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Kinder-Engineers: Using Picture Books to Integrate STEM into the Kindergarten Classroom
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Picture books are perfect for connecting STEM and literacy learning! Engage in hands-on engineering challenges using children’s literature as launchpads to learning. |
Speakers:
Brandy Speas, Student, Millersvillle University
Jennifer Shettel, Associate Professor, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Getting Started with STEAM
***CANCELED***
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore the world of STEAM and inexpensive hands-on activities that participants can take back to their classrooms. Tips from my book Getting Started with STEAM: Practical Strategies for the K–8 Classroom will be shared as well. |
Speakers:
Meredith Martin, Science Leadership Academy Middle School
William Krakower, Teacher, Beatrice Gilmore School
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Recruiting and Retaining Minorities and Women in Engineering
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 118B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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There is so much written on this topic that many people think it is impossible to attract women and minorities in the STEM field. It isn’t.Come meet professionals who have successfully inspired women and minorities to join engineering and stay there. Learn what you can do as educators to keep your students interested in a STEM career and discover the lifelong benefits of careers in engineering. In particular, get ready to understand the lasting impact you make on your students, and why what you do right now matters the most.
Moderator: Karen Johnsen, Early Talent Program Manager, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI
Panelists:
Karen Johnsen, Early Talent Program Manager, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI
Andrew Reid, Senior Planning Analyst, Con Edison, New York, NY
Karen Davis, Director, Career Services, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
Speakers:
Andrew Reid, Senior Planning Analyst, Con Edison
Karen Davis, Director, Career Services, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University
Karen Johnsen, Early Talent Program Manager, GE Healthcare
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Design for Success: Engaging Diverse Learners in STEM
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 118C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Join a panel of educators from K–12 and museum settings as they share educator moves to create equitable STEM learning environments. Learn strategies to engage diverse learners in design engineering, making, and sensory-rich STEM exploration. Take part in active discussion with the panel and walk away with inspiration and practical approaches for using design and making to support all students.
Moderator: Janella Watson, Associate Director, Providence Children's Museum, Providence, RI
Panelists:
Gina Tesoriero, Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student, Learning Sciences and Human Development, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle
Dana Schloss, Director of Exhibit Experiences, NYSCI, Corona, NY
Satbir Multani, Design Lab Manager, NYSCI, Corona, NY
Amanda Solarsh, Middle School STEM Educator, Simon Baruch MS104, New York, NY |
Speakers:
Amanda Solarsh, STEM Teacher, Simon Baruch MS104
Satbir Multani, Design Lab Manager, NYSCI
Janella Watson, Associate Director, Providence Children's Museum
Dana Schloss, Director of Exhibit Experiences, NYSCI
Gina Tesoriero, Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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The STEM Influence on Autonomous Vehicles
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Can you imagine driving next to a car on a highway without a driver or any passengers inside? There is a lot of conversation around connected and autonomous vehicles, but how exactly are we going to make this happen? It is estimated that the new driverless vehicle economy could be worth $800 billion by 2035 and $7 trillion by 2050. This has an immense impact on the economy and, most importantly, the STEM workforce. In order to bring driverless vehicles to life, we must understand human behavior and extrapolate unlimited amount of data to ultimately accomplish the key goal of increasing driver safety and saving lives. Join us as we talk about the technology, economy, and how STEM education plays a key role in making driverless vehicles a reality.
Moderator: Seun Phillips, Director, PlanetM, Michigan Economic Development Corp., Detroit, MI
Panelists:
Ajit Sharma, Advisor, Lime Lab, Detroit, MI
atrick A. Hillberg, Solutions Architect, Workforce Development, Siemens PLM Software, Detroit, MI |
Speakers:
Seun Phillips, Director, PlanetM, Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Ajit Sharma, Advisor, Lime Lab
Patrick Hillberg, Solutions Architect, Workforce Development, Siemens PLM Software
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Leveraging Partnerships to Ensure a Future-Ready Workforce
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 119B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist? As leaders in education, we need to leverage every advantage at our disposal to ensure students’ coursework is relevant and that they have experiences in the community that build their understanding of the requirements for the jobs of tomorrow. Join leaders from across the country as they discuss innovative partnerships that are reshaping how students develop skills for success in future STEM careers and are laying the foundation for America’s future-ready workforce.
Moderator: J. Wesley Hall, Executive Director, STEMx at Battelle: Nashville, TN
Panelists:
David Burns, Director, Education Operations, Battelle
Michael Stone, STEM Director of Innovative Learning, Public Education Fund, Chattanooga, TN
Jill Lansing, Assistant Vice Chancellor, SUNY, Empire State STEM Network |
Speakers:
David Burns, Director, STEM Innovation Networks, Ohio STEM Learning Network/Battelle
J. Wesley Hall, Executive Director, STEMx at Batelle
Jill Lansing, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Empire State STEM Network, SUNY
Michael Stone, STEM Director of Innovative Learning, Public Education Foundation
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Teach Your Elementary Students How to Code a Computer Game!
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 307, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Find out how simple it is to teach coding to elementary students using the Scratch programming language. A coding, science, or math background is not necessary. The only thing needed is computer and internet access. Get the tools to develop a game that students can code and then play back in the classroom! Students learn programming concepts and get practice in logic and conceptual thinking. |
Speaker:
Mary Ellen O'Donnell, STEM Teacher Specialist, Village Glen West School
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Audience:
Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Teaching Engineering, Motion, and Energy Through Rube Goldberg
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| This introduction to STEM for elementary classrooms will allow participants to explore motion and energy while creating their own Rube Goldberg machine using found objects. |
Speaker:
Elaine Sevin, 5th Grade Science, Isidore Newman School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Tips for Successfully Teaching NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 113B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| After analyzing their own curriculum for science and engineering practices, teachers will be given resources to ensure all science and engineering practices are being met throughout their curriculum. |
Speakers:
Jessica Cellitti, Graduate Student, Drexel University
Magdalene Moy, Drexel University
Rasheda Likely, Graduate Student, Drexel University
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Quick and Easy STEM Starters
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Spark STEM excitement in your classroom using STEM icebreakers! These 10-minute (or less!) hands-on activities encourage collaboration and communication, and leave students wanting more. |
Speaker:
Kristi Eschberger, Senior Program Coordinator, Girlstart
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Advancing STEM Concepts with Explorations and Problem Solving with a Focus on Physical Structures and Everyday Household Objects
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Enable all K–6 students to recognize the presence, impact, and potential of STEM and the essential integration of all STEM disciplines. Attention will be paid to integration of STEM disciplines in classroom explorations, by analyzing and constructing physical structures and everyday household objects, advancing learning and igniting engagement, critical thinking, and creativity. Handouts. |
Speaker:
Donna Knoell, Educational Consultant
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Coding the CCSS
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 107 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Find out how to establish purposeful routines for coding in the classroom and a variety of resources that can be used including iOS applications, web based programs, unplugged activities, LEGO® robotics, and more. Walk away with the coding confidence you need to return to your classroom/school with a #KidsCanCode mentality. |
Speaker:
David Dulberger, 5th Grade Magnet, Emma K. Doub Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Engaging K–5 Students in Engineering Through Problem Scoping
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 116, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will use problem scoping to show participants how to give their learners a personally meaningful, motivating, and engaging context as they work through the engineering design. |
Speakers:
Jeffrey Kohoutek, K-5 Engineering Specialist, Crossroads Elementary School
Andrea Appel, Teacher, Saint Paul Public Schools
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Meet Ya at the Moon
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 304/VIP, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore authentic learning through literature while teaching the design process and space concepts in an engaging Project-Based Learning. This project is based on a fiction/nonfiction pairing—Space Case by Stuart Gibbs and Next Time You See the Moon by Emily Morgan (NSTA Kids). |
Speakers:
Stefanie Nguyen, Director of STEAM, St. Gabriel's Catholic School
Diana McGuire, Teacher, Mathews Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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STEM-In-A-Tank: Aquaponics Goes to Elementary School
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 115A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Elementary teachers in urban and rural districts collaborate with industry to bring real-world STEM learning to life for their students through aquaponics in the classroom. |
Speakers:
Jesse Maine, Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Carla Zembal-Saul, Professor, Science Education, Penn State
Leann Tepsich-Cox, Steelton-Highspire School District
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Creating Effective Robotics, Engineering, and Technology Makerspaces: What and How?
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Attention will be paid on how to create an effective makerspace specifically designed to advance robotics, technology skills, and engineering principles, as well as increase learning and engagement to fulfill the NGSS. Emphasis will be placed on criteria for what to include, how to use it to reach diverse populations, and how to measure its effectiveness. |
Speaker:
Donna Knoell, Educational Consultant
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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How to Use the Orton-Gillingham Method in the STEM/STEAM Science Classroom
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Learn Orton-Gillingham strategies and activities for science vocabulary, concepts, and organizational skills that can be used immediately in all grade levels and inclusion classes. |
Speaker:
Kathryn Wink, The Bridge Academy of New Jersey
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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STEM Ambassadors in Rural Maine: Leveraging Partnerships
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 102A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us as we demonstrate how several nimble institutional partners have coordinated and leveraged their efforts to provide high-quality STEM learning for middle school and college students. |
Speakers:
Jennifer Atkinson, Project Manager, STEM Guides, Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance
William Otto, Professor of Chemistry, University of Maine at Machias
Jan Mokros, Senior Research Scientist, Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance
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Audience:
College, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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How a Teacher Can Fund STEM Programs
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 124, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| It is challenging to fund standards-based STEM activities for any classroom teacher. Find out how to successfully write a grant to fund activities, find business partners, and achieve success in your program. |
Speakers:
Becky Miller, 5th Grade Science/Math Teacher, Bluewater Elementary School
Katherine Stephens, Teacher, Bluewater Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Modeling Stellar Evolution and Supernovas Using NASA Images, Data, and STEM Analysis Tools
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Model stellar evolution processes using NASA images, plotting H-R diagram transitions, and determining the chemistry and physics of supernovas using NASA STEM image analysis tools. |
Speaker:
Donna Young, NASA/NSO UoL Coordinator
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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This World of Humans: A New Science Podcast from Visionlearning with Free Teaching Guides
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| This World of Humans is a new podcast covering recent discoveries in biology and social science with free teaching guides and a variety of activities. |
Speakers:
Anthony Carpi, Associate Provost & Dean of Research, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Nathan Lents, Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Setting Up an Aquatic Monitoring Program for a Local Stream
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 125, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Create a groundswell of interest in your science students by having them set up a real stream monitoring program that involves the data collection and analysis of parameters that determine stream health. |
Speaker:
Thomas Hinckley, Associate Professor, Landmark College
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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What Is the Science Behind the Yeti Cup Design?
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 123, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Participants will analyze various materials as insulators, and then design and build the newest model of the famous Yeti cup. |
Speaker:
Stacy Thibodeaux, Science Teacher, Southside High School
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Phenomena, Questions, and Models
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Investigate the use of anchoring phenomena in lessons with an emphasis on the science and engineering practices. We will discuss the integration of questioning, models, and phenomena in the classroom. |
Speakers:
Leslie Suters, Tennessee Tech University
Kelly Moore, Lecturer, Tennessee Tech University
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Add the T to STEM with Google Classroom!
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 121C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Google Classroom can add the T to STEM by creating a digital interactive notebook. Leave with ready-to-use assignments. |
Speaker:
Erin Dunroe, Science Specialist, Lakecenter Middle School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Can You Think of a Career Without STEM?
