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Work with a team of architects to design a space that will best support STEM/STEAM learning outcomes. Explore best practices in the design of learning environments and study exemplar spaces for the teaching and learning of science.

Work with a team of architects to design a space that will best support STEM/STEAM learning outcomes. Explore best practices in the design of learning environments and study exemplar spaces for the teaching and learning of science.

Integrative STEM education offers engaging opportunities for all children through engineering for social good, computational thinking skills, and technological and engineering literacy.

Work with a team of architects to design a space that will best support STEM/STEAM learning outcomes. Explore best practices in the design of learning environments and study exemplar spaces for the teaching and learning of science.

As a field, we must capitalize on engaging students in meaningful grade-level mathematics  through integrated STEM learning experiences! We will examine how to inspire students through transformative learning experiences that rightfully positions mathematics as an essential component to solving problems to improve our world.

What is your state doing to support computer science education? Hear from Arkansas’s Computer Science director for an interactive look at successful efforts, and how you can plan your work and work your plan!

Micro-credential programs are rapidly growing momentum in professional learning. Join us to learn about the STEM Micro-credential model used in Tennessee to identify and recognize educators in their commitment to teaching STEM and integrating strategies that ultimately prepare students for success in the 21st century.

Gain insights into convening key stakeholders to forge a regional STEM network that leverages existing assets to build capacity to support high-quality STEM education.

Students design a high school, to be built in 2050. The project incorporates site plans, floor plans, scale models, budgets, written proposals, and environmental concerns.  The student creativity is amazing!

Today’s students face a future where there is an increasing need for mathematical skills in the workplace, especially in STEM-related careers. Come join the conversation around NCTM’s publication, Catalyzing Change in High School Mathematics, as we explore this idea.

Greater access to STEM, especially new approaches to STEM education, have the highest potential for improving outcomes for underserved students and narrowing the opportunity gap.

Mathematics teaching practices stimulate learners in thinking critically through rich tasks, engaging in discourse, and connecting and using representations.

Work with a team of architects to design a makerspace that will best support STEM/STEAM learning outcomes. Explore best practices in the design of learning environments and study exemplar spaces for the teaching and learning of science.

You’re an expert science (STEM) teacher, now running a STEM lab or leading a STEM school. What makes excellent STEM teaching and learning? Join us and find out.

Work with a team of architects to design a makerspace that will best support STEM/STEAM learning outcomes. Explore best practices in the design of learning environments and study exemplar spaces for the teaching and learning of science.

Work with a team of architects to design a makerspace that will best support STEM/STEAM learning outcomes. Explore best practices in the design of learning environments and study exemplar spaces for the teaching and learning of science.

Engage key stakeholders in initiatives to advance the future of STEM education and the STEM workforce. We will share examples of work underway in New York to engage parents, families, teachers, guidance counselors, colleges, and industry to expand pathways to STEM careers.

The need for STEM literacy—the ability to understand and apply concepts from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in order to solve our nation’s most complex problems—is growing exponentially. The requirement for STEM literacy goes beyond the traditional STEM occupations of scientist, engineer, and mathematician. In addition, the United States and the Army have a growing need for highly qualified, STEM-literate technicians and skilled workers in advanced manufacturing, logistics, management, and other technology-driven fields.

For more than 50 years, the U.S. Army has supported a wide range of educational opportunities in STEM for our youth and undergraduate students, as well as our valued teachers. From elementary school through undergraduate school, students of all proficiency levels, interests, and social and economic backgrounds are encouraged to participate in real-world STEM experiences while also engaging with Army-sponsored mentors. The STEM programs offered include competitions, STEM enrichment programs, and opportunities for apprenticeships, internships and scholarships. More information is available at USAEOP.com.

A diverse panel of students from the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) will describe:

• their experience with the AEOP programs they have participated in,
• the importance of STEM in their lives,
• the importance of STEM in their school experiences,
• how STEM will help them in their futures, and
• why they think STEM is important.

AEOP aims to provide both students and teachers with diverse opportunities that effectively engage, inspire, and attract the next generation of STEM talent and expose participants to Department of Defense (DoD) STEM careers.

Introductions and Moderator: Matt Hartman, eCYBERMISSION Educational Content Manager, U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program, NSTA, Arlington, Va.

Panelists: 

• Derek Favorite, Student, Loyola High School of Los Angeles
• Kiera Fulton, Student, El Toro High School
• Aingela Kattapuram, Student, El Toro High School
• Jadyn Booth, Student, El Toro High School
• MacKenzie Ward, Student, El Toro High School 
• Christopher Deleon, Teacher, Hudson Middle School 
• Josh Sanyal, Student, Homestead High School 
• Anushka Sanyal, Student, Homestead High School 

Learn about an innovative partnership between industry and secondary and postsecondary education to strengthen the STEM pipeline. Hear representatives from Da Vinci Science High School, Northrop Grumman, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo share the outcomes of this unique collaboration.

