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Leading and Managing the NISE Network booklet photo cover on green background featuring a large group of educators

Leading and Managing the NISE Network: Practical Solutions for Creating a Flexible National Network

Professional development guide for educators, researchers, and network leaders from the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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Online Workshop Recording: What's in Your Explore Science: Earth & Space Toolkit 2017

Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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Online Workshop Recording: Tips for Planning Your August 21, 2017 Solar Eclipse Event

Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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A learner and facilitator place a heavy ball in the middle of a fabric stretched well

Exploring the Universe: Orbiting Objects

In this activity, learners experiment with different sized and weighted balls on a stretchy fabric gravity well.
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a learner creates and draws an extremophile that could live on another planet

Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life

In this activity, learners imagine extreme environments that may exist beyond Earth and create living things that could thrive there.
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Online Workshop Recording: Finding and Collaborating with Astronomy Experts and Volunteers

Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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Exploring the Universe: Ice Orbs

In this activity, learners investigate a sphere of ice and objects hidden inside as a model for icy worlds in our solar system.
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Solar Eclipse ativity with young museum visitors at 2017 Science Museum of Minnesota Earth Day event

Exploring the Solar System: Solar Eclipse

In this activity, learners investigate the positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon to create shadows and learn about solar eclipses.
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Big Sun Small Moon activity with children explores the concept of apparent size and allows visitors to experience this phenomena using familiar objects - a tennis ball and a beach ball

Exploring the Solar System: Big Sun, Small Moon

In this activity, learners explore the concept of the apparent size by looking at models of celestial bodies at different distances.
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Exploring the Solar System: Pocket Solar System

In this activity, learners make a scale model of the distances between objects in our solar system.
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