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| In this interactive session, you will identify the many careers that involve STEM and how to make connections to these careers during STEM learning experiences. |
Speakers:
Karly Black, STEM Educator, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Saundra Wever Frerichs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension 4-H
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Building and Sustaining a Culture of STEM in Early Childhood Programs
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Understand and integrate the elements essential to building and sustaining a STEM culture in your early childhood program, through partnerships and a clear program vision. |
Speakers:
Holly King, Director, Early Learning Services, AdvancED
Lisa Sutherland, Early Learning Engagement Specialist, AdvancED
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Audience:
Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Developing Eco-Awareness in Children
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 120A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will share our processes in developing a Global Environmental Literacy program in an urban elementary school with 100% poverty rate, using STEM and 21st-century skills. |
Speakers:
Kimberly Mack, Principal, John P. Parker School
Pamela Knox, John P. Parker School
Robyn White, John P. Parker School
Stephanie Norton, John P. Parker School
Deborah Elkins-Brown, John P. Parker School
Erica Watson, John P. Parker School
Jonaya Brown, John P. Parker School
Jamie Blessing, John P. Parker School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Expanding English Language Learner Vocabulary Through STEM
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 118C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore effective strategies that increase the acquisition and usage of academic language and vocabulary of English language learners and other subgroups through NGSS and STEM. |
Speakers:
Rebecca Haystead, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Frances Flores, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Jena Branstetter, STEM Coordinator, Balboa Middle School
Elizabeth Walker-Martinez, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Inviting Engineering into the Elementary Classroom
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| A major shift in implementing the NGSS involves students actively engaging in science using the eight science and engineering practices. Explore strategies to invite these practices into elementary science labs/explorations. Leave with a template guiding you on flipping traditional science labs to incorporate the science and engineering practices. |
Speaker:
Seth Marie Westfall, Instructional Coach, Racine Unified School District
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Those Darn Squirrels
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 307, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us as we connect kindergarten and first-grade science standards using the book Those Darn Squirrels and STEAM strategies by engineering a squirrel-proof bird feeder. |
Speakers:
Kim Parsons, Teacher, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School
Nichole LeGrant, Teacher, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School
Marie Hill, Teacher, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Polymers: Basics for the Science Classroom
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Simple demonstrations, labs, and activities bring polymers into your curriculum that are STEM relevant. Concepts include formation, classification, structure, and properties. NGSS correlations. Take home a CD of activities/information. |
Speaker:
Debbie Goodwin, Retired High School Science Teacher
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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STEM in Philadelphia: Combining Efforts to Tackle the STEM Education Gap in Philadelphia
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 118B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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In Philadelphia, there are several entities that are working hard to mitigate the decline in STEM performance in public and charter schools. In the past, many of the established programs in the Philadelphia area have operated autonomously from others. Join us to meet the local area STEM Partners and hear what steps are being put into place to resolve this problem so we all can move together toward increasing collaborative efforts between partners, teachers, and students here in the Greater Philadelphia area.
Moderator: Ambra Hook, PFT Health and Welfare Fund: Philadelphia, PA
Panelists:
Jamie Bracey, Director, National Center for Inclusive Competitiveness, College of Engineering, Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
Phil Brooks, Director of STEM Initiatives, Office of Workforce Development, City of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA
Sandra E. Dunham, Science Coordinator, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers: Philadelphia, PA
Emily McGady, Science Curriculum Coordinator, School District of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA
Michele Lee, Cochair, Philadelphia STEM Ecosystem: Philadelphia, PA
Darryl Williams, Senior Vice President, Franklin Institute: Philadelphia, PA |
Speakers:
Phil Brooks, Philadelphia Office of Workforce Development
Ambra Hook, STEM Educator, PFT Health and Welfare Fund
Sandra Dunham, Science Coordinator, PFT Health and Welfare Fund
Michele Lee, Philadelphia STEM Ecosystem
Jamie Bracey, Center for Inclusive Competitiveness
Darryl Williams, Senior Vice President, The Franklin Institute
Emily McGady, Science Curriculum Specialist, School District of Philadelphia
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Integrating Chromebook and BYOD with Vernier Technology (Vernier Software & Technology)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 105 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Participate in fun and engaging experiments that compare grip strengths, investigate pressure/volume relationships, and match position graphs, all using Vernier digital tools with Chromebooks or BYOD. See how sensor-based experiments teach students about data collection and analysis—practices that promote STEM inquiry, improve STEM literacy, and authentically boost test scores. |
Speaker:
David Carter, Vernier Software & Technology
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Vernier Software & Technology
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Putting the “E” in STEM: Engineering in the Middle School Science Classroom (U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP))
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 111 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Bringing engineering (the E in STEM) into science classes can be a challenge. We will help you understand the value of integrating engineering in your science classes and give some tips on how to make the integration seamless. There will also be an explanation of the online STEM competition eCYBERMISSION and how it relates to engineering in the science classroom. |
Speaker:
Matthew Hartman, eCYBERMISSION Content Manager, NSTA
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP)
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Demystifying the NGSS and STEM Through the Phenomenon of Earthquakes (STEMscopes)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 112 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| STEM-based NGSS instruction is based in the 5E and provides avenues for the three dimensions of the Framework and NGSS performance expectations. Join us for technology-based simulations and engineering design challenges that are part of the hands-on component studying the phenomenon of earthquakes. |
Speaker:
Terry Talley, Manager, Professional Development, STEMscopes
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
STEMscopes
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Philly Scientists: Designing Mobile Apps for Urban Youth Mapping the Biodiversity of Their Cities
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 121B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will introduce an NGSS- and career awareness–focused curriculum that incorporates mobile apps and digital badges to map urban biodiversity. |
Speakers:
Magdalene Moy, Drexel University
Rasheda Likely, Graduate Student, Drexel University
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Save a Nickel and Learn to Trickle! (Texas Instruments)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 109 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore some of the parameters involved in irrigating a garden or lawn more efficiently. This hands-on workshop combines some simple computer coding (no experience necessary) with a few inexpensive sensors to create a smart irrigation system. Appropriate for middle school to high school students. Combines Project-Based Learning, science, and coding into a meaningful solution to an unfortunate phenomenon. |
Speaker:
Fred Fotsch, Texas Instruments
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Texas Instruments
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NGSS—Which Way Is Best? Recovering Copper from Waste Solutions (Lab-Aids, Inc.)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 107 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Students investigate the use of reactions with three metals for reducing copper waste and reclaiming copper from a used copper-etching solution. Students use data from their investigation and text sources to develop an evidence-based argument for which metal is the best choice for recovering copper from the waste solution. |
Speaker:
Denis Baker, Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Using Models to Uncover Student Misconceptions in Chemistry (3D Molecular Designs)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Uncover students’ conceptual understanding of atoms, molecules, and compounds using NGSS science and engineering modeling practices. Explore chemistry topics in polarity, pH, density, solubility, bonding, and much more with three-dimensional teaching and learning manipulatives! Make learner thinking visible through student-centered simulations of dissociation and neutralization. Great formative assessment probes provided! |
Speakers:
Keri Shingleton, Holland Hall
Karen Avery, Biology Teacher, Montoursville Area High School
Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
3D Molecular Designs
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Martian Genetics: A DNA and Electrophoresis Exploration (Edvotek Inc.)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 103B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore genetics with our “out of this world” workshop! Imagine being the first scientist to explore Mars and discovering extraterrestrials. How would you use biotechnology to study the Martians? Learn how to explore the relationship between genotype and phenotype and how to see DNA in your middle school classroom. Both DNA extraction using spooling and the separation of simulated DNA fragments using electrophoresis will be covered. |
Speaker:
Kelly Barford, Edvotek Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Edvotek, Inc.
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Engineering Laser Security Systems
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 122A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| With knowledge of the properties of light, students design laser security systems for a traveling museum exhibit. |
Speakers:
Corbin Rice, Middle School Science Teacher, Northeast Middle School
Justine Kim, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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PolyWhat? Application of STEM Using Polymers
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 120B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Deepen your students’ STEM experience by adding various polymer inquiry/engineering design challenges. Take traditionally fun polymer activities and turn them into NGSS investigations to create more critical thinkers in the classroom. |
Speaker:
Sherri Rukes, AACT President-Elect/Chemistry Teacher, Libertyville High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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NABT Presents: Integrating 3D Technology in the Social Sciences
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| 3D modeling and printing provide a vehicle for incorporating STEM skills into other disciplines. Students and teachers can design cross-curricular projects that use 3D-printed objects to represent social science concepts. |
Speaker:
Jennifer Pfannerstill, Teacher/Scientist-in-Residence, North Shore Country Day School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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ITEEA Session: Engineering for All—Designing Solutions for Social Good
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 119B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Find out how to employ authentic social contexts for a hands-on approach to teaching STEM ideas and practices using the Engineering for All curriculum. |
Speaker:
Jennifer Buelin, International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Elementary STEM Showcase!
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: Hall B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Organized by Linda Froschauer, 2006–2007 NSTA President, Pasadena, Calif.
The Elementary STEM Showcase brings together approximately 30 leaders in STEM education who will provide a variety of preK–5 STEM teaching strategies and resources. Featured materials include NSTA Press® books, award-winning books from the Best STEM Books list, and strategies from the NSTA preK–5 journal, Science & Children.
NGSS connections to student experiences will be highlighted during this flea market–style sharing experience where participants will engage in hands-on activities and interact with presenters about STEM investigations. Participants will learn from this energy-filled experience and leave with ideas to use with students and colleagues.
The Elementary STEM Showcase will be one of the featured events held during the STEM Forum & Expo, as well as the only elementary session provided during the Thursday 10:30 AM–12 Noon time slot. All attendees have a chance to win an iPad! |
Speakers:
Seth Marie Westfall, Instructional Coach, Racine Unified School District
Juliana Texley, Science Writer/Instructor, Central Michigan University
Sylvia Vardell, Professor, Texas Woman's University
Linda Froschauer, 2006-2007 NSTA President
Laurie Wallmark, Associate Adjunct Professor, Raritan Valley Community College
Laura Hummell, Pennsylvania Dept. of Education
Timothy Sorey, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Central Washington University
Christine Ramirez, K-5 STEM Teacher, Kemp Mill Elementary School
Shelly Counsell, Assistant Professor, The University of Memphis
Kevin Fleming, Area Cooperative Educational Services
Janet Wong, Publisher, Pomelo Books
Lynne Cherry, Author/Illustrator/Filmmaker, Young Voices for the Planet
Joan Gillman, Science Teacher, The Calhoun School
Pamela Lottero-Perdue, Professor of Science & Engineering Education, Towson University
Mary Palmer, Director, Campus Child Care Programs, Southwest Tennessee Community College Macon Cove Campus
Ruth Ruud, Adjunct Instructor, Cleveland State University
Adriana Guerra, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Patti Taylor, Preschool Teacher, St. Malachy School
Gregory Lyman, Assistant Professor, Central Washington University
Barbara Johnson, Teacher, Belmont Hills Elementary School
Ela Ben-Ur, Founder, Innovators' Compass
Timothy Dalby, Lower School Science Specialist, Wilmington Friends School
Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Lauren Stegeman, University of Delaware
Laurie Drumm, University of Delaware
Makenzie Mullen, University of Delaware
Rachelle Haroldson, STEMteach Master Teacher, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Lori Norton-Meier, Professor, University of Louisville
Ellen Schiller, Professor, Grand Valley State University
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Special Session
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Skydive into STEM at iFLY!
