerships...
Project
Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
Product
NISE Network product

Exploring Fabrication - Self-Assembly (NanoDays 10)

"Exploring Fabrication - Self-Assembly" includes several full-body interactive games visitors can play to model the process of self-assembly in nature and nanotechnology. Visitors learn that self-assembly is a process by which molecules and cells form themselves into functional structures.
Project
Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
Kit
NanoDays kit
Product