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![Mother and two daughters investigating giant balls of ice in Ice Orbs activity](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/exsci_space_ice_-20160717_1136-m.jpg?h=252f27fa&itok=TTkf7dVK)
2017 Explore Science: Earth & Space Digital Toolkit
Digital download of all public engagement and professional development files in the Explore Science: Earth and Space 2017 toolkit designed to engage the public in Earth and space science.
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![NISE Net 2017 Events Video](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/screen_shot_2017-12-01_at_12.43.18_pm.png?h=08bbab7c&itok=vCnn1R8U)
Explore Science: Earth & Space Events 2017 video
Video highllighting just a few of Earth and Space events held by NISE Network partners in 2017.
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![Blue logo for online workshop recordings](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/2020-12/online-workshop-recordings-logo.jpg?itok=9FGQyoMy)
Online Workshop Recording: The Science Behind the Earth and Space Toolkit: The Changing Earth
Online professional development workshop recording (2017).
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![Blue logo for online workshop recordings](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/2020-12/online-workshop-recordings-logo.jpg?itok=9FGQyoMy)
Online Workshop Recording: The Science Behind the Earth and Space Toolkit: Astrobiology - Searching for Life
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](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/ExSci_Space_Promo_20160717_1608.jpg?h=f68eb11e&itok=bOFNTwNs)
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](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/ex3-L.jpg?h=a31ffb6c&itok=kaOWQ5zU)
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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![two learners and a facilitator examine three ice orbs](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/ExSci_Space_Promo_20160717_1136-XL.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=dAweqpib)
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](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2024-01/Solar%20Eclipse%20ativity%20with%20young%20museum%20visitors%20at%202017%20Science%20Museum%20of%20Minnesota%20Earth%20Day%20event%20credit%20Science%20Museum%20of%20Minnesota%20for%20NISE%20Network%20_T3B0605.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=IKk315g7)
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](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2023-12/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_2.jpg?h=1907b506&itok=xQCjeuZi)
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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![Group shot of learners creating their pocket solar systems](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/ExSci_Space_20180929_1292.jpg?h=6285e0f9&itok=dta_kSGU)
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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