![A facilitator holds a bottle while a learner wafts a scent to her nose](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/splashy_hero_large/public/2022-02/ExSci_Chem_20180530_1735.jpg?h=265e640d&itok=TyjIwUlC)
Senses
Smell
![A facilitator adds scented oils into deflated balloons](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/20120216GH_0371.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=v3heMijA)
Exploring Size - Smelly Balloons
![Adult and children sensing and discussing odors in Chemistry Makes Scents activity](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/exsci_chem_20180530_2245_0.jpg?itok=EsgAqZNR)
Chemistry Makes Scents
![A facilitator holds a bottle while a learner wafts a scent to her nose](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/ExSci_Chem_20180530_1735.jpg?h=265e640d&itok=moVmabyK)
Exploring Size - Scented Solutions
![Woman smelling chocolate](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12008/screen_shot_2013-09-18_at_1.07.59_pm.png?itok=_1Fj-1B0)
What’s Nano About Chocolate?
![Learner with safety goggles smelling a balloon with scent molecules](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/8602/scent.png?h=a6dc030a&itok=uq64GYQD)
Getting a Sense of Smell
Taste
![Participants interact with cutouts that have information on them](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2021-01/20160315_1043.jpg?h=ba41d7b3&itok=FLKIGQCe)
Food Activities
![NanoDays Nano Food activity components including sign, guides, and activity materials.](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/nano_food.jpg?h=774126d1&itok=skTcDgpp)
Exploring Products - Nano Food
![Gum and Chocolate Chemistry activity - child holding piece of chocolate](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2023-03/gum_and_chocolate_chemistry_activity_-_child_holding_piece_of_chocolate.jpg?h=265e640d&itok=c95FL1Cr)
Gum and Chocolate
Hearing
![Learner colors paper elephant ears](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/11119/20110402gh_150_horton_crop.jpg?h=5f970a87&itok=nRkAsUqF)
Horton Hears a Who! Storytime
![A family pays attention to a the story of "Horton Senses Something Small"](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/6434/horton.jpg?h=6fd717d6&itok=HxcHXLQJ)
Horton Senses Something Small
![While sitting at a table, one child points a small transmitter at a vacuum-seal container that has a key finder inside, and another child holds a smartphone up to the other side of the container.](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2023-03/ms2.jpg?h=d5227d54&itok=wYaMS_10)
Radio Explorers: Messages from Space
Vision
![Polarized Light activity with hands holding paper and polarizing tape materials up to the window](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2021-04/Polarized%20Light%20activity%20with%20hands%20holding%20paper%20and%20polarizing%20tape%20materials%20up%20to%20the%20window.jpg?h=a1dd1271&itok=RATL603G)
Light Activities
![Girl looking at objects in a beaker filled with liquid that appear to be invisible](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/11070/invisibility_2.jpg?h=e4c0da04&itok=Nb5ewATQ)
Exploring Properties - Invisibility
![A photoshopped image of people wearing invisibility cloaks hiding everything but their legs](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/11944/screen_shot_2013-08-29_at_12.49.41_pm.png?itok=LK6tkV9N)
Invisibility Cloak video
Invisible Sunblock
![Exploring Tools - Transmission Electron Microscopes activity components including signs, activity materials and guides.](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/transmission_electron_microscopes_kit_materials.jpg?h=8e5f5a16&itok=tW94DhyV)
Exploring Tools - Transmission Electron Microscopes
Touch
![hand reaching inside box in Exploring Tools - Mystery Shapes NanoDays activity](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/11071/mystery_shapes.jpg?h=979f9c9d&itok=q63cQJsK)
Exploring Tools - Mystery Shapes
![Facilitator demonstrates a magnetic field with a small model of Earth](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/MF_2.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=11kMbVmL)
Exploring the Solar System: Magnetic Fields
![Image of the green Small Feel Nano magnet sheets](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/ToolsSPM_magnet_Dec08.jpg?itok=QnIz66S2)
Exploring Tools - Special Microscopes
Is sensing uniquely human?
Touch
Tactile Books and Models for Visually Impaired Visitors
![Child using the Braille book, called "Getting a Feel for Eclipses," features graphics that teach users about the interaction and alignment of the sun with the moon and Earth](/sites/default/files/styles/copy_50/public/2020-09/Braille%20book.jpg?itok=yRgoJuB8)
NISE Network strives to share STEM public engagement resources designed to for all audiences, including blind and visually impaired participants. For more information about how NISE Network products are designed with an inclusive audiences approach using Universal Design principles, visit https://www.nisenet.org/Audiences.
Strategies and Best Practices
- NISE Network Tips for Accessibility, Inclusion, and Engagement in Museums and Planetariums
- Everyone’s Universe by Noreen Grice http://www.youcandoastronomy.com/everunivnew.html
- Universal Design Guidelines and strategies for creating accessible and successful learning and social experiences for multiple and diverse public audiences with the NISE Network. https://www.nisenet.org/catalog/universal-design-guidelines-programs
https://www.nisenet.org/catalog/universal-design-guidelines-exhibits
Earth & Space Tactile Books
- NASA SSERVI Tactile and Braille Books https://sservi.nasa.gov/books/
- Getting a Feel for Lunar Crates: Apollo 50th Commemorative Edition tactile book
- Mars Exploration tactile book
- A Tactile Guide to the Solar System tactile book
- Touch the Stars tactile book http://www.youcandoastronomy.com/bookstars.htm
NASA 3D Printing Resources
- NASA 3D printing and 3D model resources: https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
- Mars
- 3D printable Mars models: https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/search/mars
- Custom 3D print files can be generated using the NASA Mars Trek: https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/
Users can draw bounding boxes around any areas of interest to generate output files for 3D printing of desired surface features, instructions: https://trek.nasa.gov (choose "3D printing" from menu at the bottom of the screen)
- Moon
- 3D Printed image of the Lunar South Pole https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/media.html
- 3D printable lunar models including Apollo landing sites: https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/search/lunar
- Custom 3D print files can be generated using the NASA Moon Trek: https://trek.nasa.gov/moon/
Users can draw bounding boxes around any areas of interest to generate output files for 3D printing of desired surface features, instructions: https://trek.nasa.gov (choose "3D printing" from menu at the bottom of the screen)
- More 3D printing resources
- Smithsonian 3D Digitization (https://3d.si.edu)
- Using TouchSee for 3D printed Braille (https://touchsee.me)
More Resources about Senses
- HowToSmile.org activities about senses
https://www.howtosmile.org/resource-search/senses
Using tools to detect things we can't see
![Scientist using an Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM).](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/20140905GH_099.jpg?h=a66e9592&itok=5u63xIVW)
Microscopes and Tools for the Small
![Photo of the materials used in the Exoplanet Transits activity](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/6_exoplanet_transits.jpg?h=deaec4b9&itok=Vt3nb0bG)
Exploring the Universe: Exoplanet Transits
![Sun Earth Universe visitors using the Mission to Space board game3.jpg](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2020-11/SEU_2-X3.jpg?h=6448fdc1&itok=xXDJhUCB)
Sun, Earth, Universe Questions
![Sun Earth Universe visitors using Sun exhibit flip doors](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2020-11/SEU79-X3.jpg?h=34bbd072&itok=_rRtIM1c)
Sun, Earth, Universe Exhibition
![A model of the intense magnetic fields around the Sun](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2020-12/hot%20lines.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=O2NBc--d)
Why so many tools?