Pure Michigan
Engineering Grand Ideas in Science
ConferenceConference ProgramProgram Michigan Science Teachers Accociation 62nd Annual Conference February 26-28, 2015 Amway Grand Plaza Hotel • Grand Rapids, Michigan
Message from the 2015 Conference Chair and Assistant Conference Chair
Dear Conference Attendees,
It is with great pleasure that MSTA welcomes you to the 2015 Pure Michigan “Engineering Grand Ideas in Science” Conference. The MSTA Conference is a place where educators will meet to share ideas, learn new strategies, and network. The MSTA conference is the “go to” destination for cutting edge information. We have about 135 sessions being o ered on Friday and about 90 on Saturday, spanning levels from early elementary to college so there is something for everyone.
Do you want to hear from a national leader and author in formative assessments? We are very excited to welcome Page Keeley as our dynamic keynote speaker. Page Keeley is the Senior Science Program Director at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, where she directs projects in the areas of leadership, standards- based curriculum and instruction, formative assessment, professional development design, and instructional coaching. She is the author of the Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series, focusing on formative assessments. Page Keeley’s session will run unopposed on Friday at 11:00 am, followed by book signings near Registration at noon. Be sure not to miss it!
How do I start bringing NGSS into my classroom? There are many sessions being o ered by NGSS specialists and teachers sharing what can be done in the classroom to embrace NGSS. Check out our program list of all the sessions that support NGSS.
Are you wondering what to do on Friday night? There will be a Happy Hour featuring BioInteractive videos from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at 5:00 pm Friday. The videos are about 20 minutes long and there will be someone there from the Institute to answer questions. Join this year’s MSTA award winners at the Awards Banquet being held in the Pantlind Room. Be awed by these inspirational teachers and hear what they are doing in their classrooms.
Do you want to have a more personal relationship with MSTA? The MSTA Conference is o ering a new feature this year – a meet and greet with your regional director. During the break between the morning and afternoon sessions, the regional directors will be outside of the exhibitor’s hall ready to talk you and let you know what is happening in your region.
Do you have some new ideas for MSTA or want to get more involved? Come to the ‘Mu ns with Members’ on Saturday at 8 am, chat with Board Members, and have your voice heard.
Do you want to see the newest materials out there to use in your classroom? Visit the exhibit hall to see the largest concentration of science educational materials available anywhere in the state. Enter one of the drawings for giveaways from the exhibitors. We want to see you make this MSTA Conference your Pure Michigan “Engineering Grand Ideas in Science” Conference experience.
Karen Kelly Liz Larwa Conference Chair Assistant Conference Chair
MSTA RAFFLES - PLEASE NOTE the following: 1. A Friday ra e will take place immediately prior to the Happy Hour Bio-Interactive movie with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at 5:00 pm in the Vandenberg Rooms. There will be a Ra e Box there for you to place your FRIDAY ra e ticket into when you arrive for the movie and drawing. MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!
2. A second ra e drawing will take place at the MSTA Booth on Saturday at approximately 12:15 pm, immediately following the MESTA ra e. If you plan on being in attendance for the Saturday ra e, you may place your SATURDAY ra e ticket in the Ra e Box at the MSTA Booth when you arrive for the drawing. MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 1 Message from the Table of Contents Welcome Messages Executive Director From the 2015 Conference & Assistant On behalf of the MSTA Board of Directors and the 2014 Conference Conference Chairs ...... 1 Committee, I would like to welcome you to the 62nd MSTA Annual State From the MSTA Executive Director ...... 2 Science Conference! We are so pleased to be in Grand Rapids at the Amway Conference Planning Committee...... 43 Grand Plaza Hotel. The theme of our conference is Pure Michigan Science: “Engineering GRAND Ideas in Science”. Our MSTA Conference Leadership Conference At-A-Glance ...... 3 has been busy planning for how MSTA can be a professional support for you MSTA Board of Directors ...... 5 in your Michigan classrooms and schools. We have designed a conference Past Presidents ...... 5 full of sessions lled with Michigan’s perspectives on the Next Generation MESTA ...... 5 Science Standards (NGSS). Featured Sessions ...... 6 This year our MSTA Conference will have a keynote address from Page SCECH Sessions ...... 8-11 Keeley; author, Science Education Consultant, and former NSTA President. Schedule Your Day She is sharing her perspectives on Teaching for Conceptual Change: Friday ...... 12-15 Building a Bridge between Students’ (and Teachers’) Ideas and Scienti c Understanding. K-12 students hold a variety of strongly held Saturday ...... 16-19 ideas about the natural world and phenomena. Teaching for conceptual Friday Evening’s HAPPY HOUR! ...... 11 change involves starting with understanding the ideas students bring to Friday Evening Awards Program ...... 7 their learning and building a bridge between their initial ideas and the scienti c ideas we want them to learn and be able to use. Page Keeley Sponsors/Advertisers ...... 7 will talk about her experience transitioning from inquiry to inquiry for Session Descriptions conceptual change, how teaching for conceptual change transformed her Friday ...... 21-36 teaching and learning, and implications for teaching and learning core Saturday ...... 37-47 disciplinary ideas, crosscutting concepts, and scienti c and engineering practices. Speaker/Co-presenter Index ...... 48-49 Interest Levels ...... 50-54 Join us in an exploration of student assessment. After her Keynote MSTA Region Directors ...... 56 presentation, Page will have a book signing for her new book, Uncovering Award Winners ...... 57 Student Ideas in Science Volume IV 25 NEW Formative Assessment Probes. Exhibitor Information ...... 58-63 Once again the Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive is o ering Map of Amway Grand Plaza Hotel ...... 64 a free movie on Friday at 5:00 PM! Relax with your colleagues at the Happy Hour with HHMI’s BioInteractive movie. Free beverages, and snacks will be available. There will be drawings and free classroom resources will be given away. We are delighted they are back for the second year in a row. Conference We are so pleased you are here! The Michigan Science Teachers Associations’ State Conference is one of the largest state science conferences in the Planning United States. This conference will help you and your school districts become knowledgeable about a Framework for K-12 Science Education Committee and the NGSS. Discover resources and materials that are available to enable e ective change in the professional practices of science educators! Crystal Brown, MSTA Director at Large Yonee’ Bryant-Kuiphoff , MSTA Middle MSTA Executive Director School Director Lu Anne Clark, MSTA MCCB Representative Robby Cramer, MSTA Executive Director Paul Drummond, MSTA Membership Chair Karen Kelly, MSTA 2015 Conference Chair Elizabeth Larwa, MSTA 2015 Assistant Conference Chair Marlenn Maicki, MSTA Awards Chair Kathy Mirakovits, MSTA High School Director Sandra Yarema, MSTA SCST Representative
2 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Conference At-A-Glance Friday, February 27, 2015
7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Pre-registration Awards Reception Location: Center Concourse, 2nd Floor, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel Location: Gerald R. Ford Ballroom 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Registration/SCECHs/Speaker Check-in Awards Program Location: Center Concourse, 2nd Floor, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel Location: Pantlind Ballroom 7:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. SCECHs Desk Location: Center Concourse, 2nd Floor, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel Saturday, February 28, 2015 8:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. Sessions 7:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Pre-registration 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: Center Concourse, 2nd Floor, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel Exhibits 7:30 a.m. – Noon Location: Ambassador Ballroom, Amway Hotel, 2nd Floor Registration/SCECHs/Speaker Check-in 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Location: Center Concourse, 2nd Floor, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel Panel Discussion 7:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. Location: Pantlind SCECHs Desk nd 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Location: Center Concourse, 2 Floor, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Page Keeley 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Teaching for Conceptual Change: Building a Bridge MUFFINS FOR MEMBERS! between Students’ (and Teachers’) Ideas and Scienti c Location: Governors Room Understanding Location: Pantlind 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. HS Chemistry Teachers Meeting 12:00 Noon Location: Vandenberg A BOOK SIGNING with Page Keeley Location: Center Concourse, 2nd Floor, Amway Hotel 8:00 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Sessions Meet and Greet YOUR Region Director! Location: MSTA Booth, Center Concourse, 2nd Floor, Amway Hotel 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Exhibits 4:30 p.m. Location: Ambassador Ballroom, Amway Hotel, 2nd Floor MESTA Rock Raffl e! Location: Ambassador West Concourse Noon MESTA – Rock Raffl e! 5:00 p.m. Location: Ambassador West Concourse MSTA Raffl e & HAPPY HOUR with Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)! 12:30 We will start with a Ra e! (MUST be present to WIN!) MSTA Raffl e! MSTA Booth, Center Concourse Then view the movie – The Origin of Species! (MUST BE Present to win!) Enjoy a complimentary drink provided by HHMI! Location: Vandenberg A/B 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. AP Chemistry Meeting Location: Vandenberg A
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 3
MSTA Board of Directors MESTA
Jen Arnswald Karen Kelly Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Curriculum Director 2015 Conference Chair Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Alex Azima Michael Klein MIAAPT Representative Treasurer Crystal Brown Elizabeth Larwa Director at Large 2015 Assistant Conference Chair Come in and check all this fun Elementary Director Yonee’ Bryant-Kuiphoff stuff …and educational too! You Middle School Director Carolyn Lowe Region 13 Director may need a tote bag or cart to Charles Bucienski President Marlenn Maicki carry away all the goodies, or Awards Chair/Parliamentarian David Bydlowski better yet, a friend/colleague to Science Matter Network Coordinator David McCloy help you carry it! Region 8 Director Rose Marie Callahan Region 2 Director Kathy Mirakovits Rock Ra e – Tabby Eldredgee High School Director Chris Chopp Check out the extraordinary samples Journal Editor Timothy Neason you could win in the famous MESTA MESTA Liaison Lu Anne Clark Rock Ra e! Buy your tickets anytime MCCB Representative Deborah Peek-Brown Friday and Saturday for the ra es Director of Under Represented Groups — Friday @ 4:40 and Saturday @ Noon Jeff Conn (MUST be present to win). Director at Large/DMAPT Representative Brian Peterson Region 6 Director Robby Cramer Will YOU be one of the lucky ones Executive Director Pete Peterson to walk away with an amazing rock, Region 7 Director mineral, or fossil from the famous Conni Crittenden MESTA Rock Ra e? Bring your MESTA Region 5 Director Jennifer Richmond ra e tickets on Saturday and, “cross Region 9 Director Betty Crowder your ngers”! Secretary/Volunteer Chair Michael Sampson Past President/Nomination Chair Rock Shop – Parker Pennington R. Charles Dershimer Higher Education Director Megan Schrauben Need something to get your students MDE Science Consultant excited about science? Come visit Paul Drummond MESTA’s fabulous Rock Shop! We have Membership Chair Susan Tate a variety of rocks, minerals, fossils and Region 4 Director Greg Forbes other oddities that will spark your Evolution Chair Lynn Thomas student’s curiosity. These purchases Region 14 Director can be used as classroom showpieces Cheryl Hach and make great gifts. There i s Executive Editor/MABT Representative Thomas Waclawski something for everybody. All proceeds Region 10 Director Donna Hertel go towards Earth Science scholarships Region 1 Director Sandra Yarema and grants through the Michigan Earth SCST Representative Science Teachers Association. Major Mary Jordan McMaster credit cards accepted. MCTA Representative FREE & Inexpensive – Kathleen Sparling This is it! Our famous FREE and Past Presidents Inexpensive rock and mineral sale. Lots of classroom samples, teaching kits (List shown from 1994 to current. For a full list, please contact the MSTA O ce at 734-973-0433). and answers to your Earth questions. 1994/96 ____Alex Azima 2006/08 ____Paul Drummond www.mestarocks.org 1996/98 ____Barb Berthlesen 2008/10 ____Betty Crowder 1998/00 ____Robert Long 2010/12 ____Mike Klein 2000/02 ____Walter Rathkamp 2012/14 ____Mike Sampson 2002/04 ____Phil Walker 2014/16 ____Charles Bucienski 2004/06 ____Robby Cramer
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 5 Featured Sessions Friday, February 27, 2015 Saturday, February 28, 2015
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. NGSS Unit Development – Building NGSS PEs: A 10-Step Mu ns for Members! Process Location: Governor Susan Cordere Kelly, Michigan Department of Education Advise MSTA leadership regarding your needs and Primary Subject: AS, GS recommendations on what you want as we move farther ahead Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS with implementing NGSS. This is an opportunity for you to gain Location: Pantlind Ballroom ideas about how to advocate for better science standards for our Participants will review resources for planning instruction for NGSS students and to share your needs! Come enjoy mu ns and the using a 10-step process that includes bundling related NGSS PEs, discussions! developing 3-D learning performances and assessments, and building a coherent storyline. Hands on -- will provide handouts with links to resources. 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Resources to Support NGSS Implementation 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Susan Cordere Kelly, Michigan Department of Education Primary Subject: AS,GS Implementing NGSS Panel Discussion: Resources Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Available and Stories from the Front Lines Location: Pantlind Ballroom Location: Pantlind Ballroom During the NGSS development process, Michigan educators developed many resources to support NGSS implementation. Panel: Nancy Karre, Battle Creek M/S Center, Jennifer Arnswald, Learn how to access these resources and use them to begin MSTA Curriculum Director & Curator for NSTA Hub, Joseph Krajcik, planning to support transitioning to NGSS. Access to online Director CREATE for STEM Institute, Renee Bayer, Associate resources and handouts provided. Director CREATE for STEM Institute Moderator: Mike Klein, MSTA Treasurer Questions: Robby Cramer, MSTA Executive Director, Charles 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Bucienski, MSTA President Members of the Michigan Internal and External Review Team Michigan’s Next Generation Science Classroom Jennifer Arnswald, Kent ISD will share resources based on the K-12 Science Framework and Primary Subject: AS, GS NGSS, currently available to use with educators, department/ Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS sta meetings, and PLCs. Updates regarding Michigan’s progress Location: Pantlind on new science standards will be provided and Michigan created Learn how the S&E practices of the NGSS will transform science resources will be shared. Some time will be given to questions. education. See how student engagement increases when practices are used in the classroom. Free online resources will be shared. 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Teaching for Conceptual Change: Building a Bridge between Students’ (and Teachers’) Ideas and Scienti c Understanding Session Key: Page Keeley, Author, Speaker, & Science Education Consultant, Maine M/S Alliance (Retired Sr. Program Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Director), Past President of NSTA, National Science Education AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Leadership Association Region A Director CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary Location: Pantlind Ballroom ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level K-12 students hold a variety of strongly held ideas about the GS – General Science natural world and phenomena. Teaching for conceptual change LT – Literacy HS – High School involves starting with understanding the ideas students bring to BI – Biology CO – College their learning and building a bridge between their initial ideas and CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session the scienti c ideas we want them to learn and be able to use. Page EN – Environmental Keeley will talk about her experience transitioning from inquiry Education – Vendor Session to inquiry for conceptual change, how teaching for conceptual IN – Instruction/Pedagogy change transformed her teaching and learning and implications PH – Physics for teaching and learning core disciplinary ideas, crosscutting AST – Astronomy concepts, and scienti c and engineering practices.
6 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Friday, February 27, 2015 Michigan Science Teacher’s Association 2015 Awards Program Please join us as we celebrate to honor individuals who have been awarded Teacher or Educator of the Year. They were chosen for their use of modeling best practices, inspiring students, demonstrating innovative teaching strategies, being an excellent role model for students and other teachers, demonstrating leadership, and exhibiting a passion for science and teaching.
MSTA will be honoring:
Presidential Awardees: Bethany Swartz, Utica Schools Gary Koppelman, Bliss eld Schools Teacher of Promise – Ashley Meyer, Hamilton High School Elementary Science Teacher of the Year – Patricia NcNinch, Mayville Elementary School Middle School Science Teacher of the Year – Holly McGoran, Jennison Junior High School High School Science Teacher of the Year – Deanna Cullens, Whitehall High School College Science Teacher of the Year – Dr. Bradley Ambrose, Grand Valley State University Science Administrator of the Year – Greg Johnson, Wayne RESA Informal Science Educator – Stephen Stewart, Michigan Sea Grant Extension MSTA Special Award – Susan Codere Kelly, Michigan Department of Education MSTA Distinguished Service Award – Betty Crowder, Oakland University, MSTA Secretary The George G. Mallinson Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Science Education - David Bydlowski, Wayne RESA
A reception will be held from 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., with dinner and the awards program to follow. The reception will be in the Gerald R. Ford Ballroom, with dinner in the Pantlind Ballroom
Sponsors/Advertisers Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Michigan DNR Aven, Inc. Michigan Science Center AWWA-MWEA Youth Education Committee Michigan State University/Science Festival Battle Creek Outdoor Education Center MISMR BaySail MSTA Board for - “Sponsor A Teacher Program Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University National Geographic Learning/Cengage Impression 5 Science Center Natureology Lawrence Technological University PNC Bank MDCH – Explore Lab Science Program Project Lead the Way, Inc. Meijer United Dairy Industry of Michigan
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 7 SCECH Sessions - Friday Di erentiated Instruction and An Engineering Based Classroom - Friday Response to Intervention (RTI) In a Classroom Strategies and Projects Science Classroom Winchester Ottawa 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. AP Environmental Science - “Global Energy - Avoid A Future Of Doom Sustainability” A Caring Instructor - Motivating and Gloom! Ruby Winchester Students for Classroom Success Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Pullman Engineering in the Science Inland Seas Argument Driven Inquiry: Using Classroom: You CAN Do It Vandenberg B Emerald A Science Practices: Transform Lab Creating A Semi-Self-Paced Activities NGSS Unit Development - Bundling Classroom without Killing the Ottawa NGSS PEs: A 10-Step Process Teacher Find the Fund$ For Science: Grant Pantlind Grandview B Writing 101 One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Exploring Sedimentary Rocks of the Vandenberg A Fish Michigan Basin Meeting Common Core Writing Atrium Ottawa Standards in Science STEM - Build Your Own Brushbot Food Safety Is Your Right to Know Winchester Grandview And Learn Emerald A Resources for Teaching about Air Student Choice, Student Voice: Quality Empowering the Next Generation of Getting Started with Interactive Vandenberg B Environmental Stewards Science Notebook STEM With Young Children Heritage Kendall Plaza Boardroom A Total Solar and Lunar Eclipses in USA! Inquiry Lessons in Biology: A Review Berkey and Some New Nelson 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Wondering About Chemistry Vandenberg A Introducing Teachers and Administrators to NGSS Cheap & Dirty Science: Life Science Pearl For Fun - FEE: $5.00 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Ruby Modeling Heating Curves and Phase Changes Engaging Pre-Service STEM Teachers Creating Assessment for Science Vandenberg A with Chemistry Modeling Aligned with Three-Dimensional Emerald B Learning of NGSS Nature In and Out of the Classroom: Governor A DNR Teacher Resource Engineering an Electromagnet Atrium Riverview Lessons (learned) from NGSS- Science Near and Far: Travel Grants Enhancing Classroom Learning Aligned Inquiry-Based Physical Science Curriculum for Teachers through Digital Dissection Heritage Nelson Robinson STEM Through Origami Unpacking and Moving into NGSS Grandview A Kendall 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Teaching Simple Machines, Force and Motion, and Little Energy Using LEGO 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m MEECS Ecosystems and Biodiversity Berkey Collins The Stories Rocks Can Tell: All the Classrooms a Stage Interrogating a Michigan Limestone Gerald R. Ford 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Haldane Biologists Can Build Too! Water and Agriculture - Important Pullman 3-2-1 Lifto ! Resources Working Together Campau Plaza Boardroom A Biotechnology in Agriculture - From DNA to GMO Academy of Natural Resources: What Plaza Boardroom A I Did During My Summer Vacation! 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Emerald B Creating a Vision for Science Blending Art and Science STEaM Education Gerald R. Ford Pearl
