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Exploring the Universe: Filtered Light
NISE NetworkAdd to list Details"Exploring the Universe: Filtered Light" demonstrates how scientists can use telescopes and other tools to capture and filter different energies of light to study the universe. Most...
Exploring the Solar System: Craters
NISE NetworkAdd to list Details"Exploring the Solar System: Craters" is an active, hands-on activity that demonstrates how craters form, and what they can teach us about the history and composition of planets and moons...
Exploring the Solar System: Magnetic Fields
NISE NetworkAdd to list DetailsThe "Exploring the Solar System: Magnetic Fields" activity shows participants how scientists can use tools to study the invisible magnetic fields of Earth, the Sun, and other objects in...
Exploring the Universe: Exoplanet Transits
NISE NetworkAdd to list DetailsIn "Exploring the Universe: Exoplanet Transits," participants simulate one of the methods scientists use to discover planets orbiting distant stars. Even when a planet is too far away to...
Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets
NISE NetworkAdd to list DetailsIn "Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets," participants learn about how some rockets carry science tools—not scientists—into space, and how a special kind of rocket called "...
Exploring Earth: Paper Mountains
NISE NetworkAdd to list DetailsIn this activity, learners explore in what ways the shape of the land and the pull of gravity influence how water moves over Earth. By making unique mountain models from crumpled paper and watching...
Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life
NISE NetworkAdd to list Details“Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life” is a hands-on activity in which visitors imagine and draw an extreme environment beyond Earth, then invent a living thing that could thrive in it. They...