Join this hands-on workshop demonstrating the enormous
potential for data collection, analysis, and student lab reporting in your
digital laboratory. Handouts.
Speaker: Gregory Dodd, Retired Educator
Session Topic:
General Science Education
Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
Track:
Bridging the Three Dimensions of Science Teaching and Learning: Practices, Core Ideas, and Crosscutting Concepts
Join us to learn about this collaborative partnership
that brings STEM education to gifted and talented elementary and middle school
students. Participating students are provided with intensive and interactive
activities in science, technology, engineering, and math. Specific connections
to the NGSS, as well as practices to increase student interest and
knowledge in the STEM subjects will be included.
Speaker: Kimberly Clayton-Code, Professor, Northern Kentucky University
Session Topic:
General Science Education
Session Type:
Presentation
Track:
Constructing Bridges: Building Lifelong Appreciation and Passion for Science
Room: Junior Ballroom A, Duke Energy Convention Center
Learn about Argument-Driven Inquiry and how it can help students learn how to use disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices to explain natural phenomena.
Speakers: Leeanne Gleim, Account Executive, Argument-Driven Inquiry, LLC Victor Sampson, Associate Professor of STEM Education, The University of Texas at Austin
Designing and implementing assessments for the
NGSS require a markedly different approach to science assessment than
traditionally taken. Effective assessments have the potential to generate a
robust suite of usable information about science performance, if designed and
used well. Emphasis will be placed on practical dos, don’ts, and strategies for
transitioning assessments to be 3-D.
Model stellar evolution processes using NASA images, plot H-R diagram
transitions, and determine the chemistry and physics of supernovas using NASA
STEM image analysis tools.
Speaker: Donna Young, NASA/NSO UoL Coordinator
Session Topic:
Earth and Space Science, Engineering-Technology-and the Application of Science, Physical Science
Attention will be paid to breaking down the essentials
of computational thinking (CT) with examples and providing strategies and
activities to infuse CT into existing STEM curriculum.
Speaker: Anu Gokhale, Professor, Illinois State University
Join us as we explore AACT and ACS lab safety resources
and how to use them in your middle school and high school science
classrooms.
Speakers: Jennifer Bishoff, MAT Secondary Program Coordinator, Frostburg State University Marta Gmurczyk, Manager, Safety Programs, American Chemical Society
Life science activities designed to address the newly
accepted NSTA/ASTE 2020 Science Standards for Teacher Preparation and increase the pedagogical
content knowledge of elementary preservice and inservice teachers will be
presented.
Speaker: Karen Ostlund, 2012–2013 NSTA President, The University of Texas at Austin
Examine obstacles and solutions for rural girls in STEM
and analyze data from a supporting lab to demonstrate effectiveness to
administration and community partners.
Speaker: Carmen Dixon, Capital University
Session Topic:
General Science Education
Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
Available Handouts :
Eureka! Science Trade Books: Good as Gold!***CANCELED***
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 202, Duke Energy Convention Center
Need great books for student learning? Explore and use NSTA Recommends and the Children’s Book Council Outstanding Science Trade Books. Door prizes—books, of course!
Room: Junior Ballroom C/D, Duke Energy Convention Center
Feeling overwhelmed by all there is to see and do at an
NSTA conference on science education? Join us for an interactive exploration
through the program, the conference app, and NSTA’s social media. By the end of
the session, you will know just how to get the most from your conference
experience in addition to building new networks with science
colleagues.
Speaker: Christine Anne Royce, NSTA Retiring President, and Professor and Co-Director of MAT, Shippensburg University
What does pH actually measure? In this investigation, you will measure pH
indirectly using indicators and absorption using the Lab-Master. Using their
data, participants generate a graph of absorbance versus pH. This graph can be
used to determine the pH of solutions, within the measured pH range. Join us for
this activity from The Natural Approach to Chemistry program.