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 104 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Experiential learning at its best—reach terminal velocity in a wind tunnel! Learn how iFLY’s Informal STEM Education program supplements your curriculum by meeting state and national standards. Readily justify your field trip, seek funding (including grants!), and reinforce STEM concepts with your elementary, middle school, or high school students. Have FUN skydiving with us! |
Speaker:
Cristina Jorge-Schwarz, Informal STEM Educator, iFLY King of Prussia
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
iFLY
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NCTM Session: "Design a School" STEM Project for Geometry Class
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 118B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Students in geometry class designed a school for the year 2050, including a site plan, floor plan, scale model, written proposal, and class presentation. Come see how it's done! |
Speaker:
Paul Kelley, Teacher, Anoka High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Unleashing the Next Innovation Generation: How Innovations and Their Stories Engage Students in Problem-Based Learning
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 120B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Let’s activate students’ STEM and 21st-century skills. Drawing on historical and contemporary innovations, participants will apply design thinking approaches to solve authentic real-world challenges. |
Speakers:
Cheri Sterman, Director, Education, Crayola
Lucie Howell, The Henry Ford
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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NSTA Press® Session: Eureka! Grades 3–5 Science Activities and Stories
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Take part in lessons linking nonfiction historical trade books and science content for the Eureka! series for grades 3–5. |
Speaker:
Donna Farland-Smith, Author, The Ohio State University at Mansfield
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Drive the Future of Coding with mBot (Vernier Software & Technology)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 105 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Come explore the fundamentals of coding with mBot, an app-enabled, programmable robot. In this hands-on workshop, use your science, mathematics, and problem-solving skills to navigate mBot. Preview Vernier’s Coding with mBot: Self-Driving Vehicles activities module while learning mBot’s simple block-based programming software. |
Speaker:
David Carter, Vernier Software & Technology
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Vernier Software & Technology
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The Process of Science: Modeling How Science Develops (3D Molecular Designs)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| How do we learn about things we cannot see? Explore innovative 3D models that foster student knowledge about the process of discovery and how scientists learn about things they often cannot directly perceive. Use reverse engineering and tangram puzzles that encourage understanding about the ever-changing world of science. |
Speakers:
Keri Shingleton, Holland Hall
Karen Avery, Biology Teacher, Montoursville Area High School
Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
3D Molecular Designs
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NGSS—Designing Ocean Breakwaters (Lab-Aids, Inc.)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 107 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Use new tools to model the effect of ocean waves on a cliff as you design and test breakwater structures to prevent beach erosion. Strong support for middle level NGSS engineering practices provided. Supports Developing a Model, Designing Solutions, Engaging in Argument from Evidence, and CCSS ELA. From the SEPUP Middle School Land, Water, and Human Interactions unit, 3rd ed.—redesigned for NGSS. Supports MS-ESS3-3 and ETS1-2, ETS1-3. |
Speaker:
Denis Baker, Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Are You Moody? (Texas Instruments)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 109 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will bring science and coding together as participants learn to do some basic coding (no experience necessary) while developing a mood ring! The science of color mixing is explored while determining the right body temperature thresholds. Is fuchsia flirty? Should green be groovy? It’s up to you! |
Speaker:
Fred Fotsch, Texas Instruments
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Texas Instruments
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Monday Morning STEM Activities for Your Middle School Classroom! (Nasco)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 113A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us for this hands-on workshop featuring classroom activities that support NGSS and state standards. Free access to hundreds of hours of ready-to-go activities and content to all who attend! |
Speakers:
Jordan Nelson, Director of Science Education, Nasco
Alan Gomez, The STEM Academy®
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Audience:
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
Nasco
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Reimagining Spaces for STEAM: An Architecture Design Workshop
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 121B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Work with a team of architects to design a space that will best support STEAM learning outcomes. Explore best practices in the design of learning environments and study exemplar spaces for the teaching and learning of science. |
Speakers:
John Dale, Principal / Studio Leader, HED (Harley Ellis Devereaux)
Karina Ruiz, BRIC Architecture, Inc.
Claire Gallagher, Professor, Georgian Court University
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER): Scientific Explanation Ideas for ESL and Bilingual Science (STEMscopes)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 112 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| CER is a way for students to explain observed phenomena in a scientific way and discover how observations and data from an investigation are connected to science knowledge. Change how lab instructions are conducted and make science investigations meaningful for students. ELD strategies will be shared and modeled for an equitable learning environment. |
Speaker:
Pam O'Brien, Regional STEM Specialist, STEMscopes
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
STEMscopes
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Electronic Circuits and Adopting a Maker Mind-Set
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 119B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Electronics are everywhere, but which ones are right for your classroom? Find out how to pick the technology that’s the best fit and how to learn the “language” to teach it. |
Speaker:
Rebecca Abramson, Educational Maker
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Grounding STEM Education Programs in NGSS Practices
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Interested in exploring ways to support classroom teaching in integrating the NGSS practices? Want to move toward an inquiry-based approach in which students take more responsibility for their learning? Then come to this session. |
Speaker:
David Lockett, STEM Teacher, Edward W. Bok Academy
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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STEM to Engage Emerging Bilingual Students
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 307, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Every teacher is a language teacher! Find out how STEM pedagogy across content helps to build academic language for emergent bilingual students. |
Speaker:
Michele Schuler, Science Teacher, Anne Arundel County Public Schools
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Sustaining Integrated STEM: The Essential Elements of Success for One Middle School Team
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 304/VIP, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discussion centers on an investigation of one public middle school teacher team that reimagined traditional instruction to interconnect STEM disciplines using a novel curriculum, space, and time. |
Speaker:
Meg Gardner, Colgate University
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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All Teachers Are STEM Teachers: STEM Across the Curriculum
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Teachers from STEM and non-STEM disciplines share projects and procedures that helped them achieve STEM certification. Take home ready-to-use project plans and assessment ideas. |
Speakers:
Karen Kingrea, STEM Director, Immaculata Catholic School
Jennifer Stutz, Immaculata Catholic School
Kathleen Weeks, Immaculata Catholic School
Cynthia Rains, Immaculata Catholic School
Desiree Korelich, Immaculata Catholic School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Space Sailing with NASA’s BEST Educators Engineering Design Process
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 115A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage in the engineering design process as you design, create, and test a prototype of NASA’s space sail. |
Speakers:
Laurie Cook, NASA's BEST Project Manager, Oklahoma State University
Diane McElwain, Retired, NASA Glenn Research Center
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Audience:
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Support Data Analysis in Your Classroom with a Simple Strategy for Using Statistical Significance
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 113B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore the effects that sample size and variation can have on statistical significance when evaluating and analyzing a data set. Engage in and learn some strategies to make rigorous data-based explanations and conclusion writing accessible to middle school students. |
Speakers:
Marsha Wallace, Teacher, Salk School of Science
Matthew Mirabello, Science Educator, American Museum of Natural History
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Engineering Design Experiments for Middle School Classrooms
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 113C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Learn how to integrate rigorous (but manageable) design experiments into your classroom while following the NGSS engineering design process. |
Speakers:
Grace Andrews, PD Facilitator, NYSCI
Deon Daniels, Science Instructor, NYSCI
Christopher Hernandez, Robert F. Wagner Middle School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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From Zero to STEM Hero—A District’s Journey to Introducing STEM in High Schools
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 126B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| In a district with zero opportunity for STEM exposure in high school, one teacher was able to start a program at her school from the ground up that led to providing 3D-printed prosthetic devices for local children in the district. Hear about her journey, including gaining approval to offer the course, building a STEM curriculum, securing funds for essential STEM equipment, discovering the benefits of community outreach, and much more. |
Speakers:
Marielle Myers, Science and Engineering Teacher, Calcasieu Parish School Board
Krystal Briley, High School Science Consultant, Calcasieu Parish School Board
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Marathon Races and Water Drinking Contests: The Effects of Osmosis on the Cell
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 125, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Learn about an osmosis lab using a novel, inexpensive, nontoxic cell “model” in the context of a marathon runner and a water drinking contestant. |
Speaker:
Cahleen Shrier, Professor, Azusa Pacific University
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Teaching in a Makerspace
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Does your school have an underused makerspace collecting dust? Hear how one science teacher has used 3D printers, lasers, vinyl cutters, and more to transform her classroom to a Project-Based Learning environment. |
Speaker:
Hanna Below, EHOVE Career Center
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Looking to STEM to Cure Diabetes and Breast Cancer
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 122B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| What once was wishful thinking is becoming more real by the day. Top researchers are making strides in the treatment and cure of Type 1 diabetes and breast cancer. Come experience the heroics of today’s research scientists. |
Speakers:
Jeffrey Lukens, Retired Science Teacher, Sioux Falls School District
Marwa Abd Elwahed Tawfik, Maadi STEM School for Girls
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Who Is Drowning in Our Trash?
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 123, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Create the next generation of STEM leaders through 3-D learning by solving a real-world problem using engineering design and solutions. |
Speakers:
Stacy Thibodeaux, Science Teacher, Southside High School
Jessica Kohout, Science Teacher, Reservoir High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Explore Building Mousetrap Vehicles to Integrate Science, Techology, Engineering, and Mathematics
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 122A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Build a mousetrap vehicle and discover how to integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by modifying variables to increase speed or distance traveled. |
Speakers:
Karen Ostlund, NSTA Past President (2012-2013), The University of Texas at Austin
Alden Balmer, Teacher, McNeil High School
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Polymers: Teaching “Hard” Concepts with Gooey Labs
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Enhance and deepen science and math concepts taught in traditionally "fun" polymer labs. Add more scientific processes to make them inquiry-based. Take home a CD of information. |
Speakers:
Debbie Goodwin, Retired High School Science Teacher
Andrew Nydam, Polymer Ambassador
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Using National Science Olympiad STEM Classroom Materials to AddressNGSS Crosscutting Concepts and Content
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 118C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Hear about National Science Olympiad competitions, including events and supporting resources that are easily incorporated into existing curricula to actively engage students with STEM activities and projects. |
Speaker:
Donna Young, NASA/NSO UoL Coordinator
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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The Involvement of Modern Business in Educational STEAM Projects with Students
***CANCELED***
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 102A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| The possible mechanisms of supporting the interaction between schools and businesses in STEAM education programs will be described. Such partnerships will be shown as one of the resources of innovation development in the region. |
Speaker:
Mikhail Epshtein, Associate Professor, College of Staten Island
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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PULSE 2.0: A Partnership to Understand and Lead STEM Education
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us as we present our approach to supporting STEM education by bringing together colleges, districts, and community agencies to provide a unique professional development framework. |
Speakers:
Lauren Beal, STEM Curriculum Consultant, Lancaster-Lebanon IU13
Rachael Haverstick, Curriculum & Instruction Consultant for Elementary, Lancaster-Lebanon IU13
Ed Gooch, STEM Consultant, Lancaster-Lebanon IU13
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Administrators
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How to Grow STEAM/STEM in Your School and Community
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore the journey one division took to grow a division-wide STEAM event from 150 students to over 1,400 students in just three years. Get ideas and tips from what we’ve learned that can help you grow STEAM/STEM in both your schools and community. |
Speakers:
Emily Loving, Lead STEM & Secondary Science Specialist, Chesterfield County Public Schools
Marsha Rogers, Chesterfield County Public Schools
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Administrators
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Available Handouts :
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Improve Students’ STEM Competencies with Personalized Online Labs That Grade Themselves (Inq-ITS an Apprendis product)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 107 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Online labs that grade themselves can help your students master science inquiry practices, data literacy, mathematics, and computational thinking while conducting inquiry about science phenomena. Join Janice Gobert, professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, to learn how you can inform your instruction with these ready-to-go formative assessments. BYOD! |
Speaker:
Janice Gobert, Apprendis
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Inq-ITS an Apprendis product
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Designing and Testing Roller Coasters:How Are the Energy and Force with Us?
