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Explore Science: Earth & Space 2020 physical toolkit - Part B shipping to 350 partners across the United States!

December 16, 2020
Ali Jackson, Sciencenter
Part B NISE Network’s 2020 Explore Science: Earth & Space physical toolkit, including the *new* Moon Adventure Game is in the process of shipping!
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Newsletter: December 2020

Check out this month's NISE Network newsletter for the latest project and professional development opportunities, upcoming events, community announcements, science news, and much more.
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Citizen scientist taking a precipitation measurement on a CoCoRaHS rain gauge

The 2021 Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities project application is now open!

November 27, 2020
Sara Benson, Museum of Science
Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC) 2021 project and stipend announcement to support public forums in climate hazards and resilience planning.
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Mars planet About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km per pixel - credited to NASA JPL-Caltech USGS

Mars Habitat Project

Build a Human Habitat on Mars is a hands-on exhibit designed to inspire, engage, and educate the next generation of explorers about human exploration on Mars; 52 copies will be designed and fabricated as an addition to the 52 copies of the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition located throughout the United States.
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LCVM Learning to Launch hands-on exhibit

Partner Highlight: NISE Network Activities Add More Learning Opportunities to a Rural Central Pennsylvania Children’s Museum

November 3, 2020
Lisa Ditty, Lykens Valley Children's Museum
Lykens Valley Children’s Museum’s (LVCM) “Launch Into Learning” space inspired exhibition debuted with new exhibits, and a space shuttle, for children to explore and new STEM stations from the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Network) for even more hands-on learning about space.
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Science-To-Civics: Building Community Resilience to Climate Hazards Through Citizen Science and Public Deliberation

November 2, 2020
Sara Benson, Museum of Science
The Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC) project engages public participants in active learning about climate hazards through citizen science, also known as community science, deliberative forums and resilience planning. Learn more about this project and upcoming opportunities, including an online workshop on December 1st.
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Touched by an Asteroid: At-home Resources for NASA’s Latest Asteroid Mission

October 29, 2020
NISE Network
NASA celebrated a major accomplishment in October when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touched an ancient asteroid known as Bennu–currently more than 200 million miles away from Earth! OSIRIS-REx’s interplanetary encounter with Bennu lasted just long enough for the spacecraft to...
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Partner Highlight: Finding Success in Virtual Sustainability Programming

October 7, 2020
Nich Weller, Arizona State University
Efforts to incorporate and promote sustainability in the age of COVID might look a bit different than they did last year, but that hasn’t slowed the progress and ideas of some dedicated museum professionals. In September, the third cohort of NISE Network's Sustainability Fellowship Program shared their progress implementing a sustainability project at their museums.
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Moon Adventure Game - Introduction

The Moon Adventure Game - An All New Interactive Experience

October 6, 2020
Christina Leavell
​​​​​​​If you received the NISE Network’s 2020 Explore Science: Earth and Space toolkit Part A earlier this year, then you have recently been contacted about receiving Part B of this year’s toolkit in the coming months. These messages mention the inclusion of a “collaborative Moon game” with this toolkit, but just what is a collaborative Moon Game? The Moon Adventure Game is a hands-on collaborative experience for STEM learning in museums and planetariums.
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Partner Highlight: Hawaii Science and Technology Museum Working Hard to Bring STEM and NISE to the Big Island of Hawaii in Challenging Times!

September 2, 2020
Christian Wong, Executive Director, Hawaii Science and Technology Museum
The Hawaii Science and Technology Museum wanted to share our current and upcoming activities with all of you. Needless to say this is going to be an incredibly challenging school year as we deal with the effects of COVID-19 and how it has affected our society, economy, and educational infrastructure. We feel a duty to continue to serve Hawaii Island as best we can through our various educational and research programs and partnerships.
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