NISE Network Blog
Washington DC Nano News - A Tale of Two Bills
July 17, 2009
Margaret Glass
Building connections between social science and informal science education
July 15, 2009
Larry Bell
Members of the NISE Net Program group and faculty and students at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University are teaming up to demonstrate and discuss potential collaborations between the social science community and the informal science...
Blowing Bubbles and Learning About Nanostructures
July 8, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Visitors to the Sciencenter in Ithaca, NY , are blowing bubbles and exploring the nanoworld at the same time. Visitors to the outdoor science park investigate the properties of bubbles, structures that self-assemble from soap film. They also create large...
There's POLYMER SLIME in that summer camp!
July 2, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Campers at the Austin Children's Museum will be learning about molecules and mixing up a batch of polymer slime this summer, as well as extracting strawberry DNA , and doing the liquid crystals activity from the NanoDays kit in the...
What makes you think that?
June 19, 2009
Vrylena Olney
The NISE Net has a forum called "Risks, Benefits, and Who Decides?" but maybe the question should be "How do they decide?" Dietram Scheufele, a Professor of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin is one of the authors...
NanoVenture game about nanotechnology and society
June 18, 2009
Vrylena Olney
It's not a NISE Net product, but our partners at the University of Wisconsin - Madison MRSEC just finished their NanoVenture game! The game explores connections between science (specifically nanotechnology) and society. Greta Zenner , the Director of the Interdisciplinary...
There's nano in that summer camp! Part 3
June 12, 2009
Vrylena Olney
Mike Rathbun at the Discovery Center Museum in Rockford, IL recently emailed saying that they plan to conduct a 2-day teacher workshop on nanoscale science plus they're attempting daily nano cart demos on their floor all summer. The Introduction to...
How did you plan and schedule your NanoDays event?
June 10, 2009
Beck Tench
For this installment of the NanoDays Blog, I want you to answer the question: How did you plan and schedule your NanoDays event? NanoDays 2009 at Maryland Science Center Here are some specific questions to help get you thinking. What...
There's nano in that summer camp! Part 2
June 2, 2009
Vrylena Olney
It's all-summer-programming-all-the-time on the Nano Bite this week. Here are a few examples of how partners are incorporating nano topics into their regular summer programming: Magnets Arizona Science Center is making magnetism more intriguing by introducing kids to ferrofluid, from...
What NanoDays Kit activities worked best for you?
June 2, 2009
Beck Tench
Sylvia Algire, Assistant Manager of the Field Trips department at the Exploratorium just emailed a comment about her experience with NanoDays 2009. "The visitors (mostly field trip students) were drawn to the demos that had some type of specific and...