Speaker: Brandon Watters, Science Teacher, Vernon Hills High School
The development of CRISPR as a gene editing tool is one of the most exciting biotechnology breakthroughs of the past decade. Now you can incorporate this amazing technology into your classroom. We will review the biology behind CRISPR-Cas technology and examine the use of gene therapy to treat a patient suffering from cystic fibrosis. You’ll design guide RNAs to target a mutation in an essential gene, and then use electrophoresis to analyze pre-prepared DNA after CRISPR treatment.
Speaker: Kelly Barford, Edvotek Inc.
Session Topic:
Engineering-Technology-and the Application of Science, Life Science
Explore the role literacy plays in the IQWST classroom.
Take part in a science lesson that demonstrates the integration of literacy
strategies in the context of science, including the incorporation of academic
language in written responses and oral discourse in conjunction with
investigations using an interactive word wall. Reading and differentiation
strategies highlighted.
Speaker: Ellen Mintz, PD Facilitator, Activate Learning
Pacific lionfish in the Atlantic Ocean? Why do we care? Explore the impact of invasive species on energy flow through food webs by seamlessly blending hands-on investigations, leveled informational text, and notebooking. Discover how Delta Education’s new ScienceFLEX modules make science accessible to all. Leave with literacy strategies, a complete lesson plan, and digital tools to try with your diverse learners next week. Door prizes!
Speakers: Mary Anne Feller, Science Specialist, Grades K-5, Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School Deborah Vannatter, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation
ENGAGE your students in investigating enzyme structure/function using multiple modeling strategies. EXPLORE and EXPLAIN catabolism, anabolism, competitive and noncompetitive inhibition with hands-on/minds-on instructional materials. ELABORATE on insecticide inhibition at an enzyme active site resulting in unintended consequences. EVALUATE student learning with an enzyme molecular story. Handouts provided!
Speakers: Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs Tim Herman, MSOE Center for BioMolecular Modeling
Session Topic:
Engineering-Technology-and the Application of Science, Life Science, Physical Science
Room: Grand Ballroom B, Duke Energy Convention Center
Join National Geographic Explorer Luke Dollar as he recounts ups, downs, problems, and solutions from more than two decades in fieldwork, conservation, and education in Africa and the United States. The son of two teachers, Luke grew up in the 1970s and 80s in the rural South with loves of both the classroom and the outdoors, and is happiest when both come together. His scientific research focuses on predators ranging from big cats to Madagascar’s largest carnivore, the fossa, and satellite analyses of their habitat. More than half of his overall efforts, however, are concentrated on grassroots education and sustainable employment programs for local people sharing space with Africa’s predators. His efforts have not only yielded a trove of data on carnivore biology and behavior, but also his programs have led to the development of scholastic and sustainable business programs benefiting thousands of local subsistence farmers and their children.
NSTA wishes to thank National Geographic Learning | Cengage for sponsoring this speaker.
Speaker: Luke Dollar, National Geographic Explorer and Bashore Distinguished Professor, Catawba College
A decomposing corpse is found in a field. Four possible
missing persons fit the description. But who is it? Using clues near the scene
will help determine identity. Forensic anthropologist Diane France helped to
develop this free middle school and high school forensic science
lesson.
Learn how to encourage the development of your students’ skills in analyzing and interpreting authentic scientific data. Students can develop their scientific practice skills with free digital media tools and resources from PBS LearningMedia, produced by WGBH in collaboration with NASA and other partners. In addition to adapting videos, images, and interactives, the project features an innovative approach to incorporating data visualizations and computer simulations into instructional experiences.
Speakers: Shawn Stevens, WGBH Education Jenn Stormer, WGBH Teacher Advisor, Northmont City School District
Explore a new, atomically accurate model of double-helical DNA that can be
untwisted into the familiar two-dimensional ladder and separated into two single
strands to model the processes of replication and transcription! Engage students
with manipulatives that allow them to convert deoxyribose to ribose sugars and
generate the universal currency of energy, ATP.