***CANCELED***
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 104 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Come participate in this student-centered roller coaster design and test, STEM investigation for grades 3–5. You’ll want to conduct this awesome activity in your classes! |
Speaker:
Rhonda Banks, University of Delaware
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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STEM for ALL Students: Addressing Diversity and Equity
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 116, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discussion centers on the critical importance of addressing the diverse and unique learning needs of all students in STEM education. |
Speaker:
Jen Gutierrez, K-12 STEM Specialist, IntegratedSTEMk12, LLC
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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Scaling Up STEM: A Countywide Approach
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Hear how various community partners are collaborating to spread STEM education across Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, using the Engineering by Design TEEMS resource. |
Speakers:
Rachael Haverstick, Curriculum & Instruction Consultant for Elementary, Lancaster-Lebanon IU13
Ed Gooch, STEM Consultant, Lancaster-Lebanon IU13
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Available Handouts :
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Creating a Robotics Curriculum from Nothing
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Hear how Rockhurst High School researched and continues to develop its current robotics curriculum and how it can be a model for others. |
Speaker:
Andy Wilcox, Robotics Teacher, Rockhurst High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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How Are You Hearing Me? Engaging Students in a 3-D NGSS Learning Progression About Cell Phones
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 126B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| The phenomenon—on speaker phone a student asks "How are you hearing me?" That launches us into a learning progression that targets the NGSS Waves performance expectations. |
Speaker:
Bradford Hill, Science Teacher, Mountainside High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Making Time for Independent Inquiry
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 123, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Finding time for students to develop their independent research skills is challenging. Discussion centers on best practices for increasing open-ended investigations in both introductory and AP biology courses. |
Speakers:
Cecilia Tang, High School Science Teacher, Garnet Valley High School
John Politano, High School Science Teacher, Garnet Valley High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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The Uncultivated Relationship
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Science and agricultural educators have the same goal: prepare students to apply scientific principles to solve real-world problems. So let’s do it together! |
Speakers:
Jay Super, Science Teacher, Maize High School
Ruth Hutson, Science Teacher, Blue Valley High School
Anthony Meals, Ag. Teacher
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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From Class to Club to Culture: STREAM
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Hear how a preK–8 school embraces the challenge of becoming a certified STREAM school. Discussion centers on goals, strategies, sample lessons, and learning experiences related to this cultural shift. |
Speaker:
Judith Deeley, Teacher, Guardian Angels Catholic School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Lights, Camera, Science!
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will present methods to integrate video and science standards, with examples from middle school engineering design challenges, data collection, and particle and molecular modeling. |
Speakers:
Steven Gaskill, Teacher, Science 6/Science 7, K.O. Knudson Middle School
Heather Rampton, Teacher, K.O. Knudson Middle School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Equity in Engineering Education
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 121C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Ensure that all students have a voice during the design process and access to the development of skills needed to empower them to contribute to the multicultural society. |
Speakers:
Amanda Solarsh, STEM Teacher, Simon Baruch MS104
Gina Tesoriero, Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Working It Out! STEM It!
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 121B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Encounter strategies that make using STEM easier! Get the "How" and connections to incorporate STEM in every classroom! |
Speaker:
Judith Lucas-Odom, Science Teacher, Chester High School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Growing a STEM Culture
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us and gain a perspective from three different STEM start-up programs. We will share a range of STEM-based implementations that engage students, families, and community. |
Speakers:
Zulay Joa, STEM Teacher/Coordinator, Glenallan Elementary School
Christine Ramirez, K-5 STEM Teacher, Kemp Mill Elementary School
Joanne Robbins, STEM Teacher (PK-5), Georgian Forest Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Available Handouts :
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Developing STEM Skills Outside of the School Day
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 113C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Learn how to implement the Click2Science approach to ongoing blended professional development to improve the STEM facilitation skills of staff in OST programs. |
Speakers:
Karly Black, STEM Educator, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Saundra Wever Frerichs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension 4-H
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Available Handouts :
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Children’s Literacy Success with NSTA’s Publications!
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 120B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Achieving children’s literacy through science is not an easy task. But the secret is using NSTA’s publications: eBooks+ and Teaching Science Through Trade Books. |
Speakers:
Emily Hines, Professor, Reading adn Literacy, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Emily Hines, Professor, Reading adn Literacy, University of Wisconsin-Stout
LeRoy Lee, Treasurer, NSTA, Wisconsin Science Network
Forrest Schultz, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Shelley Lee, STEM Outreach Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Stout
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Creating a Sustainable Future: STEM Interdisciplinary Decision-Making with Model-Eliciting Activities
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 113B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| If kids ruled the world, what would they do? We will provide Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs), interdisciplinary lessons where students make evidence-based decisions about real-world sustainability problems. |
Speakers:
Christine Angel Danger, STEM Coordinator, Hillsborough County Public Schools
Deborah Kozdras, Associate Director, Stavros Center, University of South Florida
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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STEM+Computational Thinking
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join in for hands-on STEM+CT activities, intriguing findings, and featured stories from a five-year empirical research conducted in 200 Shanghai schools. |
Speakers:
Fang Ruan, Shanghai STEM+ Research Institute
Ying Zhang, Shanghai STEM+ Research Institute
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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Explore the New FREE STEM Curriculum by the U.S. Government (STEM Lessons Based on GPS)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 105 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| The U.S. government wants your feedback on its new GPS-STEM curriculum. This curriculum promotes interest in STEM by combining NGSS with fun everyday uses of GPS! Together we’ll explore the inquiry-based lessons, low-cost activities, and highlights of STEM careers across topics related to Earth, space, and life science, and movement. |
Speaker:
John Johnson, Chief Technology Officer, Softek Enterprises LLC
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
STEM Lessons Based on GPS
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Teaching Science Through Conservation (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 111 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Energize your students with some great materials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help you teach science and bring nature and conservation into your classes! Join us as we explore lesson plans and techniques to connect your students with migratory fishes, birds, and more just outside your doors. |
Speakers:
Denise Wagner, Education Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Susan Morse, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Catherine Gatenby, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Brianna Patrick, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Adrienne McGill, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Classroom to Code Room: Integrating Core Content, Creativity, and Imagination (UBTECH Robotics, Inc.)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 103B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Make, design, program, and play while exploring the elements of our robotics and makerspace kits. Learn from the industry leader in humanoid robotics using our NGSS- and CCSS-focused curriculum to foster innovation and creativity in STEM. |
Speaker:
Jeff Piontek, Education, UBTECH Robotics, Inc.
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
UBTECH Robotics, Inc.
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Leading for STEM Success: Leadership Practices for a Successful STEM Learning Environment
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 118B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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The panel will focus on the leadership behaviors necessary to lead successfully in a STEM learning environment. Whether you are a school-based administrator, directing a district-level STEM program, or coordinating an after-school STEM program, there are unique challenges and needs regarding each. The leadership skill and content proficiency of the individual plays a pivotal role in the district performance and the overall success of the educators delivering the instruction and ultimately the achievement of the students engaging in the learning. The goal of this discussion is to unpack and share the successful leader behaviors and practices that support the overall efforts of a STEM program's mission and vision.
Moderator: Damaries Blondonville, Project Manager, Prince George’s County Public Schools: Oxon Hill, MD
Panelists:
Kim Cherry Burnett, Deputy Chief, STEM Office of Teaching and Learning , District of Columbia Public Schools: Washington, DC
Johann Lee, Principal, Kimball Elementary School: Washington, DC
Carlos Covarrubias, Former Principal, E.P. Foster STEM Academy: Ventura, CA |
Speakers:
Damaries Blondonville, Senior Project Manager, Prince George's County Public Schools
Johann Lee, Kimball Elementary School
Carlos Covarrubias, Principal, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Kim Cherry Burnett, Deputy Chief of STEM, District of Columbia Public Schools
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Wonders of Electrons Workshop by Mand Labs (Mand Labs)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 104 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Convert your classrooms into one electronic playground. Join the founder of Mand Labs KIT-1 and learn to create interesting hands-on projects based on electrical science and electronics, such as automatic night lamp, touch-activated switch, and many more. The goal is to help teachers in demonstrating abstract concepts of physics. |
Speaker:
Gurpawan Mand, CEO, Mand Labs
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Mand Labs
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STEM Teacher–Science Teacher: What’s the Difference? (STEMscopes)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 112 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Distinguishing between science and STEM is important as teachers integrate STEM in their practice. Join us to discuss the unique nature of STEM, the research-based instructional strategies necessary to support its outcomes, and a STEM certification pathway that encourages self-reflection and growth in STEM teaching. |
Speaker:
Virginia Rhame, National Institute for STEM Education
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
STEMscopes
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Award-Winning STEM Enrichment Program for Grades 4–8 (Flinn Scientific, Inc.)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 113A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discover FlinnSTEM Powered by IMSA Fusion created by leading educators from the internationally recognized Illinois Math and Science Academy®. The 14 modules, each offering 32 hours of instruction, integrate with STEM courses or after-school STEM programs. Interactive lessons blend inquiry-based student content and teacher professional development. |
Speaker:
Janet Hoekenga, Flinn Scientific, Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Flinn Scientific, Inc.
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Thinking Outside of the [Nest] Box: STEM Engagement Focused On Nesting Birds
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 122A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Capture students’ imagination with a birdhouse (aka “nest box”). We’ll demonstrate engaging activities from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's new STEM curriculum that connects birds’ nests to the NestWatch citizen science project. |
Speakers:
Robyn Bailey, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Holly Faulkner, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Audience:
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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When the Wheels Are Turning, the Students Are Learning! (Texas Instruments)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 109 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Get up to speed on coding! Appropriate for middle school or high school, this session will bring coding and hands-on engagement together as you learn how to program a robotic vehicle (called a Rover) to perform different challenges. Code your rover to navigate an obstacle course, play a song while traveling from one place to another, or make it investigate a model of Martian terrain just like the Curiosity rover! No coding experience is necessary. |
Speaker:
Fred Fotsch, Texas Instruments
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Texas Instruments
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“Going with the Flow” of Genetic Information (3D Molecular Designs)
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Guide your students in the development and use of models as tools for “making sense” of phenomena. Learn how to help your students “think with models” to explain the cellular processes of transcription and translation as they relate to a genome sequencing molecular story. Handouts! |
Speakers:
Keri Shingleton, Holland Hall
Karen Avery, Biology Teacher, Montoursville Area High School
Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
3D Molecular Designs
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Infiniscope Teaching Network: Providing Authentic STEM, Interactive, Web-Based Learning Experiences Using NASA Data and Imagery
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 309/310, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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| Bring your own device and explore the Infiniscope Teaching Network, providing free, collaborative, compelling, NGSS-focused learning experiences using NASA data and imagery. |
Speaker:
Jessica Swann, Community Manager, Arizona State University
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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AACT Session: Incorporating Simulations, Animations, and Videos into Your Chemistry Curriculum
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 307, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Learn about simulations, animations, and videos from the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) that you can use to introduce/reinforce chemistry topics for your students. |
Speaker:
Kimberly Duncan, Professional Learning Associate, American Association of Chemistry Teachers
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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NABT and BSCS Present: Identify and Interpret—A Strategy to Help Students Make Sense of Difficult Information
***CANCELED***
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 124, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| A key tool from the BSCS/NABT Biology Teacher Academy, the powerful Identify and Interpret (I2) strategy can be used in any STEM classroom to help students make sense of the information presented in graphs, complex figures, and data tables. |
Speaker:
Jaclyn Reeves-Pepin, Executive Director, National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT)
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Partnerships
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NCTM Session: Making the Most of the M in STEM—Mathematics, Modeling, and More
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Every preK–12 student needs STEM knowledge, starting with quantitative reasoning and scientific thinking. Help all students think, reason, and solve problems in math, STEM, and more. |
Speaker:
Paul Kelley, Teacher, Anoka High School
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Publish in an NSTA Journal
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Meet with the editors of NSTA’s award-winning journals to learn how to successfully prepare and submit an article for publication. |
Speakers:
Linda Froschauer, 2006-2007 NSTA President
Patty McGinnis, Science Scope Editor/Teacher, Arcola Intermediate School
Ken Roberts, NSTA
Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn, Field Editor
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Yes, You Can! Tips and Tricks for Presenting at an NSTA Conference
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 125, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| So you have this great idea! Now what? Learn from present and past STEM Forum & Expo steering committee members on how to take a successful classroom activity, strategy, or lesson and turn it into a successful proposal and presentation worthy of being presented at a future NSTA conference. |
Speakers:
Dedric McGhee, STEM Manager, Shelby County Schools
Jennifer Williams, Lower School Science Department Chair, Isidore Newman School
Adriana Guerra, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Students as Creators
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 304/VIP, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Review virtual tools that allow science students to be creators instead of consumers of content. Discussion centers on tools, such as augmented reality, digital science storytelling, and explaining and diagramming models. The emphasis of providing student choice will be highlighted. |
Speaker:
Denise Wright, STEM Teacher, Horry County Schools
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Exploration and Discovery Through Maps: Teaching Science with Technology
***CANCELED***
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 103B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Engaging young learners in exploration with a three-part lesson package: hands-on, outdoors, and a high-tech web-based mapping tool developed by the EPA (EnviroAtlas). |
Speaker:
Jenna Hartley, ASPPH Environmental Health Fellow, ASPPH
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Light, Sound, and STEM!