8 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science SCECH Sessions - Friday 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m Thinking, Acting and Writing like 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Scientists: First Grade Investigators 3-D Printing: Recycled Engineering Using NGSS Practices and Cross- Explore the Causes and E ects of with Delta Printers and PLA Plastic Cutting Concepts to Combat Student Sounds and Vibrations Vandenberg B Emerald B Misconceptions Plaza Boardroom A Big Ideas on a Nano Scale with Intro to Biology 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Berkey 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Bring Science Alive! With TCI MEECS Energy Resources Collins Advanced Inquiry Labs for AP Kendall Chemistry from Flinn Scienti c CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Vandenberg B 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Trade Books in the Classroom Amazing: Using NGSS to Make the Riverview A Little Bit of Sol Great Lakes STEM-sational! Curious Crew: A Partnership Vandenberg B Ottawa Promoting Science Exploration and A Telephone-Style Game for Biofuels - The Dance between STEM Design Reinforcing Free Body Diagrams Science and Engineering Thornapple Thornapple Nelson Engineering Innovative Instruction Ahh, the Places You’ll Go! Cool Maps Encourage Reading in the Science Emerald A and Dynamic Data Classroom Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun Ottawa Winchester Atrium Engineering The Future Of Energy! Engineering is Elementary Integrating your iPad with Vernier Grandview B Pullman Technology Facilitating Students’ Understanding Forget Science Fairs, Organize a Grandview B of the Structure and Properties of Maker Faire Mini Poster Magic Matter Emerald A Vandenberg A Haldane Modern Manufacturing and STEM Re-Engineering Inquiry: Let’s Get Learn about the 3D Printer in Your Thornapple REAL! Future NOAA, and Sea Grant, and GLOBE - - Grandview A Pullman Oh, My! Using Information Literacy to Making It Real....Cheap! Vandenberg A Riverview Evaluate Aspects of Hydraulic Old Lessons CAN Do New Tricks: Fracturing Pre-School Early Elementary Modifying for NGSS and Appendix F Ottawa Environmental Education Haldane Pullman Science and Engineering Practices 1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Processes for Collaborative Decision as Interventions to Raise Academic Dynamic Life Science Making and Leveraging Di erent Achievement Grandview A Nelson Perspectives Pearl Electrify Your Teaching Using the STEM Learning with Unmanned Simple Circuit Board Standards-Based Grading in the Vehicles Robinson Winchester Next Generation: Targets, Formative Assessment and Intervention The Earthquake Machine Integrating Literacy and Engineering Robinson Heritage into a Biofuel Laboratory Heritage STEM from Nature Use Technology to Work SmarterNot Atrium Pedaling into STEM on a Bike Harder Grandview B Generator Using Claim Evidence and Reasoning Ruby (CER) to Write Conclusions Using One-Minute Videos to Flip Your Emerald A Shifting to the NGSS through Lessons Assessment Using Google Apps in the Science Berkey Governor Classroom Berkey Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Students Should Know and Why Haldane
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 9 SCECH Sessions - Friday & Saturday 3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Modeling Science and Math in the Saturday Great Outdoors Grandview B Classify This! Build a Classroom 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Classi cation Wiki One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Ruby Atrium Bringing the Body’s Electrical Cultivating the Scienti c Mind Using Potential to Life Pedaling into STEM on a Bike Interactive Notebooks Haldane Generator Governor Campau Engaged Students and Formative First Day of Science Class Assessment Re-Engineering Inquiry: Let’s Get Riverview Thornapple REAL! Pullman Speak Up! Incorporating Discourse Getting the Full Picture: Students into our Classroom Instruction Doing Science Using Gigapixel Reorganizing Biology Content - A Emerald B Panoramas Bottom up Approach Kendall Nelson 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. High School Chemistry Teachers Spectroscopy in AP Chemistry Meeting Vandenberg A Vandenberg A An Appetite for Chemistry The Power of the Questions: S & E Thornapple Real Kids, Virtual Critters and Practice 1 Amazing Science Kendall Bio & Chem Literacy Extravaganza Plaza Boardroom A Ottawa Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Students Biology’s Best Engaged! Inquiry- 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Should Know and Why Based Lessons Engagement Haldane Strategies to Activate Your Classroom Engineering an Electromagnet Heritage Riverview 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Bringing the Body’s Electrical Resources to Support NGSS Potential to Life Implementation MEECS Climate Change Emerald A Pantlind Collins Integrating Chromebook, Android The Arts in Engineering MEECS Water Quality and BYOD with Vernier Technology Emerald B Ottawa Berkey Leading the Change toward NGSS: 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Department Chair Round Table Pearl Engineering the Future: A Summer Enhancing Classroom Learning One-Stop Shopping on the Topic of Academy for Underrepresented through Digital Dissection Energy Students Grandview A Haldane Thornapple Human Anatomy Lab: Built From the Simple Spectroscopy: Lessons from Environmental Education in an Inside Out the MAVEN Educator Ambassadors Urban Setting Ruby Program Plaza Boardroom A Winchester Flinn Scienti c Presents Exploring 9:00 a.m. – Noon Chemistry - Connecting Content through Experiments NGSS: Deciphering the Cross Cutting Vandenberg B/C Concepts and Linking Them to the Forget Science Fairs, Organize a Science and Engineering Practices Maker Faire Emerald A Winchester Hands-On Human Ecology for the 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Next Generation Robinson A Caring Instructor - Motivating Students for Classroom Success Kendall
10 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science SCECH Sessions - Saturday Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Dangerously Beautiful: The Predicting the Advance of Lava at Inland Seas Chemistry of Cosmetics Kilauea Volcano Berkey Berkey Kendall Elementary Extravaganza Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun Slide Rules in the Science Classroom Emerald B Atrium, Mars in Your Classroom Governor Campau Energy - Avoid A Future Of Doom Slide Rules in the Science Classroom and Gloom! Mi-STAR: Integrated STEM Governor Winchester Curriculum Addressing the Three STEM - Build Your Own Brushbot Engaging Students in Productive Dimensions of NGSS Grandview A Thornapple Task-Based Discussions in Biology STEM from Nature Haldane Outside the Box: Using Integration Atrium Integrating Modeling into Your and Environment to Teach NGSS Kendall Using Engineering Design and Curriculum Data Analysis Practices in Science Vandenberg A Poppers: An Open-Inquiry Physics Classrooms Journal Club: Critical Thinking on Energy Lab Nelson Winchester Steroids Using Kinesthetics and Exercise to Pullman STEM Through Origami Teach Abstract Science Concepts Grandview A Nature In and Out of the Classroom: Gerald R. Ford A DNR Teacher Resource Strategies for the ACT Science Atrium Vandenberg A 1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. One-to-One Technology: Tales from Teach Students How To Write a Story the Trenches Using LEGOR Thornapple Gerald R. Ford Let’s Make Some Motors Heritage Rethinking Textooks with iBooks The Great Transition in Evolutionary Author Biology Physics Make and Take Heritage Nelson Emerald A Standards-Based Grading in the Translucent, Transparent, or Opaque: Next Generation: Targets, Formative Investigating the Properties of Light 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Assessment and Intervention Haldane Robinson Using DNA Barcoding to Teach AP Environmental Science - “Global STEM Across the Solar System Biology and Chemistry Concepts Sustainability” Campau Pullman Pullman Thermochemistry without Energy What Can the Department of Natural Zombie Science Vandenberg B/C Resources Do For You? Haldane Vandenberg B/C Transform Your Science Fair into a STEM Challenge Fair! Friday, February 27, 2015 Riverview 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Michigan’s Next Generation Science Classroom Academy of Natural Resources: What MSTA Raffl e & HAPPY HOUR!! Pantlind I Did During My Summer Vacation! Sponsored by: Howard Winchester The Invisible Universe Hughes Medical Institute Plaza Boardroom A CER in Middle School Classroom Berkey The event will start with 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Getting Started with Interactive Ra e prizes from MSTA and Science Notebook Ruby vendors! (MUST be present Citizen Scientist - Bird Data to WIN!) Then join us for the Collection for Cornell Lab of Mini Poster Magic movie – The Origin of Species! Ornithology Haldane Heritage Pre-School Early Elementary Enjoy a complimentary drink Creating A Semi-Self-Paced Environmental Education provided by HHMI! Classroom without Killing the Pullman Location: Vandenberg A/B Teacher Grandview B
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 11 Schedule Your Day - Friday
10:00 am - 11:00 am - 8:00 am - 8:45 am 8:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 10:45 am 9:00 am - 12:30 pm 10:00 am - 10:45 am 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm 1:00pm - 2:45 pm 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm 4:00 pm 4:45 pm 11:45 am 11:45 am Ambassador EXHIBITS - TILL EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS Ballroom 5:00 P.M.! **Nature In and **Great Lakes, **One Fish-Two **STEM from Atrium Out (EE, LE, MS, Great Activity (LE, Fish (LE, MS, HS) Nature (LE, MS, HS) HS, CO) MS, HS , CO) **Teaching Simple **Using One- **Integrating **Total Solar & **Bid Ideas on a **Using Google Berkey Machine (EE, LE, Minute (MS, HS, Chromebook (LE, Lunar (MS, HS, CO) Nano (MS, HS) Apps (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS) CO) MS, HS, CO) Drill into the Past Campau 3-2-1 Lifto !! (EE) (LE, MS) **MEECS **MEECS Energy Collins Ecosystems (LE, MS) (LE, MS) **Engineering in Engineering **Using Claim **Forget Science Engage, Empower, **Food Safety is **Bringing the Emerald A the Science (MS, Innovative (EE, LE, Evidence (LE, MS, Fairs…SESSION Inspire (MS. HS) Your (MS, HS) Body’s (MS, HS, CO) HS) MS, HS, CO) HS) CANCELLED **Academy of **Speak Up! ** Engaging Pre- **Thinking, Acting Emerald B Natural (EE, LS, Incorporating (EE, Service STEM (CO) & Writing (EE, LE) MS, HS) LE, MS, HS, CO) **All the **Blending Art & Gerald R. **Enhancing the If a Picture is Classrooms (EE, LE, Science (EE, LE, Ford STEM (LE, MS, HS) Worth (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS, CO) MS, HS, CO) **Creating **Cultivating the **Shifting to the Governor Assessment (LE, Scienti c (EE, LE, NGSS (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS) MS, HS) Transform Science **STEM through **Science & **STEM - Build Cool Tools for **Learn about the Grandview A Learning (LE, MS, Origami (EE, LE, Engineering (EE, Your (LE, MS) Sound (MS, HS, CO) 3D (MS, HS, CO) HS, CO) MS, HS, CO) LE, MS, HS) NGSS **Creating a Semi- **Integrating your Practicing Science **Engineering the **Use Technology Grandview B Implementation Self-Paced (MS, iPad (LE, MS, HS Skills (MS, HS) Future (HS, CO) to (EE, LE, MS, HS) (EE, LS, MS) HS, CO) CO) **One-Stop EmPOWERed Kids **The Stories **Mini Poster **Viruses, Bacteria **Old Lessons CAN Haldane Shopping (MS, (EE, LE) Rocks Can (MS, HS) Magic (HS) (EE, LE, MS, HS, CO) Do (HS) HS, CO) **Student Choice, **Science Near **Biology’s Best Rock-solid **Integrating **The Earthquake Heritage Student (LE, MS, and Far (EE, LE, Engaged! (MS, HS, Evidence (MS, HS) Literacy (HS) Machine (MS, HS) HS) MS, HS) CO) Understanding Biomes and Repressive Gene Inertia Around the Chemical Batteries Reclaiming the Imperial Photosynthesis Invasive Species Expressions (HS) Curve (MS) (MS) Metal (MS) (HS) (HS) **Unpacking & **Getting Started **Bring Science Empowered Kendall Moving (EE, LE, with Interactive Alive! (EE, LE) Students (EE, LE) MS) (LE, MS) ** Enhancing **Dynamic Life **Inquiry Lessons **Biofuels-The Reed City Bio- Nelson Classroom (LE, MS, Science (MS, HS, in Biology (MS, HS) Dance (MS, HS, CO) Dome (LE, MS, HS) HS, CO) CO)
= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
12 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Schedule Your Day - Friday
10:00 am - 11:00 am - 8:00 am - 8:45 am 8:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 10:45 am 9:00 am - 12:30 pm 10:00 am - 10:45 am 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm 1:00pm - 2:45 pm 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm 4:00 pm 4:45 pm 11:45 am 11:45 am Ambassador EXHIBITS - TILL EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS Ballroom 5:00 P.M.! **Nature In and **Great Lakes, **One Fish-Two **STEM from Atrium Out (EE, LE, MS, Great Activity (LE, Fish (LE, MS, HS) Nature (LE, MS, HS) HS, CO) MS, HS , CO) **Teaching Simple **Using One- **Integrating **Total Solar & **Bid Ideas on a **Using Google Berkey Machine (EE, LE, Minute (MS, HS, Chromebook (LE, Lunar (MS, HS, CO) Nano (MS, HS) Apps (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS) CO) MS, HS, CO) Drill into the Past Campau 3-2-1 Lifto !! (EE) (LE, MS) **MEECS **MEECS Energy Collins Ecosystems (LE, MS) (LE, MS) **Engineering in Engineering **Using Claim **Forget Science Engage, Empower, **Food Safety is **Bringing the Emerald A the Science (MS, Innovative (EE, LE, Evidence (LE, MS, Fairs…SESSION Inspire (MS. HS) Your (MS, HS) Body’s (MS, HS, CO) HS) MS, HS, CO) HS) CANCELLED **Academy of **Speak Up! ** Engaging Pre- **Thinking, Acting Emerald B Natural (EE, LS, Incorporating (EE, Service STEM (CO) & Writing (EE, LE) MS, HS) LE, MS, HS, CO) **All the **Blending Art & Gerald R. **Enhancing the If a Picture is Classrooms (EE, LE, Science (EE, LE, Ford STEM (LE, MS, HS) Worth (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS, CO) MS, HS, CO) **Creating **Cultivating the **Shifting to the Governor Assessment (LE, Scienti c (EE, LE, NGSS (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS) MS, HS) Transform Science **STEM through **Science & **STEM - Build Cool Tools for **Learn about the Grandview A Learning (LE, MS, Origami (EE, LE, Engineering (EE, Your (LE, MS) Sound (MS, HS, CO) 3D (MS, HS, CO) HS, CO) MS, HS, CO) LE, MS, HS) NGSS **Creating a Semi- **Integrating your Practicing Science **Engineering the **Use Technology Grandview B Implementation Self-Paced (MS, iPad (LE, MS, HS Skills (MS, HS) Future (HS, CO) to (EE, LE, MS, HS) (EE, LS, MS) HS, CO) CO) **One-Stop EmPOWERed Kids **The Stories **Mini Poster **Viruses, Bacteria **Old Lessons CAN Haldane Shopping (MS, (EE, LE) Rocks Can (MS, HS) Magic (HS) (EE, LE, MS, HS, CO) Do (HS) HS, CO) **Student Choice, **Science Near **Biology’s Best Rock-solid **Integrating **The Earthquake Heritage Student (LE, MS, and Far (EE, LE, Engaged! (MS, HS, Evidence (MS, HS) Literacy (HS) Machine (MS, HS) HS) MS, HS) CO) Understanding Biomes and Repressive Gene Inertia Around the Chemical Batteries Reclaiming the Imperial Photosynthesis Invasive Species Expressions (HS) Curve (MS) (MS) Metal (MS) (HS) (HS) **Unpacking & **Getting Started **Bring Science Empowered Kendall Moving (EE, LE, with Interactive Alive! (EE, LE) Students (EE, LE) MS) (LE, MS) ** Enhancing **Dynamic Life **Inquiry Lessons **Biofuels-The Reed City Bio- Nelson Classroom (LE, MS, Science (MS, HS, in Biology (MS, HS) Dance (MS, HS, CO) Dome (LE, MS, HS) HS, CO) CO)
= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 13 Schedule Your Day - Friday
10:00 am - 11:00 am - 8:00 am - 8:45 am 8:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 10:45 am 9:00 am - 12:30 pm 10:00 am - 10:45 am 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm 1:00pm - 2:45 pm 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm 4:00 pm 4:45 pm 11:45 am 11:45 am **Using **Argument **Di erentiated **Exploring Information **Ahh, the Places **Amazing: Using **Bio & Chem Ottawa Driven Inquiry (LE, Instruction (MS, Sedimentary (MS, Literacy (MS, HS, You’ll (MS, HS) NGSS (MS, HS) Literacy (HS) MS, HS) HS) HS, CO) CO)
**NGSS Unit Implementing Teaching for Pantlind Development (EE, NGSS Panel Conceptual LE, MS, HS) Discussion Change
**Leading the **Introducing Facilitating & **Processes for Creating a System **Creating a Vision Change toward Pearl Teachers and (EE, Sustaining (EE, LE, Collaborative (EE, of Science (EE, LE, (EE, LE, MS, HS) NGSS (EE, LE, MS, LE, MS, HS) MS) LE, MS, HS, CO) MS) HS) **STEM with **Biotechnology **Using NGSS Plaza **Water & Young Children in Agriculture (LE, Practices & (MS, Boardroom A Agriculture (LE) (EE) MS) HS) Bug Lyphe! **Pre-School Early **Engineering is **A Caring **Find your Target! **Re-Engineering Pullman Student (LE, MS, Elementary (EE, Elementary (EE, Instructor (HS, CO) (LE, MS, HS) Inquiry (HS) HS CO) LE) LE) **CBC/NSTA **Engineering an **Transform your **First Day of Outstanding **Making It Real… Riverview Electromagnet Science Fair (LE, Science Class (MS, Science (EE, LE, Cheap! (LE, MS) (LE) MS, HS) HS, CO) MS, HS) Placed-Based **Standards-Based **Lessons(learned) Education: **STEM Leaning Robinson Grading in (LE, from NGSS (HS) Watershed (LE, with (MS, HS) MS, HS) MS, HS) **AP **Classify This! ** Cheap & Dirty **Pedaling into Ruby Environmental Build a….(LE, MS, Science (EE, LE) STEM (LE, MS) Science (MS, HS) HS) **Curious Crew: **A Telephone- **Modern Cool Tools for FREE Engineering **An Appetite for Thornapple A Partnership (EE, Style Game (HS, Manufacturing Force (MS, HS, CO) Modeling (MS, HS) Chemistry (HS) LE, MS) CO) and STEM (MS, HS) **Facilitating **Find the Fund$ **Wondering **Modeling Kalkaska HS Students’ ** NOAA, and Sea Vandenberg A for Science (EE, LE, about Chemistry Heating Curves - Square One Understanding Grant (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS) (HS) (HS, CO) Project (HS) (MS, HS) **3-D Printing: **Citizen Science **Advanced **Resources for Engineering for K? Recycled **A Little Bit of Sol Vandenberg B aboard (LE, MS, Inquiry Labs for AP Teaching (MS, HS) Yes!...(EE) Engineering (HS, (MS, HS) HS, CO) (HS, CO) CO) **Meeting **An Engineering **Encourage **Simple **Energy-Avoid a **Electrify Your Winchester Common Core Based Classroom Reading in the Spectroscopy: Future (HS, CO) Teaching (MS, HS) (MS, HS) (HS) Science (HS) Lessons (MS, HS)
= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
14 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Schedule Your Day - Friday
10:00 am - 11:00 am - 8:00 am - 8:45 am 8:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 9:45 am 9:00 am - 10:45 am 9:00 am - 12:30 pm 10:00 am - 10:45 am 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm 1:00pm - 2:45 pm 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm 3:00 pm - 4:45 pm 4:00 pm 4:45 pm 11:45 am 11:45 am **Using **Argument **Di erentiated **Exploring Information **Ahh, the Places **Amazing: Using **Bio & Chem Ottawa Driven Inquiry (LE, Instruction (MS, Sedimentary (MS, Literacy (MS, HS, You’ll (MS, HS) NGSS (MS, HS) Literacy (HS) MS, HS) HS) HS, CO) CO)
**NGSS Unit Implementing Teaching for Pantlind Development (EE, NGSS Panel Conceptual LE, MS, HS) Discussion Change
**Leading the **Introducing Facilitating & **Processes for Creating a System **Creating a Vision Change toward Pearl Teachers and (EE, Sustaining (EE, LE, Collaborative (EE, of Science (EE, LE, (EE, LE, MS, HS) NGSS (EE, LE, MS, LE, MS, HS) MS) LE, MS, HS, CO) MS) HS) **STEM with **Biotechnology **Using NGSS Plaza **Water & Young Children in Agriculture (LE, Practices & (MS, Boardroom A Agriculture (LE) (EE) MS) HS) Bug Lyphe! **Pre-School Early **Engineering is **A Caring **Find your Target! **Re-Engineering Pullman Student (LE, MS, Elementary (EE, Elementary (EE, Instructor (HS, CO) (LE, MS, HS) Inquiry (HS) HS CO) LE) LE) **CBC/NSTA **Engineering an **Transform your **First Day of Outstanding **Making It Real… Riverview Electromagnet Science Fair (LE, Science Class (MS, Science (EE, LE, Cheap! (LE, MS) (LE) MS, HS) HS, CO) MS, HS) Placed-Based **Standards-Based **Lessons(learned) Education: **STEM Leaning Robinson Grading in (LE, from NGSS (HS) Watershed (LE, with (MS, HS) MS, HS) MS, HS) **AP **Classify This! ** Cheap & Dirty **Pedaling into Ruby Environmental Build a….(LE, MS, Science (EE, LE) STEM (LE, MS) Science (MS, HS) HS) **Curious Crew: **A Telephone- **Modern Cool Tools for FREE Engineering **An Appetite for Thornapple A Partnership (EE, Style Game (HS, Manufacturing Force (MS, HS, CO) Modeling (MS, HS) Chemistry (HS) LE, MS) CO) and STEM (MS, HS) **Facilitating **Find the Fund$ **Wondering **Modeling Kalkaska HS Students’ ** NOAA, and Sea Vandenberg A for Science (EE, LE, about Chemistry Heating Curves - Square One Understanding Grant (LE, MS, HS) MS, HS) (HS) (HS, CO) Project (HS) (MS, HS) **3-D Printing: **Citizen Science **Advanced **Resources for Engineering for K? Recycled **A Little Bit of Sol Vandenberg B aboard (LE, MS, Inquiry Labs for AP Teaching (MS, HS) Yes!...(EE) Engineering (HS, (MS, HS) HS, CO) (HS, CO) CO) **Meeting **An Engineering **Encourage **Simple **Energy-Avoid a **Electrify Your Winchester Common Core Based Classroom Reading in the Spectroscopy: Future (HS, CO) Teaching (MS, HS) (MS, HS) (HS) Science (HS) Lessons (MS, HS)
= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 15 Schedule Your Day - Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. -Noon 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. 11:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M. 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. 1:00p.m. - 2:45 p.m. 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
EXHIBITS - CLOSE AT 1:00 Ambassador Ballroom EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS P.M.
**One Fish, Two Fish… **Nature in and Out…(EE, **Great Lakes, Great… **STEM from Nature… Atrium (LE, MS, HS) LE, MS, HS, CO) (LE, MS, HS, CO) (LE, MS, HS)
Get Them Out of their **Citizen Science aboard **Dangerously **CER in Middle School Berkey Seats…(HS, CO) the…(LE, MS, HS, CO) Beautiful…(MS) Classroom…(MS)
**Pedaling into STEM… **STEM Across the **Mars in Your Campau (LE, MS) Solar…(MS, HS) Classroom…(HS)
**MEECS Climate… Collins (LE, MS)
**NGSS: ** Physics Make & Take… Emerald A Deciphering the (MS, HS) Cross…(LE, MS, HS)
**The Arts in **Elementary Building an STEM Week-A Series of… Emerald B Engineering…(EE, Extravaganza…(EE, LE, Environmentally…(EE, LE, (EE, LE, MS) LE, MS) MS) MS, HS)
Empowered **Using Kinesthetics Empowered Students **Teach Students How to Gerald R. Ford Students Thinking… Exercise to…(EE, LE, MS, Thinking…(EE, LE) Write…(EE, LE) (EE, LE) HS CO)
M u n s f o r Creating a New A Progression of Making Waves in the **Slide Rules in the Governor Members…(EE, LE, Generation of Learners… Learning K-8…(LE) Classroom…(MS) Science…(MS, HS, CO) MS, HS, CO) (LE)
**Enhancing **STEM through **STEM - Build your Own Grandview A Classroom Learning… Origami…(EE, LE, MS, Brushbot…(LE, MS) (LE, MS, HS, CO) HS, CO)
**Modeling Science & NGSS Implementation: **Creating a Semi-Self- Community Resources as Grandview B Math…(EE, LE) Started…(EE, LE, MS) Paced…(MS, HS, CO) Inspiration…(MS, HS)
**Translucent, **Bringing the **Viruses, Bacteria,… **Engaging Students in **Mini Poster Magic… Haldane Transparent, or…(EE, LE, **Zombie Science…(HS) Body’s…(MS, HS, CO) (EE, LE, MS, HS, CO) Productive…(HS) (HS) MS)
**Rethinking Textbooks **Citizen Scientist-Bird **Let’s Make Some Heritage with…(LE, MS, HS, CO) Data…(LE, MS, HS, CO) Motors…(MS, HS)
The Chemistry of Color: Fingerprints of a Tom Using Climate Proxies to Imperial Getting…(HS) Atom…(HS) Learn…(HS)
**Getting the Full **The Power of the **A Caring Instructor… **Outside the Box: **Predicting the Advance Kendall Picture…(MS, HS, Questions…(EE, LE, (HS, CO) Using…(EE, LE) of Lava…(MS, HS) CO) MS, HS)
**Reorganizing Biology The Origin of Species… **The Great Transition **Using Engineering Nelson Content…(HS) (HS, CO) in…(HS, CO) Design & Data…(HS)
**MEECS Water…(LE, Ottawa MS)
= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
16 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Schedule Your Day - Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. -Noon 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. 11:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M. 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. 1:00p.m. - 2:45 p.m. 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
EXHIBITS - CLOSE AT 1:00 Ambassador Ballroom EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS EXHIBITS P.M.
