South Carolina Science Council 38Th Annual Conference Conference Program November 4-6, 2015 Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center

South Carolina Science Council 38th Annual Conference Conference Program November 4-6, 2015 Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center

2015 (SC)2 Leadership

Executive Board District Directors Past Presidents President District 1 Mary China Corrie Amy Umberger Nate Belcher Pam Cromer President-Elect Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Elizabeth Regan Debbie Bishop Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, Jasper Troy Bridges Vice-President Anita Bozardt John Hutchens District 2 Johanna Killoy Vice-President Elect Dana Hutto Marty McGinn Pamela Vereen Bamberg, Calhoun, Lexington, Vicky McLean Immediate Past President Richland Mirandi Squires Frances Crawford Treasurer District 3 Brenda Evans Amy Norgren Karey Santos Linda Sinclair Secretary Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Barnwell, Mike Farmer Jami Cummings Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens, Wyatt McDaniel III McCormick, Newberry, Saluda Richard A. Porter Advisory Board Carolyn Randolph Archivist District 4 Michelle Powell Mary Levens Linda Melcher&Ernest Mackins Sandy B. Moore Parliamentarian Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens Norma Ashburn Ron Shelton Al Heyward SC Hall of Science and Technology District 5 Mary Levens -Vacant- Becky Cornwell Steve Bell Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Newsletter Stan Rachelson -Vacant- Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Spartanburg, Union, York Sally Shive Elizabeth Edmondson 2 (SC) Leadership Nominations Rosemary Wicker To be eligible for an office, the person District 6 Patty Lynch must be a member in good standing in Dee Marshall the organization and the District Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Dana Hutto Directors must teach in the district where Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Lee, Ewart Irick they are nominated. Include a resume Marion, Marlboro, Sumter, Bill Austin and a picture with nominations to (SC)². Williamsburg Marilyn Jenkins Holly Sullivan The following positions are still open for nomination: Alan Weekes (Submit nominations to [email protected] or [email protected] ) Don Poland Vice-President Elect – The Presidency is a graduating position; you come in as the Alice Gilchrist vice-president elect and move through the positions over a 5 year period. Derenda Marshall Leann Iacuone Secretary (Two year term)-The secretary shall conduct the correspondence of the organization as requested by the President. Mirandi Squires

Newsletter Editor– The newsletter editor shall publish and disseminate a biannual District Directors are newsletter to the membership. The newsletter editor will serve as the Chairperson of available to answer any the Public Relation Committee. questions related to (SC)² and serve as your liaison on District II Director– (Two year term) Bamberg, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, the Advisory Board. Richland Additionally, during their District IV Director – (Two year term) Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, and Pickens two-year term in office, they District VI Director– (Two year term) Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, provide valuable resources Georgetown, Horry, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Sumter, and Williamsburg to members in their district.

Table of Contents

Council Leadership…………………………………….…1 Presidents’ Reception…………………………………….2 Welcome...……………………………………………….3

Conference Schedule……………………………………4

Conference Details…………………………………….....5

Keynotes……………………………………………….....6

Field Trips………………………………………………...9

Floor Plan……………………………………………….12 Wednesday Schedule………………………………….13 Thursday Schedule……………………………………...15 Friday Schedule………………………………………...23

Presidents’ Reception Sponsored by Pearson and School Specialty/FOSS/Delta Education/CPO Science /Frey

Join President Amy Umberger and the South Carolina Science Council Board Members to honor our Past Presidents, Thursday, November 5th, from 5:00PM to 7:00PM.

The reception will take place on the lower level of the Convention Center, outside the Columbia Ballrooms. The outdoor venue will be open for socialization.

Hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine will be served.

Welcome

From the (SC)2 President…

I am so happy to welcome you to Columbia this year for our 38th Annual gathering of the South Carolina Science Council. Our theme for this year’s conference is “Gearing Up for the South Carolina Academic Standards and Performance Indicators for Science”. Get Ready! You are in for one of the most exciting professional developments you have ever experienced.

We will learn together through engaging workshops and general sessions, as well as keynote speakers led by educators who are passionate about what they do as teaching professionals. I encourage you to take a field experience in or around our capital city. Take advantage of the many networking opportunities during transition times, our Past-Presidents Reception, or just walking to or from your hotel or car. Our vendor hall will be a place filled with excitement and lots of new materials to consider as we begin to implement our new state standards and performance indicators.

If you are new to our conference, we hope you will join us on Thursday morning for breakfast. Also, make time to attend our Business Meeting on Friday morning. This is a time to learn more about our organization and if you have “made a wish” this is where you find out if it comes true.

With the inviting choices available we challenge you to make this conference “your conference”, just as it has been mine now for 14 years. I look forward to seeing each and everyone of you.

Amy Umberger President South Carolina Science Council

From the 38th Annual (SC)2 Science Convention Program Chair…

Welcome to the 38th Annual Science Conference, “Gearing Up”. The theme for this year’s conference is dedicated to all the educators in South Carolina who are Gearing Up for the full implementation of the 2014 South Carolina Academic Standards and Performance Indicators for Science. The conference sessions highlight components of the 2014 Standards, including the Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and the Core Content Areas.

In organizing this year’s conference, we paid close attention to offering a diverse choice of sessions, considering grade spans and content. By far, the planned presentations and sessions will provide excellent opportunities for professional growth and will offer opportunities for professional collaboration. Our hope is that you leave this conference with new knowledge, great lessons and activities, and ideas to make your learning environment the best it can be.

As Program Chair, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge all the hard work from individuals in making this conference a success. Thank you to the presenters, organizers, vendors, and especially those near and dear who have supported the organization and me during this process.

Debbie Bishop President-Elect, Program Chair South Carolina Science Council

Conference Schedule

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Exhibit Hall Preconference Workshops 9:00AM – 4:00PM Thursday 10:00AM – 5:00PM (See Program for Details; Registration is separate for some events) Friday 9:00AM-3:00PM McGraw-Hill Education Registration 7:30AM – 6:00PM Sundance/Newbridge Vendor / Exhibitor Check-In / Set-up (3:00 PM-6:00PM) Accelerate Learning LearnEd Notebooks SC Department of Education 1:00PM – 3:45PM Delta / FOSS See Sessions for times and topics Diamond Del's Gem Mining Activate Learning Lakeshore Learning Materials Thursday, November 5, 2015 Homecourt Publishers, LLC Registration 7:00AM – 6:00PM Frey Scientific / CPO Science Vendor / Exhibitor Check-In (7:00 AM-9:00AM) Tests for Higher Standards/ROSworks Continental Breakfast 7:00AM – 8:00AM PASCO, Scientific LAB-AIDS Opening Session 8:00AM – 9:00AM Explore Learning Keynote Professor Lawrence Lowery Carolina Curriculum National Geographic General Sessions, Track 1 9:15AM – 10:00AM Learning/Cengage Learning General Session, Track 2 10:15AM – 11:00AM Sparkpoint Innovations Texas Instruments Keynote Address, 11:15AM – 12:15PM Assistant Music Brian Campbell, Notebooking Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Lunch Break 12:15PM – 1:00PM Pearson Concessions Available in Exhibit Hall Clemson Univ./Youth Learning Institute General Session, Track 3 1:00PM – 2:15PM SC Project Learning Tree Break 2:15PM – 2:45PM The South Carolina Education Assoc. General Session, Track 4 2:45PM – 4:00PM SC Governor's School for Science and Presidents Reception 5:00PM – 7:00PM Math Roper Mountain Science Center South Carolina State Park Service Friday, November 6, 2015 Georgia 4-H Registration 6:30AM – 10:30AM The Citadel Vendor / Exhibitor Check-In (7:00 PM-9:00PM) eCYBERMISSION Continental Breakfast 7:00AM – 8:00AM S2TEM Centers SC Clemson University, College of (SC)2 Business Meeting 8:00AM – 9:00AM Engineering and Science *Please plan to attend Enlighten SC, SC Electric Co-op Assoc. PAEMST General Sessions, Track 1 9:15AM – 10:00AM Clemson University - Geology K12 General Session, Track 2 10:15AM – 11:00AM Outreach Camp Invention Keynote Address, 11:15AM – 12:15PM South Carolina State Museum Chris King, Speedtree Cinema SCJAS/SCAS Dr. Joseph Levine, Welcome to the Anthropocene SC Earth Science Teachers Association A Coast for All Seasons, A Naturalist’s Guide to the Coast of South Carolina Palmetto State Teachers Association Lunch Break 12:15PM – 1:00PM South Carolina ETV Concessions Available in Exhibit Hall USC School of Engineering and General Session, Track 3 1:00PM – 2:15PM Computing/PLTW Break 2:15PM – 2:45PM Virtual SC General Session, Track 4 2:45PM – 4:00PM SRNS (Savannah River Nuclear Solutions)