Speakers: Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs Tim Herman, MSOE Center for BioMolecular Modeling
Session Topic:
Engineering-Technology-and the Application of Science, Life Science, Physical Science
How big is the solar system? Discover why it takes 7 miles of desert to create a model that is accurate for both size and distance. Experience grade-appropriate models (including augmented reality) in life, Earth, and physical sciences as we seamlessly blend hands-on investigations, technology, leveled informational text, and notebooking from Delta Education’s new ScienceFLEX modules. Leave with resources and try to win a door prize!
Speakers: Deborah Vannatter, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation Mary Anne Feller, Science Specialist, Grades K-5, Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School
Session Topic:
Earth and Space Science, Life Science, Physical Science
Develop a sport for the Moon; create a light and sound show to entertain your friends; design and build an improved safety device for a car. Project-based learning motivates students and challenges them to apply their physics knowledge, as well as reflect the three dimensions of NGSS . Active Physics has been incredibly successful in schools. Join the fun and find out how to make your curriculum even better.
Speaker: Arthur Eisenkraft, Distinguished Professor of Science Education, UMass Boston
Help! The principal has been murdered in the art room! Your students become crime scene investigators as they walk into a murder scene. Inspect the location of the murder using blood spatter analysis and then catch the criminal with DNA fingerprinting. This exciting workshop will include ways to incorporate biotechnology and gel electrophoresis into your classroom.
Room: Junior Ballroom B, Duke Energy Convention Center
Learn about Flinn’s new blended labs designed to save time and help students score higher on the AP exam. Each experiment is available digitally and includes pre-lab, how-to, and summary videos that help students perform experiments independently and relate procedures and concepts to exam questions. Each experiment also includes practice AP exam questions on the specific topic, with reteach videos. Hear about how these experiments can fit into your curriculum. AP is a trademark of the College Board. www.flinnsci.comwww.flinnprep.com.
Speakers: Jonnathan Medina Ramos, Flinn Scientific, Inc. Joan Berry, Flinn Scientific, Inc.
Scientific argumentation is more than filling in boxes.
Experience how students grapple authentically with competing claims, evaluate
evidence quality, and are supported in the struggle to make their reasoning
clear—all with examples from the newest curriculum from UC Berkeley’s Lawrence
Hall of Science, designed from the ground up for
NGSS.
Speaker: Leslie Stenger, The Lawrence Hall of Science
We distill water to purify it, or so we think. So why does the clear
distillate from apple cider smell like apples? Join us and find out! Using a
clever test-tube distillation apparatus, we will distill the essence of vanilla
and the scent of mint…and even show you how to make brandy from wine!
Distillation is a crucial process in chemical engineering and technology, yet
few students ever get to explore the process.
Speaker: Brandon Watters, Science Teacher, Vernon Hills High School
Looking for lab activities that work every time, not
just periodically? Explore easy, engaging, and safe chemistry activities that
will produce a reaction in your students. Whether you’re new to chemistry or
feeling out of your element, you’ll learn new ways to create excitement with
hands-on labs, demonstrations, and digital content.
In this short course, participants will explore the key features of assessments designed to elicit three-dimensional performances with an emphasis on fairly and equitably supporting diverse learners. Using research-based tools and processes, we will dive into examples of high-quality assessments and examine annotated examples of assessments. Walk away with a deeper understanding of the NGSS, what three-dimensional assessments “look like,” and concrete short- and long-term strategies you can use to transition your existing assessments. Bring materials to take notes. For more information, visit Achieve.org. Expect a 30-minute break for lunch on own.
Speakers: Rae McEntyre, Kentucky Dept. of Education Aneesha Badrinarayan, Associate Director, Achieve, Inc.
Add action and excitement to your science class with
live organisms! Discover fun, simple hands-on three-dimensional activities with
a variety of insects and arthropods you can use in your labs. Learn about care
and handling, as well as easy ways to introduce phenomena. Additional resources
available online for your classroom.
