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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 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...

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 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...

Photograph of an Apple iPhone motherboard.

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

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...

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 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....

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)

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...

Public forums offer participants the opportunity to engage in thoughtful conversations about important issues regarding the potential societal and ethical implications of topics in current science, technology, and engineering. They provide a way for people with diverse views and backgrounds...

This is a collection of logos for creating your own Explore Science: Earth & Space promotional materials (ai, pdf, jpg, and png formats, in both English and Spanish, included). Individual logo files are located in the downloadable zip files.

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...

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...

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.

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...

This presentation discusses NASA's past lunar missions, and what future plans it may have for the Moon. A pdf file with presentation notes and credits is included.

Chemistry is all around us and is a part of us, but chemistry is the least represented of the major science fields in science museums and other informal science education media. ChemAttitudes, which is a collaboration between the NISE Network...

Scientists using an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). AFMs are so sensitive that they can image individual atoms. In fact, they can do more than just image, they can even move atoms.

Logos and specifications for Explore Science: Let's Do Chemistry in PDF, Adobe Illustrator, JPG, and PNG formats in color and black and white. Logos are provided in English as well as bilingual in English and Spanish.

A formative evaluation was conducted on Three Drops, an Immersive Digital Interactive (IDI), that allows visitors to interact with simulations of water at different size scales where different physical forces dominate. This evaluation revisits the exhibit after changes were made...