SC Sea Grant Consortium Concessions in Exhibit Hall Thursday - Friday 10:00AM – 2:00PM Richland School District Two

Conference Details

Registration Fees Field Trips Preregistration for (SC)2 Members $150 Tickets are required for all field trips offered at the On-site Registration for (SC)2 Members $180 conference. These tickets can be purchased through Preregistration for Non-members* $180 preregistration or at the Ticket Sales Desk at On-site Registration for Non-members* $210 Registration, if any remain. Shuttle service is Preregistration for Fulltime Students $ 50 provided for most field trips; trips not having shuttle On-site Registration for Fulltime Students $ 75 service are within walking distance to the convention. Preregistration for Non-teaching Spouse $ 20 On-site Registration for Non-teaching Spouse$ 40 TT1: CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER EXPERIENCE Preregistration Child $ 20 $12 On-site Registration Child $ 40 One Day (Friday) Registration $100 TT2: CONGAREE NATIONAL PARK: LAND OF CONSTANT CHANGE $12 *A non-member who pays a membership fee when registering may register as a member TT3: SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOUSE TOUR Free Membership TT4: RIVERBANKS ZOO AND GARDENS - BEHIND Regular Membership, 1 year $ 20 Regular Membership, 3 years $ 50 THE SCENES AFRICAN ADVENTURE TOUR $27 Student Membership, 1 year $ 10 TT5: CONGAREE RIVER KAYAK ADVENTURE $35

Other Fees TT6: PALMETTO OUTDOOR CENTER- Limited parking is available at Columbia INTERDISCIPLINARY WALKING TOUR Free Metropolitan Convention Center. Park Street Garage is located directly across the street from the Convention Center. Charges at Park Street Garage TT7: SALUDA SHOALS WETLAND HABITATS $12 are $2 for the first hour and $1 for every additional hour, not exceeding $10. TT8: EDVENTURE'S: ENGINEERING 101 Free

Registration Fees listed above do not include hotel, TT9: NEW LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AT THE parking, transportation or lunch. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE MUSEUM $5

FT1: CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER EXPERIENCE Workshops $12 Tickets are required to attend all designated workshops. Tickets can be purchased with FT2: USC MCKISSIK MUSEUM TOUR AND LUNCH preregistration or at the Ticket Sales Desk at Registration, if any remain. AT THE MCCUTCHEN HOUSE (ticket does not include gratuity) $10 WS1: Creating Super Scientists $3 FT3: RIVERBANKS ZOO AND GARDENS – THE LIST: WS2: Model Rocketry: A Highly Motivational STEM CONSERVATION CHALLENGE TOUR $17 Teaching Tool $10

WS7: Geology of South Carolina Workshop$20 FT4: PALMETTO OUTDOOR CENTER-

INTERDISCIPLINARY WALKING TOUR Free WS8: Growing Up Wild $30

WS9: Home and School Science Activities $35 FT5: CONGAREE RIVER KAYAK ADVENTURE $35

Awards

Reach for the Stars In Memory of Dr. Michael H. Farmer

The Executive Board of the South Carolina Science Council announces the “Reach for the Stars” Award in honor of Dr. Mike Farmer, former past president of (SC)2 . Dr. Farmer passed away this spring in a car accident.

Dr. Farmer taught Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy for over 40 years at Riverside High School, Greenville Technical College, and the SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities. During his career, Dr. Farmer served as the President of the Greenville County Science Teachers Association, President of the South Carolina Science Council, President of the South Carolina Academy of Science, and Chairman of the High School Division of the National Science Teachers Association. Dr. Farmer’s accolades include Discover Magazine Teacher of the Year (1984), South Carolina’s candidate for NASA’s Teacher in Space Program (1985), Order of the Palmetto from Governor Richard Riley (1985), the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Math Teaching (1987), the National Science Teacher’s Association’s Gustav Ohaus Science Teaching Award (1990), and the Governor’s Award for Science Awareness for South Carolina (1999). Dr. Farmer’s writings are numerous, including his book Science Projects: A Modular Approach and he was working on a book of science and math geared for young artists.

Each year the South Carolina Science Council presents the following awards to outstanding recipients. Please join us at the (SC)2 Business Meeting, Friday morning, November 6, at 8:00 AM in Columbia Ballroom A to present the 2015 recipients.

(SC)2 MAKE-A-WISH DR. WILLIAM F. CATALYST AWARD PALMER AWARD This award is given to science This award was designed to education leaders within (SC)2 SERVICE AWARD grant wishes to teachers in need who serve as catalysts for The Executive Board created this of supplies to teach science in science education by being role award in memory and honor of their classrooms. The teachers models for the teachers around Dr. Palmer’s many years of visit the vendors and fill out a them, and sparking the interest service to the organization. This form stating their wish and the of students to pursue science. award is given to a member of reason. A committee of Nominations are made by the members selects the wishes to (SC)2 who has given their time membership at large, and and energy to the organization. be granted and the items or selected by the Executive money will be awarded at the Recipients will receive a plaque Board. Recipients will receive a and a $500 check. business meeting. plaque and a $500 check.

Thursday Keynotes

Opening Session

Lawrence Lowery is a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He is affiliated with the Graduate School of Education and the Lawrence Hall of Science. He remains active as the Principle Investigator for the Full Option Science System (FOSS), a research- based, field-tested science curriculum for grades K-8 developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science. He continues to publish and edit articles and books such as the The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia (New York and London, 1993), Pathways —Guidelines to Implementing the Science Standards (NSTA publication, 1997), How Science Curriculums Reflect Brain Research (Phi Delta Kappan article, November 1998); The Golden Thursday, Columbia Age of Big Little Books, 1932-1938 (Self-published, 2007); The Ballroom A Everyday Science Sourcebook (NSTA publication, 2013); The I Wonder 8:00AM – 9:00AM Why Readers (25 NSTA publications, 2013-2016). Professor Lowery

Keynote

Brian Campbell is a former elementary teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada. He taught both second and fifth grade and worked with other grades during summer school programs. Under a National Science Foundation grant, he conducted a number of professional development workshops working with teachers at different levels of experience. While teaching, Brian became interested in how students and teachers interact with science notebooks. He worked with a small team of fellow educators and scientists to study how notebooks could be used in classrooms while maintaining integrity to the work scientists do. This work, as well as the information from his students, led him to co- author Science Notebooks: Writing about Inquiry with Lori Fulton. With the focus in education shifting to assessment, Brian was invited to help develop reliable and valid science assessments for his district. As part of this work, he began working with developers of the Full Option Science System (FOSS) to improve the assessmen ts already being used. This led to his involvement on a four-year grant called Assessing Science Thursday, Columbia Knowledge and his eventual employment at FOSS. Currently, Brian works for FOSS as a curriculum developer. He is involved in the revision Ballroom A of the current FOSS materials and professional development specifically 11:15AM – 12:15PM Brian Campbell focusing on science notebooks and formative assessment.

Friday Keynote Choices

Friday, Columbia In 2000, Chris founded Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV), with Michael Ballroom A Sechrest, also a South Carolina native who was educated in South Carolina public schools and at USC. In 2002, IDV released a 3D virtual vegetation 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM modeling system brand named SpeedTree®. Over the next several years, Chris King, SpeedTree® SpeedTree became the premier software in its space, ultimately emerging as a Cinema favorite of video game developers around the world. As of 2015, over 1,000 game titles have used Spee dTree including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Bungie’s Destiny, the Batman: Arkham series, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion . In 2009, a new version of SpeedTree, dubbed SpeedTree® Cinema, was made available to the visual effects industry. The first to adopt was Industrial Light and Magic for their work on the film Avatar. Since then, more than 50 films have used SpeedTree including Jurassic World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Trek Into Darkness, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Uses in television productions include Game of Thrones, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, The

Vampire Diaries, and Sesame Street. In 2015, Chris’s work on SpeedTree Cinema earned him both a Scientific and Technical Academy Award® and an Engineering Emmy®, honors he shares with co-workers Michael Sechrest and Greg Croft.

Friday, Columbia Dr. Joseph Levine, Former Professor and Science Broadcast Advisor Ballroom B 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Joe Levine earned his PhD at Harvard University. His research has been published in scientific journals ranging from Science to Scientific American, as Welcome to the well as in several academic books. He has taught introductory biology, ecology, Anthropocene: Using marine biology, neurobiology, and coral reef biology at Boston College and the global change to teach Boston University Marine Biology Program. Also a broadcast journalist, Joe has crosscutting concepts and dedicated himself to improving the public understanding of science. He has core ideas in biology written for magazines such as Smithsonian, GEO, and Natural History. He has and earth science. produced radio segments for National Public Radio and has acted as a scientific advisor for public broadcasting at WGBH in Boston. At WGBH, he has worked on NOVA and other PBS series.

