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National Chemistry Week

National Chemistry Week 2020

October 18, 2020 - October 25, 2020
This year's National Chemistry Week's theme is "Sticking with Chemistry." National Chemistry Week (NCW) is a public awareness campaign that promotes the value of chemistry in everyday life.
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Partner Highlight: The Lawrence Hall of Science Pauses for Racial Justice

June 30, 2020
<p>Rena Dorph, Ph.D., Director; Frank Kusiak, NISE West Regional Coordinator; Kalie Sacco, MPA, Chief of Staff, Director's Office</p>
These are indeed difficult times. We have been challenged by a series of racist killings by police that once again have laid bare the systemic institutional racism that persists in the United States. The Lawrence Hall of Science is the University of California, Berkeley’s public science center and much of our work in science education is motivated by our values of equity and social justice as well as our hope for a better future. However, recent events led us to realize that we had yet to do enough and that we need to take further and immediate action.
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Moon Adventure Game Extensions

Extending the Moon Game Experience before or after the game allows players to go further in depth with Moon content. Lists of resources include hands-on activities to play before or after the game, imagery, visualizations, audio to add to the game experience.
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Let’s Do Chemistry Train-the-Trainer Online Workshop

ChemAttitudes, a collaborative project between the NISE Network and American Chemical Society, used a design-based research approach to develop a learning framework and a kit of hands-on informal educational activities to stimulate interest, a sense of relevance, and feelings of self-efficacy.
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Kitting materials for 2019 toolkit

Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 Physical Toolkits SHIPPING to 350 partners across the United States!

February 28, 2019
Ali Jackson
The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 physical toolkit have shipped out to 350 institutions nationwide!
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SD Discovery Center

Partner Highlight: A Journey through chemistry from Pierre, South Dakota to the ocean to outer space

February 4, 2019
Dr. Rhea Waldman, SD Discovery Center
What does Central South Dakota have to do with the Ocean and Outer Space? Knowing how everything is connected is essential to understand our changing world, and so is empowering kids to realize everyone can make an impact – no...
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NISE Network members eligible to enter the 2019 Quantum Matters™ Hands-on Science Communication Competition

February 1, 2019
Museum of Science, Boston
NanoDays...now with a Quantum Leap at the Museum of Science in Boston NanoDays is taking a Quantum Leap this year at the Museum of Science . The Museum has rebranded it to reflect that many of its university research center...
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Nano mini-exhibition birdseye view

¿Qué es Nano? - Exhibición Nano

Nano es una exhibición entretenida e interactiva para toda la familia acerca de la ciencia, la ingeniería y la tecnología a nanoescala. Los componentes participativos de la exposición se enfocan en las bases de la nanociencia, aplicaciones de la nanoescala en la vida real y las implicaciones sociales y éticas de esta nueva tecnología.
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Nano mini-exhibition birdseye view

What is Nano? - Nano exhibition overview and locations

Nano exhibition resources and locations for public audiences. Nano is an interactive exhibition that engages family audiences in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Hands-on exhibits present the basics of nanoscience and engineering, introduce some real world applications, and explore the societal and ethical implications of this new technology.
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Applications for free physical 2018 Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkits of hands-on activities due November 1, 2017

August 29, 2017
Catherine McCarthy, Science Museum of Minnesota
The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) is pleased to offer 250 free Explore Science: Earth & Space 2018 toolkits to new and existing eligible partners in the United States. In collaboration with NASA, the NISE Network has assembled...
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