***CANCELED***
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Let these first-grade experiments guide you through the hands-on discovery of sound waves, vibration, pitch, light, shadow, reflection, and more. |
Speaker:
Melissa Kassner, Chapel School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Getting All Wound Up! Learn Energy Concepts and Troubleshooting Techniques by Making a Wind-Up Vehicle
***CANCELED***
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Use recycled materials to make a rubber-band powered vehicle that can travel across the room! Have your elementary grade students learn about energy through hands-on design and testing of wind-up vehicles. |
Speaker:
Kathy Gutierrez, P.S. 536
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Corrosion: Real-World REDOX Made Easy, Simple, Relevant, and Fun
***CANCELED***
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Encounter real-world examples using labs and demonstrations that make reactivity, oxidation/reduction, and corrosion exciting, practical, and easy to teach and learn. STEM connections and CD of information. |
Speaker:
Andrew Nydam, Polymer Ambassador
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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STEM Teaching for Dummies: How to Build a STEM Kid Using Nothing But Who's Already in Your Class
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discover how a growth mind-set and transformational teaching can increase involvement and success of inner city Hispanic and African American students in STEM classrooms. |
Speakers:
Karla Smith, Science Specialist, Dallas ISD
Carlos Quezada, Teacher, John J. Pershing Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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NCTM Session: Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics: Initiating Critical Conversations
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 118C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Hear about key recommendations and implications of NCTM’s recent publication, Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics, as well as discussion of next steps. |
Speaker:
Karen Graham, Professor, University of New Hampshire
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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WIDA Session: Engaging Language Learners in Science and Engineering
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 124, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore the latest strategies to engage English language learners in the science and engineering practices. |
Speaker:
Kira Cunningham, Professional Learning Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Available Handouts :
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Attract Students to Water Concepts with Magnetic Water Molecule Models (3D Molecular Designs)
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage students by modeling chemical and physical properties of water using hands-on/minds-on magnetic water molecules. Experiment with liquids to enhance model-based understanding of real-world phenomena. Explore common water phenomena such as density, solubility, cohesion, and adhesion. Evaluate student understanding as they create and communicate their own 2D models. |
Speakers:
Keri Shingleton, Holland Hall
Karen Avery, Biology Teacher, Montoursville Area High School
Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
3D Molecular Designs
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Zombie Attack! (Texas Instruments)
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 109 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Get ready as you are immersed in the post-apocalyptic world that is infected with ZOMBIES! You must use your creativity and ingenuity to come up with a solution to a zombie attack! With a basic understanding of frequency and sound and a quick introduction to some basic programming on a calculator, you may just be able to thwart the…Zombie Attack! |
Speaker:
Fred Fotsch, Texas Instruments
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Texas Instruments
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Mars Rover Simulation: Integrating STEM into the Curriculum in a Meaningful Way
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 116, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Welcome to mission control! Probe how we created a comprehensive grade 5 project to integrate multiple disciplines in an immersive STEM experience. |
Speaker:
Adam Sherland, Fifth Grade Science Teacher, Ensworth Lower/Middle School Campus
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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Mystery River
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Get hands-on experience with investigating the causes and effects of water pollution. Some activities include creating a polluted river, reading and using map skills, designing 3D objects in Tinkercad, using a 3D printer, writing an action proposal, and much more. |
Speaker:
Kate Tummino, 5th Grade Teacher/Adjunct Instructor (STEM), Frostburg State University
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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Creating High-Quality STEM Integration Learning Experiences for Students
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Come participate in an engaging activity that combines STEM, evidence-based reasoning, problem solving, and other skills. You’ll learn how to authentically integrate engineering into your science curriculum. |
Speakers:
Jeffrey Kohoutek, K-5 Engineering Specialist, Crossroads Elementary School
Andrea Appel, Teacher, Saint Paul Public Schools
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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STEMLogs: Bringing Grades 1–5 Science Notebooks to the Next Gen Level
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 307, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engineer a model STEMLog and get your students thinking critically, creatively, and collaboratively! Foster ingenuity and inspire even the most reluctant writers. |
Speaker:
Tamara Frailey, STEM Education Consultant, NavEd Productions LLC
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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Enhancing STEM Outcomes: Recognizing and Removing Hidden Learning Barriers
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discussion centers on recognizing neurological processing disorders that reduce STEM outcomes, such as challenges related to visual, auditory, or sensory processing; reading (irlen, timing dysfunction); as well as dyscalculia and dysgraphia. Simulations used to enhance understanding will be shared. |
Speaker:
Maria Sargent, Ashland University
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Available Handouts :
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Talk the Talk: Building Science Vocabulary in STEM Experiences
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Isthmus…peninsula…gulf? Oh, My! How can we build science vocabulary in the context of STEM experiences? |
Speakers:
Cynthia Gardner, Associate Professor, Lander University
Chris Sacerdote, Coordinator of Early Childhood Programs, Lander University
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Available Handouts :
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Building Engineers Through Block Play
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 120B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Use block play to build engineering practice in the primary classroom. While examining the importance of block play, we will understand the STEM connection block play builds. |
Speakers:
Shelley Lee, STEM Outreach Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Heidi Usgaard, Teacher, St. Croix Central Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Moving Toward an NGSS Through Problem-Based Learning
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 119B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discover one of the avenues of exploring phenomena and creating storylines—Problem-Based Learning. Emphasis will be placed on best practices and usable resources. |
Speaker:
DJ West, Adjunct Biology Faculty, Schoolcraft College
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Integrating Science Process and Math Skills Through Citizen Science and Schoolyard Investigations
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Meeting science and math standards go hand in hand with student investigations and citizen science. Motivate students with birds, schoolyard projects, and real data using free resources. |
Speaker:
Kelly Schaeffer, Education Specialist, BirdSleuth K-12, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Engineering Design in Middle School Chemistry
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 122A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Using the free resource, middleschoolchemistry.com, learn how to help students engage in engineering design to solve a problem by using and refining chemical reactions that release energy. |
Speaker:
James Kessler, Manager, Office of K-8 Science, American Chemical Society
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Real-World Problem Solving with Creative Circuits and “Shark Tank”
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 121C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Delve into how to incorporate science content and real-world problem solving into an innovative classroom design challenge with the Shark Tank Circuit Challenge. |
Speakers:
Amanda Solarsh, STEM Teacher, Simon Baruch MS104
Gina Tesoriero, Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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“Try Everything” Access to All: Projects in Physics Classes That Area Conceptual, Problem Based, and Advanced
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 126B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| An equation alone won’t solve a problem. Out-of-the-box thinking increases if you provide questions, supplies, and expectations of teamwork. Inquisitive, critical-thinking, communicative problem-solvers emerge! |
Speaker:
Carol O'Brien, Upper School Science Teacher, The Haverford School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Using Models to Teach Forensics:Crime Scene Blood Spatter Evidence Tells a STEM Story
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Using inexpensive models, apply math and physics to blood’s direction, impact angle, convergence, and origin. Determine if evidence is consistent with eyewitness accounts. Handouts. |
Speakers:
Patricia Nolan Bertino, Retired Educator
Anthony Bertino, Retired Educator
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Ebola Virus: Biology and the Epidemiology of a Virus to Be Used as a Teaching Guide
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 125, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will share an easy-to-use resource document for academics who teach college freshman or AP biology to incorporate into a unit lesson on viruses. |
Speakers:
Kristie Reilly, Kean University
Laura Lorentzen, Kean University
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Audience:
College, Grade 11, Grade 12
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Getting to the HEART of Biomedical Engineering
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 309/310, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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| Learn about the engineering design process applied to a biomedical science class’s hands-on project involving the human heart. |
Speaker:
Sarah Rivera, STEM Teacher, Perry High School
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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From Guitars to Renewable Energy—Engaging Students in Rigorous Energy Phenomena
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 304/VIP, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us as we explain how engineering simple amplifiers and electric guitars prepared students to develop regional energy plans and clean energy initiatives. |
Speakers:
Parker Mullins, Program Manager, Energy Education, Bonneville Environmental Foundation
Bradford Hill, Science Teacher, Mountainside High School
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Using Cooperative Controversy to Shift Conceptualizations
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 123, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| High school teachers will be given a chance to engage in a simple but effective strategy called Cooperative Controversy that has been used to shift conceptualizations of science and uncover misconceptions. After participating themselves, teachers will be given the tools to use this strategy for a variety of interdisciplinary STEM topics in their own classrooms. |
Speakers:
Jessica Cellitti, Graduate Student, Drexel University
Penny Hammrich, Professor, Drexel University
Jonan Donaldson, Ph.D. Candidate, Drexel University
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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May the Force Be with You: A STEM Wars Night to Remember!
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 102A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Leverage collaboration with a local university to create a middle school STEM family engagement event with intergalactic style! |
Speakers:
Meghan Clemons, Graduate Research Assistant, Tennessee Tech University
Faith Gipson, Graduate Assistant, Tennessee Tech University
Jennifer Meadows, Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University
Nikolas McGehee, Millard Oakley STEM Center
Nikolas McGehee, Millard Oakley STEM Center
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Aligning CTE STEM Standards to STEM Job Requirements
***CANCELED***
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Come learn about Porter’s Alignment Index and its application to academic standards with respect to job requirements to quantify alignment. |
Speaker:
Tonya Garcia-Arnold, Science Instructional Coach, Manor ISD
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Administrators
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NGSS Transition Boot Camp
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Room: 118B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will demonstrate how to leverage the power of a Professional Learning Community to move forward with a school’s transition to the Next Generation Science Standards. |
Speakers:
Rebecca Haystead, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Frances Flores, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Carlos Covarrubias, Principal, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Jena Branstetter, STEM Coordinator, Balboa Middle School
Elizabeth Walker-Martinez, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Adriana Guerra, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Administrators
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Available Handouts :
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Keynote Presentation: Lessons from Space
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Room: Ballroom B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Mike Massimino’s childhood fascination with space was born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, but his journey to becoming an astronaut was as unlikely as it is compelling. With his book, Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, he has written an inspiring ode to following your dreams and finding your place in this world—or out of it. Mike’s journey began in a blue-collar town and then soared to the Hubble Telescope—1.86 million feet above Earth. He’ll share the surreal wonder and beauty of space and take the audience into a world where science meets thrilling adventure, focusing on persistence and teamwork and revealing what having “the right stuff” really means.
NSTA wishes to thank Penguin Random House for sponsoring this speaker. |
Speaker:
Mike Massimino, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Speaker
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Teach Engineering Practices on the Cheap with Concrete
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Teach engineering using concrete and other composite materials. Discover inexpensive STEM projects that engage students using the #1 building material in the world. NGSS correlations. |
Speaker:
Debbie Goodwin, Retired High School Science Teacher
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Recruiting and Retaining Minorities and Women in Engineering
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 118B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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There is so much written on this topic that many people think it is impossible to attract women and minorities in the STEM field. It isn’t.Come meet professionals who have successfully inspired women and minorities to join engineering and stay there. Learn what you can do as educators to keep your students interested in a STEM career and discover the lifelong benefits of careers in engineering. In particular, get ready to understand the lasting impact you make on your students, and why what you do right now matters the most.