Friday, Columbia A Coast for All Seasons: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Coast of South Ballroom C Carolina, will be provided free to attendees. 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Dr. Miles O. Hayes is a coastal geomorphologist with 50 years of experience. Dr. Miles O. Hayes and He has authored over 250 articles and reports and five books on topics relating Dr. Jacqueline Michel to coastal science. Based on extensive field experience throughout the world, he provides rich descriptions of coastal landforms and the processes that mold and

shape them. Hayes is a former Professor at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Jacqueline Michel is an internationally recognized expert in coastal ecology and natural resources management. She is President of Research Planning, Inc. and an adjunct professor of the School of the Environment at the University of South Carolina.

Field Trips

TT1: Challenger Learning Center TT3: South Carolina State House TT4: Riverbanks Zoo and Experience $12 Tour FREE Gardens – Behind the Scenes African Adventure Tour $27 Thursday, 8:30AM – 11:30AM Thursday, 10:00 – 11:30 Thursday, 11:45 – 3:30 The Challenger Learning Center is Tour South Carolina's most an exciting and hands-on recognizable Historic Structure, No need for a plane ticket. You aeronautics and space-themed and learn firsthand the history of can explore the signs and sounds educational program designed to our state through this magnificent of Africa at Riverbanks Zoo and provide interactive learning building's architecture, history and Garden. Experience the Wild experiences, integrating science legislative process. You will gain Side as you get an inside look at not only a respect for the past but some out-of-sight places. and math curricula with information and technology. a sense of responsibility for the Encounter animals up close, Come experience a simulated future. Inside and out, from explore behind the scenes and space mission… be an engineer in foundation to dome, the State meet experienced keepers. Mission Control and an astronaut House, as a result of the 1995-98 Participants will wander through on the Space Station! Find out renovation, is in better shape than the elephant barn while our why students say we are the best ever before. The work balanced elephant girls are out for the day. field trip ever! Participants will the need to meet modern code You will see what is required also get an overview of other requirements and improved behind-scenes to keep the programs offered at Challenger: efficiency against a respect for elephants happy and healthy. aerospace/aviation education, historic form and appearance. Participants will learn about the robotics, rocketry, and our Most visitors will never see the unique challenges of exotic animal ePlanetarium. structural improvements, the care and the amazing efforts that sophisticated electrical wiring, go into creating and sustaining a The (SC)2 Shuttle will depart the alarm systems, or the state-of-the- world-class zoo. The tour also Conference Center at 8:30AM includes other animal areas and and return at 11:30am. art earthquake isolators that were installed. However, everyone will plenty of photo opportunities. notice the renewal of the House Also enjoy some individual and Senate chambers, the 19th exploration of the Zoo and TT2: Congaree National Park: Gardens. Land of Constant Change $12 century treatment of the lobby, the vaulted brickwork in the The (SC)2 Shuttle will depart the Thursday, 8:45AM – 12:30PM hallways of the lower floor, the conference center at 11:45AM Join the Congaree National Park restored marble floors and and return at 3:30pm. Ranger as you learn about the refurbished interior of the dome. astonishing biodiversity, natural NOTE: Because of the proximity and cultural history of the largest of the SC State House there will remaining section of bottomland not be a shuttle service provided. forest in the southeastern United Participants will meet at the Field States. Enjoy a 2.4 mile hike along Trip Check-In at 10:00am and the boardwalk as you go through walk the 2 blocks to the State the floodplain, learning about how House. the Congaree River has shaped the landscape to be what it is today, how people have used the land, and why it has been protected as a national park.

The (SC)2 Shuttle will depart the Conference Center at 8:45AM and return at 12:30am. 9

Field Trips

TT5: Congaree River Kayak TT7: Saluda Shoals Wetland TT9: New Learning Opportunities Adventure $35 Habitats $12 at the South Carolina State Thursday, 1:00 – 5:00 Thursday, 1:00 – 3:45 Museum $5 Join Bill Stangler the Congaree Join the Saluda Shoals’ Lead Friday, 1:00 – 4:00 Riverkeeper and other Adventure Interpretive Park Ranger as you Explore all the new education Carolina guides on this three mile explore the wetland habitats opportunities at the State Museum, guided kayak trip down the around Saluda Shoals Park. including the Clue Cross Blue beautiful Congaree River. Come Saluda Shoals Park is a premier, Shield of South Carolina explore the scenic landscape of natural, environmentally sensitive Planetarium, Boeing Observatory, the Congaree waterways riverfront park that invites visitors 4D Theater and Julius Caesar This is an excellent trip for a to experience the treasures of the Blockbuster exhibit. Your trip will beginner or experienced paddler. Saluda River through exceptional include a brief introduction by one Bring your camera, binoculars, educational, recreational and of the State Museum staff to and dress for the weather. Hats, cultural opportunities. Located museum educational offerings and sunscreen, and bottled water are along the banks of the beautiful time to chat with Boeing recommended. Saluda River. Observatory educators about our on-site and distance learning The (SC)2 Shuttle will depart the The Adventure Carolina shuttle will activities. Of course you’ll have depart the Conference Center at conference center at 1:00pm and return at 3:45pm. time to explore the familiar and 1:00pm and return at 5:00pm. new exhibit while there.

Because of the proximity of the

TT6: Palmetto Outdoor Center – State Museum, there will not be a Interdisciplinary Walking Tour shuttle service provided. The FREE museum is .08 miles from the Convention Center. Participants Thursday, 12:30 – 2:30 TT8: EdVenture’s Engineering should meet in the lobby of the Palmetto Outdoor Center offers 101 FREE State Museum at 1:00. an interactive riverwalk tour that Thursday, 3:15 – 5:30 will excite and engage. The tour highlights and interprets the Join EdVenture’s educators as they educationally-rich areas of have participants engage in a Columbia and details how the series of activities designed to Three Rivers region has shaped inspire young engineers. Teachers Columbia, SC. By combining will participate in several engineering challenges that they specific aspects of the riverwalk, the tour covers a variety of topics can take back to their classrooms, relating to geography, ecology as well as explore the museum to and, historical events that pertain learn about our programs and to the area. By the end of the opportunities. tour you will be surprised at all Transportation: Because of the the discoveries along the way. proximity of EdVenture there will The Palmetto Outdoor Center not be a shuttle service provided. shuttle will depart the Conference EdVenture is .08 miles from the Center at 12:30pm and return at Convention Center. Participants 2:30pm. should meet in the lobby of EdVenture at 3:15pm

Participant Limit: Min/Max: Field Trips 5/22

FT1: Challenger Learning Center FT2: USC McKissik Museum Tour Experience $12 and Lunch at McCutcheon House Friday, 8:30 – 11:30 $10 ($10 *Gratuity is not included in the price of the field trip. The Challenger Learning Center is Please tip your wait staff an exciting and hands-on accordingly.) aeronautics and space-themed educational program designed to Friday, 10:00 – 12:30 provide interactive learning The McKissick Museum is located experiences, integrating science at the heart of the historic and math curricula with Horseshoe on the Columbia information and technology. campus of the University of South Come experience a simulated Carolina. It was established in space mission… be an engineer in 1976 by the University Board of Mission Control and an astronaut Trustees to bring together under on the Space Station! Find out one roof the many object why students say we are the best collections housed in various field trip ever! departments and colleges across campus. These collections date to Participants will also get an overview of other programs 1801 and provide insight into the offered at Challenger: long and illustrious history of the University. Special focus will be aerospace/aviation education, robotics, rocketry, and our made on the Natural History ePlanetarium. collection. The (SC)2 Shuttle will depart the Following the tour we will be Conference Center at 8:30AM treated to a gourmet lunch dining FT3: Riverbanks Zoo and and return at 11:30am. experience at the McCutchen Gardens – The A List: House. One of the original Conservation Challenge Tour buildings erected on the $17 university’s Horseshoe, the McCutchen House was built in Friday, 11:30 – 3:15

1813 as the second faculty Some celebrities make the “A” list; residence on the South Carolina some animals make the “E” list. College campus. The students of Making the list is great for the School of Hotel, Restaurant celebrities, but not for animals. and Tourism Management will Tour the Zoo to see animals that prepare and serve a four course have made the list and animals luncheon. Meals feature their that have made it off the list. Find

famous tomato pie, soup, salad, out what Riverbanks is doing to plated entrée and dessert bar. get animals off the list and to help Because of the proximity of the prevent animals from making the McKissik and McCutchen, there will list in the future. Also enjoy some not be a shuttle service provided. individual exploration of the Zoo The McKissik and McCutchen are and Gardens. Shuttle will depart .08 miles from the Convention conference center at 11:30am Center. Participants should meet and return at 3:15pm. in the lobby of the McKissik The (SC)2 Shuttle will depart the Museum at 10am and are conference center at 11:30am encouraged to car pool if driving. and return at 3:15pm.

