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The Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry kit is designed to stimulate interest, sense of relevance, and feelings of self-efficacy about chemistry among public audiences.

This guide offers an introduction to collaborations between museums and youth-serving community organizations. While this guide is designed specifically for museums and community organizations, much of the content contained in this document can be applied to all kinds and levels...

Volunteer experts are a key ingredient to many successful public engagement efforts. Volunteer networks focused on astronomy and space include: 1) Solar System Ambassadors Program, 2) Night Sky Network of astronomy clubs, and 3) AAS Astronomy Ambassadors 1) The Solar...

This is a recording of a NISE Network online brown-bag conversation held in 2012 that focuses specifically on NISE Net's Universal Design Guide for Public Programs, and provides examples of universal design in a few NISE Net programs

The NISE Network program evaluation tools include guidelines and templates to facilitate program evaluation. The NISE Net Guidelines for Collecting and Handling Data document outlines general guidelines for collecting and handling Team Based Inquiry (TBI) data. The guide was created...

This is a recording of a NISE Network online brown-bag conversation held in 2014 and introduces the basic strategies of Sheltered Instruction to help English-speaking facilitators reach participants who don't speak English, as well as those with other language barriers....

Photograph of drops of water sitting on a purple hydrophobic sand. The sand coated with a nano thin layer that makes it repel the water.

Nano 101 introduces educators to NISE Net’s four big ideas related to nanoscale science, engineering, and technology ("nano"). Related NanoDays activities can be used with this overview presentation to help prepare educators to engage the public in NISE Net educational...

Powerpoint presentations providing a NISE Network overview at different points in time. The NISE Network encourages partners to download and use the most recent version of the slides to use for their own presentations.

Start with the comprehensive style guide! This guide demonstrates how you can use the downloadable fonts, logos, and palettes to create your own event and promotional materials. Fonts, logos, and palettes are available for both Frankenstein200 and Frankenstein200 L.I.F.E. Also...

This report documents a study conducted at the Exploratorium to characterize how visitors depict the concept of small. The study looks at visitors’ drawings in order to inform the design of diagrams, animations and other visualizations that help the public...

Here is a selection of NISE Net Building with Biology press photos! Please use these images for marketing Building with Biology events, and in creating other related materials. These photos are free for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0...

In 2015, NSF provided supplemental funding that enabled the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net) to help NISE Network partners: 1. Broaden the Network’s reach by engaging audiences that the partner organizations were not currently serving and are traditionally...

This guide provides an overview of the *Nano* exhibition created by the NISE Network. The April 2015 document describes the exhibition and summarizes the unique dissemination model of distributing 93 copies of this small footprint mini-exhibition to locations throughout the...

Photograph of an Apple iPhone motherboard.

The NISE Network held a pre-conference workshop titled, "Dialogue and Deliberation: Building a Better Forum," at the 2008 Association of Science -Technology Centers Conference (see Appendix for agenda). In addition to the four-hour workshop, a two and a half hour...

The Review of NISE Network Evaluation Findings: Years 1-5 seeks to investigate the work of the NISE Network since its inception in 2005 and provide an overarching summary of NISE Net Public Impacts evaluation efforts to the NISE Network and...

This is a recording of a NISE Network online brown-bag conversation held in March 2015 focused on the applications and scientific background behind NISE Net activities related to nano food and transmission electron microscopes (TEMs). The presentation covered a variety...

Scanning electron microscope image of nanoscale structures on a Blue Morpho butterfly wing. • SIZE: Scale bar representes 1 µm • IMAGING TOOL: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

This study was conducted as a part of the formative evaluation of the NISE Network forum "Nanotechnology: Risks, Benefits, and Who Decides?"

In collaboration with NASA, the NISE Network has assembled a set of engaging, hands-on Earth and space science experiences with connections to science, technology, and society.

After completing the Biomimicry: Synthetic Gecko Tape activity, surveys were distributed to fourteen visitors. The survey was designed to elicit information regarding the degree of visitor interest, enjoyment, and ease in understanding the activity. Responding visitors for this activity actually...

Welcome to your Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry toolkit! This section contains everything you will need to begin planning and promoting your Let's Do Chemistry event. The downloadable planning and promotion guide will walk you through your event. Also included...

This online workshop gives an introduction to the new Space & Earth Informal STEM Education (SEISE) project; focussing primarily on an overview of what’s in the new Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkits, including information about how to apply and...

The NISE Network Bilingual Design Guide presents the variety of interpretive and design strategies the Network has used for different bilingual products, including exhibits, programs, and media. The guide focuses on NISE Net educational products offered in English and Spanish,...