**One Fish, Two Fish… **Nature in and Out…(EE, **Great Lakes, Great… **STEM from Nature… Atrium (LE, MS, HS) LE, MS, HS, CO) (LE, MS, HS, CO) (LE, MS, HS)
Get Them Out of their **Citizen Science aboard **Dangerously **CER in Middle School Berkey Seats…(HS, CO) the…(LE, MS, HS, CO) Beautiful…(MS) Classroom…(MS)
**Pedaling into STEM… **STEM Across the **Mars in Your Campau (LE, MS) Solar…(MS, HS) Classroom…(HS)
**MEECS Climate… Collins (LE, MS)
**NGSS: ** Physics Make & Take… Emerald A Deciphering the (MS, HS) Cross…(LE, MS, HS)
**The Arts in **Elementary Building an STEM Week-A Series of… Emerald B Engineering…(EE, Extravaganza…(EE, LE, Environmentally…(EE, LE, (EE, LE, MS) LE, MS) MS) MS, HS)
Empowered **Using Kinesthetics Empowered Students **Teach Students How to Gerald R. Ford Students Thinking… Exercise to…(EE, LE, MS, Thinking…(EE, LE) Write…(EE, LE) (EE, LE) HS CO)
M u n s f o r Creating a New A Progression of Making Waves in the **Slide Rules in the Governor Members…(EE, LE, Generation of Learners… Learning K-8…(LE) Classroom…(MS) Science…(MS, HS, CO) MS, HS, CO) (LE)
**Enhancing **STEM through **STEM - Build your Own Grandview A Classroom Learning… Origami…(EE, LE, MS, Brushbot…(LE, MS) (LE, MS, HS, CO) HS, CO)
**Modeling Science & NGSS Implementation: **Creating a Semi-Self- Community Resources as Grandview B Math…(EE, LE) Started…(EE, LE, MS) Paced…(MS, HS, CO) Inspiration…(MS, HS)
**Translucent, **Bringing the **Viruses, Bacteria,… **Engaging Students in **Mini Poster Magic… Haldane Transparent, or…(EE, LE, **Zombie Science…(HS) Body’s…(MS, HS, CO) (EE, LE, MS, HS, CO) Productive…(HS) (HS) MS)
**Rethinking Textbooks **Citizen Scientist-Bird **Let’s Make Some Heritage with…(LE, MS, HS, CO) Data…(LE, MS, HS, CO) Motors…(MS, HS)
The Chemistry of Color: Fingerprints of a Tom Using Climate Proxies to Imperial Getting…(HS) Atom…(HS) Learn…(HS)
**Getting the Full **The Power of the **A Caring Instructor… **Outside the Box: **Predicting the Advance Kendall Picture…(MS, HS, Questions…(EE, LE, (HS, CO) Using…(EE, LE) of Lava…(MS, HS) CO) MS, HS)
**Reorganizing Biology The Origin of Species… **The Great Transition **Using Engineering Nelson Content…(HS) (HS, CO) in…(HS, CO) Design & Data…(HS)
**MEECS Water…(LE, Ottawa MS)
= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 17 Schedule Your Day - Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. -Noon 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. 11:00 A.M. - 11:45 A.M. 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. 1:00p.m. - 2:45 p.m. 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
**Resource’s to **Michigan’s Next Pantlind Support NGSS…(EE, Generation…(EE, LE, LE, MS, HS) MS, HS)
**Environmental **Real Kids, Virtual… **The Invisible Modeling Geothermal Plaza Boardroom A Education in…(EE, LE, (LE, MS, HS, CO) Universe…(MS, HS) Systems in…(MS) MS)
**Pre-School Early **Re-Engineering **Journal Club: Critical **Using DNA Barcoding **AP Environmental Pullman Elementary…(LE, MS, Inquiry: Let’s…(HS) Thinking…(HS) to…(HS, CO) Science…(MS, HS) HS, CO)
**Engineering an **Transform your Science iPads and NGSS: Have Cool Tools for Riverview Electromagnet…(LE) Fair…(LE, MS,HS) we…(LE, MS) Electricity…(MS, HS, CO)
**Hands-on Human **Standards-Based Robinson Ecology…(MS, HS) Grading…(LE, MS, HS)
**Human Anatomy THINK! ENERGY & Take **Getting Started with Ruby Lab: Built from…(MS, Action!...(LE) Interactive…(LE, MS) HS, CO)
**Engaged Students ** Engineering the **One-to-One **Mi-STAR: Integrated Thornapple & Formative…(MS, Future: A…(MS, HS) technology: Tales…(HS) STEM…(MS, HS, CO) HS)
High School **Spectroscopy in AP… **Integrating Modeling **Strategies for the AP Chemistry Meeting… Vandenberg A Chemistry…(HS) (HS) into…(HS) ACT…(HS) (HS)
**Flinn Scienti c **What Can the STEM Grant-Michigan **Thermochemistry Vandenberg B -Exploring Chemistry… Department…(EE, LE, STEM Partnership…(EE, without…(HS, CO) (HS) MS, HS) LE, MS, HS, CO)
**Academy of Natural **Forget Science Fairs… **Energy - Avoid a Future **Poppers: An Open- Winchester Resources…(EE, LE, MS, SESSION CANCELLED of…(HS, CO) Inquiry…(MS, HS) HS)
= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
18 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Schedule Your Day - Saturday
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= Featured Session = Vendor **SCECH Session Interest Levels: EE = Early Elementary; LE = Late Elementary; MS = Middle Level; HS = High School; CO = College
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 19 Are You Prepared... to Teach in the 21st-Century Classroom? Lawrence Technological University Can Help! Master of Science Education • $1,320 per course scholarship for all K-12 educators (DI or non-DI endorsements) covers Explore over 100 undergraduate, master’s, nearly 42 percent of tuition. and doctoral programs in Colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and • Most courses offered online and asynchronous, with a science experiment component to be Sciences, Engineering, and Management. completed using science kits and activities. • Science content developed by Lawrence Tech in partnership with the Detroit Zoological Institute, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Aquinas College, and the University of Detroit Mercy. • Courses aligned with the Michigan Department of Education requirements for Science and the DI (Integrated Science) Endorsement. Master of Educational Technology • $1,320 per course scholarship for all participants covers nearly 42 percent of tuition. For more information on these and other science programs, visit • 100 percent online and asynchronous format. www.ltu.edu/sciences 2015 2015 2015 • This practice-oriented program is offered by Lawrence Tech in partnership with Marygrove AMERICA’SBEST TOP 100 MILITARY Waive your applicationUNIVERSITY fee at FRIENDLY College. Courses cover up-to-date technologies in instruction, Web-based learning tools, UNIVERSITIES Highest Alumni www.ltu.edu/applyfreeU.S. News & Salaries S C H O O L streaming video, electronic communication, and software and hardware options. World Report® PayScale G.I. Jobs® • Complete the seven required courses of the Master of Educational Technology degree and be 015 015 015 eligible for the NP endorsement on your existing teaching certificate. 2 2 2 AMERICA’SBEST TOP 100 MILITARY UNIVERSITY FRIENDLY UNIVERSITIES Highest Alumni • Some curriculum requirements will be tailored individually based on the candidate’s goals. U.S. News & Salaries S C H O O L Instructional Technology graduate certificates (12 credits) are also available. World Report® PayScale G.I. Jobs®
Lawrence Technological University | Office of Admissions 21000 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075-1058 | 800.225.5588 | [email protected] | www.ltu.edu/sciences Session Descriptions Friday
Friday, February 28 2015 Meeting Common Core Writing Standards in Science Kimberly Sharplin, Dan Kaminski, Wayne Memorial High School 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Primary Subject: GS Interest Level: MS, HS A Caring Instructor - Motivating Students For Classroom Location: Winchester Success Come learn some interesting ways to incorporate Common Core Laura Harris, Davenport University writing into your science class. Get your kids engaged and ready to write a paper! Handouts and Prizes! Primary Subject: BI, IN Interest Level: HS, CO Practicing Science Skills Using Forensic Science Location: Pullman A caring instructor positively in uences student motivation. This Kathy Mirakovits, Portage Northern High School interactive workshop examines techniques to come across as a Primary Subject: GS caring instructor to your students by applying Dale Carnegie’s Interest Level: MS, HS book to classroom-based examples. Location: Grandview B This session shows how forensic science applies the NGSS Science Argument Driven Inquiry: Using Science Practice: & Engineering Practices in order to solve a crime scene. Transform Lab Activities Adrienne Gri th, Armstrong Middle School, James Repressive Gene Expressions: Turning Students to Stone! Emmerling, Genesee ISD Shannon Mareski, Grand Blanc High School Primary Subject: IN Primary Subject: BI Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Interest Level: HS Location: Ottawa Location: Imperial Explore the eight stages of ADI. Examine how this approach links Students have trouble conceptualizing how gene expression Science Practices, 3 Dimensional Learning (Practices, DCIs, and works. We’ll use manipulatives to model this concept and relate CCCs) and Common Core Literacy Standards (CCLS) for Science. its connection to genetic engineering. During this activity we will Handouts provided. model the Programs’ philosophy, notebooking and discussion strategies that support the new teacher/student talk ratios. Engage, Empower, Inspire. Strategies for Teaching Innovative activities are selected from the new Science and Global Behaviorally Challenged Students Issues: Biology program from SEPUP and LAB-AIDS. Tim Finkel, Melissa Coulter, Neil E. Reid High School, Ben Bomgaars, Neil E. Reid High School/MISD Resources for Teaching about Air Quality Primary Subject: GS Janet Vail, Grand Valley State University Interest Level: MS, HS Primary Subject: EN Location: Emerald A Interest Level: MS, HS This session will focus on e ective strategies for teaching students Location: Vandenberg B with severe behavioral challenges. Speci cally focusing on how to Engage your students in tracking air quality through this reach students with varying cognitive levels while adhering to age introduction to the MEECS Air Quality Unit. Real-time online appropriate standards. resources help them relate Clean Air Action Days to predicted local Find the Fund$ For Science: Grant Writing 101 weather conditions. June Teisan, NOAA Session Key: Primary Subject: GE Interest Level: EE, LE,MS, HS Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Location: Vandenberg A AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary CH – Chemistry Do you dream BIG for your students but feel restrained by a LE – Late Elementary ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level dwindling/nonexistent classroom budget? Learn practical grant- GS – General Science writing tips and insights for securing funds to build vibrant, world- LT – Literacy HS – High School class science learning experiences. BI – Biology CO – College CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session EN – Environmental Education – Vendor Session IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
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8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. continued with using key discussion and assessment practices for teaching chemistry through modeling.
Rock-solid Evidence: Exploring Michigan’s Past Engineering an Electromagnet Heather Albanez, Nah Tah Wahsh PSA, Emily Gochis, MTU/ Crystal Brown, Parsons Elementary School Geology & Mining Engineering & Science Primary Subject: GS, IN Primary Subject: ES Interest Level: LE Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Riverview Location: Heritage Are you an upper elementary teacher? Do you have an old energy We will explore how to bring Michigan’s past back to life through unit that needs a little Spark?™ You will walk away with hands modeling and exploration using the NGSS, web-based resources, on experience and resources for a unit that is project-based and base-10 blocks, a rope and a bus. Hands-on activity and developed for students to explore concepts of energy, research handouts will be provided. and learn about electricity, and apply their understanding to redesign the best performing electromagnet model. Students STEM with Young Children identify their own electromagnet model based on variables they Diana Matthews, Lisa Morgan, Detroit Country Day School think will improve electromagnetic performance. Students are questioning, researching, analyzing, testing, and re-designing. Get Primary Subject: GS charged up for an electrifying experience! Interest Level: EE Location: Plaza Boardroom A Enhancing Classroom Learning through Digital Dissection STEM with young children is fun and EASY! NO more pulling your hair out trying to engage our youngest learners. This session o ers authentic experiences that are guaranteed to captivate and Samantha Suiter, PETA involve students in hands-on, minds-on learning. Primary Subject: BI Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Transform Science Learning with PASCO’s Latest Hands- Location: Nelson On Technologies This session will explore the educational, economic, and ethical Julie Thomas, PASCO scienti c bene ts of alternatives to dissection, including a hands-on demonstration of virtual dissection software. Participants are Primary Subject: GS, CO asked to bring a laptop. Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Grandview A Unpacking and Moving into NGSS PASCO Scienti c o ers hands-on science labs activities for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Environmental Science. Their probeware Nancy Karre, Mary Lindow, Battle Creek Area Math/Science Center solutions are easy to use, cost-e ective, and future-proof. Primary Subject: AS, IN Interest Level: EE, LE, MS Location: Kendall 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Unpack the Performance Expectations in NGSS and evaluate Cheap & Dirty Science: Life Science for Fun - FEE: $5.00 alignment of an inquiry-focused activity. Make the move from scienti c inquiry and performance assessment to solving Carolyn Lowe, NMU - School of Education problems through scienti c inquiry and engineering. Primary Subject: BI Interest Level: EE, LE Location: Ruby 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Get down and dirty learning life science! Hands-on activity where you will build a habitat to take and link meaningful learning to a All the Classrooms a Stage number of life science standards. Corrina Strecker, Andrea Reynolds, Ann Arbor Hands on Engaging Pre-Service STEM Teachers with Chemistry Museum Modeling Primary Subject: GS, IN R. Charles Dershimer, U of M - School of Education, Mark Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Olson, Oakland University, School of Ed. & Human Services, Location: Gerald R. Ford Larry Kolopajlo, Eastern Michigan Univeristy Formal educators are not typically required to be trained as actors, yet they are performing every day. Join us to learn some easy Primary Subject: IN skills and practices that can enrich and develop your everyday Interest Level: CO Location: Emerald B performing. This hands-on session will demonstrate how three science teacher education programs (EMU, OU, and U-M) engaged our students
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Biotechnology in Agriculture - From DNA to GMO EmPOWERed Kids - Energy Education Resources for Classroom Teachers Tonia Ritter, Laurie Isley, MI Farm Bureau Tara Ragauss, Consumers Energy Primary Subject: BI, EN Primary Subject: Interest Level: LE, MS GS Location: Plaza Boardroom A Interest Level: EE, LE Location: Haldane Engage students in activities, informational reading and discussion to better understand this relevant topic. The lesson covers basic Consumers Energy Education Programs Manager, Tara Ragauss, genetic concepts, natural and arti cial selection, and real-world will demonstrate our educational app, EmPOWERed Kids and examples of biotechnology in action. Handouts provided. provide teachers with ideas and resources for using the app in their classroom. The app and resources are available for free on Cool Tools for Force & Motion android and apple devices for teachers to use in their classrooms to teach about electricity and natural gas. Teachers will also have the Donald Pata, Arbor Scienti c opportunity to try out the app on the devices that we bring into the Primary Subject: GS, PH classroom for students to use during presenter-led presentations. Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Thornapple Energy - Avoid a Future of Doom and Gloom! Learn a simple way to prove ‘g’ doesn’t change. Launch a ball Andrew Frisch, Farwell Area Schools straight up from a moving car - it lands in the car! Primary Subject: PH, IS Creating a Vision for Science Education Interest Level: HS, CO Location: Winchester Jennifer Gottlieb, Macomb ISD, Sarah Coleman, Muskegon ISD America must take the lead towards a cultural and technological Primary Subject: AS, IN shift towards energy in the future. We must develop a three-prong Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS approach. 1. There must be new alternative energies developed. Location: Pearl 2. We recognize how we are wasting our current energies. 3. The rst step in planning a journey is knowing where you’re There must be development of new, more e cient technologies. headed. Come explore a process for leading stakeholders in creating a vision to guide your journey toward NGSS. Engineering for K? Yes! Kevin Stinson, Carolina Biological Diff erentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention (RTI) In a Science Classroom Primary Subject: PH Interest Level: EE April Holman, Central Montcalm High School Location: Vandenberg B Primary Subject: IN Yes, Kindergartners can master the E in STEM. Engage with us Interest Level: MS, HS as we complete a variety of engineering projects speci cally Location: Ottawa designed for K students and the NGSS. How do di erentiated instruction and RTI work together? Very well! Get a rst hand account of what is working in a di erentiated classroom implementing the RTI program this year and how to make it work in yours.
Drill into the Past with the International Ocean Discovery Program Elizabeth Christiansen, Midland Public Schools Session Key: Primary Subject: ES, GS Interest Level: LE, MS Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Location: Campau AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Dive into science aboard the Research Vessel JOIDES Resolution CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary (JR), Travel back through Earth’s history via classroom activities ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level and live broadcasts with scientists of the JR. GS – General Science LT – Literacy HS – High School BI – Biology CO – College CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session EN – Environmental Education – Vendor Session IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
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9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. continued STEM - Build Your Own Brushbot David Larwa Engineering in the Science Classroom: You CAN Do It Primary Subject: PH, IS Wendy Johnson, MSU - Dept of Teacher Ed. Interest Level: LE, MS Primary Subject: GS, IN Location: Grandview A Interest Level: MS, HS O to the races after you build your own brushbot. Easy to make Location: Emerald A and fun to build. Turn a toothbrush into a robot. Join me as we This session will articulate the rationale for including engineering explore the science behind the brushbot. in the science curriculum and provide strategies, examples, and resources for incorporating engineering design into your teaching. Student Choice, Student Voice: Empowering the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards Find your Target! Susan Tate, Whitehall Schools Amy Weesies, Hart High School Primary Subject: GS, EN Primary Subject: AS Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Location: Heritage Location: Pullman One of the challenges of implementing PBL in your classroom is Writing good targets isn’t a bore! Leaning targets are a tool for giving students ownership through choice. Come hear how we students to learn more! Learn to use leaning targets to guide embraced this challenge with our interdisciplinary place-based student learning and promote student ownership. stewardship projects.
NGSS Implementation: Started at the Bottom, Now We’re Total Solar and Lunar Eclipses in USA! Here Kevin Dehne, Delta Community College/MESTA Richard Bacolor, Pierce Middle School , Katie Stevenson, Primary Subject: Fisher Elementary School, Greg Johnson, Wayne RESA ES, PH, AST Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Primary Subject: AS. IN Location: Berkey Interest Level: EE, LE, MS Learn about the total solar and lunar eclipses during 2015-2017. We Location: Grandview B will be highlighting the total solar eclipse crossing the continental This session describes the challenges and successes faced by a U.S. on August 21, 2017. Never too early to start planning! Learn small urban district in making NGSS implementation a reality. how and where to observe safely. Door prize will be given!
NGSS Unit Development - Bundling NGSS PEs: A 10-Step Understanding Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration! Process Shannon Mareski, Grand Blanc High School Susan Codere Kelly, MI Department of Education Primary Subject: BI Primary Subject: AS, GS Interest Level: HS Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Location: Imperial Location: Pantlind Students have misconceptions about photosynthesis and cellular Participants will review resources for planning instruction for NGSS respiration but this content is essential for understanding how using a 10-step process that includes bundling related NGSS PEs, matter and energy ows, both at the micro (cellular) and macro developing 3-D learning performances and assessments, and (ecosystem) levels. You will use a computer simulation hands-on building a coherent storyline. Hands on -- will provide handouts activity, engage in notebooking and model strategies that support with links to resources. new teacher/student discussion ratios. All from the new Science and Global Issues: Biology program from SEPUP and LAB-AIDS. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Shana Ramsey, Michigan DNR Wondering About Chemistry Tracy Haro , Marshall High School, Anna Biela-Robinson, Primary Subject: EN Melyssa Lenon, Chesaning High School Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Location: Atrium Primary Subject: CH This session will feature aquatic-inspired hands-on activities Interest Level: HS related to sh, invasive species and natural resource stewardship. Location: Vandenberg A Activities o er exciting ways to learn about Michigan’s natural We will show you thinking strategies to get students thinking and resources, engage students, and meet standards. wondering about chemistry. Most strategies include a chemical demonstration. Handouts will be provided!
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9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Creating Assessment for Science Aligned with Three- 3-2-1 Liftoff ! Dimensional Learning of NGSS Mandy Frantti, Munising Middle/High School Deborah Peek-Brown, Michigan State University, Joe Krajcik, Primary Subject: Renee Bayer, CREATE for STEM Institute, Jane Lee, Post- PH, AST Interest Level: doctoarl Fellow EE Location: Campau Primary Subject: AS Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Use excitement of space and rockets to teach K-2 skills (e.g. Location: Governor counting backwards, simple experimentation, measuring, fact/ ction, spatial skills, graphing, rhymes and movement, etc.)! Learn how to develop and use classroom-based assessments that Hands-on and handouts. NASA materials distributed. have disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts and scienti c engineering practices working together to monitor student Academy of Natural Resources: What I Did During My progress in achieving NGSS performance expectations. Summer Vacation! Lessons (learned) from NGSS-Aligned, Inquiry-Based Becky Durling, Discovery Elementary School Physical Science Curriculum Primary Subject: GS, EN Kristin Mayer, Michigan State University, Kristen Degan, Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Williamston High School Location: Emerald B Primary Subject: CH, PH The Academy of Natural Resources is truly a fun, educational Interest Level: HS summer camp for teachers! Come nd out what ANR is all about! Location: Robinson We will highlight the 2015 class o erings, day trips out in the eld, Interactions is a curriculum design and researcher project curriculum materials, scholarships, and more! Come nd out why through MSU and supported by a grant from NSF. Teachers will YOU need to spend a week in July in beautiful Northern Michigan be introduced to the curriculum. Then teachers will experience at ANR!! hands-on lessons that support students development of scienti c An Engineering Based Classroom - Classroom Strategies models that can explain observations of electrostatic interactions and Projects from the curriculum. Presenters will share example student work from the lesson, experience, and lessons-learned from the Lindsey McConney, Colin Killmer, Portage Northern High collaboration between MSU and high school. Handouts will be School provided and the curriculum resources are available online. Primary Subject: PH Interest Level: HS Location: Winchester 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Strategies and examples in maintaining an engineering project- based classroom where teams are established, given limitations, MEECS Ecosystems and Biodiversity v and assessed as groups. Hands-on examples provided. Jessica Wagenmaker, Holton Middle School Primary Subject: AS, EN Interest Level: LE, MS Location: Collins This unit provides students with a better understanding of ecosystems by examining how organisms interact within their environment. An additional set of materials explores concepts Session Key: related to biodiversity. Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: NOTE: Pre registration for this session is REQUIRED! Go to AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary www.michigan.gov/deq to register. CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level GS – General Science LT – Literacy HS – High School BI – Biology CO – College CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session EN – Environmental Education – Vendor Session IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
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10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. continued Creating a Semi-Self-Paced Classroom without Killing the Teacher AP Environmental Science - “Global Sustainability” Christa Graham, Morenci Area Schools Mike Mansour Primary Subject: AS Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Primary Subject: EN Location: Grandview B Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Ruby Suggestions on how to structure a semi-self-paced, mastery- model classroom that supports all levels of learners in a Americans are seriously ignorant of our global interdependency. challenging and supportive environment all while reducing Facing the Future, a non-pro t organization provides resources your day-to-day grading and workload. Classroom application and community action opportunities on global issues and for Middle School, High School, and Undergraduate levels. sustainability for teachers, students and the public. We will Organizational suggestions, samples of challenges and successes. examine these resources for consideration for the future Handouts will be provided. environmental leaders in your classes. Exploring Sedimentary Rocks of the Michigan Basin Biomes and Invasive Species Christina Sobolak, Steve Mattox, Grand Valley State Shannon Mareski, Grand Blanc High School University Primary Subject: BI Primary Subject: ES, EN Interest Level: HS Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Imperial Location: Ottawa How do the characteristics of a biome determine the plant and Sources to be explored come from websites prepared by a state animal life found there? How do non-native species survive university and by the Geological Society of America, a comment to become invasive species? In this activity from Science and and response from the journal Science, and articles from National Global Issues: Biology Program, students match a set of organism Geographic and Scienti c American. The sources have been cards to proper climate/biome cards, then use literacy strategies carefully chosen and encompass various perspectives on the to consider the impact of invasive species. You’ll receive a full hydraulic fracturing process. set of kit and print materials for later use with your students, complements of LAB-AIDS. Food Safety Is Your Right to Know and Learn Bug Lyphe! Student-Centered Studies in Biodiversity and Debra Smith, Van Buren Tech Center Food Webs Primary Subject: GS Marty Buehler, Hastings Area Schools Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Emerald A Primary Subject: BI, IN The FDA-Science and Our Food Supply curriculum will be Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO presented. An investigation from bacteria to the Farm to the Table Location: Pullman to Technology of the food we eat. Handouts provided. The NGSS are about the art of teaching rather than just content expectations. In this session, we’ll discuss student-centered Free Engineering Modeling Software in the Classroom biodiversity ecology lessons with extensions involving soil food Rick Mushing, Ebiri Nkugba, Kent ISD web study techniques. Handouts provided. Primary Subject: ES, CO Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Inland Seas Interest Level: MS, HS Jeanie Williams, Inland Seas Education Association Location: Thornapple An overview presentation of free engineering software and Primary Subject: EN lessons aligned to state standards. Demonstrations include 3D Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO modeling software from Autodesk and ESRI’s ArcGIS online spatial Location: Vandenberg B analysis software. Discover how Inland Seas engages students in active Great Lakes research aboard a traditionally rigged schooner, and how your Getting Started with Interactive Science Notebook class can get involved. Additionally, learn about our long-term Amy MacKellar, Jennifer Francis, St. Joseph Public Schools Great Lakes monitoring data set and how to use it to engage your class in meaningful data interpretation. This session will give you Primary Subject: IN a chance to take part in activities practiced on the ship and work Interest Level: LE, MS with our Great Lakes data set. Location: Kendall Have you ever wished you could: Increase student engagement and organization? Encourage student creativity? Simplify grading? Explore the possibilities with teachers who have successfully implemented science notebooking in their classroom.
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Implementing NGSS Panel Discussion: Resources Available professional development opportunities o ered through the and Stories from the Front LInes DNR. Join in hands-on life science activities from Salmon in the Classroom, Project Learning Tree (PLT), K-12 Project WILD/Growing Location: Pantlind UP WILD for Early Learners/K-12 Aquatic WILD. Find out what you Panel: Nancy Karre, Battle Creek M/S Center, Jennifer Arnswald, may experience if you attend the interactive week long Academy MSTA Curriculum Director & Curator for NSTA Hub, Joseph of Natural Resources each July--a 32 hour SCECH immersion Krajcik, Director CREATE for STEM Institute, Renee Bayer, into natural resource and environmental education using best- Associate Director CREATE for STEM Institute practices for adult learning, full of real-world applications to share Moderator: Mike Klein, MSTA Treasurer with students. Questions: Robby Cramer, MSTA Executive Director Charles Bucienski, MSTA President Science Near and Far: Travel Grants for Teachers Members of the Michigan Internal and External Review Team Susan Tate, Derek Taranko, Whitehall Schools will share resources based on the K-12 Science Framework and Primary Subject: NGSS, currently available to use with educators, department/ GS Interest Level: sta meetings, and PLCs. Updates regarding Michigan’s progress EE, LE, MS, HS Location: Heritage on new science standards will be provided and Michigan created resources will be shared. Some time will be given to questions. Think world travel is impossible on a teacher’s salary? Let me show you how I have traveled to three continents in as many Inquiry Lessons in Biology: A Review and Some New years...for FREE! Joni VanCampenhout, Stephanie Niedermeyer, Kim Sharplin, STEM through Origami Wayne Memorial High School David Larwa Primary Subject: BI Interest Level: MS, HS Primary Subject: GS Location: Nelson Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Grandview A Join us for a review of some of our favorite lessons in Biology, as well as a few new ideas! Handouts and goodies will be available! A new look at the technical, mathematical, and creative models of origami. Used today from auto design to heart operations, Introducing Teachers and Administrators to NGSS origami is not child’s play. Hands-On Sarah Coleman, Muskegon Regional M/S Center, Jennifer Teaching Simple Machines, Force and Motion, and Little Gottlieb, Macomb ISD Energy Using LEGO Primary Subject: AS, IN Ivery Toussant, Jr., LEGO Education Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Location: Pearl Primary Subject: AS, IS The Framework for K-12 Science Education has great implications Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS for e ective science teaching in our state. Come explore resources Location: Berkey and engage in dialogue to help support the implementation of This is a hands-on session designed to teach the least science this framework. oriented educator how to put their simple machine knowledge to work to better to teach STEM concepts. Modeling Heating Curves and Phase Changes Larry Kolopajlo, EMU - Chemistry Department Primary Subject: CH, PH, IS Interest Level: HS, CO Location: Vandenberg A The method of modeling is applied to heating curves. Students Session Key: construct representations involving Hess’ Law, mathematics, and Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: diagrams of particles, Temperature vs Time, and Enthalpy vs time. AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary An Excel Macro is also used CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level Nature In and Out of the Classroom: A DNR Teacher GS – General Science HS – High School Resource LT – Literacy CO – College Natalie Elkins, MI Department of Natural Resources BI – Biology CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session Primary Subject: EN, IS EN – Environmental – Vendor Session Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Education Location: Atrium IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics Michigan DNR Education Specialist, Natalie Elkins will share AST – Astronomy activity and program examples, and will highlight the various
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10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. continued 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Teaching for Conceptual Change: Building a Bridge The Stories Rocks Can Tell: Interrogating a Michigan between Students’ (and Teachers’) Ideas and Scientifi c Limestone Understandings Dave Chapman, Okemos High School Page Keeley, Author, Speaker, & Science Education Consultant Primary Subject: ES Maine M/S Alliance (Retired Sr. Program Director), Past President of NSTA, National Science Education Leadership Interest Level: MS, HS Association Region A Director Location: Haldane Beginning with a rock specimen, you will make observations, Location: Pantlind analyze data, construct a graph. Inferences will be made about K-12 students hold a variety of strongly held ideas about the identi cation, formation environment, Michigan basin, plate natural world and phenomena. Teaching for conceptual change tectonics, and climate change. involves starting with understanding the ideas students bring to their learning and building a bridge between their initial ideas and Transform Your Science Fair into a STEM challenge Fair! the scienti c ideas we want them to learn and be able to use. Page Crystal Brown, Parsons Elementary School Keeley will talk about her experience transitioning from inquiry to inquiry for conceptual change, how teaching for conceptual Primary Subject: GS, IN change transformed her teaching and learning, and implications Interest Level: LE, MS, HS for teaching and learning core disciplinary ideas, crosscutting Location: Riverview concepts, and scienti c and engineering practices. If you’ve been doing the same old Science Fair, come learn about the amazing opportunities for a STEM Challenge Fair! You will leave with resources to start your own STEM Challenge Fair. The science and engineering practices of NGSS are integral to students’ 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. education, and the traditional science fair model just isn’t enough anymore. Give your students the chance to be innovative! 3-D Printing: Recycled Engineering with Delta Printers and PLA Plastic Water and Agriculture - Important Resources Working Richard Eberly, Virang Patel, Ian Kirkpatrick, New Bu alo Together High School Tonia Ritter, MI Farm Bureau, Laurie Isley, Primary Subject: EN, PH Primary Subject: BI, EN Interest Level: HS, CO Interest Level: LE Location: Vandenberg B Location: Plaza Boardroom A 3-D printing with open source Delta printers from 3-D4EDU A hands-on, literature-based lesson which introduces the compliments the NGSS. This presentation will focus on the complexities of the water cycle, involves scienti c experimentation bene ts of open source design and recyclable PLA plastic printing and discussion of real-life issues with emphasis on how agriculture in education. maintains water quality. Handouts provided. Big Ideas on a Nano Scale with Intro to Biology Christine Brillhart, Elizabeth Christiansen, Midland Public Schools 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Primary Subject: BI Blending Art and Science STEaM Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Berkey Nichole Wright, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Nanoscience in Introductory Biology courses is easier than you Primary Subject: IN think! This session will provide engaging activities representing Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO the basic ideas of Nanotechnology. Middle & high school students Location: Gerald R. Ford will be assisting. Explore the process of blending art and science to create exciting, interactive activities. Discuss the bene ts, brainstorm curriculum ideas, and experience speci c STEaM activities to take back to your classroom.
