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Games and Interactive Media

Games for STEM learning provide fun motivating challenges and foster positive social interactions. They include card games, board games, collaborative group challenges, and interactive media.
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Moon Adventure Game

In this collaborative game, players will work together to solve a series of challenges grounded in real science about living and doing research on the Moon. Living in an outpost on the Moon is dangerous. Survival on the Moon will require teamwork!
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Nano Mini-Exhibition host resources

Nano is an interactive, small footprint exhibition that engages family audiences in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology.
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Sustainable Futures

Public engagement programs and professional resources related to sustainability and museums
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Earth Day

A compilation of resources for engaging the public in the Earth, Earth Day, and Earth science. Resources can be used for celebrating Earth Day April 22, Earth Week, and Earth Month.
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Development Process - More Resources

NISE Network educational materials are created through an iterative, collaborative process that involves scientists with expertise in the content area, professionals in the field of informal science education, and evaluation with targeted public audiences. This process helps to ensure that our programs, exhibits, and other products are scientifically accurate, represent best practices in educational product development, and are safe, effective experiences for learners of all ages.
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Gaming and the NISE Network: A Gameful Approach to STEM Learning Experiences

Professional development guide for educators on gaming and teaching nanoscale science, engineering, and technology.
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Online Workshop Recording: Moon Adventure Game - An introduction to a new challenge-based game for science and children's museums

Online professional development workshop recording focused on the Moon Adventure Game.
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Earth & Space Solar System Trading Cards Training Games

Professional development training tool solar system card games to prepare staff and volunteers to facilitate Earth and space science activities.
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Explore Mars! A Rover Game

In this cooperative board game, players work together to program a rover on Mars to successfully complete its mission. Players must collect all four data samples before the treacherous environment damages the rover beyond repair!
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Moon Adventure Game Summative Evaluation Report (2023)

Summative evaluation of the Moon Adventure Game focused on both public and professional audiences.
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Exploring Size - Powers of Ten Game

In this activity, learners compete to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
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Online Workshop Recording: From small steps to giant leaps – experiences adapting the Moon Adventure Game for use in camps, with young audiences, and for all humankind!

Online professional development workshop recording about how multiple partners are using the Moon Adventure Game to engage audiences (2021).
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Games for the Future

In this activity, learners participate in futures thinking and learn about the United Nation's global goals for sustainable development by playing a series of games.
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Atoms to Atoms Card Game - training guide and materials

In this training exercise, learners will play a game where they assign descriptive terms to chemistry-related phrases and discuss why they feel that way.
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Exploring Size - Memory Game

In this activity, learners play a card game exploring the different size scales - macro, micro and nano - objects within these different scales and the way these objects are measured.
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Sizing Things Down card game

In this activity, learners compete against each other (or the activity facilitator) to organize their hand of cards into lists of objects from largest to smallest.
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Moon Adventure Game Digital Kit

In this collaborative game, players will work together to solve a series of challenges grounded in real science about living and doing research on the Moon.
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Exploring the Solar System: Mission to Space board game

In this activity, learners play a board game in which they represent a team of scientists and engineers sending a spacecraft on a mission to space.
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Nano Around the World card game

In this activity, learners are asked to assume the role of their character to find nanotechnologies that might benefit them and reflect on the potential uses of nanotechnology across the globe.
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Macro, Micro and Nano Memory card game

In this activity, learners play a memory game to explore the macroscale, microscale and nanoscale through representative objects.
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Exploring the Universe: Space Guess Quest Game

In this activity, learners play a yes-or-no question guessing game that identifies the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds.
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Wheel of the Future

In this stage presentation, learners are contestants in a game show that encourages them to discover facts about nanotechnology and consider the concerns people have for new field.
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Online Workshop Recording: Preparing for NASA Perseverance's landing on Mars

Online professional development workshop recording focused on NASA Perseverance's landing on Mars (2021).
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Survival: A Game Show about People, Planet, and Prosperity

In this activity, learners will work as a team to discover that the three main pillars of sustainability (People, Planet, and Prosperity) are interconnected and necessary to a healthy future.
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