Moderator: Karen Johnsen, Early Talent Program Manager, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI
Panelists:
Karen Johnsen, Early Talent Program Manager, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI
Andrew Reid, Senior Planning Analyst, Con Edison, New York, NY
Karen Davis, Director, Career Services, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
Speakers:
Andrew Reid, Senior Planning Analyst, Con Edison
Karen Davis, Director, Career Services, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University
Karen Johnsen, Early Talent Program Manager, GE Healthcare
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Strand:
Partnerships
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The STEM Influence on Autonomous Vehicles
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Can you imagine driving next to a car on a highway without a driver or any passengers inside? There is a lot of conversation around connected and autonomous vehicles, but how exactly are we going to make this happen? It is estimated that the new driverless vehicle economy could be worth $800 billion by 2035 and $7 trillion by 2050. This has an immense impact on the economy and, most importantly, the STEM workforce. In order to bring driverless vehicles to life, we must understand human behavior and extrapolate unlimited amount of data to ultimately accomplish the key goal of increasing driver safety and saving lives. Join us as we talk about the technology, economy, and how STEM education plays a key role in making driverless vehicles a reality.
Moderator: Seun Phillips, Director, PlanetM, Michigan Economic Development Corp., Detroit, MI
Panelists:
Ajit Sharma, Advisor, Lime Lab, Detroit, MI
Patrick A. Hillberg, Solutions Architect, Workforce Development, Siemens PLM Software, Detroit, MI |
Speakers:
Seun Phillips, Director, PlanetM, Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Ajit Sharma, Advisor, Lime Lab
Patrick Hillberg, Solutions Architect, Workforce Development, Siemens PLM Software
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Available Handouts :
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Leveraging Partnerships to Ensure a Future-Ready Workforce
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 119B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist? As leaders in education, we need to leverage every advantage at our disposal to ensure students’ coursework is relevant and that they have experiences in the community that build their understanding of the requirements for the jobs of tomorrow. Join leaders from across the country as they discuss innovative partnerships that are reshaping how students develop skills for success in future STEM careers and are laying the foundation for America’s future-ready workforce.
Moderator: J. Wesley Hall, Executive Director, STEMx at Battelle, Nashville, TN
Panelists:
David Burns, Director, Education Operations, Battelle
Michael Stone, STEM Director of Innovative Learning, Public Education Fund, Chattanooga, TN
Jill Lansing, Assistant Vice Chancellor, SUNY, Empire State STEM Network |
Speakers:
David Burns, Director, STEM Innovation Networks, Ohio STEM Learning Network/Battelle
J. Wesley Hall, Executive Director, STEMx at Batelle
Jill Lansing, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Empire State STEM Network, SUNY
Michael Stone, STEM Director of Innovative Learning, Public Education Foundation
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Design for Success: Engaging Diverse Learners in STEM
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 118C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Join a panel of educators from K–12 and museum settings as they share educator moves to create equitable STEM learning environments. Learn strategies to engage diverse learners in design engineering, making, and sensory-rich STEM exploration. Take part in active discussion with the panel and walk away with inspiration and practical approaches for using design and making to support all students.
Moderator: Janella Watson, Associate Director, Providence Children's Museum, Providence, RI
Panelists:
Gina Tesoriero, Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student, Learning Sciences and Human Development, College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle
Dana Schloss, Director of Exhibit Experiences, NYSCI, Corona, NY
Satbir Multani, Design Lab Manager, NYSCI, Corona, NY
Amanda Solarsh, Middle School STEM Educator, Simon Baruch MS104, New York, NY |
Speakers:
Amanda Solarsh, STEM Teacher, Simon Baruch MS104
Satbir Multani, Design Lab Manager, NYSCI
Janella Watson, Associate Director, Providence Children's Museum
Dana Schloss, Director of Exhibit Experiences, NYSCI
Gina Tesoriero, Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Panel
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Literature-Inspired STEM: Hands-On Activities That Connect STEM, Art, and the Environment
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 115A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore free teacher-tested activities designed to engage diverse young learners through hands-on exploration, outdoor investigation, and multidisciplinary learning…all inspired by read-aloud children’s books. |
Speaker:
Kelly Schaeffer, Education Specialist, BirdSleuth K-12, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Morning Meeting and Science Inquiry
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Begin to use the structure of a morning meeting to build on children's natural sense of wonder about the world around them to increase science inquiry. |
Speakers:
Emily Hines, Professor, Reading adn Literacy, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Emily Hines, Professor, Reading adn Literacy, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Shelley Lee, STEM Outreach Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Heidi Usgaard, Teacher, St. Croix Central Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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The Web of Life: One Health Interconnections of Pets, People, and the Environment
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 116, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Achieve NGSS with the One Health concept using animals to teach children about animal care, safety, zoonotic diseases, empathy, kindness, responsibility, respect, and advocacy. |
Speakers:
Clarissa Noureddine, Owner, ForensiVet Mobile Veterinary & Forensic Consulting, PLLC
Cheryl Stroud, One Health Commission
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Robotics Education in Elementary Classrooms
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| I'll share best practices and challenges for teaching with various robots, including LEGO® WeDo construction kits, Dash the Robot, VEX, Jimu Robot, and RoboticsU, and their corresponding curricula in elementary classrooms. |
Speaker:
Chenghui Nie, CEO, Robo Sensei Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Cars: Science Lessons That DRIVE Science Concepts
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Students love cars and tolerate school. Revv up new learning in your classroom by using automobiles to address and explore complex science concepts. Take home a CD with activities. |
Speaker:
Andrew Nydam, Polymer Ambassador
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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The Wonderful World of Weather
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Come learn about the fascinating world of weather. Go on a scavenger hunt to find the warmest and coolest temperatures. Use a computer simulation to make your own thunderstorm. |
Speaker:
Joan Gillman, Science Teacher, The Calhoun School
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Using Hands-On Performance Assessment in Grades 3–5 Classrooms: Assessing Student Mastery of the Science Practices, DCIs, and CCSS
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 113B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore hands-on performance assessment as a way to formatively assess student mastery of the CCSS and NGSS while engaging in a hands-on performance task. |
Speakers:
Deborah Tucker, Independent Science Education Consultant
Grant Gardner, President - CEO, Assessment Services, Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Storytelling Through Stop-Motion, Makey Makey, and Ozobots
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 309/310, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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| Students develop storyboards that they then use to create stop-motion, interactive storyboards, and Ozobot tales. |
Speakers:
Stefanie Nguyen, Director of STEAM, St. Gabriel's Catholic School
Diana McGuire, Teacher, Mathews Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Pot, Spot, or Plot: Garden-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 120A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Emphasis will be placed on improving STEM outcomes in an elementary setting. Dig in as we unearth how garden-based learning creates a rich context for science and mathematics. |
Speaker:
Heather Ledet, Teacher, Hawthorne Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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STEM Safari Saturdays: Family-Focused Learning Events for Young Children Supported by Preservice Teachers
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Preservice teachers and families with young children benefit from a morning of STEM learning. Join us for ideas for your own family STEM events! |
Speakers:
Jane Baker, Associate Professor, Tennessee Tech University
Jennifer Meadows, Assistant Professor, Tennessee Tech University
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Once Upon a Time: The Connection Between Fairy Tales and Engineering Design Challenges
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Fairy tales and engineering design challenges can go hand in hand. Come learn how to connect the two while engaging young learners! |
Speaker:
Erica Green, Kindergarten teacher, Bellows Free Academy Fairfax
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Story Starts to STEM: Using Children's Literature to Engage Young Students in STEM
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 120B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Promote your students’ enthusiasm and understanding of STEM concepts by integrating children’s literature into project-based experiments and activities. Come explore the seamless blend of “story time” and STEM. Leave with a bibliography of suggested titles with coordinating STEM activities. |
Speaker:
Jennifer Williams, Lower School Science Department Chair, Isidore Newman School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Engaging Young Children and Families Through the George Washington Carver STEAM InVenTures
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 113C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Apply crosscutting concepts to Discover, Investigate, Simulate and Create Opportunities (DISCO) using George Washington Carver STEAM InVenTures that make ongoing environmental awareness a family affair. |
Speaker:
Akil Rahim, Owner and Chief Learning Officer, AC Learning Design Studios, LLC
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Building Underwater Robots (ROVs) in the Classroom
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Get an in-depth look at resources for remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and discover how middle school students are exploring ocean technology by building ROVs in a STEM classroom. |
Speaker:
Maureen Barrett, 7th Grade STEM Teacher, Thomas E. Harrington Middle School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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STEM Projects for the Science Classroom
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 119B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Look at a variety of projects that can be used in middle school science to integrate STEM concepts into the classroom. Leave with the instructions for each of the projects discussed. |
Speaker:
DJ West, Adjunct Biology Faculty, Schoolcraft College
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Argumentation and Explanations with CER and the KLEWS Chart
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will explore how to use different student supports with argumentation and explanations in the STEM classroom to engage students in inquiry-based activities. Emphasis will be on using a CER (Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning) statement framework and a KLEWS (What do we KNOW, what are we LEARNING, what is our EVIDENCE, what do we still WONDER about, what SCIENCE principles/concepts help explain the phenomena?) chart. |
Speakers:
Leslie Suters, Tennessee Tech University
Kelly Moore, Lecturer, Tennessee Tech University
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Engineering, Thinking, and Doing! Activities That Work!
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 121C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage your students in STEM activities that use the engineering design process and content area together effectively! |
Speaker:
Judith Lucas-Odom, Science Teacher, Chester High School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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The Role of Visionary Leadership in the Integration of Making into One School District: A Case Study
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Review research findings on how school leaders integrated makerspaces and courses into their middle schools and high schools, creating an exciting atmosphere of innovation and learning. |
Speakers:
Keith Trahan, University of Pittsburgh
Renata Ramos, Student, University of Pittsburgh
Stephanie Romero, University of Pittsburgh
Cynthia Tananis, Associate Professor and Director, University of Pittsburgh
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Administrators
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NSTA Press® Session: Need Money? Write a Grant!
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 102A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| The author of Be a Winner! A Science Teacher’s Guide to Writing Successful Grant Proposals will share valuable ideas and tips for writing a successful classroom grant proposal. |
Speaker:
Patty McGinnis, Science Scope Editor/Teacher, Arcola Intermediate School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Available Handouts :
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The Milwaukee Master Teacher Partnership: Enhancing Teacher Practice in Secondary Math and Science
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 118C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| I'll describe the activities and outcomes of a five-year partnership between an urban school district and an urban research university focused on improving STEM teaching. |
Speaker:
Michael Steele, Chair, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Available Handouts :
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Strengthening Science Reasoning and Language for All Students Through Active 3-D Learning
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 122B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore balloon popping (or not popping) and learn how to engage ALL students in the collaborative reasoning and complex discussion of the rigorous and sophisticated three-dimensional framework. |
Speakers:
Rita MacDonald, Academic Language Researcher, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
David Crowther, NSTA President and Professor of Science Education, University of Nevada, Reno
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Solids: The Neglected "State" of Chemistry
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Use solids to make chemistry more relevant for students. Hands-on STEM activities using solid materials (metals/polymers/ceramics) make concepts easier to teach/learn. NGSS correlations. Take home a CD of information. |
Speaker:
Debbie Goodwin, Retired High School Science Teacher
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Discover the Interconnectedness of Human Sustainability and Earth’s Ecosystems with One Health!
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 307, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore interdisciplinary problem solving with One Health! Learn to use interactive case studies to illuminate the interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health that integrate the NGSS. |
Speakers:
Laura Schoenle, Postdoctoral Scholar, Hamilton College
Laura Kahn, Research Scholar, Princeton University
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Innovative Learning + Innovative Assessment in STEM
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 304/VIP, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Come learn about forward-thinking methodologies in teaching, learning, and assessment in the high school STEM curriculum. |
Speaker:
Eric Walters, Director of Technology, Marymount School of New York
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Hands-On Curriculum: Embedding a Free STEM Video Game
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| FLEET is a free engineering video game that applies science, engineering, and mathematics. Four schools' implementation grants allowed for activities and curricula that engaged students. |
Speaker:
Michael Briscoe, American Society of Naval Engineers
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Finding STEM’s Interdisciplinary Nexus: Big Ideas as Portals to Cross-Disciplinary Learning
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 124, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Participants will make an Appalachian string instrument and have interactive discussion about interdisciplinary curriculum development, culturally relevant learning, and new knowledge demonstration through learning artifacts. Note: Hands-on activities are limited to the first 30 participants. |
Speaker:
Daniel Schermele, Brooklyn Ascend High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Where Are the Next Generation Science Standards in Pennsylvania?