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Bring Science Alive! With TCI Enhancing the STEM Curriculum with Virtual Simulations Matt Moorman, TCI Pam Berry, ExploreLearning, Lisa Ogiemwonyl, Rochester Primary Subject: AS, GS Community Schools Interest Level: EE, LE Primary Subject: Location: Kendall CO, IN Interest Level: LE, MS, HS In this hands-on session, participants experience learning Location: Gerald R. Ford from a student’s perspective through TCI’s Bring Science Alive! Online simulations help teachers take advantage of research- Participants will experience a lesson built from the ground up to proven strategies and enable students develop deep conceptual meet NGSS. science understanding by manipulating key variables, generating CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books in the testing Hypotheses, and engaging in “what-if” experimentation. Classroom Facilitating and Sustaining Change in Your School Conni Crittenden, Williamston Schools or District Primary Subject: GS Julia Alder, Birmingham Public Schools, Barbara Pepper, Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Derby Middle School Location: Riverview Primary Subject: AS, GS Looking at this year’s CBC/NSTA Outstanding Trade Books, as well Interest Level: EE, LE, MS as other years’ winners and how you can integrate them into your Location: Pearl science curriculum. Book lists and integrated lessons provided. Learn from our elementary and middle school math, science, Cool Tools for Sound & Waves and technology integration program development initiative. Strengths, pitfalls, and current program state will be shared. See Dale Freeland, Arbor Scienti c examples of process, protocols, and products from our multi-year Primary Subject: GS, PH technology integration for science and mathematics classrooms. Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Grandview A Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun Watch the Sound Pipe lift a pile of confetti – without touching Kevin Frailey, MI Dept. of Natural Resources it! Hear a spot-on rendition of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star using Primary Subject: GS, EN Boomwhackers! Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Atrium Curious Crew: A Partnership Promoting Science Exploration and STEM Design This hands-on activity o ers a fun, interactive, multi-disciplinary approach to teaching about the Great Lakes watershed. Try a new Rob Stephenson, Ingham ISD method to get your students inspired by the largest freshwater Primary Subject: GS, PH ecosystem on earth. Interest Level: EE, LE, MS Location: Thornapple East Lansing PBS station, Curious Crew inspires second to eighth grade students to appreciate science through exploration, design, and building, while providing online resources aligned with NGSS to classroom teachers.
Engineering Innovative Instruction Megan Schrauben, MDE - John Hannah Bldg. Session Key: Primary Subject: GS, IN Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Location: Emerald A CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary Let’s remove barriers to focusing on instruction. Come to discuss ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level GS – General Science the opportunities that exist for you to engineer an innovative HS – High School learning experience between the hard lines of standards and LT – Literacy CO – College assessment. BI – Biology CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session EN – Environmental Education – Vendor Session IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
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1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. continued Re-Engineering Inquiry: Let’s Get REAL! Ron Reimink, Hudsonville High School Primary Subject: IN Inertia around the Curve (Force and Motion for Grade 5) Interest Level: HS Lisa Kelp, Lab-Aids Location: Pullman Come and learn how REAL Science techniques can motivate your Primary Subject: GS students, promote critical-thinking, and encourage the learning Interest Level: MS Location: Imperial of more content, even in AP courses. Complete, ready-to-use secondary activities provided. Students have many misconceptions about inertia, the resistance of an object to changes in its motion. In this activity, they investigate Using Information Literacy to Evaluate Aspects of the forces needed to change the motion of moving spheres of Hydraulic Fracturing di erent mass along a circular track, an activity from the SEPUP Science Grade 5 Program from LAB-AIDS that supports the new Christina Sobolak, Steve Mattox, Grand Valley State University teacher/student talk ratios, and also has the literacy, notebooking, assessment strategies built in that make it Next Gen ready! Primary Subject: ES, EN Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Integrating your iPad with Vernier Technology Location: Ottawa Patti Smith, Vernier Software & Technology Teachers will evaluate articles that describe hydraulic fracturing from di erent perspectives and develop a claim to ban or not ban Primary Subject: GS, CO it using evidence and reasoning. Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Grandview B Using data-collection technology builds deeper student understanding of critical concepts in science and increases test 1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. scores. See how Vernier sensors, including our Go Wireless Temp, supports science inquiry in classrooms using iPad. This technology Dynamic Life Science empowers students to collaboratively collect and independently John Fedors analyze their data. Primary Subject: BI Kalkaska High School - Square-One Project Enhancement Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Nelson Kim Cotton, Andrew Urquhart, Kalkaska Public Schools Hands-on activities, WOW demos, stimulating and sharing inquiry Primary Subject: CH, ES activities which can be immediately implemented. Bridge sciences Interest Level: HS through the development of critical thinking in Life Science. Location: Vandenberg A Square One provided several thousands of dollars for Kalkaska Electrify Your Teaching Using the Simple Circuit Board Public Schools science program. We want to share some of the fun Michael Suckley, Macomb Community College, Paul Klozik, labs and ways the funds were used. The MAP’s Company Mini Poster Magic Primary Subject: GS, IN, PH Interest Level: MS, HS Kristy Butler, Patti Richardson, Forest Hills Central High Location: Winchester School Using STEM principles, magnets, paperclips, and Christmas tree Primary Subject: BI light bulbs, build your own inexpensive circuit board. Construct Interest Level: HS series, parallel, and combined circuits. Collect qualitative and Location: Haldane quantitative data which will be used to describe the circuits. Use Come and join us as we show you how we have used mini posters your circuit board to learn about conductors, insulators, fuses, and to incorporate Dimension 1: Practices of the NGSS into our diodes which can be applied to everyday applications. classroom. Lots of examples! Handouts provided. Integrating Literacy and Engineering into a Biofuel Place-Based Education: Watersheds of the Mitten Laboratory Tamara Coleman, Lowell Area Schools R. Charles Dershimer, U of M - School of Education, Hans Sowder, U of M College of Engineering Primary Subject: BI, EN Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Primary Subject: CH, ES, BI, IN Location: Robinson Interest Level: HS Resources and assimilation of the Dan Wolz Grant, using place- Location: Heritage based community resources. Engage your students with a chemistry or biology laboratory for designing a process to make biofuel. Speci c standards based
30 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Session Descriptions Friday literacy and assessment strategies provided to support students 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. with concept development. A Little Bit of Sol Pedaling into STEM on a Bike Generator Jay Sinclair, Ida Middle School Scott Harrison, Freeland Middle School Primary Subject: Gs, AST Primary Subject: GS, PH Interest Level: MS, HS Interest Level: LE, MS Location: Vandenberg B Location: Ruby Participants will learn the basics of solar activity, spectroscopy, and Turn on the mental lightbulbs while riding a class-made bike solar observation at di erent wavelengths. Handouts on safe solar generator. You will get detailed plans on how to build your own observation and a classroom ready lesson will be included. bike generator and its STEM/curriculum connections. This is hands-on and handouts are provided. A Telephone-Style Game for Reinforcing Free Body Diagrams Shifting to the NGSS through Assessment Ronald Schlaack, Delta College Rochelle Rubin Primary Subject: IN, PH Primary Subject: AS, CH, ES, GS, BI, EN, PH Interest Level: HS, CO Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Location: Thornapple Location: Governor A telephone-style game was used to teach diagramming skills to Realizing the vision of the NGSS, depends upon a transformation students in introductory physics classes at two community colleges of how science is assessed. During this session, participants will with regard to free body diagrams, pictures, and actual materials. be introduced to a process for deconstructing NGSS Science and Engineering Practices in order to develop aligned formative and/ Ahh, the Places You’ll Go! Cool Maps and Dynamic Data or summative assessment resources that can be integrated into v their current curriculum. Examples will be provided. Ellen Spooner, Autumn Poisson, Michigan Sea Grant Thinking, Acting and Writing like Scientists: First Grade Primary Subject: ES Investigators Explore the Causes and Eff ects of Sounds and Interest Level: MS, HS Vibrations Location: Ottawa Robby Cramer, Science Consultant, Michele Nelson, Van What’s happening in your watershed? Explore Great Lakes Andel Education Institute FieldScope through a hands-on session to engage your students in analyzing and sharing water quality data using dynamic GIS Primary Subject: GS, LT maps (free handouts). Interest Level: EE, LE Location: Emerald B Young student researchers explore their world of sounds and vibrations occurring when they play and sing! Science and writing standards (NGSS & CC) are seamlessly bundled throughout fourteen investigations for teachers to use in their classrooms. MAISA Unit available for free online.
1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. MEECS Energy Resources Session Key: Philip Gersmehl, Ph.D, Central Michigan University Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Primary Subject: AS, EN AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Interest Level: LE, MS CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary Location: Collins ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level GS – General Science Investigate a broad array of topics such as electricity generation, LT – Literacy HS – High School renewable and nonrenewable energy resources, energy BI – Biology CO – College conservation and sustainability. CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session EN – Environmental NOTE: Pre registration for this session is REQUIRED! Go to www. Education – Vendor Session michigan.gov/deq to register. IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
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2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. continued Learn about the 3D Printer in Your Future Dale Freeland, Portage Central High School Chemical Batteries (Energy for Grade 6) Primary Subject: CO, PH Lisa Kelp, Lab-Aids Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Grandview A Primary Subject: GS How do students use a 3D printer in the science classroom? How Interest Level: MS Location: Imperial will a 3D printer help me do my work? Students have engineered solutions to NGSS challenges and have used the 3D printer to Although we live a battery-powered lifestyle, middle schoolers have print parts for their solutions. I will share student reactions and no idea how batteries actually work. Make a wet cell battery, explore achievements during our rst 6 months with a 3D printer. High the e ect of using di erent metal electrodes on battery output, student interest and their solutions lead me to predict that there and consider ways to reduce the number of discarded batteries will be a 3D printer in your near future, also. in the waste stream. You’ll engage in an activity from the SEPUP Science Grade 6 Program from LAB-AIDS that supports the new Making It Real....Cheap! teacher/student talk ratios, and also has the literacy, notebooking, assessment strategies built in that make it Next Gen ready! Darrick Gregory, STARBASE Elementary School, Jodi Heaney, Julie Hahn, Parchment Middle School Engineering The Future Of Energy! Primary Subject: GS Bryan Tasior, Stockbridge High School Interest Level: LE, MS Location: Riverview Primary Subject: GS, EN, PH This session will include a variety of examples involving “real- Interest Level: HS, CO world” science that can be done in the classroom for little or Location: Grandview B no cost. In addition to a variety of topics, the presenters will Presentation of a unit using project-based, NGSS-aligned incorporate technology to enhance ideas. Handouts with lesson engineering projects to teach the concepts of energy and ideas and suggested technology components will be provided. electricity & magnetism in a physics classroom. Projects demonstrated and handouts provided. Pre-School Early Elementary Environmental Education Facilitating Students’ Understanding of the Structure and Mike Mansour Properties of Matter Primary Subject: EN David Doherty, BitWixt Software Systems Interest Level: EE, LE Location: Pullman Primary Subject: CH Bring nature and outdoor fun into your early elementary program Interest Level: MS, HS with two outstanding national programs: Growing Up WILD and Location: Vandenberg A Project Learning Tree Early Elementary Explorations. Nature gives From middle to high school, students’ understanding of the us so much to explore during our lives. An early introduction structure/properties of matter increases in complexity. We guided by you will unlock adventures and interest. These guides demonstrate interactive 3D atomic and molecular models, on provide structure and direction enriching our teaching. As a life- iPads and laptops, to facilitate this growth in understanding. long naturalist, I will engage you in these powerful tools. Handouts will be provided. Processes for Collaborative Decision Making and If a Picture is Worth...a Simulation is Worth a Million Leveraging Diff erent Perspectives Lisa Ogiemwonyi, Rochester Community Schools, Pam Berry, Mike Gallagher, Oakland Schools ExploreLearning Primary Subject: ES, GS Primary Subject: CO, IN Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Location: Pearl Location: Gerald R. Ford It’s universal. Science departments are comprised of individuals Simulations are about “Ah-Hah!” moments - instances when your with varying beliefs about our aims, instructional practices, brain clicks! Suddenly whatever was puzzling you, now makes and urgency for change. Learn to implement processes and sense. In this session, participants will learn to create “Ah-Hah!” communication norms so that energy that comes from varying science moments. perspectives can be harnessed in a productive way.
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Standards-Based Grading in the Next Generation: Targets, 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Formative Assessment and Intervention Phil King, Erik Johnson, Lakeview Middle School Empowered Students Thinking Like Engineers! Tom Hinojosa, National Geographic/Cengage Learning Primary Subject: AS Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Primary Subject: GS, IN Location: Robinson Interest Level: EE, LE Transform your grading practices to promote pro ciency on Location: Kendall science learning targets through the use of standards-based Learn about an innovative approach to teaching that empowers grading and student tracker sheets. Streamline RTI/MTSS elementary students to think like engineers and scientists. Through interventions and foster student ownership and re ection. hands-on demonstration, teachers will leave the session with new ideas, resources, and methods to engage their classroom. STEM from Nature Kevin Frailey, MI Dept. of Natural Resources Using NGSS Practices and Cross-Cutting Concepts to Combat Student Misconceptions Primary Subject: GS, EN Katy Adams, Ecology Center, Pam Bunch, Lenawee ISD/HLM Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Math Science Center Location: Atrium Natural resources provide great opportunities to cover all STEM Primary Subject: IN components! This session will give you some examples and ideas Interest Level: MS, HS of how to have your students use STEM from nature. Location: Plaza Boardroom A Join us for a “hands-on” introduction to Michigan’s SaM3 program Using Claim Evidence and Reasoning (CER) to Write and gain practical strategies for eliciting, addressing, and reconciling Conclusions student ideas that may act as barriers to learning about energy. Melissa Susan, Grandville Middle School Primary Subject: GS Interest Level: LE, MS, HS 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Location: Emerald A Our curriculum is changing and so must the format in which we Advanced Inquiry Labs for AP Chemistry from Flinn write our Lab Conclusions. Claim Evidence Reasoning is the format Scientifi c of choice for writing conclusions to labs in Science and ELA write- Mike Marvel, Mike Frazier, Flinn Scienti c ups. In this session we will look at how to explain what Claim Primary Subject: CH Evidence Reasoning is to your students and how to integrate it Interest Level: HS, CO into your current lessons. Location: Vandenberg B Using Google Apps in the Science Classroom Hands-on, interactive workshop to help you implement the revised laboratory investigations and curriculum framework for Stacey Schuh, Dan Spencer, Jackson ISD AP Chemistry! Join Flinn Scienti c as we present two new guided- Primary Subject: AS, CO, IN inquiry chemistry experiments that support the integrated learning Interest Level: LE, MS, HS objectives and applied science practice skills your students will need Location: Berkey for success. Pre-lab preparation and preliminary activities for each How can you use Google’s Free Tools in the Science classroom? investigation have been optimized so teachers can e ectively guide Learn about how to utilize Google Forms for Exit Slips, Presentation students and provide maximum opportunities for inquiry. Handouts for sharing student ndings, and Blogger for creating a class provided for all activities! science blog. Tips and tricks for organizing technology in the classroom. Session Key: Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Students Should Know and Why AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary CH – Chemistry Jane Finn, MI Antibiotic Resistance Reduction (MARR) LE – Late Elementary ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level Primary Subject: BI GS – General Science HS – High School Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO LT – Literacy Location: Haldane BI – Biology CO – College CO – Computer/Technology Overview of the 2013 CDC report of “Antibiotic Resistance Threats – SCECH Session EN – Environmental in the U.S.” Overview of “Antibiotics and You” for elementary Education – Vendor Session and middle school students, and, “High School Biology/Health” IN – Instruction/Pedagogy curriculum. Both programs are free and funded by the Centers for PH – Physics Disease Control and Prevention. AST – Astronomy
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3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. continued Modern Manufacturing and STEM Amazing: Using NGSS to Make the Great Lakes STEM- Ronald Schlaack, Delta College , Heather Brey, E.F. Rittmueller sational! Middle School Ellen Spooner, Autumn Poisson, Michigan Sea Grant Primary Subject: IN Interest Level: MS, HS Primary Subject: ES Location: Thornapple Interest Level: MS, HS Introducing a program which allows teachers the opportunity to Location: Ottawa explore conditions within modern manufacturing facilities and to Explore NGSS aligned to STEM-sational K4-12 Great Lakes then enhance STEM education for students who might otherwise resources. See how we connected disciplinary core ideas, practices not be interested. and crosscutting concepts to help engage students in learning about the Great Lakes. NOAA, and Sea Grant, and GLOBE - - Oh, My! Biofuels - The Dance between Science and Engineering June Teisan, NOAA, Steve Stewart, MI Sea Grant Extension Joyce Parker, Michigan State University Primary Subject: BI, EN Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Primary Subject: BI Location: Vandenberg A Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Michigan’s Great Lakes are a global treasure, so let’s grow the Location: Nelson next generation of water stewards and open doors to careers in In this problem-based, hands-on session, we look at how the STEM elds using free resources from NOAA, Sea Grant, and engineering and science come together in the quest for GLOBE! (Bonus: Prizes too!) sustainable biofuels that ranges across most areas of biology. Old Lessons CAN Do New Tricks: Modifying for NGSS and Creating a System of Science Support for Elementary Appendix F Teachers Anne Jeannette LaSovage, South eld Public Schools Julia Alder, Birmingham Public Schools, Michelle Ladd, West Maple Elementary School Primary Subject: BI, IN Interest Level: HS Primary Subject: AS, GS Location: Haldane Interest Level: EE, LE, MS Location: Pearl NGSS doesn’t mean starting from scratch. See how updating a classic evolution lesson can get your students “practicing the Wondering how to implement, support, and sustain your practices” of interpreting data, constructing and evaluating elementary science program? Learn how we are leveraging models and defending arguments. teachers as science coaches in elementary schools. Explore our model, alternate models, and consider strategies that will Reclaiming the Metal (Chemistry of Materials for Grade 7) build teacher capacity and interest in teaching science in the Lisa Kelp, Lab-Aids elementary school. Primary Subject: GS Encourage Reading in the Science Classroom Interest Level: MS Stephanie Niedermeyer, Kevin English, Wayne Memorial High Location: Imperial Schools Real world chemistry-- You’ll engage in an activity from the SEPUP Primary Subject: GS, IN Science Grade 7 Program from LAB-AIDS that supports the new Interest Level: HS teacher/student talk ratios, and also has the literacy, notebooking, Location: Winchester assessment strategies built in that make it Next Gen ready! Join us as we consider scenarios to reclaim copper from a circuit Dust o those textbooks and source materials! Get the students board manufacturer’s waste. You’ll then examine trade-o s of in your class interested and engaged in reading in your Science techniques used in industrial applications (metal replacement classroom. Handouts will be provided! and precipitation), and come to understand the science behind Engineering is Elementary complex environmental issues Connie Kennedy, Bay City Public Schools Primary Subject: GS, LT Interest Level: EE, LE Location: Pullman This session is designed to introduce educators to “Engineering is Elementary”. Participants will explore introductory technology and engineering activities and utilize FREE resources available from the Museum of Science, Boston.
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Science and Engineering Practices as Interventions to 3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Raise Academic Achievement Greg Johnson, Wayne RESA Classify This! Build a Classroom Classifi cation Wiki Carolyn Lowe, NMU - School of Education Primary Subject: GS, IN Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Primary Subject: BI Location: Grandview A Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Explore strategies/activities that help ALL students. These Location: Ruby strategies are all research-based, can be included in school Bring your computers and use my template and guidance to start improvement plans, and prepare teachers and administrators for a biology classi cation wiki your class can add to for years! A great, the Next Generation Science Standards. interactive, technology-based way to demonstrate learning.