Moderator: Steve Wallis, Da Vinci Science High School, El Segundo, CA

Panelists:

• Carleen Beste, Director of Corporate Citizenship, Northrop Grumman Corp., El Segundo, CA
• Natalie Schaefer, Executive Director, Strategic Development Initiatives, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Sponsored by Northrop Grumman

Explore a new, atomically-accurate model of double-helical DNA that can be untwisted into the familiar two-dimensional ladder and separated into two single strands to model the processes of replication and transcription! Engage students with manipulatives that allow them to convert deoxyribose to ribose sugars and generate the universal currency of energy, ATP.

Participants will use the engineering design process in a creative way to design and build “pile” or “foil” batteries! Then groups will use their custom battery (batteries) design to create circuits and power devices—a PD workshop perfect for beginners and experienced teachers.

Come explore the fundamentals of coding with Vernier. Use your science, mathematics, and problem-solving skills to navigate mBot, an app-enabled, programmable robot. And learn to connect Vernier sensors to Scratch, a popular block-based programming language. Coding makes a wonderful supplement to traditional science course.

Earning a STEM Teacher Certificate will refine and demonstrate your understanding of 15 STEM Teacher Actions. These effective, engaging, and evidence-based STEM instructional strategies will transform your students outcomes and energize your campus.

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!

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.

Help! The principal has been murdered in the art room! Your students become crime scene investigators as they walk into a murder scene. Inspect the location of the murder using blood spatter analysis and then catch the criminal with DNA fingerprinting. Leave with ways to incorporate biotechnology and gel electrophoresis into your classroom.

STEM learners relish engagement with intriguing phenomena, where they can use their senses, imagination, conversation, visualization, and trial-and-error. Collectively, these factors form a contextual constellation around learning and memory.

This workshop will focus on the oceanic circulations and weather extremes that occur due to El Niño and La Niña events, and how the global wind patterns and surface currents in the Pacific Ocean react to these changes.

Take part in hands-on activities in physical and life science and engage in argument from the evidence of an inquiry lab.

Explore how community partners can help you integrate STEM with meaningful watershed educational experiences and leverage instructional resources to engage students with Project-Based Learning experiences.

Prepare for a family STEM night with our theme ideas, timelines, and resources. Walk away with helpful strategies for a successful event in your community.

Are you a K–12 science teacher in need of science lab makeover? Attend the Shell Science Lab presentation 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.

Emphasis will be placed on pedagogical methods in computer science that support intellectual rigor while being relevant to diverse populations of students.

BMX Olympic medalist Donny Robinson discusses “how far can two wheels take you,” encouraging teachers and students alike to find their own “two wheels.”

Have you been asking whether you should trust loud claims of advertising? Or simply want to know what a penny is made of?

Encounter a new twist on the circuit maze challenge, while engaging in a classroom-ready engineering and design task that will bolster collaboration and feedback.

Discover simple, easy, and inexpensive methods for starting a school garden by using upcycled and free materials.

Students have very little unstructured time but allowing them to tinker in STEM gives them the opportunity to grow their imagination and expand their creativity.

Discover new instructional resources, collaboratively developed by NSTA and WIDA, that support ELLs’ full engagement in three-dimensional science, their science reasoning, and science discourse.

Engage in a series of activities to show how the restoration of an apex predator to the food chain can heal an ailing ecosystem.

A unit will be presented that engages students and teachers in responsive classroom practices by allowing students to critique fidgets, define criteria for appropriate fidgets, and design their own fidget based on their learning. Students will justify their design as well as their reasoning to allow or ban fidgets in the classroom.

Explore what engineering success looks like and how to use the NGSS science and engineering practices as the framework for formative and summative assessment.

Bring systems and system models alive through the creative dance process. Using the example of a life cycle, participants will apply dance strategies that will help students internalize scientific content kinesthetically.

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.

A complete video and materials record of an inquiry-based course is an anytime resource for study of students, instructors, teaching, and learning. Want to show preservice teachers how backward design works? Have colleagues who don’t know what inquiry looks like? Come visit.

Collecting and analyzing experimental data has never been easier using Vernier technology in your lab. Help prepare students to meet the NGSS and state standards through data-collection experiments that support three-dimensional learning. Bring your own device with our Graphical Analysis 4 app installed or use ours during the workshop.

Science is about explaining the phenomena that occur in the world around us. Join in to experience how phenomena is used during instruction and learn how to develop your own anchor and investigative phenomena to drive your lessons.

Designed for middle school and high school, join us if you’re new to coding and want to get up to speed. We will bring coding and hands-on together as you learn how to program a robotic vehicle (called a Rover) to get as close to an object as possible without touching it! No coding experience is necessary.

Feel like a student in this hands-on activity integrating STEM disciplines, while using various 3D printing platforms. Perfect for the novice to intermediate educator.

Complete an integrated STEM activity focused on properties of light, view student participation video, and consider gender equity in small group STEM activities.

Construct a Pascal’s Pyramid and discover interesting mathematical patterns hidden within. If you love Pascal’s Triangle, come meet her equally interesting yet often overlooked cousin!

Interested in creating cross-curricular Project-Based Learning in your STEM course or curriculum? Bring a lesson or unit to transform into a PBL masterpiece!

When students collect their own data, they are WAY more likely to take an interest in the data. Come to this 100% hands-on session and experience the engagement, the interactivity, and the fun that comes with data collection!