Participant Limit: Min/Max: 6/30 Field Trips

FT4: Palmetto Outdoor Center – Interdisciplinary Walking Tour Free

Friday, 12:30 – 2:30

Palmetto Outdoor Center offers an interactive riverwalk tour that will excite and engage. The tour highlights and interprets the educationally-rich areas of

Columbia and details how the Three Rivers region has shaped Columbia, SC. By combining specific aspects of the riverwalk, the tour covers a variety of topics relating to geography, ecology and, historical events that pertain to the area. By the end of the tour you will be surprised at all the discoveries along the way.

The Palmetto Outdoor Center shuttle will depart the Conference Center at 12:30pm and return at 2:30pm.

FT5: Congaree River Kayak Adventure $35

Friday, 1:00 – 5:00

Join Bill Stangler the Congaree

Riverkeeper and other Adventure

Carolina guides on this three mile

guided kayak trip down the beautiful Congaree River. Come explore the scenic landscape of the Congaree waterways. This is an excellent trip for a beginner or

experienced paddler. Bring your camera, binoculars, and dress for the weather. Hats, sunscreen, and bottled water are recommended.

The Adventure Carolina shuttle will depart the Conference Center at

1:00pm and return at 5:00pm.

Please note that this trip will end after the Conference ends, so you will need to take all of your belongings with you when you depart the Conference Center. 12

Wednesday Schedule

Wednesday, 1:00 – 1:45 Wednesday, 3:00 – 3:45 Session 74, Carolina A Session 76, Carolina A Wednesday, 10:30AM – 8:30PM Navigating the 2014 SC Science Navigating the 2014 SC Science Workshop 10, State Museum Standards Standards South Carolina State Museum Participants will decode the Participants will decode the and the Boeing Observatory standards and review the support standards and review the support Intended Audience: ALL documents for the 2014 SC documents for the 2014 SC Academic Standards and Academic Standards and The South Carolina State Museum Performance Indicators for Performance Indicators for offers a FREE workshop for Science. Science. teachers in the museum’s state-of- the-art Boeing Observatory. Type of Session: Presentation Type of Session: Presentation Workshop participants will learn Intended Audience: K-5 Intended Audience: 9-12 how to remotely operate the 1926 Alvan Clark telescope and Participant Limit: 50+ Participant Limit: 50+ take still images and video of day Presenter(s): Dr. Regina E. Wragg Presenter(s): Dr. Regina E. Wragg and night sky objects. Teachers Time: 45 Minutes Time: 45 Minutes also will receive training in image processing software that they will share with their students. Once Wednesday, 2:00 – 2:45 Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:15 trained, educators will be able to operate the observatory from the Session 75, Carolina A Session 77, Carolina B classroom during a free distance Navigating the 2014 SC Science What Everyone Ought to Know learning program. Professional Standards About the New South Carolina development is intended for Mathematics Standards elementary and middle school Participants will decode the educators who teach astronomy. standards and review the support Participants will gain an Lunch and dinner are provided. documents for the 2014 SC understanding of the expectations Academic Standards and of the new South Carolina Certificates & Credits Available! Performance Indicators for College- and Career-Ready Participant Limit: 12 Science. Standards for Mathematics and explore resources and support Type of Session: Presentation documents aligned to the Intended Audience: 6-8 expectations of those standards. Participant Limit: 50+ Type of Session: Hands-On Workshop Presenter(s): Dr. Regina E. Wragg Time: 45 Minutes Intended Audience: K-5, 6-8, 9- 12

Participant Limit: 50+

Presenter(s): Lindsay Boozer

Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes

Wednesday Schedule

Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:15 Wednesday, 1:00 – 4:00

Workshop 9, Congaree A Workshop 8, Richland C Home and School Science Growing Up Wild Activities Price: $30 Price: $35 Intended Audience: K-5 Intended Audience: 6-8 The Growing Up Wild Workshop, Focusing on literacy and achieving similar to Project Wild, contains a progression to higher levels curricula for those teaching ages based on everyday physical 3-7. It uses a wide range of science. Receive 2 resource books, hands-on-activities to generate a lessons and materials. Focus: Air child's sense of wonder about pressure, forces, changes in state nature. Growing Up Wild (ages and Bernoulli. 3-7) – connects young children Presenter(s): Bernie Horvath with nature and the outdoors with 25 activities focused on wildlife. This program builds on children’s Wednesday, 1:00 – 4:00 sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore wildlife Workshop 2, Richland A and the world around them. Model Rocketry: A Highly Focus: Planning and carrying out Motivational STEM Teaching investigations, Analyzing and Tool interpreting data, Constructing Price: $10 explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for This is an introduction to Model engineering), Obtaining, Rocketry, Newton's Laws of Motion evaluating, and communicating and Aerospace STEM Concepts. information Teachers will build and launch a Model Rocket. Presenter(s): Nancy & Ray Thompson Presenter(s): Dr. Edward P. Donovan & Sharon L. Time: 3 Hours Donovan Time: 2 Hour 30 minutes

Thursday Schedule

Thursday, 7:15 – 7:45 Thursday, 9:15 – 10:00 Thursday, 9:15 – 10:00 Meet and Greet Continental Session 9, Carolina B Session 46, Congaree B Breakfast, Columbia A South Carolina Science Electromagnetic Waves and the SC2 Board Members welcome you Olympiad - How to Get Involved relationship between color and to the Opening Session of the Come learn more about Science energy. Conference Olympiad - the nation's most We will use real issues to explore exciting interscholastic academic the properties of light by competition! Learn how to investigating the colors of the Thursday, 8:00 – 9:00 prepare your students to compete visible spectrum and the energy of OPENING SESSION, Columbia A in events from a wide range of each color. Dr. Lowery STEM disciplines, including Type of Session: Hands-On biology, chemistry, earth science, Workshop physics, and technology. Intended Audience: 6-8 Thursday, 9:15 – 10:00 Type of Session: Presentation Participant Limit: 26-50 Session 81, Carolina A Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 Addresses: Science and Assessment of Science and Participant Limit: 26-50 Assessment AS Science Engineering Practices Addresses: Core Content Measurement is a fundamental Presenter(s): John Garrett part of all science. It starts with Presenter(s): Bret Clark Time: 45 Minutes counting and moves on up. As the Time: 45 Minutes different fields of science have matured so have the Thursday, 9:15 – 10:30 measurements used. Assessment Thursday, 9:15 – 10:00 Session 16, Richland A or testing is a scientific field, too. Session 45, Congaree A Its measurements are growing in Teaching Chemistry Just Got sophistication. This presentation Gearing Elementary Students Up Easier! will focus on both science for NGSS! With the CPO Science Link series assessment in SC, uncovering how : Participants will examine multi- Chemistry Models, students will assessment is science, and what level books to see how young use the Atom Building Game and that implies. The presentation will students can understand Periodic Table Tiles to explore leave time for discussion. disciplinary core ideas while and learn more than 20 concepts; Type of Session: Presentation incorporating literacy Including Atomic & Molecular skills. Participants will also structures, Compounds & Bonding, Intended Audience: ALL receive sample books. Formulas & Balancing Equations Participant Limit: 26-50 Type of Session: Presentation just to name a few! Link features include online materials and Presenter(s): David Mott, Tests for Intended Audience: K-5 tablet-enabled investigations. Higher Standards / PO Works Participant Limit: 26-50 Type of Session: Hands-On Time: 45 Minutes Addresses: Core Content Workshop