STEM Learning with Unmanned Vehicles Cultivating the Scientifi c Mind Using Interactive Ebiri Nkugba, Rick Mushing, Kent ISD Notebooks Carolyn Mammen, Hart Middle School, Monica Harvey, Primary Subject: GS Rochester Community Schools Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Robinson Primary Subject: GS Attendees will discover the engaging world of unmanned vehicles Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS as a K-12 teaching tool. Lesson ideas will be presented. This is more Location: Governor than a high school physics demonstration! Learn to provide enriched opportunities to develop student scienti c thinking skills with interactive notebooks. Redesign The Earthquake Machine lessons, incorporate NGSS and ECS and discover ways to promote Michele Svoboda, Mill Creek Middle School scienti c thinking for all students. Primary Subject: ES First Day of Science Class Interest Level: MS, HS Robert Tallman Location: Heritage Explore a model of a fault to teach how energy is stored elastically Primary Subject: IN in rocks and released suddenly as an earthquake. Handouts Interest Level: MS, HS, CO provided. Based on an IRIS Activity. Location: Riverview Grab student attention. De ne Science and break the gender Use Technology to Work Smarter, Not Harder barrier. Create lab groups that work by using Learning Styles. Tammy Daenzer, Jenni Snider, Birch Run Area Schools Session will include strategies and activities. Primary Subject: GS, CO Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Location: Grandview B Technology is often intimidating to the classroom teacher and seems like a lot of hard work. Come learn how one teacher has started to use technology in the classroom to work smarter, but not harder! Technology ideas used tie all test questions to speci c GLCEs, provide for pre and post-test data, provide for both formative and summative assessment, allow for e ective parent communications and establish materials necessary for Student-Led Conferences. Technology featured includes: PC technology, ExamView, Planbook. Session Key: com, MS PowerPoint, Skyward, Email, and Insight 360. Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Using One-Minute Videos to Flip Your Lessons AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Deb Yats, Nouvel Catholic Central High School CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level Primary Subject: CO GS – General Science Interest Level: MS, HS, CO LT – Literacy HS – High School Location: Berkey BI – Biology CO – College CO – Computer/Technology Using short, self-made video clips increase student engagement – SCECH Session EN – Environmental and decrease lecture time. This session will demonstrate this – Vendor Session technique using apps (Educreations, Explain Everything) and Education IN – Instruction/Pedagogy videos (using iPads or cell phones). BYOD--If you have one, bring PH – Physics a smart phone or tablet such as an iPad. No handouts AST – Astronomy
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3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. continued Integrating Chromebook, Android, and BYOD with Vernier Technology Speak Up! Incorporating Discourse into our Classroom Patti Smith, Vernier Software & Technology Instruction Primary Subject: Robby Cramer, Science Consultant, Cheryl Hach, Kalamazoo GS, CO Area Math and Science Center Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Berkey Primary Subject: LT, IN Using data-collection technology builds deeper student Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Emerald B understanding of critical concepts in science and increases test scores. See how you can use Vernier sensors, including our new Consider the use of Science and Engineering Practices to drive Go Wireless Temp, to support science inquiry in classrooms using student classroom discourse. Explore how to promote a classroom Chromebook, Android, or BYOD. culture that provides a safe space to engage in scienti c argument and fosters the exchange of students’ verbal and written ideas. Leading the Change toward NGSS: Department Chair Round Table 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Wendi Vogel, Crestwood Middle School An Appetite for Chemistry Primary Subject: AS, IN Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Cathy Farrell, Huron High School, New Boston Location: Pearl Primary Subject: CH Join department chairs, science coaches, and curriculum leaders in Interest Level: HS a round table discussion on leading the change to NGSS. Location: Thornapple Teenagers love food! Come see how various food-themed One-Stop Shopping on the Topic of Energy activities can grab and hold your students’ focus and help them see Christine Webster, Hudsonville Pubic Schools real-world connections to chemistry topics. Some topics include stoichiometry, molar mass, energy, unit conversions, solutions. Primary Subject: GS, IN Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Bio & Chem Literacy Extravaganza Location: Haldane Michelle Mason, Donna Hertel, Portage Northern High School Energy-101.org is an excellent website with interviews from industry professionals and academic experts on the topic of ENERGY. Come Primary Subject: CH, LT, BI nd out why YOU should use this resource. Lesson plans provided. Interest Level: HS Location: Ottawa Reed City Bio-Dome: A Science Teacher’s Dream Vocabulary and literacy strategies for Biology and Chemistry classrooms. Brad Smith, Reed City High School Primary Subject: CH, ES, BI, EN, IS Biology’s Best Engaged! Inquiry-Based Lessons Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Engagement Strategies to Activate Your Classroom Location: Nelson Heather Peterson, Holt High School The session will teach participants about the use of a 52-foot Primary Subject: BI, IN diameter, geodesic greenhouse for teaching science and Interest Level: MS, HS, CO sustainablity. A description of the di erent projects taught as well Location: Heritage as the general curriculum for the BioDome will be shared. The Participants will actively learn how to have all students involved greenhouse, or BioDome, is an on-going project started 5 years ago. and learning every day! Case study approach to Biology, Infusing, The BioDome is used mostly by the high school to teach a variety NGSS, and strategies to activate and engage your students will be of concepts including hydroponics, aquaponics, vermiculture and shared. Biology focus, but all teachers will bene t! regular gardening techniques. The BioDome and its projects can also be used to teach concepts relating to STEM and NGSS. Bringing the Body’s Electrical Potential to Life v Simple Spectroscopy: Lessons from the MAVEN Educator Gregory Gage, Backyard Brains Ambassadors Program Primary Subject: GS, BI, CO Cris DeWolf, Chippewa Hills High School Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Emerald A Primary Subject: PH We will focus on hands-on experiments that explore the Interest Level: MS, HS neuroscience eld of “electrophysiology”. This lecture will provide Location: Winchester a background on neuron and brain function, and will highlight Walk away from this sessions with ideas on how to teach basic basic DIY tools to explore: neurophysiology, functional electrical spectroscopy concepts to your students. Included are a make-it- stimulation, micro-stimulation e ect on animal behavior, take-it DVD spectroscope and hand-outs! neuropharmacology, even neuroprosthesis, and optogenetics!
36 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Session Descriptions Saturday Saturday, February 28 Muffi ns for Members Location: Governor Advise MSTA leadership regarding your needs and recommendations on what you want as we move farther ahead 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. with implementing NGSS. This is an opportunity for you to share your needs! Come enjoy mu ns and the discussions! Bringing the Body’s Electrical Potential to Life v Gregory Gage, Backyard Brains Real Kids, Virtual Critters and Amazing Science Carolyn Lowe, NMU - School of Education, Amy Pihlainen, Primary Subject: GS, BI, CO AuTrain-Onota Public Schools Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Haldane Primary Subject: GS, CO We will focus on hands-on experiments that explore the Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO neuroscience eld of “electrophysiology”. This lecture will provide Location: Plaza Boardroom A a background on neuron and brain function, and will highlight See how kids are learning authentic, standards-based science in a basic “DIY” tools to explore: neurophysiology, functional electrical virtual environment created by Carolyn Lowe and NMU speci cally stimulation, micro-stimulation e ect on animal behavior, for K-12. Information provided on how you can participate. neuropharmacology, even neuroprosthesis and optogenetics!
Engaged Students and Formative Assessment 8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Patricia Richardson, Kristy Butler, Forest Hills Central High School Engineering an Electromagnet Primary Subject: AS, BI Crystal Brown, Parsons Elementary School Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Thornapple Primary Subject: GS, IN Interest Level: Want more engaging activities to keep kids actively involved in LE Location: Riverview their learning? Come and see what we are doing with whiteboards, card sorts and many other simple changes to what you already Are you an upper elementary teacher? Do you have an old energy do that will increase student engagement. Formative assessment unit that needs a little Spark?™ You will walk away with hands is a part of this engagement and we will share some of the tools on experience and resources for a unit that is project-based and we are using for this important part of instruction. Handouts developed for students to explore concepts of energy, research provided. and learn about electricity, and apply their understanding to redesign the best performing electromagnet model. Students Getting the Full Picture: Students Doing Science Using identify their own electromagnet model based on variables they Gigapixel Panoramas think will improve electromagnetic performance. Students are questioning, researching, analyzing, testing, and re-designing. Get Jason Hunter, Grand Haven High School, Brian Bodenbender, Hope College - Dept. of Geo/Envir. Sciences charged up for an electrifying experience! Primary Subject: ES, BI, CO, EN Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Kendall Digital photos compiled into large, web-hosted panoramas let students study detailed changes in eld sites over time. We discuss an example, with curriculum, where high school students study sand dunes. Session Key: High School Chemistry Teachers Meeting Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Mary Jordan McMaster, Allen Park High School AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary Primary Subject: CH ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level Interest Level: GS – General Science HS HS – High School Location: Vandenberg A LT – Literacy BI – Biology CO – College Come join us fellow Chemistry teachers from all over Michigan to CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session share news and ideas for best practices. EN – Environmental Education – Vendor Session IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 37 Session Descriptions Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. continued Environmental Education in an Urban Setting Jennifer Edwards, Ronald Brown Academy Resources to Support NGSS Implementation Primary Subject: EN Susan Codere Kelly, MI Department of Education Interest Level: EE, LE, MS Location: Plaza Boardroom A Primary Subject: AS, GS Are you trying to bring more hands-on environmental education Interest Level: EE,LE, MS, HS to your inner-city classroom? Let’s talk about how to overcome Location: Pantlind the obstacles and make your program a success. During the NGSS development process, Michigan educators developed many resources to support NGSS implementation. Flinn Scientifi c Presents Exploring Chemistry - Connecting Learn how to access these resources and use them to begin Content through Experiments planning to support transitioning to NGSS. Access to online Mike Marvel, Mike Frazier, Flinn Scienti c resources and handouts provided. Primary Subject: CH The Arts in Engineering Interest Level: HS Kimberlee Quinn, Miller Elementary School, Michael Quinn, Location: Vandenberg B Center Line Public Schools Join us as we present interactive activities and demonstrations that showcase the features and bene ts of our Exploring Chemistry line Primary Subject: GS, IN of kits! We will highlight integrated lab and learning activities for Interest Level: EE, LE, MS some of the major topics in your chemistry curriculum! These are Location: Emerald B the experiments, demonstrations, and POGIL activities that ensure Ready to inquire how the 7 steps of the Engineering Process students will really understand the concepts and get a glimpse of Pathway can increase student achievement and engagement, the underlying simplicity and beauty of chemistry! meet multiple content area expectations, align with the Common Core/NGSS and give students authentic learning experiences? Get Them Out of their Seats - A Biologist Teaching Physical Come imagine the possibilities, design inquiry-based engineering Science challenges, construct from everyday materials, analyze the Lu Anne Clark, Lansing Community College practices of science/engineering and improve the learning experiences for your students! Primary Subject: GS Interest Level: HS, CO Location: Berkey Activities I’ve developed or found designed to get students active 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. and out of their seats in an integrated Physical Science class.
A Progression of Learning K-8 Hands-On Human Ecology for the Next Generation Kevin Stinson, Carolina Biological Holly Schae er, Kellogg Community College Primary Subject: ES Primary Subject: EN Interest Level: LE Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Governor Location: Robinson Engage in DisciplinaryCANCELED Core Ideas from the NGSS and learn how to Discover innovative activities for the NGSS that explore population incorporate them with Engineering Practices and Cross Cutting growth, carrying capacity, human impacts on the environment Concepts. Experience lessons that demonstrate the progression and paths to sustainability. Receive a CD of lesson plans. through weather. Modeling Science and Math in the Great Outdoors Engineering the Future: A Summer Academy for Underrepresented Students Jody Harrington Dr. Eric Mann, Hope College - Dept of Math/Phy/Eng., Susan Primary Subject: EN Ipri Brown, Hope College Interest Level: EE, LE Location: Grandview B Primary Subject: AS, IS Model NGSS Science Concepts in a unique, memorable Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Thornapple environment - Outdoors at a Rain, Butter y, or Farm Garden. Involve students in hands-on learning by connecting science Lessons learned from bringing together teachers and students and math with the best Environmental Activities. Modeling for engineering design workshops hosted by Hope College in Techniques for assessment of Performance Expectations will be partnership with the Muskegon Areas Regional Math and Science connected to EE Activities by Grade Level. Hand outs provided. Center will be shared.
38 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Session Descriptions Saturday
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish The Chemistry of Color: Getting Students on the Right Frequency Shana Ramsey, Michigan DNR Michael Shuster, Grand Blanc Schools Primary Subject: EN Primary Subject: Interest Level: LE, MS, HS CH Location: Atrium Interest Level: HS Location: Imperial This session will feature aquatic-inspired hands-on activities related to sh, invasive species and natural resource stewardship. Would you use a spectrophotometer in your high school Activities o er exciting ways to learn about Michigan’s natural chemistry classes if it were inexpensive, reliable, and easy for resources, engage students, and meet standards. students to use? Since this powerful tool is a common feature in modern chemical analysis – of course you would! Join us for Pedaling into STEM on a Bike Generator hands-on activities using RGB spectrophotometers to explore simple serial dilutions and core applications of the technology. Scott Harrison, Freeland Middle School From: A Natural Approach to Chemistry from LAB-AIDS! Primary Subject: GS, PH Interest Level: LE, MS The Power of the Questions: & E Practice 1 Location: Campau Wendi Vogel, Crestwood Middle School Turn on the mental lightbulbs while riding a class-made bike Primary Subject: GS, IN generator. You will get detailed plans on how to build your own Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS bike generator and its STEM/curriculum connections. This is Location: Kendall hands-on and handouts are provided. Asking questions and identifying problems (NGSS) are powerful Re-Engineering Inquiry: Let’s Get REAL! tools in a unit or lesson. Get a few tips and activities that honor students’ curiosity while still teaching to the standards. Ron Reimink, Hudsonville High School Primary Subject: IN Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Interest Level: HS Students Should Know and Why Location: Pullman Jane Finn, MI Antibiotic Resistance Reduction (MARR) Come and learn how REAL Science techniques can motivate your Primary Subject: BI students, promote critical-thinking, and encourage the learning Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO of more content, even in AP courses. Complete, ready-to-use Location: Haldane secondary activities provided. Overview of the 2013 CDC report of “Antibiotic Resistance Threats Reorganizing Biology Content - A Bottom up Approach in the U.S.” Overview of “Antibiotics and You” for elementary and middle school students, and, “High School Biology/Health” Julie Alexander, Grand Ledge High School, Erin Marsh curriculum. Both programs are free and funded by the Centers for Primary Subject: BI Disease Control and Prevention. Interest Level: HS Location: Nelson Join us on a journey through the biology content that begins in the cell and ends with ecology. Attendees will participate in a “Cellular Processes Wrap-Up” activity. Handouts provided.
Spectroscopy in AP Chemistry Jamie Benigna, The Roeper School Session Key: Primary Subject: CH Interest Level: HS Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Location: Vandenberg A AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Spectroscopy is one of the Chemist’s most powerful tool to CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary understanding the molecular and atomic world. This session ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level GS – General Science will focus on activities and models for UV/Vis, PES, and Mass HS – High School Spectrometry LT – Literacy BI – Biology CO – College CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session EN – Environmental Education – Vendor Session IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 39 Session Descriptions Saturday
9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Empowered Students Thinking Like Engineers! MEECS Climate Change Tom Hinojosa, National Geographic/Cengage Learning Janet Vail, Grand Valley State University Primary Subject: GS, IN Primary Subject: AS, EN Interest Level: EE, LE Interest Level: LE, MS Location: Gerald R. Ford Location: Collins Learn about an innovative approach to teaching that empowers Learn about climate and weather, the energy balance, the carbon elementary students to think like engineers and scientists. cycle, and the Greenhouse e ect. Students will observe change in Through hands-on demonstration, teachers will leave the the Earth’s cycles and climate. session with new ideas, resources, and methods to engage their classroom. NOTE: Pre registration for this session is REQUIRED! Go to www. michigan.gov/deq to register. Enhancing Classroom Learning through Digital Dissection
MEECS Water Quality Samantha Suiter, PETA Joan Schumaker Chadde, W UP Cntr-Sci/M & Envir. Ed. Primary Subject: BI Primary Subject: AS, EN Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Interest Level: LE, MS Location: Grandview A Location: Ottawa This session will explore the educational, economic, and ethical Discover the essential role that water plays in Michigan’s economy bene ts of alternatives to dissection, including a hands-on and in everyone’s lives. Students calculate how much water they demonstration of virtual dissection software. Participants are use, investigate the link between land uses and water quality, and asked to bring a laptop. nd out how water is monitored and standards are set.
Human Anatomy Lab: Built from the Inside Out NOTE: Pre registration for this session is REQUIRED! Go to www. Pam Tejkl, Traverse Central High School michigan.gov/deq to register. Primary Subject: BI, IN Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Ruby 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Explore a hands-on technique for building anatomy in clay on handheld skeleton models. This interactive experience promotes A Caring Instructor - Motivating Students for Classroom innovation, values, di erent learning styles, and prepares students Success for success in health careers. Laura Harris, Davenport University Primary Subject: BI, IN Interest Level: HS, CO 9:00 a.m. - Noon Location: Kendall A caring instructor positively in uences student motivation. This NGSS: Deciphering the Cross Cutting Concepts and Linking interactive workshop examines techniques to come across as a Them to the Science and Engineering Practices caring instructor to your students by applying Dale Carnegie’s Donald Pata, Grosse Pointe North HS, Laura Ritter, Troy High book to classroom-based examples. School Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Inland Seas Primary Subject: AS, GS Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Jeanie Williams, Inland Seas Education Association Location: Emerald A Primary Subject: EN As we learn more about the NGSS, the cross cutting concepts Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO continue to be the most nebulous of the three strands. In this Location: Berkey three-hour, hands-on workshop participants will work to decode Discover how Inland Seas engages students in active Great Lakes the Cross Cutting Concepts and link them to the Science and research aboard a traditionally rigged schooner, and how your Engineering Practices. They will experience, and take home, class can get involved. Additionally, learn about our long-term activities designed for students that connect the CCC and SEP in Great Lakes monitoring data set and how to use it to engage your appropriate contexts. This is perfect for all levels of teachers! class in meaningful data interpretation. This session will give you a chance to take part in activities practiced on the ship and work with our Great Lakes data set.
40 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Session Descriptions Saturday
Creating a New Generation of Learners K-5 with Light and chemistry labs from A Natural Approach to Chemistry from LAB- Sound Waves from Building Blocks of Science AIDs that support the new teacher/student talk ratios Kevin Stinson, Carolina Biological Integrating Modeling into Your Curriculum Primary Subject: PH Peg Convery, Farmington High School Interest Level: LE Location: Governor Primary Subject: CH Interest Level: Re ect on the make-up of the NGSS: Disciplinary Core Ideas, HS Location: Vandenberg A Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Performance Expectations. Experience lessons that demonstrate Modeling instruction ts well with the Next Generation Science the three-dimensional model of learning. Standards, but our curriculum is still based on the HSCEs. Here are some of my ways to reconcile the two. Elementary Extravaganza Journal Club: Critical Thinking on Steroids Tim Larrabee, Betty Crowder, Oakland University Ron Reimink, Hudsonville High School Primary Subject: GS Interest Level: EE, LE, MS Primary Subject: BI, IN Location: Emerald B Interest Level: HS Location: Pullman Join the fun as Oakland University pre-service teachers provide you with a wealth of inquiry and engineering activities that will Learn how to explore the exciting outer limits of human engage your students and their inquisitive minds! This hands-on understanding with your students through journal club. Maximize session targets elementary science and engineering, but many of critical thinking with minimal time commitment while using this the activities could be adjusted for younger or older students. REAL Science technique. Handouts provided.
Energy - Avoid A Future Of Doom and Gloom! Nature In and Out of the Classroom: A DNR Teacher Resource Andrew Frisch, Farwell Area Schools Natalie Elkins, MI Department of Natural Resources Primary Subject: PH, IS Interest Level: HS, CO Primary Subject: EN, IS Location: Winchester Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Atrium America must take the lead towards a cultural and technological shift towards energy in the future. We must develop a three-prong Michigan DNR Education Specialist, Natalie Elkins will share approach. 1. There must be new alternative energies developed. 2. activity and program examples, and will highlight the various We recognize how we are wasting our current energies. 3. There professional development opportunities o ered through the must be development of new, more e cient technologies. DNR. Join in hands-on life science activities from Salmon in the Classroom, Project Learning Tree (PLT), K-12 Project WILD/Growing Engaging Students in Productive Task-Based Discussions UP WILD for Early Learners/K-12 Aquatic WILD. Find out what you in Biology may experience if you attend the interactive week long Academy R. Charles Dershimer, U of M - School of Education, Paula of Natural Resources each July--a 32 hour SCECH immersion Gentile, Belleville High School into natural resource and environmental education using best- practices for adult learning, full of real-world applications to share Primary Subject: BI, IN with students. Interest Level: HS Location: Haldane This session will provide examples for how to get students to talk productively with each other around data representation, analysis, interpretation, and explanation activities. Handouts and rubrics Session Key: provided. Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Fingerprints of a Tom Atom CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary Michael Shuster, Grand Blanc Schools ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level GS – General Science Primary Subject: CH LT – Literacy HS – High School Interest Level: HS BI – Biology CO – College Location: Imperial CO – Computer/Technology – SCECH Session Students have trouble relating electron orbitals and spectral lines. EN – Environmental – Vendor Session Join us for a unique and fun atom building model experience. Education After modeling electron con gurations, we’ll explore how color IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics is used to identify elements using a unique deck of spectrum AST – Astronomy cards to take home. In fact, we’ll send you home with 58 engaging
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 41 Session Descriptions Saturday
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. continued The Origin of Species Mark Eberhard, St. Clair High School NGSS Implementation: Started at the Bottom, Now We’re Primary Subject: BI, EN Here Interest Level: HS, CO Richard Bacolor, Pierce Middle School , Katie Stevenson, Location: Nelson Fisher Elementary School, Greg Johnson, Wayne RESA HHMI’s short lm series call the Origin of Species provides teachers with a few strong examples of modern day speciation. Primary Subject: AS. IN Participants will follow the four decades of work by Rosemary and Interest Level: EE, LE, MS Peter Grant on the Galapagos Island nches, the same nches Location: Grandview B that Darwin worked with. In addition, we will follow the work This session describes the challenges and successes faced by a of Jonathan Losos on the diversity and distribution of anole small urban district in making NGSS implementation a reality. lizards in the Caribbean Islands. Both lms are supported by activities that provide students with the opportunity to work with One-to-One Technology: Tales from the Trenches the real research data from both projects. Students may work Jennifer Ward, Allegan High School with statistical testing, giological modeling, DNA sequencing, Primary Subject: AS, CH, GS, CO, PH phylogenetic trees, and the new HHMI virtual labs. FREE DVD’s and Interest Level: HS numerous support materials will be provided to all participants. Location: Thornapple Thermochemistry without Energy Lessons learned from my rst year with one-to-one devices in the classroom. Types of simulations, review games, and formative Scott Milam, Plymouth High School assessments used will be shared. Classroom management will be Primary Subject: CH discussed. Handout provided. Interest Level: HS, CO Location: Vandenberg B/C Rethinking Textooks with iBooks Author Thermochemistry concepts will be explained without energy Steve Dickie, Divine Child High School shortcuts. Endothermic reactions, exothermic reactions, entropy, Primary Subject: IN speci c heat capacity, and bonding will be discussed with plenty Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO of demonstrations. Location: Heritage Transform Your Science Fair into a STEM Challenge Fair! With iBooks Author you can create awesome interactive textbooks for use on iPads. Investigate the creation of ebooks that can be Crystal Brown, Parsons Elementary School used to support classroom instruction or a ipped classroom. Primary Subject: GS, IN Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Standards-Based Grading in the Next Generation: Targets, Location: Riverview Formative Assessment and Intervention If you’ve been doing the same old Science Fair, come learn about Phil King, Erik Johnson, Lakeview Middle School the amazing opportunities for a STEM Challenge Fair! You will Primary Subject: AS leave with resources to start your own STEM Challenge Fair. The Interest Level: LE, MS, HS science and engineering practices of NGSS are integral to students’ Location: Robinson education, and the traditional science fair model just isn’t enough Transform your grading practices to promote pro ciency on anymore. Give your students the chance to be innovative! science learning targets through the use of standards-based grading and student tracker sheets. Streamline RTI/MTSS interventions and foster student ownership and re ection. 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. STEM Across the Solar System Michigan’s Next Generation Science Classroom Ardis Herrold, Grosse Pointe North High School Jen Arnswald, Kent ISD, Primary Subject: GS, AST Primary Subject: AS, GS Interest Level: MS, HS Interest Level: EE. LE, MS, HS Location: Campau Location: Pantlind Learn how to implement solar system activities that involve math Learn how the S&E practices of the NGSS will transform science and/or engineering concepts. Some of the current NASA missions education. See how student engagement increases when practices will also be featured. Handouts provided. are used in the classroom. Free online resources will be shared.
42 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Session Descriptions Saturday
The Invisible Universe Dangerously Beautiful: The Chemistry of Cosmetics Mandy Frantti, Munising Middle/High School Katy Adams, MacKenzie Maxwell, Ecology Center Primary Subject: PH, AST Primary Subject: CH, EN Interest Level: MS, HS Interest Level: MS Location: Plaza Boardroom A Location: Berkey This hands-on session explores the universe’s “invisible light” Lesson where students explore the chemistry of common cosmetics our eyes can’t see! The electromagnetic spectrum comes alive and create alternatives. We will discuss how this approach covers through experiments ready to take to the classroom! Handouts content, engages students, and prepares them for the future. and NASA materials provided. Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun v Kevin Frailey, MI Dept. of Natural Resources 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Primary Subject: GS, EN Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Building an Environmentally Literate Community Location: Atrium Thomas Occhipinti, MI Department of Environmental This hands-on activity o ers a fun, interactive, multi-disciplinary Quality, Pam Bunch, Hillsdale Monroe M/S Center, Elaine approach to teaching about the Great Lakes watershed. Try a new Kampmueller, Grand Rapids Community College, Megan method to get your students inspired by the largest freshwater Schrauben , Integraed Education Consultant, MDE ecosystem on earth. Primary Subject: EN iPads and NGSS: Have We Got a Project for You! Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Location: Emerald B Julia Alder, Birmingham Public Schools, Ann Cole, Derby Learn more about the rst edition of the Michigan Environmental Middle School, Joanne Rowe Literacy Plan during a panel discussion with members of the MiELP Primary Subject: GS, IN task force and hear how you can comment on this plan. Interest Level: LE, MS Location: Riverview Citizen Scientist - Bird Data Collection for Cornell Lab of Hands-on, minds-on. Use images, video, research, and iPads to Ornithology create public service announcements, collaborate, and make Mike Mansour connections to the NGSS. Learn how technology and collaboration Primary Subject: EN connect to NGSS. Electronic hand-outs provided. Interest Level: LE, MS, HS, CO Mars in Your Classroom Location: Heritage Consider including bird observations in your spring instruction. Ardis Herrold, Joey Bejin, Gabrielle Feeny, Jamie Lackner, Grosse Pointe North High School Cornell University Lab of Ornithology has an extensive program Primary Subject: to enhance your instruction while encouraging your students to GS, AST Interest Level: become Citizen Scientists. This past summer I attended a seminar HS Location: Campau in Ithaca to become their ambassador here in Michigan and eager to share their resources with Michigan teachers and naturalists. Explore Mars using web-based tools and software designed Bring the joy of birding to your students as they contribute to analyze NASA data. Pose research questions for your classes and learn to collect and share bird migration and habitat data. or for individual students. High school student researchers will Window bird feeders and other resources will be given to co-present. Handout provided. participants who agree to adopt birding in their instruction.
