COVID-19 Resources

The National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net) is a community of informal educators and scientists dedicated to supporting learning about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) across the United States. Team-based inquiry (TBI) is a practical approach to empowering education professionals to get the data they need, when they need it, to improve their products and practices and, ultimately, more effectively engage public and professional audiences.

The Discovery Center Museum offers a diversity of science videos, with accompanying downloadable instructions, for playful learning at home.

The Chicago Academy of Sciences Nature Museum ​provides you with a new email series, dedicated to a day's worth of nature and science facts, activities, guiding questions to ask your kids, and more.

NASA is offering a diversity of resources for science engagement from home, including e-books, activities for kids and families, virtual tours, podcasts, and videos, among others.

If you are interested in academic resources, reports, and coverages of COVID-19, check out these recommended websites.

The Great Lakes Science Center streams daily live interactive science videos on their YouTube channel.

The Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS) has engineered a weekly STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum for students of all grade levels. The MODS Challenge invites students, teachers, and parents to solve real-world problems through STEM and project-based learning.

NEMO science center offers a diversity of online material for active discovery from home; they are categorized under "Did You Know?", "Do It Yourself", and "Test Yourself".

A key part of science centres and museums’ role has always been as communicators of science, a reliable source of scientific facts and reasoning. If our institutions want to tackle misinformation, what is now apparent is that providing access to science is not enough. To address the problems of misinformation, we must go beyond fact-checking and engage in real dialogue with our communities.

NAMES members continue to serve and connect with their communities through various online platforms, fulfilling their mission of supporing informal science learning while encouraging audiences to stay safe.