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 126B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Pennsylvania science standards are now 16 years old. Discussion centers on why these standards are still in use, how we can change that, and why and how classroom teachers can take the lead to help make new science standards a reality in this era of STEM. |
Speaker:
Christine Anne Royce, NSTA President-Elect, Prof. & Co-Dir. of MAT, Shippensburg University
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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The NGSS Awakens: A Practitioner’s Approach to Transitioning to Three-Dimensional Learning (Amplify)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 113A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Come join Brian Suter as he shares his experiences thus far in his journey to transition to the NGSS in his daily classroom and across the Neshaminy School District, serving as the lead science teacher. Receive access to an online curriculum that will allow you to open your students’ eyes as to how three-dimensional and phenemon-based learning connects to their daily lives and future careers. |
Speaker:
Brian Suter, Lead Science Teacher, Neshaminy High School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Amplify
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Take the Leap Forward into a Specimen-Free Science Lab (Animalearn)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 104 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join Animalearn as we explore the latest non-animal methods. Gain hands-on experience with innovative dissection resources. Attendees will win classroom resources that will wow students! |
Speaker:
Nicole Green, Director, Animalearn
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Animalearn
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DNA Glow Lab: A New Way to Investigate DNA Structure (miniPCR)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 103B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Ready for a completely new approach to studying DNA in the classroom? Have your students directly investigate how factors like temperature, pH, and genetic sequence affect DNA structure. Go beyond building paper and candy models—use modern biotechnology techniques to introduce an authentic lab component to your DNA unit…and it glows! |
Speaker:
Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Director, miniPCR
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
miniPCR
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AEOP and the STEM Pipeline: Encouraging STEM for All Students and Educators (U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP))
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 111 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage your students in real-world STEM activities in a fun environment and give them the opportunity to earn awards and recognition that will propel them toward a career in STEM. Students of all proficiency levels, interests, and social and economic backgrounds are encouraged to participate in real-world STEM experiences while also engaging with scientists and engineers. Discover new opportunities for you and your students. |
Speaker:
Erin Lester, NSTA
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP)
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Cubelets Robot Blocks for Computational Thinking, Iterative Design, and Emergence (Modular Robotics)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 112 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Cubelets are robot blocks that introduce the fundamental concepts behind algorithmic and computational thinking. Join in to explore Cubelets with time to collaboratively plan for classroom instruction around computational thinking, design thinking, and empowering student learners. |
Speaker:
Emily Eissenberg, Modular Robotics
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
Modular Robotics
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NABT Presents: Giant Replica Animals—a Capstone Biology Project that Integrates STEM
***CANCELED***
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will show how students can use STEM skills to plan, build, and design the components of a larger-than-life replica of an animal, learning about the anatomy, physiology, and ecology of the animal as a capstone project. |
Speaker:
Jennifer Pfannerstill, Teacher/Scientist-in-Residence, North Shore Country Day School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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AACT Session: Elementary and Middle School Chemistry: Demonstrations and Lab Activities on a Shoestring Budget
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 123, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discover engaging demonstrations, labs, and activities that can help elementary and middle school teachers teach chemistry topics. |
Speaker:
Kimberly Duncan, Professional Learning Associate, American Association of Chemistry Teachers
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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ITEEA Session: Exploring the Designed World Through Engineering byDesign™ Advanced Technological Applications
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 125, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Get ready for active engagement during this fast-paced session of exploration of the designed world—graphics communication, biotechnology, information technology, and robotics. |
Speakers:
Anita Deck, Director of Innovation, Assessment, and Research, International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
Joanna Papadopoulos, PhD Graduate Research Assistant, International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
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Audience:
Grade 11, Grade 12
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Foam Gliders, the Engineering Design Process, and Controlling Variables
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Take learning to new heights. Participants will work through a lesson in which they will be using foam plates and the Engineering Design Process to improve on the original glider design while changing only one variable at a time. |
Speakers:
Melissa VanWingerden, STEM Teacher, Allen W Roberts Elem School
Denise Post, K-6 Stem Teacher, Salt Brook Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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Are You Moody? (Texas Instruments)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 109 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will bring science and coding together as participants learn to do some basic coding (no experience necessary) while developing a mood ring! The science of color mixing is explored while determining the right body temperature thresholds. Is fuchsia flirty? Should green be groovy? It’s up to you! |
Speaker:
Fred Fotsch, Texas Instruments
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Texas Instruments
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From Gene to Protein—The Central Dogma and Genetic Medicine (HHMI BioInteractive)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 105 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Using new BioInteractive resources, engage students in a model of the central dogma of gene expression and how it’s affected at different levels by various genetic diseases. Engage with treatment strategies that show how advances in genetic medicine can intercede at different stages of gene expression. |
Speaker:
Ann Brokaw, Biology Teacher, Rocky River High School
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
HHMI BioInteractive
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NGSS—Waves: Make an Abstract Concept Become Visible! (Lab-Aids, Inc.)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 107 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Experience two exemplary NGSS-focused activities from SEPUP that build up to “Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer” (MS-PS4-2). Anchored in the context of health issues around various types and levels of wave exposure, these activities model seamless integration of the three dimensions, ELA, and math standards. We will explore the relationship between visible light frequency and energy through the use of a phosphorescent material and use light boxes to explore reflection and refraction. |
Speaker:
Denis Baker, Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Middle School Matters: Modeling Phases with Magnetic Water Molecules (3D Molecular Designs)
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Room: 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage your students in three-dimensional learning by modeling the chemical and physical properties of water using magnetic water molecules. Construct physical representations of the three phases of water to explain water density anomalies. Help your students visualize how water molecules interact with sodium chloride to dissolve salt crystals. Handouts! |
Speakers:
Keri Shingleton, Holland Hall
Karen Avery, Biology Teacher, Montoursville Area High School
Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs
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Audience:
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
3D Molecular Designs
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A Path Analysis of Student Interest in STEM
***CANCELED***
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Review findings from a study aimed at examining the factors that influence students' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Qatar. |
Speakers:
Abdellatif Sellami, Research Professor, Qatar University
Haneen Al-Qassass, Research Assistant, Qatar University
Rima Al-Kassem, Research Project Manager, The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Using Technology and Maps to Inform Community Development Decisions
***CANCELED***
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 120A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Students generate an opinion and justification for whether they support a proposed greenway route using maps and web-based interactive tools from an EPA tool, EnviroAtlas. |
Speaker:
Jenna Hartley, ASPPH Environmental Health Fellow, ASPPH
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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5 E’sy Ways to Investigate Enzymes (3D Molecular Designs)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| ENGAGE your students in investigating enzyme structure/function using multiple modeling strategies. EXPLORE and EXPLAIN catabolism, anabolism, and 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! |
Speakers:
Keri Shingleton, Holland Hall
Karen Avery, Biology Teacher, Montoursville Area High School
Gina Vogt, Secondary Education Program Manager, 3D Molecular Designs
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
3D Molecular Designs
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NGSS—Designing Better Chemical Batteries (Lab-Aids, Inc.)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 107 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Students investigate how chemical energy can be transformed via a chemical process into electrical energy. After building a prototype wet cell, students brainstorm improvements and build, test, and evaluate new prototypes to meet a set of predetermined criteria within specified constraints. |
Speaker:
Denis Baker, Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Lab-Aids, Inc.
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Exploring Air Quality and Energy Choices with Environmental STEM Activities (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA))
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 111 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Foster critical thinking and STEM skills with your students via hands-on educational tools developed by the EPA. Our researchers will lead you in building an air sensor, playing our free Generate board game of energy choices, and using our Village Green stations to explore air quality and data. |
Speakers:
Melissa Anley-Mills, Science Communications Staff, U.S. EPA
Gayle Hagler, U.S. EPA Research Triangle Park
Rebecca Dodder, U.S. EPA Research Triangle Park
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Hands-On STEM for Grades K–8 (SAE International)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 104 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Looking for a hands-on way to keep students engaged with STEM concepts? A World In Motion (AWIM) is a teacher-administered, industry volunteer–assisted program that incorporates STEM learning experiences through hands-on activities. Receive an overview of AWIM’s methodology and learn how to breathe new life into your classroom by challenging students to design and construct balloon-powered cars. |
Speakers:
Andrea DeMello, Pre-College Program Associate, SAE International
Bonnie Thibodeau, SAE International
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
SAE International
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Quantitative Reasoning—From Data to Evidence Using BioInteractive Resources (HHMI BioInteractive)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 105 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Bring more quantitative reasoning into your biology classroom and show your students how data becomes evidence for or against a scientific claim. Free classroom-ready HHMI BioInteractive resources that engage students in quantitative reasoning about natural selection, mosquito control, and cancer will be presented. |
Speaker:
Robert Cooper, Biology Teacher, Pennsbury High School, West Campus
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
HHMI BioInteractive
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STEAM-a-LAMA-DING-DONG (Texas Instruments)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 109 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Music is a great way to get kids excited about STEAM. Learn how to use a graphing calculator, a TI-Innovator hub, and some imagination to get middle school and high school students excited about coding and engineering. No experience necessary! |
Speaker:
Fred Fotsch, Texas Instruments
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
Texas Instruments
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Engage! Inquiry-Based STEM Learning Through Hands-On Experimentation
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 103C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Learn how to engage students in hypothesis-driven STEM projects and learn about resources available for integrating experiments into the classroom. |
Speakers:
Amanda Purdy, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Jaye Gardiner, Fox Chase Cancer Center
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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NGSS Implementation Boot Camp
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 119A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Our team will demonstrate how to leverage the power of a Professional Learning Community to continue moving forward with your school’s implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards. |
Speakers:
Rebecca Haystead, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Frances Flores, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Carlos Covarrubias, Principal, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Jena Branstetter, STEM Coordinator, Balboa Middle School
Elizabeth Walker-Martinez, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
Adriana Guerra, Teacher, E.P. Foster STEM Academy
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Administrators
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Sickle Cell Genetics Lab: Diagnosing Baby Marie (miniPCR)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 103B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join in for a hands-on activity that will expose you to the fundamental principles of DNA analysis by gel electrophoresis. Help the Robinson family make a genetic diagnosis! |
Speaker:
Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra, Director, miniPCR
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
miniPCR
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Monday Morning STEM Activities for Your High School Classroom! (Nasco)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 113A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us for this hands-on workshop featuring classroom activities that support NGSS and state standards. Free access to hundreds of hours of ready-to-go activities and content to all who attend! |
Speakers:
Jordan Nelson, Director of Science Education, Nasco
Alan Gomez, The STEM Academy®
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Available Handouts :
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Sponsor:
Nasco
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Design Thinking: A Hands-On Workshop for Navigating Challenges in Your Class, School, and Life
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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With five powerful questions, students and adults can practice Design Thinking as they creatively overcome their many everyday challenges. Administrators and teachers, please join us as we delve into applying Design Thinking in this hands-on workshop. Tackle a challenge of your own with a peer. See people of all ages getting unstuck. Envision how Design Thinking might enhance your STEM program—and expand how problem solving happens in your classroom and school.