Creating a Semi-Self-Paced Classroom without Killing the Session Key: Teacher Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Christa Graham, Morenci Area Schools AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary Primary Subject: AS ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level Interest Level: MS, HS, CO GS – General Science Location: Grandview B LT – Literacy HS – High School Suggestions on how to structure a semi-self-paced, mastery- BI – Biology CO – College CO – Computer/Technology model classroom that supports all levels of learners in a – SCECH Session EN – Environmental challenging and supportive environment all while reducing – Vendor Session your day-to-day grading and workload. Classroom application Education IN – Instruction/Pedagogy for Middle School, High School, and Undergraduate levels. PH – Physics Organizational suggestions, samples of challenges and successes. AST – Astronomy Handouts will be provided.
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11:00 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. continued Teach Students How to Write a Story Using LEGO® Ivery Toussant, Jr., LEGO Education Mi-STAR: Integrated STEM Curriculum Addressing the Primary Subject: LT Three Dimensions of NGSS Interest Level: EE, LE, Emily Gochis, Michigan Tech-Sept of Geo/Mining/Eng/Sci Location: Gerald R. Ford Primary Subject: AS, GS LEGO Education StoryStarter is a hands-on tool that inspires Interest Level: MS, HS, CO students to create and communicate stories, while working Location: Thornapple collaboratively using LEGO bricks as part of their author’s toolbox. Mi-Star is a model for integrated science reform collaboratively Create a storyboard using iPads or computers. developed by Michigan school districts and universities. The The Great Transition in Evolutionary Biology theme-based units integrate standards with NGSS practices and crosscutting concepts though relevant topics. Hand outs will be Mark Eberhard, St. Clair High School provided. Primary Subject: BI, EN Interest Level: HS, CO Outside the Box: Using Integration and Environment to Location: Nelson Teach NGSS Introducing Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI’s) newest Rob Keys, Cornerstone University short lm series which explores several of the great transitions Primary Subject: EN, IN in Earth’s evolutionary history. This three-part series features Interest Level: EE, LE Tiktaalik, Archaeopteryx, and Ardipithecus. This interactive Location: Kendall session will investigate the transitions from water to land, Connecting students to their natural environment is important in dinosaurs to birds, and our own human evolution. A number of science. Explore lessons integrating NGSS performance standards FREE supporting activities will be modeled and discussed during and Common Core using inquiry, engineering and environmental the session. FREE DVD’s and numerous support materials will be themes. Hands-on and Handouts. provided to participants.
Poppers: An Open-Inquiry Physics Energy Lab THINK! ENERGY and Take Action! Jaime Reuter, Jim VanderWeide, Hudsonville High School Tammi Phillippe, National Energy Foundation Primary Subject: Primary Subject: PH ES, GS, EN Interest Level: Interest Level: MS,HS LE Location: Winchester Location: Ruby A popper toy is used to get students thinking about energy THINK! ENERGY - this energetic presentation is o ered to 4th transfer. Students will use the VAEI inquiry model to design an and 5th graders throughout Michigan - an energy optimization investigation, create presentations, and defend their ndings. program from your local utility company. Hands-on with lesson plans available. STEM through Origami Translucent, Transparent, or Opaque: Investigating the David Larwa Properties of Light Primary Subject: GS Karen Meyers, Regional M/S Center @ GVSU Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Grandview A Primary Subject: GS, PH Interest Level: EE, LE, MS A new look at the technical, mathematical, and creative models Location: Haldane of origami. Used today from auto design to heart operations, origami is not child’s play. Hands-On Using hands-on strategies, participants will investigate the properties of light and materials that de ne translucent, Strategies for the ACT Science transparent, and opaque. Connections will be made with the GLCEs and NGSS. Amy Zitzelberger, Hazel Park High School Primary Subject: AS, IN Using Climate Proxies to Learn about Earth’s Climate Interest Level: HS History Location: Vandenberg A Oralia Gil, Lab-Aids Practicing for the ACT improves students’ scores. Come nd out Primary Subject: ES how to coach students on their approach to the readings and Interest Level: HS questions. Handout on strategies provided. This really works! Location: Imperial How can scientists tell what Earth’s climate was like thousands of years before human measurements? This activity simulates the use of fossil ocean foraminifera, tiny organisms whose growth
44 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Session Descriptions Saturday patterns are di erent in warm or cold water. Your students will AP Chemistry Meeting analyze and graph samples of replicas of these organisms, and Jamie Benigna, The Roeper School use this information to determine relative warm and cold periods in the past 200,000 years. This activity is from EDC Earth Science, Primary Subject: CH a new NSF-sponsored earth systems program that uses an Interest Level: HS active, BIG DATA approach from LAB-AIDS that supports the new Location: Vandenberg A teacher/student talk ratios, and also has the literacy, notebooking, Join experienced AP Chemistry teachers as they discuss 2014 and assessment strategies built in that make it Next Gen ready preparing for 2015.
Using DNA Barcoding to Teach Biology and Chemistry CER in Middle School Classroom Concepts Melissa DeSimone, Penn eld Middle School, Jennifer Mindy Wilson, Lansing Community College Arnswald, Kent ISD Primary Subject: BI, CO Primary Subject: IN Interest Level: HS, CO Interest Level: MS Location: Pullman Location: Berkey Student-designed DNA barcoding projects can be used to teach This session o ers the experiences of one teacher with scienti c process and concepts in biology and chemistry. A DNA argumentative writing and CER in the middle school classroom. Barcoding curriculum and resources using DNA Subway will We will discuss how you can sca old the writing of scienti c be presented. explanations in your classroom and explore best practices for teaching writing in science. What Can the Department of Natural Resources Do For You? Community Resources as Inspiration for Inquiry-Based Projects Jon Gray, Walden Middle School Susan Ipri Brown, Hope College Primary Subject: EN Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS Primary Subject: GS, IN Location: Vandenberg B Interest Level: MS, HS The Michigan DNR o ers educational programs that may bene t Location: Grandview B the classroom teacher. From the Academy of Natural Resources Hope College teacher programs provide innovative, inquiry-based to Salmon in the Classroom. Come learn what the DNR can do for projects focusing on local dunes, watersheds, and engineering you. Handouts provided. resources to inspire students. Equipment, probes, and on-line tools available for classroom use. Making Waves in the Classroom Cool Tools for Electricity & Magnetism Kevin Stinson, Carolina Biological Donald Pata, Arbor Scienti c Primary Subject: PH Interest Level: MS Primary Subject: GS, PH Location: Governor Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Students learn how electrical energy is transformed and how Location: Riverview wave energy is transferred through matter while describing wave Make a light bulb lament ‘dance’ 60 times/second. See why the properties. Waves interact and help us understand engineering hand-crank Van de Graa is better than the electric. designs. As a culminating application, students explore touch screen technology and properties of sense and how to respond to touch. Session Key: 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: Academy of Natural Resources: What I Did During My AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Summer Vacation! CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level Becky Durling, Discovery Elementary School GS – General Science HS – High School Primary Subject: GS, EN LT – Literacy CO – College Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS BI – Biology CO – Computer/Technology Location: Winchester – SCECH Session EN – Environmental The Academy of Natural Resources is truly a fun, educational summer Education – Vendor Session camp for teachers! Come nd out what ANR is all about! We will IN – Instruction/Pedagogy highlight the 2015 class o erings, day trips out in the eld, curriculum PH – Physics materials, scholarships, and more! Come nd out why YOU need to AST – Astronomy spend a week in July in beautiful Northern Michigan at ANR!!
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 45 Session Descriptions Saturday
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. continued Slide Rules in the Science Classroom Matthew Menna, Advanced Technology Academy Getting Started with Interactive Science Notebook Primary Subject: GS Amy MacKellar, Jennifer Francis, St. Joseph Public Schools Interest Level: MS, HS, CO Location: Governor Primary Subject: IN Learn how to use a slide rule. Hands-on and leave with resources Interest Level: LE, MS Location: Ruby to implement a lesson in your class. Have you ever wished you could: Increase student engagement STEM - Build Your Own Brushbot and organization? Encourage student creativity? Simplify grading? Explore the possibilities with teachers who have successfully David Larwa implemented science notbooking in their classroom. Primary Subject: PH, IS Interest Level: LE, MS Mini Poster Magic Location: Grandview A Kristy Butler, Patti Richardson, Forest Hills Central High School O to the races after you build your own brushbot. Easy to make and fun to build. Turn a toothbrush into a robot. Join me as we Primary Subject: BI explore the science behind the brushbot. Interest Level: HS Location: Haldane STEM from Nature Come and join us as we show you how we have used mini posters to incorporate Dimension 1: Practices of the NGSS into our Kevin Frailey, MI Dept. of Natural Resources classroom. Lots of examples! Handouts provided. Primary Subject: GS, EN Interest Level: LE, MS, HS Modeling Geothermal Systems in Sustainable Buildings Location: Atrium Barb Wheeler, Grand Valley State University, Stephen Mattox, Natural resources provide great opportunities to cover all STEM GVSU - Prof. of Geology components! This session will give you some examples and ideas Primary Subject: EN of how to have your students use STEM from nature. Interest Level: MS Location: Plaza Boardroom A STEM Grants - Michigan STEM Partnership Participants will explore the purpose of geothermal systems and Christine Cloud-Webb, Great Lakes Math/Science Center learn more about a speci c school utilizing such system. Then we Primary Subject: AS, GS will learn about ranking buildings based on sustainability via LEED. Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HS, CO Location: Vandenberg B Pre-School Early Elementary Environmental Education Participants will see past Michigan STEM grant recipients projects, Mike Mansour gather new STEM project ideas for your classroom, and learn Primary Subject: EN information regarding NEW 2015 STEM grant requirements. Interest Level: EE, LE Location: Pullman Using Engineering Design and Data Analysis Practices in Science Classrooms Bring nature and outdoor fun into your early elementary program with two outstanding national programs: Growing Up WILD and Jenni Wilkening, Ann Arbor Huron High School, R. Charles Project Learning Tree Early Elementary Explorations. Nature give Dershimer, U of M School of Education us so much to explore during our lives. An early introduction Primary Subject: CH, ES, BI, PH guided by you will unlock adventures and interest. These guides Interest Level: HS provide structure and direction enriching our teaching. As a life- Location: Nelson long naturalist, I will engage you in these powerful tools. This high-school teacher panel (biology, chemistry, earth science and physics) will present content-speci c examples of classroom Predicting the Advance of Lava at Kilauea Volcano lessons that include practices for engaging students with data Tari Mattox, GRCC-Phy Sci Dept.-Calkin Sci Cntr, Stephen analysis and engineering activities. Mattox, GVSU - Prof. of Geology Primary Subject: ES Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Kendall Participants will use maps and simple graphs to predict when recent changes on Kilauea will send lava into populated areas. Discussions will include lava diversion, impacts, and careers involved.
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Using Kinesthetics and Exercise to Teach Abstract Science 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Concepts Alexandria Clement, Zachary Parkin, Nicole Weis, Mark AP Environmental Science - “Global Sustainability” Francek, Central Michigan University Mike Mansour Primary Subject: GS, IN Primary Subject: EN Interest Level: EE, LE, MS, HE, CO Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Gerald R. ford Location: Pullman We present how to use kinesthetics (body movement) and Americans are seriously ignorant of our global interdependency. exercise to teach abstract biology, earth science, chemistry, Facing the Future, a non-pro t organization provides resources physics, and math concepts. Come ready to move around! and community action opportunities on global issues and Handouts are provided. sustainability for teachers, students and the public. We will examine these resources for consideration for the future environmental leaders in your classes. 1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Zombie Science Let’s Make Some Motors Kathy Agee, Regional M/S Center @ GVSU, Karen Meyers Michael Suckley, Macomb Community College, Paul Klozik, Primary Subject: BI The MAP’s Company Interest Level: HS Primary Subject: GS, PH Location: Haldane Interest Level: MS, HS Ignite your students’ enthusiasm for biology by studying Location: Heritage characteristics of zombies! Content addressed will include human Our world and lives are lled with motors. Electric motors operate physiology and neurology, ecology, bacteriology, immunology, through the interaction between a magnetic eld and electrical and epidemiology. currents. This workshop provides the opportunity to understand how motors work by constructing three uniquely di erent electric motors. The construction of these motors can be extended into a Challenge or an Engineering Project by inviting students to create a “better” motor that will spin faster, slower or is applied to a speci c job using di erent materials and/or procedures.
Physics Make and Take Steve Dickie, Divine Child High School, Jim Gell, Plymouth High School Primary Subject: PH Interest Level: MS, HS Location: Emerald A Participants will have the opportunity to construct several apparatuses for classroom demonstrations of physics phenomena. These apparatuses will be constructed of inexpensive and easily- obtainable materials. Sponsored by the MIAAPT.
STEM Week - A Series of Fortunate Events (In Engineering Practices) Session Key: Duha Fahmy, Crescent Academy International, Lena Abedrabbo Primary Subject Levels: Interest Levels: AS – Assessment/Curriculum EE – Early Elementary Primary Subject: GS, IS CH – Chemistry LE – Late Elementary Interest Level: EE, LE, MS ES – Earth Science MS – Middle Level Location: Emerald B GS – General Science HS – High School Using hands-on activities, learn how to pique students curiosity, LT – Literacy CO – College capture their interest, and motivate their continued study of BI – Biology CO – Computer/Technology engineering practices through a week of explorations including – SCECH Session EN – Environmental STEM Family Night, STEM Production, Investigative Reports, Meet Education – Vendor Session the Scientist, and MAD Science Shop. Handouts provided. IN – Instruction/Pedagogy PH – Physics AST – Astronomy
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 47 Speaker Index
A E I Abedrabbo, Lena ______47 Eberhard, Mark ______42, 44 Ipri Brown, Susan ______38, 45 Adams, Katy ______33, 43 Eberly, Richard ______28 Isley, Laurie ______23, 28 Agee, Kathy ______47 Edwards, Jennifer ______38 Albanez, Heather ______22 Elkins, Natalie ______27, 41 Alder, Julia ______29, 34, 43 Emmerling, James ______21 Alexander, Julie ______39 English, Kevin ______34 J Arnswald, Jennifer ______6, 27, 42, 45 Johnson, Erik ______33, 42 Johnson, Greg ______24, 35, 42 Johnson, Wendy ______24 F Jordan McMaster, Mary ______37 B Fahmy, Duha ______47 Bacolor, Richard ______24, 42 Farrell, Cathy ______36 Bayer, Renee ______6, 25, 27 Fedors, John ______30 Bejin, Joey ______43 Feeny, Gabrielle ______43 K Benigna, Jamie ______39, 45 Finkel, Tim ______21 Kaminski, Daniel ______21 Berry, Pam ______29, 32 Finn, Jane ______33, 39 Kampmueller, Elaine ______43 Biela-Robinson, Anna ______24 Frailey, Kevin ______29, 33, 43, 46 Karre, Nancy ______6, 22, 27 Bodenbender, Brian ______37 Francek, Mark ______47 Keely, Page ______6, 28 Bomgaars, Ben ______21 Francis, Jennifer ______26, 46 Kelp, Lisa ______30, 32, 34 Brey, Heather ______34 Frantti, Mandy ______25, 43 Kennedy, Connie ______34 Brillhart, Christine ______28 Frazier, Mike ______33, 38 Keys, Rob ______44 Brown, Crystal ______22, 28, 37, 42 Freeland, Dale ______29, 32 Killmer, Colin ______25 Bucienski, Charles ______6, 27 Frisch, Andrew ______23, 41 King, Phil ______33, 42 Bueler, Marty ______26 Kirkpatrick, Ian ______28 Bunch, Pam ______33,43 Klein, Mike ______6, 27 Butler, Kristy ______30, 37, 46 Klozik, Paul ______30, 47 G Kolopajlo, Larry ______22, 27 Gage, Gregory ______36, 37 Krajcik, Joseph ______6, 25, 27 Gallagher, Mike ______32 C Gell, James ______47 Chapman, Dave ______28 Gentile, Paula ______41 Christiansen, Elizabeth ______23, 28 Gersmehl, Ph.D, Philip ______31 L Clark, Lu Anne ______38 Gil, Oralia ______44 Lackner, Jamie ______43 Clement, Alexandria ______47 Gochis, Emily ______22, 44 Ladd, Michelle ______34 Cloud-Webb, Christine ______46 Gottlieb, Jennifer ______23, 27 Larrabee, Tim ______41 Codere Kelly, Susan ______6, 24, 38 Graham, Christa ______26, 43 Larwa, David ______24, 27, 44, 46 Cole, Ann ______43 Gray, Jon ______45 LaSovage, Anne Jeannette ______34 Coleman, Sarah ______23, 27 Gregory, Darrick ______32 Lee, Jane ______25 Coleman, Tamara ______30 Gri th, Adrienne ______21 Lenon, Melyssa ______24 Convery, Peg ______41 Lindow, Mary ______22 Cotton, Kim ______30 Lowe, Carolyn ______22, 35, 37 Coulter, Melissa ______21 Cramer, Robby ______6, 27, 31, 36 H Crittenden, Conni ______29 Hach, Cheryl ______36 Crowder, Betty ______41 Hahn, Julie ______32 M Haro , Tracy ______24 MacKellar, Amy ______26, 46 Harrington, Jody ______38 Mammen, Carolyn ______35 Harris, Laura ______21, 40 Mann, Dr. Eric ______38 D Harrison, Scott ______31, 39 Mansour, Mike ______26, 32, 43, 46, 47 Daenzer, Tammy ______35 Harvey, Monica ______35 Mareski, Shannon ______21, 24, 26 Degan, Kristen ______25 Heaney, Jodi ______32 Marsh, Erin ______39 Dehne, Kevin ______24 Herrold, Ardis ______42,43 Marvel, Mike ______33, 38 Dershimer, R. Charles ______22, 30, 41, 46 Hertel, Donna ______36 Mason, Michelle ______36 DeSimone, Melissa ______45 Hinojosa, Tom ______33, 40 Matthews, Diana ______22 DeWolf, Cris ______36 Holman, April ______23 Mattox, Stephen ______26, 30, 46 Dickie, Steve ______42, 47 Hunter, Jason ______37 Mattox, Tari ______46 Doherty, David ______32 Maxwell, MacKenzie ______43 Durling, Becky ______25, 45 Mayer, Kristin ______25
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S W McConney, Lindsey ______25 Schae er, Holly ______38 Wagenmaker, Jessica ______25 Menna, Matthew ______46 Schlaack, Ronald ______31, 34 Ward, Jennifer ______42 Meyers, Karen ______44, 47 Schrauben, Megan ______29, 43 Webster, Christine ______36 Milam, Scott ______42 Schuh, Stacey ______33 Weesies, Amy ______24 Mirakovits, Kathy ______21 Schumaker Chadde, Joan ______40 Weis, Nicole ______47 Moorman, Matt ______29 Sharplin, Kimberly ______21, 27 Wheeler, Barb ______46 Morgan, Lisa ______22 Shuster, Michael ______39, 41 Wilkening, Jenni ______46 Mushing, Rick ______26, 35 Sinclair, Jay ______31 Williams, Jeanie______26, 40 Smith, Brad ______36 Wilson, Mindy ______45 Smith, Debra ______26 Wright, Nichole ______28 Smith, Patti ______30, 36 N Snider, Jennifer ______35 Nelson, Michele ______31 Sobolak, Christina ______26, 30 Niedermeyer, Stephanie ______27, 34 Sowder, Hans ______30 Nkugba, Ebiri ______26, 35 Y Spencer, Dan ______33 Yats, Deb ______35 Spooner, Ellen ______31, 34 Stephenson, Rob ______29 Stevenson, Katie ______24, 42 O Stewart, Steve ______34 Stinson, Kevin ______23, 38, 41, 45 Z Occhipinti, Thomas ______43 Zitzelberger, Amy ______44 Ogiemwonyi, Lisa ______29, 32 Strecker, Corrina ______22 Olson, Mark ______22 Suckley, Michael ______30, 47 Suiter, Samantha ______22, 40 Susan, Melissa ______33 Svoboda, Michele ______35 P Parker, Joyce ______34 Parkin, Zachary ______47 Pata, Donald ______23, 40, 45 T Patel, Virang ______28 Tallman, Robert______35 Peek-Brown, Deborah ______25 Taranko, Derek ______21, 34 Pepper, Barbara ______29 Tasior, Bryan ______32 Peterson, Heather ______36 Tate, Susan ______24, 27 Phillippe, Tammi ______44 Teisan, June ______21, 34 Pihlainen, Amy ______37 Tejkl, Pam ______40 Poisson, Autumn ______31, 34 Thomas, Julie ______22 Toussant, Jr., Ivery ______27, 44
Q Quinn, Kimberlee ______38 U Quinn, Michael ______38 Urquhart, Andrew ______30
R V Ragauss ,Tara ______23 Vail, Janet ______21, 40 Ramsey, Shana ______24, 39 VanCampenhout, Joni ______27 Reimink, Ron ______30, 39, 41 VanderWeide, Jim ______44 Reuter, Jaime ______44 Vogel, Wendi ______36, 39 Reynolds, Andrea ______22 Richardson, Patricia ______30, 37, 46 Ritter, Laura ______40 Ritter, Tonia ______23, 28 Rowe, Joanne ______43 Rubin, Rochelle ______31
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 49 Interest Levels Early Elementary Later Elementary 3-2-1 Lifto ! ______25 A Progression of Learning K-8 ______38 Academy of Natural Resources: What I Did During My Academy of Natural Resources: What I Did During My Summer Vacation! ______25, 45 Summer Vacation! ______25, 45 All the Classrooms a Stage ______22 All the Classrooms a Stage ______22 Blending Art and Science STEaM ______28 Argument Driven Inquiry: Using Science Practices: Transform Bring Science Alive! With TCI ______29 Lab Activities ______21 Building an Environmentally Literate Community ______43 Biotechnology in Agriculture - From DNA to GMO ______23 CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books in the Classroom ______29 Blending Art and Science STEaM ______28 Cheap & Dirty Science: Life Science for Fun - FEE: $5.00 ______22 Bring Science Alive! With TCI ______29 Creating a System of Science Support for Elementary Teachers ______34 Bug Lyphe! Student-Centered Studies in Biodiversity and Creating a Vision for Science Education ______23 Food Webs ______26 Cultivating the Scienti c Mind Using Interactive Notebooks ______35 Building an Environmentally Literate Community ______43 Curious Crew: A Partnership Promoting Science Exploration CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books in the Classroom ______29 and STEM Design ______29 Cheap & Dirty Science: Life Science for Fun - FEE: $5.00 ______22 Elementary Extravaganza ______41 Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Inland Seas ______40 EmPOWERed Kids - Energy Education Resources for Citizen Scientist - Bird Data Collection for Cornell Lab Classroom Teachers ______23 of Ornithology ______26, 43 Empowered Students Thinking Like Engineers! ______33, 40 Classify This! Build a Classroom Classi cation Wiki ______35 Engineering for K? Yes! ______23 Creating a New Generation of Learners K-5 with Light and Engineering Innovative Instruction ______29 Sound Waves from Building Blocks of Science ______41 Engineering is Elementary ______34 Creating a System of Science Support for Elementary Teachers ______34 Environmental Education in an Urban Setting ______38 Creating a Vision for Science Education ______23 Facilitating and Sustaining Change in Your School or District ______29 Creating Assessment for Science Aligned with Three- Find the Fund$ For Science: Grant Writing 101 ______21 Dimensional Learning of NGSS______25 Introducing Teachers and Administrators to NGSS ______27 Cultivating the Scienti c Mind Using Interactive Notebooks ______35 Leading the Change toward NGSS: Department Chair Round Table __ 36 Curious Crew: A Partnership Promoting Science Exploration Michigan’s Next Generation Science Classroom ______6, 42 and STEM Design ______29 Modeling Science and Math in the Great Outdoors ______38 Drill into the Past with the International Ocean Discovery Program __ 23 Nature In and Out of the Classroom: A DNR Teacher Resource ____ 27, 41 Elementary Extravaganza ______41 NGSS Implementation: Started at the Bottom, Now We’re Here ___ 24, 42 EmPOWERed Kids - Energy Education Resources for NGSS Unit Development - Bundling NGSS PEs: A 10-Step Process __ 6, 24 Classroom Teachers ______23 Outside the Box: Using Integration and Environment to Teach NGSS _44 Empowered Students Thinking Like Engineers! ______33, 40 Pre-School Early Elementary Environmental Education ______32, 46 Engineering an Electromagnet ______22, 37 Processes for Collaborative Decision Making and Leveraging Engineering Innovative Instruction ______29 Di erent Perspectives ______32 Engineering is Elementary ______34 Resources to Support NGSS Implementation ______6, 38 Enhancing Classroom Learning through Digital Dissection ______22, 40 Science and Engineering Practices as Interventions to Raise Enhancing the STEM Curriculum with Virtual Simulations ______29 Academic Achievement ______35 Environmental Education in an Urban Setting ______38 Science Near and Far: Travel Grants for Teachers ______27 Facilitating and Sustaining Change in Your School or District ______29 Speak Up! Incorporating Discourse into our Classroom Instruction ___ 36 Find the Fund$ For Science: Grant Writing 101 ______21 STEM Grants – Michigan STEM Partnership ______46 Find your Target! ______24 STEM through Origami ______27, 44 Forget Science Fairs, Organize a Maker Faire – SESSION CANCELLED _ STEM Week - A Series of Fortunate Events (In Engineering Practices) _47 Getting Started with Interactive Science Notebook ______26, 46 STEM With Young Children ______22 Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun ______29, 43 Teach Students How To Write a Story Using LEGO® ______44 If a Picture is Worth...a Simulation is Worth a Million ______32 Teaching Simple Machines, Force and Motion, and Little Integrating Chromebook, Android, and BYOD with Energy Using LEGO® ______27 Vernier Technology ______36 The Arts in Engineering ______38 Integrating your iPad with Vernier Technology ______30 The Power of the Questions: S & E Practice 1 ______39 Introducing Teachers and Administrators to NGSS ______27 Thinking, Acting and Writing like Scientists: First Grade Investigators iPads and NGSS: Have We Got a Project for You! ______43 Explore the Causes and E ects of Sounds and Vibrations ______31 Leading the Change toward NGSS: Department Chair Round Table __ 36 Translucent, Transparent, or Opaque: Investigating the Making It Real....Cheap!______32 Properties of Light ______44 MEECS Climate Change ______40 Unpacking and Moving into NGSS ______22 MEECS Ecosystems and Biodiversity ______25 Use Technology to Work Smarter, Not Harder ______35 MEECS Energy Resources ______31 Using Kinesthetics and Exercise to Teach Abstract Science Concepts _47 MEECS Water Quality ______40 Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Students Michigan’s Next Generation Science Classroom ______6, 42 Should Know and Why ______33, 39 Modeling Science and Math in the Great Outdoors ______38 What Can the Department of Natural Resources Do For You? ______45 Nature In and Out of the Classroom: A DNR Teacher Resource ____ 27, 41 NGSS Implementation: Started at the Bottom, Now We’re Here ___ 24-42 NGSS Unit Development - Bundling NGSS PEs: A 10-Step Process __ 6, 24 NGSS: Deciphering the Cross Cutting Concepts and Linking Them to the Science and Engineering Practices ______40 NOAA, and Sea Grant, and GLOBE - - Oh, My! ______34