Presenter(s): Judy Smith Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12

Time: 45 Minutes Addresses: Core Content

Presenter(s): Alex Headen

Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes

Thursday Schedule

Thursday, 9:15 – 10:00 Thursday, 9:15 – 10:30 Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Session 36, Richland C Session 63, Lexington B Session 79, Columbia A Incredible Journey of Water Argumentation: Developing oral The Building Blocks of STEM (Project WET) language skills through scientific Learn how to build on the STEM inquiry and the new SC Physical foundation while providing This simulation begins with a study Science Light Standards of the earth's water and opportunities for students to participants travel through the Scientists use evidence to support engage in deep, contextual water cycle from the perspective (or argue against) claims. Explore learning embedded in of a water droplet. strategies/resources your students environmental science. can use (from FOSS) to form Type of Session: Hands-On Type of Session: Hands-On logical arguments based on Workshop Workshop substantive claims, reasoning, and Intended Audience: 4-6 relevant evidence. Go home with Intended Audience: 6-8 Participant Limit: 1-25 ideas and samples how to Participant Limit: 26-50 implement the new South Carolina Addresses: Earth and Space Academic Standards and Presenter(s): Dr. Deanna Taylor Sciences Performance Indicators in your Time: 45 Minutes classroom. Presenter(s): Heather Mims and Terri Cosby Type of Session: Hands-On Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Time: 45 Minutes Workshop Session 52, Columbia B Intended Audience: K-2 Science Tool Time Thursday, 9:15 – 10:00 Participant Limit: 30-35 Presenter(s): Marilyn Enoch We will have our own "Tool Time" Session 3B, Lexington A to show how scientific notebooks ADAPTIVE and PURPOSEFUL Time: 1 Hour 45 minutes can help organize and streamline Technology for SC Science classroom instruction, as the latest Classrooms standards are implemented. Thursday, 9:15 – 10:00 Is technology a burden or is it Type of Session: Presentation Session 37, Richland B enabling you to go farther and Intended Audience: 6-8, High faster with ease? In this session STEM: Investigating Touch School Biology you’ll see how classroom Screen Devices technology can be adaptive and Participant Limit: 50+ Have you ever wondered how a purposeful, can meet you touch screen device works? Join Addresses: Core Content anywhere, and take you the Smithsonian and Carolina to Presenter(s): LearnEd Notebooks everywhere you want to go. investigate static electricity and Type of Session: Presentation capacitive touch screens. Time: 45 Minutes Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 Type of Session: Hands-On Addresses: Core Content Workshop Presenter(s): Jason Marshall Intended Audience: 6-8 Time: 45 Minutes Participant Limit: 1-25 Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices

Presenter(s): Carolina Curriculum

Time: 45 Minute 16

Thursday Scheduled

Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Session 62, Columbia C Session 53, Carolina B Session 50, Congaree A SC Science Matters Supports Succeeding with S.T.E.A.M. STEM on a budget: How to use Science and Engineering Presenters will also share practical dollar store finds in your Practices implementation strategies for classroom SC Science Matters is a National integrating STEAM in all curricular During this presentation you will Science Teachers Association areas, and offer solutions to be provided with ways to (NSTA) initiative that links science possible challenges of developing incorporate dollar store items into teachers to one another and to a STEAM initiative. your STEM challenges. We will professional development Type of Session: Presentation provide you with explanations opportunities in support of the Intended Audience: K-5 and models from our classroom Science and Engineering experiences, as well as, lesson Practices. It is also a pipeline to Participant Limit: 26-50 plans to take back to your information regarding science Addresses: Core Content classroom. You will also have the education initiatives and chance to work through some of professional development in Presenter(s): Sabrina Fair, the challenges the way that a SC. Come join us and learn how Jennifer Faulkner student would. As newer teachers, you can access some of the we realize that money sometimes resources of NSTA without being a gets in the way of having students member. Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 perform labs so we found ways to Type of Session: Presentation Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 get around that with our dollar store items. Our goal is to show Intended Audience: All Levels Session 67, Lexington A you how simple supplies can help Participant Limit: 26-50 Fun and easy K-2 STEM lessons students create complex STEM activities. Presenter(s): Linda D. Sinclair that combine the Science and Engineering Practices, Cross Type of Session: Hands-On Time: 45 Minutes Cutting Concepts and Workshop Disciplinary Core Ideas (plus ELA). Intended Audience: 6-8 Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 A recipe to teach it all: STEM, Participant Limit: 1-25 Session 28, Carolina A Science-Engineering Practices, Addresses: Science and Elementary Engineering: STEM Disciplinary Core Ideas, Cross Engineering Practices Accreditation Cutting Concepts, ELA & Math with K-2 FOSS Next Generation Presenter(s): Emily Avery, Brittany Learn how students Plan, Create, Modules. Go home with ideas Miller and Improve STEM related and samples to use in the Time: 45 Minutes projects in an Engineering Lab classroom immediately. using the Engineering Design Type of Session: Hands-On Process at Mount Lebanon Elementary School, STEM Workshop Accredited School. Intended Audience: K-2 Type of Session: Presentation Participant Limit: 30-35 Intended Audience: K-5 Addresses: Science and Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Engineering Practices Presenter(s): Marilyn Enoch Presenter(s): Tish Goode and Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Elliott 17

Thursday Schedule

Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Session 38 Session 3A Session 4, Carolina B STEM: Experimenting with ADAPTIVE and PURPOSEFUL Improving Science Forces and Motion Technology for SC Science Instruction: How Do You Know Use stations to determine what Classrooms If What You Are Doing Is students know about forces, Is technology a burden or is it Working? energy and motion.. Come enabling you to go farther and Participants will see classroom explore using Smithsonian and faster with ease? In this session techniques and strategies that Carolina materials. you’ll see how classroom have proven to increase student Type of Session: Hands-On technology can be adaptive and understanding of science in low Workshop purposeful, can meet you achieving schools. This session will anywhere, and take you address how to meet state Intended Audience: 6-8 everywhere you want to go. standards, question students, Participant Limit: 1-25 Type of Session: Presentation provide constructive feedback, and measure what students Addresses: Science and Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 understand. Ideas can be used on Engineering practices Addresses: Core Content Monday when you return to Presenter(s): Carolina Curriculum school. All handouts will be given Presenter(s): Jason Marshall to participants. Time: 45 Minutes Time: 45 Minutes Type of Session: Presentation

Intended Audience: ALL Thursday, 10:15 – 11:00 Presenter(s): Manley Midgett, Session 51 Thursday, 11:15 – 12:15 NSTA District VI Director STEM and Science and Time: 1 hour 15 Minutes Engineering Practices Come KEYNOTE – Brian Campbell Alive! Thursday, 12:15 – 1:00 Online interactive simulations and Lunch Break (Concessions in Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 visualizations ignite student Vendor Hall) Session 11, Columbia A interest, making hands-on inquiry- Vendor Hall Open based instruction super easy with Science and Engineering new SC Standards, SEPs, Practices in the Early Childhood Classroom Crosscutting Concepts, and STEM Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 initiatives. What do the Science and Workshop 1, Richland B Teachers can supplement and Engineering Practices look like in enhance instruction with powerful Creating Super Scientists the early childhood classroom? Come and experience interactive visualizations of science Price: $3 and mathematics concepts. two centered based investigations Intended Audience: K-5 from the new Smithsonian STC Type of Session: Interactive Kindergarten program. Presentation Teachers will participate in inquiry based science experiments that Type of Session: Hands-On Intended Audience: K-5, 6-8 will grab their students’ attention Workshop Participant Limit: 1-25 and give them a love for science. Participant Limit: 26-50 Addresses: Science and Addresses: Science and Addresses: Science and Engineering Practice Engineering Practices Engineering Practices Presenter(s): Thom O'Brien Presenter(s): Marquita Woodard Presenter(s): Ellen Mintz 18

Pearson Time: 45 Minutes Thursday Schedule

Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Session 90, Columbia B Session 85, Columbia C Session 69, Congaree A Think like an Engineer using the What Happens to Properties Using Technology and Note- Science and Engineering When I Combine Substances? booking to go from a concrete Practices Chemistry lesson from thinker to an abstract thinker. The presenter will engage the IQWST. Investigate, analyze Today's world requires people to group in a deep discussion with data of chemical reaction. think in an abstract manner. Learn Science and Engineering Practices Participants will practice how to how to use hands-on activities, and connection to thinking like an help students construct arguments technology, and note-booking to engineer using the engineering from evidence and their take your learner from being a design process. The participants questioning skills. concrete thinker to an abstract will engage in engineering task Type of Session: Hands-On thinker. Hand-outs and door prizes that make connections to the included! practices and engineering design Workshop *Safety: Wear goggles process. Intended Audience: 6-8 Type of Session: Hands-On Workshop (Nonticketed) Type of Session: Hands-On Participant Limit: 1-25 Workshop, Presentation Intended Audience: K-5 Addresses: Crosscutting Concepts Intended Audience: All Levels Participant Limit: 1-25 Presenter(s): Debbe Bingaman Participant Limit: 26-50 Presenter(s): Christy Papala Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Addresses: Science and Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes

