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In partnership with individual Educational Service Districts, Washington Green Schools (WGS) is sparking climate science knowledge and action in diverse schools across the state.

Explore the parallel processes in science and literacy learning for young students that helps to build capacity for lifelong learning in both areas. Handouts.

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. 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.

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.

Find out how to blend career-connected learning with science learning using a suite of career awareness and exploration resources featuring diverse STEM professionals and STEM workplaces.

Students see themselves reflected in phenomena-based science curricula. Receive replicable units and guidelines for life science curriculum that centers students’ identity and investment.

Beyond posting pictures of classroom activities, how can you harness the power of social media to enhance your lessons for 21st-century science?

Are you a K–12 science teacher in need of a science lab makeover? Attend this Shell Science Lab presentation and learn how you can apply to win the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge! You will have an opportunity to actually begin to complete the application and have your questions answered.

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.

Port Townsend School District will share their process for building ocean acidification projects in collaboration with community partners, teachers, and students at multiple grade levels.

Shelton School District students participate in outdoor learning experiences every year. Find out how these experiences prepare grades 5–8 students for high school STEM pathways in the natural sciences.

Explore citizen-science projects that can engage diverse students, especially girls, in authentic data collection and inspire scientific investigations.

Learn how to access and explore NOAA’s data-rich resources, lesson plans, and visualization tools to help you build student proficiency in scientific data analysis.

Explore and discuss strategies for deepening the NGSS competencies of secondary science through ongoing PD with a focus on meeting teacher PD needs using data collection and learning progressions to shift teacher practice.

Teachers from Beijing middle and secondary STEM schools will demonstrate unique integrated projects and activities. Participants will be actively engaged in model lessons that authentically include all STEM components.

Find out how to develop escape room games in your classroom to engage your students!

Come engage in a quick engineering challenge that demonstrates how your students can define problems, create criteria and constraints, and engage in evidence-based engineering argumentation.

What makes it rain? M&Ms vs. Skittles? Baking soda vs. baking powder? Free online lesson plans of hands-on activities and animations help your elementary students build foundational concepts in chemistry.

Join us to explore permeable and impermeable surfaces with a science and math integrated activity used to engage learners in locally relevant, watershed-based investigations.

Join us to learn how to anchor student learning in hyper-local and relevant phenomena using the anchoring phenomenon routine.

Explore the concepts of metabolic budgets and oxygen minimum zones and how human activities may be affecting organisms that live in these extreme environments.

In 2019, Achieve launched a network of districts in Tennessee with the goal of building their collective capacity to move toward their vision for science education for all students. Find out how the network used a collective need for better assessments as a key lever for change to simultaneously improve assessments, increase teacher capacity, and advance equity in science.

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.

Explore how to adapt a classic science activity, strawberry DNA extraction, to allow students agency in experimental design and emphasize the importance of collaborative argumentation.

Explore how students can participate in an NSF-funded project to isolate and identify new strains and species of nematode worms from the environment.

Come learn about a partnership between the North Cascades Institute, Western Washington University, and Bellingham Public Schools to support students in learning about forest ecosystems. We’ll share lesson plans and lessons learned!

Attention will be paid on identifying theories and specific STEM activities that may be applied within preschool classrooms to promote children’s development.

How might we engage students who seem uninterested in science? Join Nalini as she describes her approach of “tapestry thinking,” weaving the ecological values of the tropical rainforest trees she has studied for three decades with other societal values, such as sports, religion, the arts, and social justice. Her programs inspire a sense of wonder and stewardship for forests and nature in groups who do not or cannot gain access traditional venues for science education. She has engaged urban children, faith-based groups, policy-makers, incarcerated adults, and youth in custody by partnering with “ambassadors” of these groups and then bringing engagement events to the venues where they naturally gather. Similarly, formal science educators might find common ground with their unengaged students by recognizing and weaving their students’ passions with the scientific way of knowing to create an inclusive tapestry of understanding of our world.

NSTA wishes to thank National Geographic Learning | Cengage for sponsoring this speaker.

STEM learning requires integration! Powerful questions and coherent storylines help solve the integration challenge. PBIScience is built around interesting and meaningful Big Questions and Big Challenges, supporting the integration of science and engineering, engaging ALL students in high-quality STEM learning, and embracing the vision of the Framework and NGSS.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The NGSS have raised the bar for scientific rigor and thinking. In grades 3–5, students define problems using criteria for success and constraints or limits of possible solutions. Learn how Building Blocks of Science 3D helps students use criteria and constraints to solve real-world problems. Take home lesson and workshop materials.

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.

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.

Looking for lab activities that work every time, not just periodically? Explore easy, engaging, and safer 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.

With shows like CSI and NCIS, forensics is popular with students. Come experience some hands-on forensic activities that you can take back to your classroom. Don’t commit the crime of letting this workshop pass you by! Also, learn about the AEOP GEMS and UNITE programs that give students the chance to experience STEM enrichment over the summer!

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.