50 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Interest Levels One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish ______24, 39 CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books in the Classroom ______29 Outside the Box: Using Integration and Environment to Teach NGSS _44 CER in Middle School Classroom ______45 Pedaling into STEM on a Bike Generator ______31, 39 Chemical Batteries (Energy for Grade 6) ______32 Placed-Based Education: Watersheds of the Mitten ______30 Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Inland Seas ______40 Pre-School Early Elementary Environmental Education ______32, 46 Citizen Scientist - Bird Data Collection for Cornell Lab o Processes for Collaborative Decision Making and Leveraging f Ornithology ______26, 43 Di erent Perspectives ______32 Classify This! Build a Classroom Classi cation Wiki ______35 Real Kids, Virtual Critters and Amazing Science ______37 Community Resources as Inspiration for Inquiry-Based Projects _____ 45 Reed City Bio-Dome: A Science Teacher’s Dream ______36 Cool Tools For Electricity & Magnetism ______45 Resources to Support NGSS Implementation ______6, 38 Cool Tools for Force & Motion______23 Rethinking Textooks with iBooks Author ______42 Cool Tools for Sound & Waves ______29 Science and Engineering Practices as Interventions to Raise Creating A Semi-Self-Paced Classroom without Killing the Teacher 26, 43 Academic Achievement ______35 Creating a System of Science Support for Elementary Teachers ______34 Science Near and Far: Travel Grants for Teachers ______27 Creating a Vision for Science Education ______23 Shifting to the NGSS through Assessment ______31 Creating Assessment for Science Aligned with Three-Dimensional Speak Up! Incorporating Discourse into our Classroom Instruction ___ 36 Learning of NGSS ______25 Standards-Based Grading in the Next Generation: Targets, Cultivating the Scienti c Mind Using Interactive Notebooks ______35 Formative Assessment and Intervention ______33, 42 Curious Crew: A Partnership Promoting Science Exploration and STEM - Build Your Own Brushbot ______24, 46 STEM Design ______29 STEM from Nature ______33, 46 Dangerously Beautiful: The Chemistry of Cosmetics ______43 STEM Grants – Michigan STEM Partnership ______46 Di erentiated Instruction and Response To Intervention (RTI) In STEM through Origami ______27, 44 a Science Classroom ______23 STEM Week - A Series of Fortunate Events (In Engineering Practices) _47 Drill into the Past with the International Ocean Discovery Program __ 23 Student Choice, Student Voice: Empowering the Next Generation Dynamic Life Science ______30 of Environmental Stewards______24 Electrify Your Teaching Using the Simple Circuit Board ______30 Teach Students How To Write a Story Using LEGO® ______44 Elementary Extravaganza ______41 Teaching Simple Machines, Force and Motion, and Little Engage, Empower, Inspire. Strategies for Teaching Behaviorally Energy Using LEGO® ______27 Challenged Students ______21 The Arts in Engineering ______38 Engaged Students and Formative Assessment ______37 The Power of the Questions: S & E Practice 1 ______39 Engineering in the Science Classroom: You CAN Do It ______24 THINK! ENERGY and Take Action! ______44 Engineering Innovative Instruction ______29 Thinking, Acting and Writing like Scientists: First Grade Investigators Engineering the Future: A Summer Academy for Explore the Causes and E ects of Sounds and Vibrations ______31 Underrepresented Students ______38 Transform Science Learning with PASCO’s Latest Hands-On Enhancing Classroom Learning through Digital Dissection ______22, 40 Technologies ______22 Enhancing the STEM Curriculum with Virtual Simulations ______29 Transform Your Science Fair into a STEM Challenge Fair!______28, 42 Environmental Education in an Urban Setting ______38 Translucent, Transparent, or Opaque: Investigating the Exploring Sedimentary Rocks of the Michigan Basin ______26 Properties of Light ______44 Facilitating and Sustaining Change in Your School or District ______29 Unpacking and Moving into NGSS ______22 Facilitating Students’ Understanding of the Structure and Use Technology to Work Smarter, Not Harder ______35 Properties of Matter ______32 Using Claim Evidence and Reasoning (CER) to Write Conclusions ____ 33 Find The Fund$ For Science: Grant Writing 101 ______21 Using Google Apps in the Science Classroom ______33 Find your Target! ______24 Using Kinesthetics and Exercise to Teach Abstract Science Concepts _47 First Day of Science Class ______35 Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Students Food Safety Is Your Right to Know And Learn ______26 Should Know and Why ______33, 39 Forget Science Fairs, Organize a Maker Faire – SESSION CANCELLED _ Water and Agriculture - Important Resources Working Together _____ 28 Free Engineering Modeling Software In The Classroom ______26 What Can the Department of Natural Resources Do For You? ______45 Getting Started with Interactive Science Notebook ______26, 46 Getting the Full Picture: Students Doing Science Using Gigapixel Panoramas ______37 Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun ______29, 43 Middle School Hands-On Human Ecology for the Next Generation ______38 A Little Bit of Sol ______31 Human Anatomy Lab: Built From the Inside Out ______40 Academy of Natural Resources: What I Did During My If a Picture is Worth...a Simulation is Worth a Million ______32 Summer Vacation! ______25, 45 Inertia Around The Curve (Force and Motion for Grade 5) ______30 Ahh, the Places You’ll Go! Cool Maps and Dynamic Data ______31 Inquiry Lessons in Biology: A Review and Some New ______27 All the Classrooms a Stage ______22 Integrating Chromebook, Android, and BYOD with Amazing: Using NGSS to Make the Great Lakes STEM-sational! ______34 Vernier Technology ______36 AP Environmental Science - “Global Sustainability” ______26, 47 Integrating your iPad with Vernier Technology ______30 Argument Driven Inquiry: Using Science Practices: Transform Introducing Teachers and Administrators to NGSS ______27 Lab Activities ______21 iPads and NGSS: Have We Got a Project for You! ______43 Big Ideas on a Nano Scale with Intro to Biology ______28 Leading the Change toward NGSS: Department Chair Round Table __ 36 Biofuels - The Dance between Science and Engineering ______34 Learn about the 3D Printer in Your Future ______32 Biology’s Best Engaged! Inquiry-Based Lessons Engagement Let’s Make Some Motors ______47 Strategies to Activate Your Classroom ______36 Making It Real....Cheap!______32 Biotechnology in Agriculture - From DNA to GMO ______23 Making Waves in the Classroom ______45 Blending Art and Science STEaM ______28 MEECS Climate Change ______40 Bringing the Body’s Electrical Potential to Life ______29, 36, 37 MEECS Ecosystems and Biodiversity ______25 Bug Lyphe! Student-Centered Studies in Biodiversity and Food Webs _26 MEECS Energy Resources ______31 Building an Environmentally Literate Community ______43 MEECS Water Quality ______40
MSTA 62nd Annual Conference • February 26-28, 2015 • Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 51 Interest Levels Using Kinesthetics and Exercise to Teach Abstract Science Concepts _47 Middle School continued Using NGSS Practices and Cross-Cutting Concepts to Combat Meeting Common Core Writing Standards in Science ______21 Student Misconceptions ______33 Mi-STAR: Integrated STEM Curriculum Addressing the Three Using One-Minute Videos to Flip Your Lessons ______35 Dimensions of NGSS ______44 Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Students Michigan’s Next Generation Science Classroom ______6, 42 Should Know and Why ______33, 39 Modeling Geothermal Systems in Sustainable Buildings ______46 Modern Manufacturing and STEM______34 Nature In and Out of the Classroom: A DNR Teacher Resource ____ 27, 41 NGSS Implementation: Started at the Bottom, Now We’re Here ___ 24, 42 High School NGSS Unit Development - Bundling NGSS PEs: A 10-Step Process __ 6, 24 NGSS: Deciphering the Cross Cutting Concepts and Linking 3-D Printing: Recycled Engineering with Delta Printers and PLA Plastic 28 Them to the Science and Engineering Practices ______40 A Caring Instructor - Motivating Students For Classroom Success _ 21, 40 NOAA, and Sea Grant, and GLOBE - - Oh, My! ______34 A Little Bit of Sol ______31 One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish ______24, 39 A Telephone-Style Game for Reinforcing Free Body Diagrams ______31 One-Stop Shopping on the Topic of Energy ______36 Academy of Natural Resources: What I Did During Pedaling into STEM on a Bike Generator ______31, 39 My Summer Vacation! ______25, 45 Physics Make and Take ______47 Advanced Inquiry Labs for AP Chemistry from Flinn Scienti c ______33 Placed-Based Education: Watersheds of the Mitten ______30 Ahh, the Places You’ll Go! Cool Maps and Dynamic Data ______31 Poppers: An Open-Inquiry Physics Energy Lab ______44 All the Classrooms a Stage ______22 Practicing Science Skills Using Forensic Science ______21 Amazing: Using NGSS to Make the Great Lakes STEM-sational! ______34 Predicting the Advance of Lava at Kilauea Volcano ______46 An Appetite for Chemistry ______36 Processes for Collaborative Decision Making and Leveraging An Engineering Based Classroom - Classroom Strategies and Projects _25 Di erent Perspectives ______32 AP Chemistry Meeting ______45 Real Kids, Virtual Critters and Amazing Science ______37 AP Environmental Science - “Global Sustainability” ______26, 47 Reclaiming the Metal (Chemistry of Materials for Grade 7) ______34 Argument Driven Inquiry: Using Science Practices to Reed City Bio-Dome: A Science Teacher’s Dream ______36 Transform Lab Activities ______21 Resources for Teaching About Air Quality ______21 Big Ideas on a Nano Scale with Intro to Biology ______28 Resources to Support NGSS Implementation ______6, 38 Bio & Chem Literacy Extravaganza ______36 Rethinking Textooks with iBooks Author ______42 Biofuels - The Dance between Science and Engineering ______34 Rock-solid Evidence: Exploring Michigan’s Past ______22 Biology’s Best Engaged! Inquiry-Based Lessons Science and Engineering Practices as Interventions to Raise Engagement Strategies to Activate Your Classroom ______36 Academic Achievement ______35 Biomes and Invasive Species ______26 Science Near and Far: Travel Grants for Teachers ______27 Blending Art and Science STEaM ______28 Shifting to the NGSS Through Assessment ______31 Bringing the Body’s Electrical Potential to Life ______29, 36, 37 Simple Spectroscopy: Lessons from the MAVEN Educator Bug Lyphe! Student-Centered Studies in Biodiversity and Food Webs _26 Ambassadors Program ______36 Building an Environmentally Literate Community ______43 Slide Rules in the Science Classroom ______46 CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books in the Classroom ______29 Speak Up! Incorporating Discourse into our Classroom Instruction ___ 36 Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Inland Seas ______40 Standards-Based Grading in the Next Generation: Targets, Citizen Scientist - Bird Data Collection for Cornell Lab Formative Assessment and Intervention ______33, 42 of Ornithology ______26, 43 STEM - Build Your Own Brushbot ______24, 46 Classify This! Build a Classroom Classi cation Wiki ______35 STEM Across the Solar System ______42 Community Resources as Inspiration for Inquiry-Based Projects _____ 45 STEM from Nature ______33, 46 Cool Tools for Electricity & Magnetism ______45 STEM Grants – Michigan STEM Partnership ______46 Cool Tools for Force & Motion______23 STEM Learning with Unmanned Vehicles ______35 Cool Tools for Sound & Waves ______29 STEM through Origami ______27, 44 Creating a Semi-Self-Paced Classroom without Killing the Teacher _26, 43 STEM Week - A Series of Fortunate Events (In Engineering Practices) _47 Creating a Vision for Science Education ______23 Student Choice, Student Voice: Empowering the Next Generation Creating Assessment for Science Aligned with Three-Dimensional ___ of Environmental Stewards______24 Learning of NGSS ______25 Teaching Simple Machines, Force and Motion, and Little Energy Cultivating the Scienti c Mind Using Interactive Notebooks ______35 Using LEGO ______27 Di erentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention (RTI) The Arts in Engineering ______38 In a Science Classroom ______23 The Earthquake Machine ______35 Dynamic Life Science ______30 The Invisible Universe ______43 Electrify Your Teaching Using the Simple Circuit Board ______30 The Power of the Questions: S & E Practice 1 ______39 Encourage Reading in the Science Classroom ______34 The Stories Rocks Can Tell: Interrogating a Michigan Limestone _____ 28 Energy - Avoid A Future Of Doom and Gloom! ______23, 41 Total Solar and Lunar Eclipses in USA! ______24 Engage, Empower, Inspire. Strategies for Teaching Behaviorally Transform Science Learning with PASCO’s Latest Challenged Students ______21 Hands-On Technologies ______22 Engaged Students and Formative Assessment ______37 Transform Your Science Fair into a STEM Challenge Fair!______28, 42 Engaging Students in Productive Task-Based Discussions in Biology __ 41 Translucent, Transparent, or Opaque: Investigating the Engineering in the Science Classroom: You CAN Do It ______24 Properties of Light ______44 Engineering Innovative Instruction ______29 Unpacking and Moving into NGSS ______22 Engineering The Future Of Energy! ______32 Use Technology to Work Smarter, Not Harder ______35 Engineering the Future: A Summer Academy for Using Claim Evidence and Reasoning (CER) to Write Conclusions ____ 33 Underrepresented Students ______38 Using Google Apps in the Science Classroom ______33 Enhancing Classroom Learning through Digital Dissection ______22, 40 Using Information Literacy to Evaluate Aspects of Enhancing the STEM Curriculum with Virtual Simulations ______29 Hydraulic Fracturing ______30 Exploring Sedimentary Rocks of the Michigan Basin ______26
52 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Interest Levels Facilitating Students’ Understanding of the Structure Simple Spectroscopy: Lessons from the MAVEN Educator and Properties of Matter ______32 Ambassadors Program ______36 Find the Fund$ For Science: Grant Writing 101 ______21 Slide Rules in the Science Classroom ______46 Find your Target! ______24 Speak Up! Incorporating Discourse into our Classroom Instruction ___ 36 Fingerprints of a Tom Atom ______41 Spectroscopy in AP Chemistry ______39 First Day of Science Class ______35 Standards-Based Grading in the Next Generation: Targets, Flinn Scienti c Presents Exploring Chemistry - Connecting Formative Assessment and Intervention ______33, 42 Content through Experiments ______38 STEM Across the Solar System ______42 Food Safety Is Your Right to Know and Learn ______26 STEM from Nature ______33, 46 Free Engineering Modeling Software in the Classroom ______26 STEM Grants - Michigan STEM Partnership ______46 Get Them Out of their Seats - A Biologist Teaching Physical Science __ 38 STEM Learning with Unmanned Vehicles ______35 Getting the Full Picture: Students Doing Science Using STEM through Origami ______27, 44 Gigapixel Panoramas ______37 Strategies for the ACT Science ______44 Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun ______29, 43 Student Choice, Student Voice: Empowering the Next Hands-On Human Ecology for the Next Generation ______38 Generation of Environmental Stewards ______24 High School Chemistry Teachers Meeting ______37 Teaching Simple Machines, Force and Motion, and Little Human Anatomy Lab: Built from the Inside Out ______40 Energy Using LEGO® ______27 If a Picture is Worth...a Simulation is Worth a Million ______32 The Chemistry of Color: Getting Students on the Right Frequency ___ 39 Inquiry Lessons in Biology: A Review and Some New ______27 The Earthquake Machine ______35 Integrating Chromebook, Android, and BYOD with The Great Transition in Evolutionary Biology ______44 Vernier Technology ______27 The Invisible Universe ______43 Integrating Literacy and Engineering into a Biofuel Laboratory ______30 The Origin of Species ______42 Integrating Modeling into Your Curriculum______41 The Power of the Questions: S & E Practice 1 ______39 Integrating your iPad with Vernier Technology ______30 The Stories Rocks Can Tell: Interrogating a Michigan Limestone _____ 28 Introducing Teachers and Administrators to NGSS ______27 Thermochemistry without Energy ______42 Journal Club: Critical Thinking on Steroids ______41 Total Solar and Lunar Eclipses in USA! ______24 Kalkaska High School - Square-One Project Enhancement ______30 Transform Science Learning with PASCO’s Latest Leading the Change toward NGSS: Department Chair Round Table __ 36 Hands-On Technologies ______22 Learn about the 3D Printer in Your Future ______32 Transform Your Science Fair into a STEM Challenge Fair!______28, 42 Lessons (learned) from NGSS-Aligned, Inquiry-Based Physical Understanding Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration! ______24 Science Curriculum ______25 Use Technology to Work Smarter, Not Harder ______35 Let’s Make Some Motors ______47 Using Claim Evidence and Reasoning (CER) to Write Conclusions ____ 33 Mars in Your Classroom ______43 Using Climate Proxies to Learn about Earth’s Climate History ______44 Meeting Common Core Writing Standards in Science ______21 Using DNA Barcoding to Teach Biology and Chemistry Concepts ____ 45 Mi-STAR: Integrated STEM Curriculum Addressing the Three Using Engineering Design and Data Analysis Practices in Dimensions of NGSS ______44 Science Classrooms ______46 Michigan’s Next Generation Science Classroom ______6, 42 Using Google Apps in the Science Classroom ______33 Mini Poster Magic ______60, 46 Using Information Literacy to Evaluate Aspects of Modeling Heating Curves and Phase Changes ______27 Hydraulic Fracturing ______30 Modern Manufacturing and STEM______34 Using Kinesthetics and Exercise to Teach Abstract Science Concepts _47 Nature In and Out of the Classroom: A DNR Teacher Resource ____ 27, 41 Using NGSS Practices and Cross-Cutting Concepts to NGSS Unit Development - Bundling NGSS PEs: A 10-Step Process __ 6, 24 Combat Student Misconceptions ______33 NGSS: Deciphering the Cross Cutting Concepts and Linking Using One-Minute Videos to Flip Your Lessons ______35 Them to the Science and Engineering Practices ______40 Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Students NOAA, and Sea Grant, and GLOBE - - Oh, My! ______34 Should Know and Why ______33, 39 Old Lessons CAN Do New Tricks: Modifying for NGSS and Appendix F __34 What Can the Department of Natural Resources Do For You? ______45 One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish ______24, 39 Wondering About Chemistry ______24 One-Stop Shopping on the Topic of Energy ______36 Zombie Science ______47 One-to-One Technology: Tales from the Trenches ______42 Physics Make and Take ______47 Place-Based Education: Watersheds of the Mitten ______30 Poppers: An Open-Inquiry Physics Energy Lab ______30 Practicing Science Skills Using Forensic Science ______21 College Level Predicting the Advance of Lava at Kilauea Volcano ______46 3-D Printing: Recycled Engineering with Delta Printers and Processes for Collaborative Decision Making and Leveraging PLA Plastic ______28 Di erent Perspectives ______32 A Caring Instructor - Motivating Students for Classroom Success _ 21, 40 Re-Engineering Inquiry: Let’s Get REAL! ______30, 39 A Telephone-Style Game for Reinforcing Free Body Diagrams ______31 Real Kids, Virtual Critters and Amazing Science ______37 Advanced Inquiry Labs for AP Chemistry from Flinn Scienti c ______33 Reed City Bio-Dome: A Science Teacher’s Dream ______36 All the Classrooms a Stage ______22 Reorganizing Biology Content - A Bottom up Approach ______39 Biofuels - The Dance between Science and Engineering ______34 Repressive Gene Expressions: Turning Students to Stone! ______21 Biology’s Best Engaged! Inquiry-Based Lessons Engagement Resources for Teaching about Air Quality ______21 Strategies to Activate Your Classroom ______36 Resources to Support NGSS Implementation ______6, 38 Blending Art and Science STEaM ______28 Rethinking Textooks with iBooks Author ______42 Bringing the Body’s Electrical Potential to Life ______29, 36, 37 Rock-solid Evidence: Exploring Michigan’s Past ______22 Bug Lyphe! Student-Centered Studies in Biodiversity and Food Webs _ 26 Science and Engineering Practices as Interventions to Raise Citizen Science aboard the Schooner Inland Seas ______40 Academic Achievement ______35 Citizen Scientist - Bird Data Collection for Cornell Lab of Ornithology __ 26, 43 Science Near and Far: Travel Grants for Teachers ______27 Cool Tools for Electricity & Magnetism ______45 Shifting to the NGSS through Assessment ______31 Cool Tools for Force & Motion______23
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College Level continued One-Stop Shopping on the Topic of Energy ______36 Cool Tools for Sound & Waves ______29 Processes for Collaborative Decision Making and Leveraging Creating a Semi-Self-Paced Classroom without Killing the Teacher _ 26, 43 Di erent Perspectives ______32 Dynamic Life Science ______30 Real Kids, Virtual Critters and Amazing Science ______37 Engaging Pre-Service STEM Teachers with Chemistry Modeling _____ 22 Rethinking Textooks with iBooks Author ______42 Energy – Avoid a Future of Doom and Gloom! ______23, 41 Slide Rules in the Science Classroom ______46 Engineering Innovative Instruction ______29 Speak Up! Incorporating Discourse into our Classroom Engineering the Future Of Energy!______32 Instruction ______36 Enhancing Classroom Learning through Digital Dissection ______22, 40 STEM Grants – Michigan STEM Partnership ______46 Exploring Sedimentary Rocks of the Michigan Basin ______26 STEM through Origami ______27, 44 First Day of Science Class ______35 The Great Transition in Evolutionary Biology ______44 Get Them Out Of their Seats - A Biologist Teaching Physical Science __ 38 The Origin of Species ______42 Getting the Full Picture: Students Doing Science Using Gigapixel Thermochemistry without Energy ______42 Panoramas ______37 Total Solar and Lunar Eclipses in USA! ______24 Great Lakes, Great Activity, Great Fun ______29, 43 Transform Science Learning with PASCO’s Latest Human Anatomy Lab: Built From the Inside Out ______40 Hands-On Technologies ______22 Integrating Chromebook, Android, and BYOD with Using DNA Barcoding to Teach Biology and Chemistry Concepts ____ 45 Vernier Technology ______36 Using Information Literacy to Evaluate Aspects of Integrating your iPad with Vernier Technology ______30 Hydraulic Fracturing ______30 Learn about the 3D Printer in Your Future ______32 Using Kinesthetics and Exercise to Teach Abstract Science Concepts _47 Mi-STAR: Integrated STEM Curriculum Addressing the Three Using One-Minute Videos to Flip Your Lessons ______35 Dimensions of NGSS ______44 Viruses, Bacteria, Antibiotic Resistance - What Your Students Should Modeling Heating Curves and Phase Changes ______27 Know and Why ______33, 39 Nature In and Out of the Classroom: A DNR Teacher Resource ____ 27, 41
The more we know, the more we discover Michigan Society for Medical Research
Calling ALL Michigan High School Science Teachers! MISMR’s Annual Essay Contest with cash prizes for students and winning teachers!