Engineering Practices Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Presenter(s): Dr. Jacquely Walton Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Session 91, Richland C Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Session 14, Richland A Friday, 2:45 – 4:00 Heredity and Adaptations with Thursday, 1:00 – 1:45 Session 61, Congaree A CPO Crazy Traits Session 6, Carolina A Science Instruction Enhancement Explore concepts such as with Technology-Based Adapations, Biodiversity, Citizen Science: Students Simulations and Visualizations Dominant and Recessive traits, Participating in Science Globally With online simulations; students Alleles, Genotypes, Phenotypes, In this session we will discuss manipulate variables, generate Punnet Squares and more! No Citizen Science Projects and how and test hypotheses, and engage better way to teach Genetics and students can help real life scientists in extensive “what-if” Heredity! contribute to their scientific experimentation to fully embrace Type of Session: Hands-On research. We will explore citizen the new Science and Engineering Workshop science projects that encompass all Practices. areas of science. In addition, some Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 Type of Session: Interactive valuable technology tools will be Participant Limit: 26-50 shared so that students may Presentation display how they collected the Intended Audience: 3-5, 6-8, 9- Addresses: Science and data on these projects. 12 Engineering Practices Type of Session: Presentation Participant Limit: 1-25 Presenter(s): Alex Headen Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Audience: 6th grade through Addresses: Science and high school Engineering Practices Presenter(s): Denise Wright Presenter(s): Thom O'Brien 19

Thursday Schedule

Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Session 59, Congaree A Session 65, Lexington B Session 80, Columbia A Energy transfer- Electricity and Science-Centered Language Jump on the SEP-STEM magnetism Development to promote Rollercoaster Active session, which models scientific understanding Join a Pearson Science Specialist "Cause-Effect" and "Stability - Learn how to incorporate the best in this exciting hands-on Change” using grade 3rd energy practices from language arts engineering workshop. standards. (Sample materials, instruction to support your Participants will model how to lessons, and science notebooking students’ understanding of science engage students in real-world strategies will be provided.) concepts and their ability to problem solving with SEP Type of Session: Hands-On communicate that understanding. integration. Participants will learn Workshop Go home with ideas and samples how to facilitate science, to use in the classroom technology, engineering, and Intended Audience: primarily immediately. mathematics in school science grade 3 Type of Session: Hands-On programs and extended learning Participant Limit: 1-25 Workshop opportunities within schools by challenging students to create and Addresses: Science and Intended Audience: K-5 design their own solutions to real- Engineering Practices / world problems. Crosscutting Concepts Participant Limit: 30-35 Type of Session: Hands On Presenter(s): Jeanne McKinney Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Intended Audience: K-5 Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Presenter(s): Marilyn Enoch, Presenter(s): Tom Gantt, Pearson School Specialty Science Specialist Thursday, 1:00 – 2:15 Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Time: 1 Hour 15 Minutes Session 68, Lexington A Using Science Notebooks to Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Impact Student Learning wtih FOSS Session 70, Columbia B Brian Campbell leads a "how-to- Meeting Your SEP’s and Cross do" hands-on notebook session to Cutting Concepts through Open- compliment his engaging Lunchtime Ended Inquiry Based Labs strategies he spoke about. Go Address your SEP’s and Cross home with ideas and samples to Cutting Concepts with open-ended use in the classroom immediately. inquiry based labs. Design, build and test your own Mars Space Type of Session: Hands-On Workshop Lander.

Intended Audience: K-5, 6-8 Type of Session: Hands-On

Participant Limit: 30-35 Intended Audience: 6-8

Addresses: Science and Participant Limit: 26-50 Engineering Practices Addresses: SEPs / Crosscutting Presenter(s): Brian Campbell Concepts Time: 45 Minutes Presenter(s): Scott Skene, Pearson

Thursday Schedule

Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Session 47, Columbia B Session 7, Congaree A Session 15, Richland A Using Problem-Based Learning Pasta Car Challenge STEM Investigations using CPO for Effective Science Instruction Design a race car made from Wind Turbine Participants will learn how to various types of pasta that will With the CPO Science Link series implement problem-based travel 150 cm the fastest and that Wind Turbine, students explore learning in the science classroom. is built within the allowed budget. concepts in Engineering Design, Type of Session: Hands-On Type of Session: Hands-On Energy Transformation, Workshop Workshop Electromagnetism, and much more! Students will design, test, and Intended Audience: K-5, 6-8, 9- Intended Audience: 5th - 6th refine a working turbine and 12 Participant Limit: 1-25 challenge each other to see which Participant Limit: 1-25 model can generate the highest Addresses: Science and Addresses: Core Content voltage with the unique equipment Engineering Practices module. Link features include Presenter(s): Tonya Smith Presenter(s): Charlene Allen and online materials and tablet- Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Cindy Kennington enabled investigations. Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Type of Session: Hands-On Workshop Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 Session 29, Carolina A Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Participant Limit: 26-50 Connect the Dots Session 8, Congaree B Addresses: Science and This fun, kinesthetic session Population Connections Engineering Practices addresses new standards related This workshop uses population Presenter: Alex Headen to constellations and navigation. data to present/apply key science Receive new understanding and concepts regarding resource Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes hands-on activities that integrate management. Participants will science, math and social studies. receive a variety of activities that Type of Session: Hands-On integrate all content areas. Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Workshop Type of Session: Hands-On Session 13, Carolina B Intended Audience: All Levels Workshop Enhance your Science Curriculum Participant Limit: 1-25 Intended Audience: 3rd - 8th with Text Sets Thursday Schedule Safety: People need to walk, Participant Limit: 30 Build interest and content knowledge with Text Sets in your rotate, and bend a bit to do the Addresses: Core Content activities. science classroom. Participants will Presenter(s): Karey Santos learn how to create a resource Addresses: Earth and Space that supports all learning styles. Sciences Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Type of Session: Presentation Presenter(s): Darlene Smalley Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 Time: 45 Minutes Participant Limit: 1-25

Addresses: Core Content

Presenter(s): Lucia K. Jacobs

D Thursday Schedule

Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Session 73, Richland B Session 33, Richland C Don't Just Talk About Ed-Tech and the 2014 SEPs Environmental Issues, Solve Participants will have hands-on Them experience with technology Students research previous (Scratch and Makey Makey) as solutions to the worlds they explore how Ed-Tech environmental problems then work supports implementation of the through the engineering process to 2014 SC Science and Engineering develop a working model for their Practices and problem-based own invention to solve the issue. learning. Type of Session: Hands-On Type of Session: Hands-On Workshop Workshop

Intended Audience: 9-12 Intended Audience: 6-8

Participant Limit: 1-25 Participant Limit: 1-25

Safety: We will use soldering Addresses: Science and devices and circuits so participants Engineering Practices will need to follow safety Presenter(s): Andrew Youngblood standards for working with hot and Sabrina Myers materials. Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Special Requests: Due to a limited number of laptops, attendees are Presenter(s): Andie Anderson encouraged to bring their own Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes laptop to be able to access the online software, Scratch.

Pearson Thursday / Friday Schedule

Friday, 7:15 – 7:45 Friday, 9:15 – 10:00 Thursday, 2:45 – 4:00 Continental Breakfast, Columbia Session 72, Carolina B Session 64, Lexington B Ballroom Engineering/ Technology Design, Argumentation: Developing oral It's Not Just for IB language skills through scientific inquiry Friday, 8:00 – 9:00 While Experimental Design helps us learn new science, Engineering Scientists use evidence to support Business Meeting, Columbia Ballroom A / Technology Design applies that (or argue against) claims. Explore knowledge in ways to help solve strategies, and resources your Plan to attend and find out what it problems. See how to bring this students can use (from FOSS) to means to be part of South exciting component to your form logical arguments based on Carolina Science Council. All are classroom! Your students will love substantive claims, reasoning, and invited to attend and we look it! Participants will be provided relevant evidence. Go home with forward to seeing you there. with example templates that can ideas and samples to use in the be revised as needed. classroom immediately. *Winners of Make-a-Wish will be awarded during this time. Type of Session: Presentation Type of Session: Hands-On Workshop Intended Audience: 6-8 Intended Audience: 3-5 Participant Limit: 1-25 Participant Limit: 30-35 Friday, 9:15 – 10:00 Presenter(s): Dr. Donna M. Petty Addresses: Science and Session 17, Carolina A Time: 45 Minutes Engineering Practices Using Digital Tools for Student Evaluation and Communication Presenter(s): Marilyn Enoch, Friday, 9:15 – 10:00 School Specialty Students can use document Session 55, Congaree B Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes cameras to evaluate and communicate their understandings Mind Anchoring

in ways that make learning fun In this session the presenter will including dissection documentaries discuss how anchor charts can be and stop motion animation. Thursday, 5:00 – 7:00 used to help students visually Type of Session: Presentation conceptualize content. President’s Reception Intended Audience: 9-12 Participants will learn how anchor Columbia Ballroom Prefunction charts are created by using (Outside Columbia Ballrooms) Participant Limit: 1-25 indicators as a guide for student interaction. Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Type of Session: Presentation Presenter(s): Susan H. Turner Intended Audience: 6-8 Time: 45 Minutes Participant Limit: 1-25