What is the difference between subscripts and coefficients? What does
“balancing” a chemical equation mean? Many students have trouble with these
fundamental concepts in chemistry. If a student does not fully understand the
chemical formula, then moles, reactions, and stoichiometry are hopelessly
confusing. Join us for some elegant, intuitive, and well-differentiated lessons
that allow students of all levels to master the chemical formula and thereby
move confidently into a deeper understanding of chemistry.
Speaker: Brandon Watters, Science Teacher, Vernon Hills High School
Session Topic:
Engineering-Technology-and the Application of Science, Physical Science
Glowing cats? Personalized medicine? Designer babies! Empower and prepare
your students to think critically as modern biology revolutionizes medicine,
industry, and human lives. Learn from a leader in biotechnology education how to
build your bioscience lab program step-by-step with equipment, supplies, and
student credentials.
Explore how instructional sequences designed around
real-world problems can lead students to figure out phenomena using the three
dimensions of science and engineering. Leaders from UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall
of Science will showcase an example from the Hall’s research-based pedagogy and
curriculum.
Speakers: Sophia Lambertsen, The Lawrence Hall of Science Leslie Stenger, The Lawrence Hall of Science
Explore the role literacy plays in the Science Companion
Prime classroom. Participate in a lesson that demonstrates the integration of
literacy strategies in the context of science. This includes the incorporation
of academic language in written responses and oral discourse in conjunction with
investigations using an interactive word wall. Reading and differentiation
strategies highlighted.
Speaker: Ellen Mintz, PD Facilitator, Activate Learning
Neuroscience is one of the fastest growing science fields. Bring it to your classroom by making your students neuroscientists for the day! Explore the neurodegenerative disorders Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s. First, we’ll run a genetic analysis on a family who may carry the Huntington gene using PCR and gel electrophoresis. Then, we’ll run an ELISA to explore the biology behind Alzheimer’s disease.
Speaker: Kelly Barford, Edvotek Inc.
Session Topic:
Engineering-Technology-and the Application of Science, Life Science
Participants will learn how Clever Crazes for Kids (CCK) integrates Earth science, life science, physical science, anatomy, space, and nutrition into our K–8, STEAM-based, academic learning games. Take home a cool backpack and training materials. Also leave with the knowledge needed to implement CCK in your classrooms.
The word “assessment” can strike fear into the hearts of students. Join FOSS developers to learn how assessment can be transformed into an integrated teaching tool that grades 3–8 teachers and students both embrace to create a classroom culture of growth mind-set that motivates effort to improve learning.
Speaker: Brian Campbell, Curriculum Developer, The Lawrence Hall of Science
Do you want to have fun while adding another tool to your technology tool belt? Come join 3Doodler EDU for a hands-on session to bring more fun and engagement to your lessons! We will complete an example mini lesson plan using 3D pens, as well as talk about how other teachers are using 3D printing pens in their classrooms.
Explore STEM with concrete, metal, clay, and plastics.
Apply math concepts to lots of real-world examples. Cheap supplies and
destructive testing ROCK!
Speakers: Briana Richardson, Teacher, Washington High School Scott Spohler, Science Department Chair, Global Impact STEM Academy
Session Topic:
Engineering-Technology-and the Application of Science, Physical Science
Get your students to do more than just read a graph, chart, or statement! Join TCI and take on the role of students in an engaging Bring Science Alive! investigation in which you analyze and interpret data and construct an argument based on research.
Students need to experience and make sense of relevant science phenomena that connect to and define standards—a challenging task for teachers. Learn strategies for providing direct experience with phenomena and guiding students to constructing explanations and developing models to explain everyday phenomena around them using the FOSS program.
Speaker: Brian Campbell, Curriculum Developer, The Lawrence Hall of Science
We will combine biology and coding to create an
artificial heart! With some basic materials, you will construct a four-chambered
heart and then innervate it with an artificial nervous system. From
there, write some very simple code (no coding experience required) to bring
the heart to life! If time permits, you will also create an AED! Appropriate for
middle school and high school.