TOPIC: Why Animals Are Important in Biomedical Research ? Every year, the Michigan Society for Medical Research (MISMR) sponsors an essay contest open to all Michigan high school students. The contest is part of MISMR’s educational outreach program, which promotes awareness of the benefi ts, ethics and methods of biomedical research, and increases awareness and interest in science. Entries are judged on originality, creativity (including a creative title), command of the English language, and evidence that an extra effort was made to learn about biomedical research and why animals are used. We are eager to have this be the biggest submission year to date! Use it as a class assignment, extra credit, or something else. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2015. It’s a great way to bridge science and writing skills with one assignment and have students preparing for college papers. Details including how to write a critical analysis paper can be found at: http://www.mismr.org/services/essay/2014CallForEntries.pdf email: Ruthann Thorne at [email protected] for more information
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MTSA Region Directors
Region 1 Director – Donna Hertel Region 8 Director – David McCloy Portage Northern High School 1551 Maplewood Drive 1000 Idaho Caro, MI 48723 Portage, MI 49024 989-673-4528 269-323-5412 [email protected] [email protected]
Region 9 Director – Jennifer Richmond Region 2 Director – Rose Marie Callahan 5772 Wildcat Road Ann Arbor Public Schools Croswell, MI 48422 2555 South State Street 810-657-9318 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 [email protected] 734-994-1686 [email protected] Region 10 Director – Thomas Waclawski 5975 Donn Court Region 3 Director – Traverse City, MI 49685 231-943-4804 Position currently vacant [email protected]
Region 4 Director – Susan Tate 5122 Lakeview Street Region 11 Director – Montague, MI 49437 Position currently vacant 231-893-1030 [email protected] Region 12 Director – Region 5 Director – Conni Crittenden Position currently vacant 603 Ardson Road East Lansing, MI 48823 517-655-2174 x5410 Region 13 Director – Carolyn Lowe [email protected] 530 Old Co. Road 553 Gwinn, MI 49841 989-869-6384 Region 6 Director – Brian Peterson [email protected] 200 River Place, Unit 35 Detroit, MI 48207 248-726-4200 Region 14 Director – Lynn Thomas [email protected] 8949 Stagecoach Ave. Gladstone, MI 49837 906-786-6521 x1624 Region 7 Director – Pete Peterson [email protected] 4645 Seymour Road New Era, MI 49446 231-861-4452 x4302 [email protected]
56 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science Award Winners NOTE: This is only a list of the last ve years of award winners. For a full list of the award winners since 1974, contact the MSTA o ce.
2012 Teacher of Promise ______Gary G. Abud Elementary Science Teacher of the Year ______Rebecca Darling Middle School Science Teacher of the Year ______Susan Tate High School Science Teacher of the Year ______Mary Lindow College Science Teacher of the Year ______Dr. Desmond H. Murray Informal Science Educator ______Sarah Holson Dan Wolz Clean Water Education Grant______Chris Groenhout PAEMST Finalist ______Diane Combi, Richard Tabor PAEMST Winner ______Brian Peterson
2013 Elementary Science Teacher of the Year ______Diane Krzyaniak Middle School Science Teacher of the Year ______Monica Harvey High School Science Teacher of the Year ______Erika Fature College Science Teacher of the Year ______Dr. James McDonald Informal Science Educator ______Gerald Pahl Distinguished Service Award ______Roberta Cramer Dan Wolz Clean Water Education Grant______Dave Chapman PAEMST Finalist ______Diane Combi, Richard Tabor Walter Ehrhardt, keith Forton, Mary Jordan McMaster, Kathy Mirakovits, Susan Tate PAEMST Winner ______Pending
2014 Elementary Science Teacher of the Year ______Julee Cowher Middle School Science Teacher of the Year ______Mark Koschmann High School Science Teacher of the Year ______Richard Eberly College Science Teacher of the Year ______Dr. Mary Brown Informal Science Educator ______Paula Gangopadhay Distinguished Service Award ______David McCloy Distinguished Service Award ______Mike Klein The George G. Mallinson Award ______Joseph Krajcik Dan Wolz Clean Water Education Grant______Donald Hammond/Tammy Coleman PAEMST Finalist ______Gary Koppleman, Bethany Swartz PAEMST Winner ______Pending
2015 Teacher of Promise ______Ashley Meyer Elementary Science Teacher of the Year ______Patricia McNinch Middle School Science Teacher of the Year ______Holly McGoran High School Science Teacher of the Year ______Deanna Cullens College Science Teacher of the Year ______Dr. Bradley Ambrose Administrator of the Year ______Greg Johnson Informal Science Educator ______Stephen Stewart Distinguished Service Award ______Betty Crowder The George G. Mallinson Award ______David Bydlowski Dan Wolz Clean Water Education Grant______John Travis/Josh Nichols
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58 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science 4 — Aven, Inc. 57 — Carolina Biological Supply Company 4595 Platt Road 2700 York Road Ann Arbor, MI, 48108 Burlington, NC, 27215 734-973-0099 800-227-1150 x5262 Aven manufactures digital and stereo microscope solutions for Founded in 1927, Carolina Biological Supply Company has grown educational discovery and lifetime learning. to become a worldwide leader in providing top-quality, innovative materials for science and educators. With over 18,000 products, Carolina serves the elementary school through university market 6 — Backyard Brains with a complete line of living and preserved organisms, lab 308 1/2 S. State Street, Ste. 35 equipment, furniture, teaching kits, microscopes, books, and Ann Arbor, MI, 48104 models - everything needed to equip a science laboratory or 734-968-7570 classroom. Carolina is the exclusive supplier of several inquiry- We provide a ordable neuroscience experiment kits for students of based, STEM programs, including STC kits, a Smithsonian created all ages to learn (hands-on) about the brain. Make your STEM lesson curriculum. STC kits have always had a strong STEM connection as plans exciting and unforgettable! there are engineering design practices throughout the program. With the recent STC revision, coupled with the solid reseracrh and NSF funding, these kits are designed to satisgy your STEM needs. 2 — Battle Creek Area Math & Science Center 765 Upton Ave. Battle Creek, MI, 49015 25 — Consumers Energy 269-965-9440 1 Energy Drive BCAMSC a 2009 recipient of the “Education Excellence, Michigan Jackson, MI, 48911 Best” Award, develop and distribute K-7 inquiry focus science units 517-788-1347 that are aligned with the Michigan Science Content expectations. Consumers Energy o ers FREE safety presentations, lesson plans, games, and MORE to help keep students safe and learn about eneregy. TT 13 — Battle Creek Outdoor Education Center 10160 South M 37 Hwy Dowling, MI, 49050 43 — CPO Science 269-721-8161 80 Northwest Blvd. The Battle Creek Outdoor Education Center o ers hands-on Nashua, NH, 3063 learning experiences not found in a classroom! Day and overnight 603-579-3467 programs available. Providing high-quality inquiry-based teaching and learning systems for science grades 6-12, as well as lab equipment, supplies, and technology products for science classrooms and labs. TT 7 — Bay Sail - Appledore Tallships 107 - 5th Street, 2nd Floor Bay City, MI, 48708 44, 45 — Delta Education 989-895-5193 80 Northwest Blvd. BaySail is a non-pro t environmental education organization Nashua, NH, 3063 o ering informal STEM learning opportunities aboard the tall ship 603-579-3467 Appledore IV in the Great Lakes. Providing the best tools for helping students learn. Including our inquiry-based kits and hands-on classroom resources. Now o ering FOSS 3rd Edition which addresses the NGSS. 23, 24 — Benz Microscope Optics Center 3980 Varsity Drive Ann Arbor, MI, 48108 TT 9 — Ecology Center 734-994-3880 11730 Maple Road Milan, MI, 48160 734-709-4947 39 — Bitwixt Software Systems A Michigan-based nonpro t that works at local, state, and national PO Box 1144 levels for healthy communities, environmental justice, and Minnetonka, MN, 55345 sustainable futures through organizing, advocacy, and education. 952-937-8382 Bitwixt’s AtomsmithR software products for Windows, Mac and iPad, integrate middle/high school chemistry, biology, math, 26, 27 — Educational Innovations, Inc. language arts, and technology curriculum with interactive 3D 5 Francis J. Clarke Circle molecular visualization technologies. Bethel, CT, 6801 203-229-0730 Unique and innovative hands-on science education supplies that TT 26 — Camp Invention challenge the mind and re the imagination. 3701 Highland Park NW North Canton, OH, 44720 330-849--1141 Camp Invention partners with school districts to provide a summer day camp experience, focused on STEM enrichment. continued...
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12 — Explore Lab Science Program 5 — It’s About Time 3350 North MLK Jr. 333 North Bedford Road Lansing, MI, 48906 Mt. Kisca, NY, 10549 517-335-9190 914-273-2233 It’s About Time partners with educators to move STEM education forward with student focused, project-based/problem-based 46 — ExploreLearning programs, with the engineering process embedded throughout. 110 Avon Street, Suite 300 Charlottesville, VA, 22902 866-882-4141 Imperial Ballroom — Lab-Aids Inc. ExploreLearning Gizmos are interactive online simulations that 1487 Gerrard Ave. drive conceptual understanding in Math and Science for students Columbus, OH, 43212 in grades 3-12. Complete with inquiry lessons, assessment and 614-210-0610 reporting! LAB-AIDS, a catalyst for learning. Our focus is hands-on, research- based, and eld-tested programs that build a strong and lasting foundation of knowledge allowing students to take ownership of 37, 38 — Flinn Scienti c their learning while supporting teachers in every possible way. 770 N. Raddanat Road Batavia, IL, 60510 800-452-1261 TT 3 — Lawrence Technological University Flinn Scienti c is the leader in science and laboratory chemical 21000 West 10 Mile Road safety. Flinn develops and o ers a full-line of chemistry, biology, Southfi eld, MI, 48075 physics, life science, earth science, physical science, and safety 248-204-3160 products. Lawrence Technological University o ers over 80 academic programs through colleges of Architecture and Design, Arts and Science, Engineering and Management. 42 — Frey Scienti c 80 Northwest Blvd. Nashua, NH, 3063 13, 14 — LEGOR Education 603-579-3467 20355 Danbury Lane Providing high-quality inquiry-based teaching and learning Harper Woods, MI, 48225 systems for science grades 6-12, as well as lab equipment, supplies, 313-647-0043 and technology products for science classrooms and labs. LEGO Education combines the unique excitement of LEGO bricks with hands-on classroom solutions. 33, 34 — Houghton Mi in Harcourt 3800 Golf Road, Suite 200 16 — Library of Michigan Rolling Meadows, IL, 60008 702 West Kalamazoo 630-467-6406 Lansing, MI, 48915 K-12 educational curricula, technology and professional 517-373-4466 development. The Michigan eLibrary (MeL.org) is our state’s digital library. Available 24/7, Mel contains no-cost, reliable, vetted resources for science teachers and their students. TT 11 — Inland Seas Education Association PO Box 218 Suttons Bay, MI, 49682 17, 18 — McGraw-Hill Education 231-271-3077 8787 Orion Place Inland Sea is a non-pro t organization dedicated to promoting Columbus, OH, 43240 stewardship of the Great Lakes through hands-on Science 614-430-4709 education aboard a tall ship Schooner. McGraw-Hill Education is a leading global provider of educational materials, information and solutions for the Pre-K through 12th grade Assessment & Instruction, Higher Education, and Professional 21 — International Ocean Discovery Program markets. 1201 New York Ave., NW - 4th Floor Washington , DC, 20005 202-448-1249 59 — MEEMIC Insurance Company IODP is an international collaboration to recover samples and data 1685 N. Opdyke Road from the sea oor to study the history and dynamics of Planet Auburn Hills, MI, 48326 Earth. 248-373-5700 x31669 Meemic exclusively supports the educational community with auto, home, boat, and umbrella insurance products through Meemic Insurance Company and grant opportunities through the Meemic foundation.
60 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science TT 2 — Metropolitan Detroit Science 32 — Michigan Mathematics & Science Teachers Association Centers Network PO Box 2279 12620 Portsmouth Court Detroit, MI, 48202 Plymouht, MI, 48170 248-542-1781 734-612-8780 MDSTA, the oldest science teacher organization in Michigan, Michigan Mathematics and Science Centers Network provides dedicated to promoting excellence and innovation to educators in professional learning experiences for all Michigan teachers. southeast Michigan counties since 1940. 41 — Michigan Nature Association TT 1 — MI Antibiotic Resistance Reduction 2310 Science Pkwy., Suite 100 (MARR) Coalition Okemos, MI, 48864 6152 E. Longview Drive 866-223-2231 The Michigan Nature Association acquires land to protect East Lansing, MI, 48823 Michigan’s rare, threatened and endangered species and carries on 517-679-5345 a program of natural history and conservation education. The MARR Coalition seeks to improve the appropriate use of antibiotics and reduce antimicrobial resistance in Michigan, nationally, and internationally through collaborative e orts with TT 24 — Michigan Project Learning Tree academic, community, government, labor and industry partners. 9643 Bellevue Road Battle Creek, MI, 49014 TT 20 — Michigan Ag In The Classroom 248-672-0682 7373 W. Saginaw Hwy. PLT empowers educators to inspire youth through an award winning environmental education program. www.michiganplt.org Lansing, MI, 48909 517-323-7000 x3213 Michigan Farm Bureau is a non-pro t that coordinates Michigan TT 15 — Michigan Science Center Ag in the Classroom; an entity that develops and provides 5020 John R Street agriculturally focused educational materials for K-12. Detroit, MI, 48202 313-577-8400 TT 23 — Michigan Alliance of Environmental & The Michigan Science Center is a hands-on museum, o ering programs that inspire everyone to explore and appreciate STEM. Outdoor Education PO Box 271 Birmingham, MI, 48009 TT 10 — Michigan Sea Grant 248-646-6142 520 E. Liberty, Suite 310 The Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education Ann Arbor, MI, 48104 (MAEOE) is Michigan’s key professional organization for both formal 734-647-0767 and nonformal educators working in the elds EE and OE. Through Michigan Sea Grant supports Great Lakes research outreach networking, publications, grants, and our annual conference, and education. Attend presentations about resources for your members become part of an informed community who share the classroom and see our booth! goal of “promoting environmental literacy through education.” Find out more by visiting our booth (T19) or our website: www. maeoe.com 22 — Michigan State University 354 Farm Lane, Room 116 East Lansing, MI, 48824 TT 14 — Michigan Department of 517-355-1708 Environmental Quality 525 West Allegan Street TT 5 — Michigan STEM Partnership Lansing, MI, 48933 517-284-6867 PO Boc 129 The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s mission is to Cedarville, MI, 49719 inform and educate the public on environmental issues. 906-748-0364 The Michigan STEM Partnership is a public-private collaborative focused on creating a workplace skilled in STEM related elds, 50 — Michigan DNR problem solving, innovation and creativity. 530 West Allegan - DNR Mason Bldg. Lansing, MI, 48933 TT 6 — Michigan Tech 517-373-7306 The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) o ers 1400 Townsend Drive education programs statewide and encourages education to get Houghton, MI, 49931 their students outside. 906-487-2263 Michigan Tech o ers a masters degree in Applied Science Education and summer professional development courses for science and mathematics teachers. continued...
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TT 6 — Mi-STAR (Michigan Science Teaching TT 18 — Organization for Bat Conservation and Assessment Reform) 39221 Woodward Ave. 1400 Townsend Drive Bloomfi eld Hills, MI, 48303 Houghton, MI, 49931 248-645-3232 906-487-2263 The Organization for Bat Conservation is a non-pro t dedicated Mi-STAR is a collaborative project of Michigan Tech, other to teaching people about bats and other nocturnal animals, and universities, and partner school districts to develop integrated inspiring people to protect the environment. science curriculum for middle school. 15 — PASCO scienti c TT 16 — MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine 10101 Foothills Blvd. C103 East Fee Hall Roseville, CA, 95747 East Lansing, MI, 48824 800-772-8700 x230 517-353-8799 Help students “think science” with PASCO Scienti c’s award- MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine; Educating Michigan’s future winning, state-of-the-art science learning environment. Integrating physicians; Promoting holistic healthcare through the Science of the latest standards-based content, probeware, and data collection Medicine, the Art of Caring, and the Power of Touch. and analysis software, PASCO science solutions are easy to use, cost-e ective, and work on your devices (BYOD) including iPad®, Chromebook™, Android™ tablets, Mac® and Windows® computers, 40 — NASCO and netbooks. 901 Janesville Ave. Fort Atkinson, WI, 53538 8, 9 — Pearson 920-563-2446 Nasco specializes in elementary and secondary science materials, 326 Edison Blvd. kits, live and preserved biologicals, and lab equipment. We focus Port Huron, MI, 48060 on quality products. Please visit us at www.eNasco.com or call 800- 248-420-2894 558-9595. TT 17 — People for the Ethical Treatment TT 8 — National Energy Foundation of Animals 1014 Lydia Drive 307 Hydrangea Stgreet St. Joseph, MI, 49085 Summerville, SC, 29483 269-208-0370 843-452-4502 The National Energy Foundation is dedicated to cultivating and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest promoting an energy literate society through educational outreach animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3 million in collaboration with state educators, funded by local utilities. members and supporters.
28, 29 — National Geographic Learning 48 — PLASTIVANTM Cengage Learning 42 N. Biggs Street 37277 Thnbark Street Belleville, MI, 48111 Wayne, MI, 48184 734-612-7783 248-561-7830 The PlastivanTM program travels to schools educating students National Geographic Learning, a part of Cengage Learning, is a about the chemistry, history, processing, manufacturing, leading educational publisher of high quality PreK-12 instructional sustainability, and applications of plastics. solutions for Reading, Writing, Science, Social Studies, ESL/ELD, and Spanish/Dual Language. At National Geographic Learning, we believe that an engaged and motivated learner will be a successful 30 — Potter Park Zoo one, and we design our materials to motivate. We believe that 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave. learning can be exciting, inspiring, and transformational. Lansing, MI, 48912 517-342-2714 Visit our booth (#28 & 29) at this year’s conference for FREE samples Potter Park Zoo is an escape to nature in the heart of Michigan’s of our popular resources! capital city. Open year round and home to over 500 animals!
Center Councourse — NSTA Press 365 Rosewood Ave. East Grand Rapids, MI, 49506 502-262-8118616-450-0122 NSTA Publishes outstanding Science trade books for students K-12. On display are recent and popular titles.
62 Pure Michigan Science - Engineering Grand Ideas in Science 49 — The Air Zoo 7 — Project Lead The Way, Inc. 6151 Portage Road Portage, MI, 49002 3939 Priority Way, South Drive, St. 400 269-382-6555 Indianapolis, IN, 46240 The Air Zoo is an aerospace and science education center with 317-669-0200 aviation themed experiences, ight simulators, and hands-on Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the nation’s leading provider of STEAM education programs. K-12 STEM programs. Our world-class curriculum and high-quality teacher professional development model, combined with an engaged network of educators and corporate and community TT 4 — The Mallinson Institute for Science partners, help students develop the skills necessary to succeed in our global economy. Education 193 W. Michigan Ave. Kalamazoo, MI, 49008 35 — Rent A Rambling Naturalist 269-387-5398 1811 West C Ave. Complete your MA in Science Education online with nationally Kalamazoo, MI, 49009 recognized faculty. www.wmich.edu/science 269-343-1886 Embark on a journey through Natural Wonders exploring natural science and history. Learn to live in harmony with the earth and its 55, 56 — The MarkerBoard People diverse ecosytems. 1611 North Grand River Lansing, MI, 48906 800-379-3727 47 — Scholastic Library Publishing Dry Erase Boards, marker, erasers and accessories. Perfect for 35460 Heritage Lane Science, Graphing and MORE!!! Farmington, MI, 48335 248-474-6527 Scholastic Library Publishing Digital is a leading digital publisher of 1 — The MiniOne Electrophoresis ction and non- ction materials. Live demonstrations of Popular 7738 Arjons Drive Science and Amazing Animals from Grolier Online™, and new STEM San Diego, CA, 92126 online resource: ScienceFLIX during MSTA. 858-684-3190 Safe a ordable electrophoresis in 20 minutes. The MiniOne and 36 — Schoolmasters Science MiniLabs are your solution to teaching biotechnology. 745 State Circle - PO Box 1941 Ann Arbor, MI, 48106 TT 25 — TRACKS Magazine 734-761-5173 211 Wood Your local source for science equipment and teaching aids since 1963. 100% satisfaction guaranteed! Lansing, MI, 48912 517-346-6466 TRACKS is a science publication focused on conservation and TT 28 — Spring Arbor University wildlife. It covers a di erent Michigan animal each month and is a 17327 W Grant fantastic classroom tool! Goodyear, MI, 85338 602-677-7789 58 — Vernier Software & Technology 13979 SW Millikan Way TT 21, TT 22 — Square One Education Network Beaverton, OR, 97005 670 Hillcliff Drive 503-277-2299 Waterford, MI, 48328 Vernier creates easy-to-use and a ordable science interfaces, 248-736-7537 sensors, and graphig/analysis software. Vernier’s technology-based The Square One Education Network is a nonpro t educational solutions enhance STEM education, increase learning, and build organization. Our purpose is to create and fund powerful, relevant students’ critical thinking skills. experiences for K-12 teachers and students that creatively integrate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) using best practices supported instruction through unique project TT 12 — Youth Education Committee designs. American Water Works Association and Michigan Water Environment Association 31 — TCI PO Box 397 PO Box 1327 Bath, MI, 48808 517-641-7377 Rancho Cordova, CA, 95741 AWWA and MWEA members are dedicated to improving, 800-497-6138 preserving, restoring, and enhancing Michigan’s waters and water TCI is a K-12 publishing company created by teachers, for teachers. supply as well as educating others to do the same. We believe the best teaching marries great content, meaningful technology, and classroom experiences.
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Help Your Students Learn to Rely on Science
As popular media teaches consumers about nutrition, UDIM is here to help teach your students the facts. We can be your resource for overall wellness, physical activity, and dairy nutrition resources. We are dedicated to promoting optimal health through leadership in nutrition research and education by encouraging food choices in accordance with scientific recommendations.
Many different foods contain calcium, so there is no need to drink milk.
1 • While many foods do contain some calcium, milk and milk products are the best sources of it and contain it in the greatest amounts. • To provide the same amount of calcium found in one 8-ounce cup of milk (300mg) you would need to eat 3 ½ cups of broccoli, 1 cup of almonds, 10 cups of spinach, or 3 ounces of sardines with bones. • The calcium in milk and milk products is easily absorbed and used by the body. Other foods often contain substances called oxalate, which bind calcium and make it difficult for the body to use.
Rice or almond milk is a good substitute for cow’s milk.
2 • Rice, almond, and soy beverages actually come from plants. These drinks are often fortified with a few key nutrients, but lack many of the vitamins and minerals found naturally in cow’s milk. • Not only is cow’s milk packed with calcium, it contains eight other essential nutrients, including vitamin D, vitamin A, and potassium. • Milk is a source of high quality protein, providing 8 grams of protein per cup. Alternative beverages, such as almond, coconut, and rice, have only a small amount of protein.
All milk contains antibiotics, except organic milk.
3 • Milk produced on conventional dairy farms is strictly tested, both on the farm and at the processing plant. Any milk that tests positive for antibiotics at any point is disposed of immediately and does not get into the food supply. • Sometimes dairy cows require antibiotics to treat an illness. Milk from a cow being treated with antibiotics is separated from other cows’ milk on the farm. The milk from this cow is allowed to be sold only after the antibiotics have cleared the cow’s system.
References 1. Heaney, RP et al. Nutrition Today. 2005; 40(1): 39-44 2. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Hiza, H., Bente, L. & Fungwe, T. Nutrient Content of the U.S. Food Supply, 2005. Home Economics Research Report No. 58, March 2008. 3. NDC Dairy Council Digest, “Modern Dairy Farming Practices & Milk Quality: Myths & Facts” www.nationaldairycouncil.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/research/dairy_council_digests/2007/dcd783.pdf
To find materials to meet your classroom needs, 800-241-MILK (6455) visit www.MilkMeansMore.org