Addresses: Core Content

Presenter(s): Vita Segars

Time: 45 Minutes

Friday Schedule

Friday, 9:15 – 10:00 Friday, 9:15 – 10:00 Friday, 9:15 – 10:00 Session 25, Congaree A Session 86, Richland A Session 43, Richland C Plate tectonics: Moving OMG Earth Using Science Concepts to Define Boundaries In this workshop earth science Nuclear Engineering Problems Participants will be engaged in teachers will create an OMG! - Identify scientific principles hands-on and computer-based reference fold-ables connected to important in designing shielding inquiry activities that can be used the Disciplinary Core Ideas from that will protect people from to help students gain a deeper Next Generation Science harmful nuclear emissions through understanding of plate tectonics. Standards. a series of easy to perform Type of Session: Hands-On Type of Session: Hands-On classroom simulations. Workshop Workshop Type of Session: Hands-On Intended Audience: 6-8 Intended Audience: 6-8 Workshop Participant Limit: 1-25 Participant Limit: 26-50 Intended Audience: 6-8 Safety: There are safety Addresses: Core Content Participant Limit: 1-25 precautions necessary. Presenter(s): Amy Gilbert, Ph.D. Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Addresses: Core Content Time: 45 Minutes Presenter(s): John Wagner Presenter(s): Kaye-Ann Williams, Keisha Amponsah, Lynne Thomas, Time: 45 Minutes Casey Kilareski, Rolando Curabo Friday, 9:15 – 10:00

Session 26, Richland B Time: 45 Minutes Friday, 9:15 – 10:00 Prove It! Connecting Science and Special Requests: Participants will Session 54, Lexington A need a technological device to Literacy through Supporting complete computer-based Claims with Evidence (Part 1). Using a flipped classroom model simulations, for example I-pad, Want your students to write what to increase inquiry activities Chromebooks, Laptops, Tablets, they know? In part 1, you will Moving direct instruction to etc dissect rigorous writing prompts individual learning spaces allows and align them with Science and for more student-centered, in- ELA standards. depth, inquiry activities

Type of Session: Presentation Type of Session: Presentation

Intended Audience: K-5 Intended Audience: 6 - 8, 9 - 12

Participant Limit: 26-50 Participant Limit: 1-25

Addresses: Science and Addresses: Asking questions (for Engineering Practices science) and defining problems Presenter(s): Ed Emmer, Gina (for engineering), Planning and Rodriguez carrying out investigations, Obtaining, evaluating, and Time: 45 Minutes communicating information Presenter(s): Christina Crawford and Erin Jackson

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Friday Schedule

Friday, 9:15 – 10:30 Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Session 66, Lexington B Session 31, Columbia B Session 18, Carolina A What Causes Change of Motion? Building Block of Science - Light Using the Modeling(TM) Method and Sound in High School Science Design and create conceptual and physical models to explain how 1st grade physical science The Modeling(TM) method is an something works and look at standards Exploring Light and exciting way to teach science, and cause/effect in controlled Shadows will be explored using this presentation will discuss experiments. the Building Blocks of Science unit implementation in high school titled Light and Sound. Teachers science courses. Type of Session: Hands-On will experience investigations to Type of Session: Presentation Workshop address the South Carolina Intended Audience: K-5 Academic Standards and Intended Audience: 9-12 Participant Limit: 1-25 Performance Indicators. Participant Limit: 1-25 Addresses: Crosscutting Concepts Type of Session: Hands-On Addresses: Science and Workshop Engineering Practices Presenter(s): Marilyn Enoch, School Specialty Intended Audience: K - 5 Presenter(s): Nathan Belcher Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Participant Limit: 26-50 Time: 45 Minutes Addresses: Core Content Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Presenter(s): Ellen Mintz Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Session 40, Columbia A Time: 45 Minutes Session 20, Carolina B Statewide Science Assessment Incorporating Cooperative Learning in the Classroom We will be presenting information Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 about the 2017 Science SCPASS Session 82, Columbia C The teacher is no longer the sole and Biology EOCEP. We will source of knowledge. Furthermore, The Monarch, Milkweed and the business world doesn't really include general information and Migration Project sample question types. care what you know but what you Migrate through cross-cutting can do with what you know. The Type of Session: Presentation concepts and disciplinary core skills needed for succeeding in the Intended Audience: 4-8, Biology ideas by engaging students in the business world can be developed (testing grades) monarch marathon through eastern in group work. Participant Limit: 50+ North America each spring and Type of Session: Presentation fall. Learn how to participate in Addresses: Science and the USC Monarch, Milkweed and Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 Engineering Practices Migration Project. Participant Limit: 26-50 Presenter(s): LLewellyn Shealy Type of Session: Presentation Addresses: Science and and Kirsten Hural, SC State Engineering Practices Department of Education Intended Audience: All Presenter(s): James Lillibridge Time: 45 Minutes Participant Limit: None Time: 45 Minutes Presenter(s): Dr. Arlene Marturano, Assistant Director Center for Science Education,

University of South Carolina

Time: 45 Minutes

Friday Schedule

Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Session 44, Congaree A Session 87, Richland A Session 56, Richland C SCESTA - Earth/Environmental OMG Life And You Thought Celery Was Science Share-A-Thon In this workshop life science Just For Eating SCESTA (South Carolina Earth teachers will create several fold- We will look at and dissect the Science Teachers Association) ables (called OMGs!) that are vascular structure of celery stalks. members showcase exemplary aligned to Disciplinary Core Ideas Type of Session: Hands-On standards-based activities in in the Next Generation Science earth/environmental science Standards. Intended Audience: 6-8 suitable for a variety of grade Type of Session: Hands-On Participant Limit: 1-25 levels. Workshop Addresses: Core Content Type of Session: Presentation Intended Audience: 6-8 Presenter(s): Laurie Jordan Intended Audience: All Levels Participant Limit: 26-50 Time: 45 Minutes Participant Limit: 26-50 Addresses: Core Content Addresses: Core Content Presenter(s): Amy Gilbert, Ph.D. Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Presenter(s): John Wagner Time: 45 Minutes Session 71, Lexington A Time: 45 Minutes Catapulting Into STEM

Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 Use simple catapults to introduce Session 27, Richland B both the scientific method and the Friday, 10:15 – 11:00 engineering method, and let Prove It! Connecting Science and students see how failure "catapults Session 22, Congaree B Literacy through Supporting you" into success! Claims with Evidence (Part 2). Classroom Management Type of Session: Hands-On Not for the weak of Want your students to write what Workshop they know? In part 2, using heart...screaming will occur...don't Intended Audience: 6-8 be afraid… come and find out Science and ELA standards, some tips and tricks to make your participants compose writing Participant Limit: 1-25 classroom more manageable. prompts that require evidence to respond. Presenter(s): Gail Vawter Type of Session: Presentation Type of Session: Presentation Time: 45 Minutes Intended Audience: All Levels Intended Audience: K-5 Participant Limit: 50+ Participant Limit: 26-50 Friday, 11:15 – 12:15 Presenter(s): Alice Gilchrist Addresses: Science and KEYNOTE CHOICES Time: 45 Minutes Engineering Practices Chris King, SpeedTree Visual Presenter(s): Ed Emmer, Gina Effects and Animation Columbia Ballroom A Rodriguez Time: 45 Minutes Joe Levine, Welcome to the Anthropocene. Columbia Ballroom B Jacqui Michel, SC Coastal Geology, Columbia Ballroom C