Organizers:
Ela Ben-Ur, Founder and Assistant Adjunct Professor, Innovators' Compass and Olin College, Cambridge, MA
Garrett Mason, Educational Consultant, Denver, CO |
Speakers:
Ela Ben-Ur, Founder, Innovators' Compass
Garrett Mason, Education Design Consultant, Leadership+Design
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Featured Hands-On Workshop
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Bioprinting and Soft Material 3D Printing in Education (CELLINK LLC)
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 112 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore how the use of soft material 3D printers and bioprinters can be used in education from the middle school to high school level. We will print materials such as alginates, gelatins, and chocolate. |
Speaker:
Patrick Thayer, Bioink Officer, CELLINK LLC
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Exhibitor Workshop
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Sponsor:
CELLINK LLC
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Do You Need a Science Lab? Win a Shell Science Lab Makeover ($20,000 Value) for Your School
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 126B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Are you a K–12 science or STEM teacher in need of a science lab makeover? Attend this session and learn how you can apply to win the Shell Science Lab or Regional Makeover! You will have an opportunity to actually begin to complete the application and have your questions answered. |
Speakers:
Amanda Upton, Teacher Awards Program Manager, NSTA
Ruth Ruud, Adjunct Instructor, Cleveland State University
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Overcoming Barriers to Inquiry-Based Learning in the Traditional and Virtual Classrooms
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 307, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Have a desire for your students to connect deeper with content? We will examine how one's teaching identity is linked to successful inquiry implementation. |
Speakers:
Rachael Cipolla, Science Curriculum Coordinator, The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School
Jessica Fetterman, The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Toy Design as a Vehicle for Vertical Collaboration in a K–12 Setting
***CANCELED***
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 304/VIP, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Hear about a project that has served as a vehicle for vertical collaboration to address a relevant social need. While opportunities for vertical collaboration in a K–12 setting are abundant, it can be a daunting task for teachers to create projects that allow for authentic collaboration among students in different grade levels, different developmental stages, and different points in the curriculum. |
Speaker:
Aruna Chavali, Marymount School of New York
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
High School
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Data Analysis Made Easy: Connecting Math and Science Through Technology
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 126A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Increase student engagement in analysis and evaluation of real data. Engage students of different ability levels in mathematical modeling with measurements not previously accessible in the classroom. |
Speaker:
Karlheinz Haas, Science/Math Instructor, The Pine School
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
High School
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Available Handouts :
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What’s Happening with STEM in Libraries?
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Hear about the many ways that libraries are supporting STEM education. This panel will feature library folks from school and public libraries, reporting on what they’re up to. Time allowed to ask the panelists questions. |
Speaker:
Chandra Jones, STEM Program Administrator, Denver Public Library
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Available Handouts :
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Surf & Turf Programming: Connected Learning Through Collaborative Partnerships
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 102A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us for an in-depth discussion on establishing effective partnerships to bridge informal and formal learning contexts to cultivate STEM identities and aquatic-based STEM interests among African American children in middle school and high school. |
Speakers:
Amy Heemsoth, Director of Education, Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Nevada Winrow, Founder/CEO, Black Girls Dive Foundation
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Bringing Active STEM Learning Through an Experiment-Based Game Challenge
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 125, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| We will provide an overview of family-friendly informal STEM education programming that was developed by a science teacher, a STEM library specialist, and a software engineer. |
Speakers:
Chrystian Vieyra, Vieyra Software
Diana Price, Children's Librarian, Alexandria Public Library
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Audience:
College, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Available Handouts :
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Moving from Pockets of Innovation to a Comprehensive and Cohesive STEAM Program
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 118C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| STEM programs should include a balance of activities to provide students the opportunity to explore their passions. Learn how to build a program that meets the four disciplines of STEM: Build, Code, Create, and Design. |
Speaker:
Ben Smith, STEM Specialist, Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Administrators
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STEM for All: Self-Contained General Education and Beyond
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore how adaptations and extensions to STEM projects help ALL students be prepared for the 21st century and a world of critical thinking/problem solving. |
Speaker:
Debra Coen, Technology and Engineering Teacher, West Orange High School
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Audience:
Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Solve a One Health Mystery!
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 119B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Get your students excited about working together using One Health to discover our interdependent world and build 21st-century NGSS skills in the classroom. |
Speakers:
Joann Lindenmayer, Associate Professor of Public Health (Adjunct), Tufts University School of Medicine
Joann Lindenmayer, Associate Professor of Public Health (Adjunct), Tufts University School of Medicine
Thomas Micek, Science Instructor, Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School
Thomas Micek, Science Instructor, Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School
Lauren Brierley, Staff Veterinarian, Concord Biosciences, LLC
Gretchen Kaufman, Adjunct Faculty, Washington State University
Gretchen Kaufman, Adjunct Faculty, Washington State University
Hannah Metzel, Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School
Hannah Metzel, Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Mentoring the Next Generation of Technologists
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Through curricula, projects, partnerships, and mentorship, Creating IT Futures’ NextUp initiative aims to spark curiosity and passion for technology in teens through meaningful engagement. |
Speaker:
Eric Larson, Creating IT Futures Foundation
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Measure It! Student-Friendly Climate Change Data Investigations
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 309/310, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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| Come try out activities on climate change that are designed to engage middle school students in experimental design, data collection and analysis, argument from evidence, and communication. |
Speaker:
Pat Harcourt, Project Manager, MADE-CLEAR
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Audience:
Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Moving Toward 3-D Assessment: Hands-On Performance Assessment Tasks in Grades 6–8
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 122A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage in a hands-on performance task and explore how this form of assessment is used to demonstrate student mastery of the CCSS and NGSS. |
Speakers:
Deborah Tucker, Independent Science Education Consultant
Grant Gardner, President - CEO, Assessment Services, Inc.
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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Applying Heat Transfer Knowledge and Learning 21st-Century Skills to Create Cooker Containers for Ecuadorian Fishermen
***CANCELED***
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 121C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage! Explore! Apply! Learn about a socio-cultural and interdisciplinary STEM unit to learn foundational heat/thermal energy transfer principles by designing and building cooker containers for Ecuadorian fishermen! |
Speaker:
Yosefa Carriger, Science Teacher, Northeast Middle School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Design Challenges Versus 3-D Design Investigations: Where’s the Rigor?
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 120B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Engage in a tower building challenge followed by an evaluation of design investigations. Finally, we'll brainstorm methods for designing rigorous three-dimensional long-term science investigations. |
Speakers:
Grace Andrews, PD Facilitator, NYSCI
Deon Daniels, Science Instructor, NYSCI
Christopher Hernandez, Robert F. Wagner Middle School
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Audience:
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Available Handouts :
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5Ez Steps to Building an Elementary Science Curriculum
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 120A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Our established lessons are built on the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) lesson model. We will share how to design a process for constructing an elementary STEM curriculum that meets the NGSS and gets results. |
Speakers:
Clay Nolan, STEM Coordinator, Cattaraugus-Allegany-Erie-Wyoming BOCES
Tim Cox, Assistant Superintendent, Cattaraugus-Allegany-Erie-Wyoming BOCES
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Coding Like CRAZY for Kids
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 113C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore the elements of coding, including an introduction to Python coding language. Receive an overview of computers and how they process information using the binary system. |
Speaker:
Valencia Thornton, CRAM Academy
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Using Stormwater as an Integrating Phenomenon in Urban Classrooms
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 116, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Join us for an interactive look at how a community-based stormwater curriculum and scaffolded teacher support engage students in solving real-world STEM problems. |
Speakers:
Derek Jones, Brightwater Program Manager, IslandWood
Celina Steiger, Urban School Programs Coordinator, IslandWood
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Robotic Tech Tools “Debug” Science Concepts
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 115A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore various robotics tools that can be used within a learning environment to unpack science concepts. By creating engaging experiences, learners use problem-solving skills, logic, and creativity as they use innovation. Learners are more than just problem solvers; they’re problem seekers…and purpose inspires innovation. |
Speaker:
Frederick Hellbusch, K-6 Science/STEAM Specialist
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Audience:
Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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STEMsational Resources for the Literacy Classroom
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 115C, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Learn how to integrate STEM projects through read-aloud books/novels. Get hands on with STEAM Bins and learn how to incorporate them into your classroom routine! |
Speaker:
Amy Kretchman, 3rd Grade Teacher, John Kerr Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Available Handouts :
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Meteoroids, Asteroids, and Moons, Oh My!
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 115B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Have you ever wanted to visit a moon, asteroid, or meteoroid? Then this STEM-focused hands-on workshop is for you. We will design, build, and test moon landing devices that allow two “marshmallow” people to land softly on the Moon. |
Speaker:
Joan Gillman, Science Teacher, The Calhoun School
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Assembly Required! Upcycled Materials Only for This Marble Run
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Room: 113B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Allow me to showcase my students' work. It will excite and motivate you to create a marble run from upcycled materials with your students. Do you have what it takes to build a marble run and stay within the 2' x 2' x 2' dimensions? |
Speakers:
Barbette Smithson, PK-6 Principal, Booneville Elementary School
Georgia Littleton, 6th Grade Science Teacher, Booneville Elementary School
Garnetta Bonner, Educator, Booneville Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Developing a STEM Ecosystem to Prepare All Students for Career Readiness
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 102A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| It takes the entire village to raise a prepared and productive STEM student. The STEM ecosystem brings together partners in all areas of the community to identify resources and promote opportunities for preK–20 students. Come learn about our efforts at creating an ecosystem and learn how to develop yours. |
Speaker:
Ben Smith, STEM Specialist, Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12
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Audience:
College, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Partnerships
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Growing Food and Growing Minds
***CANCELED***
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 103B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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Learn how the creation of edible gardens in the school yard or classroom can engage student interests in all three dimensions of the NGSS. |
Speaker:
Joe Kirstein, Chair of Science / Sustainability, Episcopal Day School
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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The Squeeze Play: Make a Device That Flips a Character When You Squeeze the Handles
***CANCELED***
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 105 A/B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Investigate and reverse engineer this wooden toy from Mexico! Learn how this device illustrates concepts of simple machines, tension, gravity, potential, and kinetic energy. |
Speaker:
Kathy Gutierrez, P.S. 536
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Experiencing the STEM-Related Jobs in Advance
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 118B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Want to know how to teach STEM-related jobs? Find out how Gwacheon National Science Museum in Korea has developed four teaching plans for middle school students in aerospace, renewable energy, information systems, and bio-genetic engineering. |
Speaker:
Ahn Hyojung, Deputy Director, Gwacheon National Science Museum
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Audience:
Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Middle Level
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Connecting Communities and Schools Through STEM
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 116, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Find out how one school was able to get the community involved with their matter unit and how students were able to demonstrate their understanding through Problem-Based Learning. |
Speakers:
Mark Nance, Teacher, Westridge Elementary School
Megan Jenkins, Teacher, Westridge Elementary School
Alison Fuller, Teacher, Westridge Elementary School
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Audience:
Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Balance and Art: A STEM Unit with Calder Mobiles
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 115A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Explore the concepts of balance in science, math, and art. Use what you learn to engineer your own inspired Calder-esque mobile. |
Speaker:
Justine Kim, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota
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Audience:
Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Upper Elementary
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Animating English Language Arts Through Computer Programming Using Scratch Jr.
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 118A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Discover how to connect English language arts with computer programming by coding a story on Scratch Jr. to make an animation. The session will start with reading Ashley Spires' book The Most Magnificent Thing. |
Speaker:
Phuong Uzoff, Teacher-PLTW, El Segundo Unified School District
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten
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Session Type:
Hands-On Workshop
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Using Real-World Problems to Support Early Childhood STEM Investigations
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 117, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Identify the elements of effective real-world challenges and practice creating meaningful early learning STEM investigations that stimulate and build on children’s natural curiosity. |
Speakers:
Holly King, Director, Early Learning Services, AdvancED
Lisa Sutherland, Early Learning Engagement Specialist, AdvancED
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Audience:
Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Available Handouts :
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STEM Events for Dummies: How to Host a Fun, Frugal, and Fabulous STEM Family Night!
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 309/310, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
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| Feeling overwhelmed? I’ll give you a step-by-step planning guide for choosing a theme, organizing volunteers, and purchasing supplies on a budget. Relax… you’ve got this! |
Speaker:
Emily Tucker, STEM Specialist, Charlotte Preparatory School
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Audience:
Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten, Preschool
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Session Type:
Presentation
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Strand:
Lower Elementary/Early Childhood
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Constructing Tower and Bridge Models with Scale Drawings
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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Room: 120B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
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| Develop K–2 student understanding of scale models and drawings through collaborative engineering challenges connecting engineering and architecture. |
Speakers:
Rafael Robinson, Teacher, | |