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Friday, 12:15 – 1:00 Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Lunch Break (Concessions in Session 19, Columbia A Session 41, Carolina A Vendor Hall) The PBL Project — We’re not Improving Severe Weather Vendor Hall Open preparing students for Jeopardy Classroom Instruction anymore! This session provides teachers with Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 FREE BOOKS! Our PBL Project modern day resources to enhance Session 2, Columbia B (www.pblproject.com) gives severe weather instruction teachers access to Problem-Based including the latest weather Is America flunking science? If Learning scenarios and resources. technology and access to real time so, what can teachers, new Problem-Based Learning promotes weather events. South Carolina standards, and communication, collaboration, Type of Session: Presentation teaching tools do about it? problem-solving skills, and more. Scientific literacy, essential to Attendees receive free books! Intended Audience: All Levels America’s future, eludes most Type of Session: Presentation Participant Limit: 26-50 students despite our best efforts. Addresses: Core Content What changes in science Intended Audience: K-5, 6-8 education can address this Participant Limit: 50+ Presenter(s): Jim Hinton challenge? Science is more Addresses: Science and important to everyday life, public Engineering Practices health and national security today Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 than it has ever been before. Yet, Presenter(s): Ben Bache Session 57 , Carolina B from the standpoint of real understanding of the nature and Flipped over teaching chemistry process of science, and of the Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 with technology! value of science to individual and Session 35, Lexington B For teachers who will be using societal decision-making, the tablets for the first time or those public and many students seem to How can NASA STEM Resources who are relatively new to using be “dumb and getting dumber.” help classroom teachers? technology to teach chemistry (or What works against public Teachers will be introduced to science), the session explains how I understanding of science and various available NASA STEM (a first time 1 to 1 user) used quality science education, and Classroom Resources with the Android tablets to teach and how can the new generation of emphasis placed on NASA's assess chemistry. Instructional science standards and educational Missions to Explore our Solar explanations include strategies for materials, and teaching practices System. students’ first time exposure to help us rise to the challenges we Type of Session: Presentation topics, utilization of multiple face as science educators? representations of concepts and Presenter(s): Joseph Levine, PhD Intended Audience: All Levels use of virtual labs to support wet labs. Participant Limit: 26-50 Type of Session: Presentation Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Intended Audience: 9-12 Workshop 7, Congaree A Presenter(s): Dr. Edward P. Participant Limit: 1-25 Geology of South Carolina Donovan & Sharon L. Donovan Addresses: Core Content Rocks and landscapes are thought Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes to be stable features, but geologic Presenter(s): Dr. Joni Jordan history reveals major changes in both occurred throughout SC .

Friday Schedule

Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Session 21, Congaree B Session 1, Richland B Session 24, Lexington A iDEAL (integrating Disciplinary Science Notebooking with DOKs S.T.E.M. to STEM: Connecting the Experiences Around Literacy) Come and join an interactive dots with the “E” iDEAL is designed to engage session on “Science Notebooking” Gain strategies to implement an educators in an exploration of which will incorporate the integrated approach to teaching disciplinary literacy strategies in implementation of the new SC STEM disciplines through science, technology, engineering Science Standards. We will engineering design principles. and mathematics for 21st Century discuss the different modalities of Experience the WOW of STEM learning. learning and ways to effectively through an engaging design Type of Session: Presentation use “DOK”’s for planning challenge. instruction. Teachers will leave the Intended Audience: All Levels Type of Session: Hands-On session with fun interactive and Workshop Participant Limit: 1-25 creative ideas for planning future lessons. Intended Audience: All Levels Addresses: Structure and function Type of Session: Presentation Participant Limit: 26-50 Presenter(s): Alice Gilchrist Intended Audience:K-2, 3-5, 6-8 Addresses: Science and Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Engineering Practices Presenter(s): Stephanie Carmichael Presenter(s): Susie Teague Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Time: 1 Hour 15 Minutes Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Session 88, Richland A OMG Physical Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 Friday, 1:00 – 2:15 In this workshop physical science Session 30, Richland C Session 60, Columbia BR C teachers will make several fold- ables (called OMGs) which align Science Notebooking with ELA Using Physical Science to the Disciplinary Core Ideas of College and Career Readiness Exploration to Convey the Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concepts Standards. Use Science Notebooks to address Rotating through multiple Type of Session: Hands-On the 2014 Science Content Geoscience investigations, we will Workshop (Nonticketed) Standards, Performance Indicators first uncover the Crosscutting and South Carolina College and Concepts and then discuss how Intended Audience: 6-8 Career Readiness ELA Standards - they are interwoven into SC Participant Limit: 26-50 a tool for teaching, learning, and elementary Physical science assessing students’ understanding standards. Addresses: Core Content of science. Type of Session: Hands-On Presenter(s): Amy Gilbert, Ph.D. Type of Session: Hands - On Workshop Time: 45 Minutes Workshop (Nonticketed) Intended Audience: K-5 Intended Audience: K-5, 6-8 Participant Limit: 1 - 25 Participant Limit: 26-50 Addresses: Science and Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Engineering Practices Presenter(s): Jeanne McKinney, Presenter(s): Ellen Mintz Michelle Lutz, Kevin Schultz

Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes

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Friday, 2:45 – 4:00 Friday, 2:45 – 4:00 Friday, 2:45 – 4:00 Session 58, Columbia A Session 42, Congaree A Session 23, Congaree B Want To Be WILD in SC? Science and Math Crossing Exploring a STEM Teaching This presentation will be an Boundaries Fellows Program overview of the program and In this session teachers will Participants will explore existing curricula provided by WILD in SC, develop models using STEM Teaching Fellows programs giving the educators an idea of mathematical scales, data and provide input regarding what workshops are available analysis, and literature examples priorities for the possible throughout the state. to draw conclusions about scientific development of a STEM Teaching Type of Session: Presentation phenomena. Fellows program in South Intended Audience: All Levels Type of Session: Hands - On Carolina. Participant Limit: 26-50 Workshop Type of Session: Presentation Addresses: Science and Intended Audience: Middle Intended Audience: All Levels Engineering Practices School Math and Science Teachers Participant Limit: 26 - 50 Presenter(s): Nancy and Ray Participant Limit: 25-30 Addresses: Science and Thompson Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Engineering Practices Presenter(s): Becky Cornwell Presenter(s): Christy McCullough Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes and Tiffany Reynolds Friday, 2:45 – 4:00 Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Session 89, Richland A Friday, 2:45 – 4:00

STEM Challenge Labs - Engaging Session 49, Richland B Friday, 2:45 – 4:00 Students while Teaching Science Engaging science, using and Engineering Practices. Session 5, Carolina B engineering practices Students use engineering and Free Science Resources for (SC)2 Science and engineering practices science to collaborate on solutions Members using AGI activities. 5E and to challenges of windmill design, Access to NSTA’s Learning Center crosscutting concepts. seed dispersal, and body shape will be given to all participants to slow sinking rates. Type of Session: Hands-On (free). Over 3,500 lesson plans, Workshop (Nonticketed) Type of Session: Hands-On demonstrations, and other science Workshop resources are now available for Intended Audience: 6-8 Intended Audience: K-5, 6-8 (SC)2 members. A sampling of Participant Limit: 1-25 Learning Center resources will be Participant Limit: 1-25 demonstrated. Don’t miss this Addresses: Science and Engineering Practices Addresses: Science and opportunity to gather resources to Engineering Practices help you teach science. Free Presenter(s): Cindy Crawford and journals and other materials from Laurie Jordan Presenter(s): Lisa Pike NSTA will be given out. Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Type of Session: Presentation

Intended Audience: ALL

Presenter(s): Manley

Midgett,NSTA District VI Director

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Friday Schedule

Friday, 2:45 – 4:00 Session 48, Richland C No Science Teacher Left Behind: Future of Virtual Schools and Edgenuity

Virtual schools and online technologies are here to stay! They may even be the all- encompassing future of education. Don't get left behind! Type of Session: Hands-On Workshop, Presentation Intended Audience: 6-8, 9-12 Participant Limit: 26-50 Addresses: Core Content Presenter(s): Vicki LaPrad Time: 1 Hour 15 minutes Special Requests: Participants - Bring your laptops

Conference Planner

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Preconference Workshops 9:00AM – 4:00PM Registration 7:30AM – 6:00PM

SC Department of Education 1:00PM – 3:45PM See Sessions for times and topics

Thursday, November 5, 2015 Registration 7:00AM – 6:00PM Continental Breakfast 7:00AM – 8:00AM Opening Session 8:00AM – 9:00AM Keynote Professor Lawrence Lowery General Sessions, Track 1 9:15AM – 10:00AM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______General Session, Track 2 10:15AM – 11:00AM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______Keynote Address 11:15AM – 12:15PM Keynote, Brian Campbell, Notebooking Lunch Break 12:15PM – 1:00PM Concessions Available in Exhibit Hall General Session, Track 3 1:00PM – 2:15PM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______Break 2:15PM – 2:45PM General Session, Track 4 2:45PM – 4:00PM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______Presidents Reception 5:00PM – 7:00PM

Friday, November 6, 2015 Registration 6:30AM – 10:00AM Continental Breakfast 7:00AM – 8:00AM (SC)2 Business Meeting 8:00AM – 9:00AM *Please plan to attend General Sessions, Track 1 9:15AM – 10:00AM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______General Session, Track 2 10:15AM – 11:00AM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______Keynote Address 11:15AM – 12:15PM  Chris King, Speedtree Cinema  Dr. Joseph Levine, Welcome to the Anthropocene  A Coast for All Seasons, A Naturalist’s Guide to the Coast of South Carolina Lunch Break 12:15PM – 1:00PM Concessions Available in Exhibit Hall General Session, Track 3 1:00PM – 2:15PM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______Break 2:15PM – 2:45PM General Session, Track 4 2:45PM – 4:00PM SESSION CHOICE ______ROOM ______

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