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Baltimore Conference Committee . 4 Online Session Evaluations/ President’s Welcome . 5 Tracking Professional Development . 12 Sponsors and Contributors to the Baltimore Conference . 5 Special Offers . 13 NSTA Conferences Go Green! . 6 Floor Plans . 14 Registration, Travel, and Hotels NSTA Headquarters Staff . 20 Meeting Location and Times . 7 NSTA Officers, Board of Directors, Council, and Registration . 7 Alliance of Affiliates . 21 Purchasing Ticketed Eents . 7 Future NSTA Conferences . 22 Ground Transportation to/from Airport . 7 Call for Sessions . 22 Getting Around Town . 7 NSTA Atlanta National Conference . 23 Parking . 7 Professional Development Documentation Airlines . 8 Form . following p . 32 Discounted Rental Cars . 8 Conference Program Housing Questions . 9 Conference Highlights . 24 Baltimore Map . 9 Conference Strands . 26 Conference Resources NSTA Press® Sessions . 29 Exhibits . 10 Meetings and Social Functions . 29 NSTA Science Store . 10 Chemistry Day at NSTA . 30 NSTA Hub . 11 Engineering Day at NSTA . 31 Meet the Presidents and Board/Council . 11 Physics Day at NSTA . 31 Wi-Fi in Convention Center . .. 11 Short Courses . 32 Presenters and Presiders Check-In . 11 NSTA Affiliate Sessions . 34 Welcome and Information Center . 11 Three Dimensions of the NGSS . 36 MAST Counter . 11 Thursday Daily Program . 39 NSTA Conference App . 11 Friday Daily Program . 69 First Aid Services/Mothers Room . .. 11 Saturday Daily Program . 103 Lost and Found . .11 Indexes MAST Luncheon . 11 Exhibitor List . 111 Audiovisual Needs . 12 Index of Exhibitor Workshops . .123 Business Services . 12 Schedule at a Glance . .128 Graduate Credit Opportunity . 12 Index of Participants . 142 Index of Advertisers . 148. 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Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) National Middle Level Science Teachers Association (NMLSTA) National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA) Society for College Science Teachers (SCST) NSTA Baltimore Area Conference on Science Education 3 Welcome to Baltimore: Making Science Accessible: Full Speed Ahead The conference is organized around these three strands: • Tying the Knot: Coherence in 3-D Science Learning • Charting the Course for Innovation • Anchoring Our Natural Treasures Through Environmental Literacy From the exciting expert invited speakers, hands-on workshops, presentations, and short courses, you are sure to find innovative ideas and practices that will assist you in preparing students for the Mary C H. Weller Asli Sezen-Barrie Mary K . Stapleton demands of the 21st century in STEM fields . We know that you will have a terrific learning experience while you are with us . We hope elcome to the NSTA Baltimore Area Conference . On behalf of that you meet other like-minded educators who will become friends Wthe science education community in Maryland, we welcome you and colleagues . We are all in this together! to Baltimore . Located right on the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore is home to We look forward to meeting you as you engage in the wonderful the world-famous Inner Harbor, historic neighborhoods, and outstanding adventure of learning and growing! We are so excited that you are museums . here . Please stop by the MAST counter located at the Lower Pratt The conference committee wants you to join us in the journey to Street Lobby . We would love to meet you and share with you what support all students to engage in science by “Making Science Accessible: your professional organization is doing to support you, including the Full Speed Ahead ”. We have organized a wide variety of experiences 2018 NSTA Area Conference at National Harbor in November 2018 . across all grade levels and disciplines that will challenge you and help you improve your practice as a science educator and leader . 2017 Baltimore Area Conference Committee Leaders Mary C .H . Weller, Asli Sezen-Barrie, and Mary K . Stapleton Baltimore Conference Committee We at NSTA wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the members of the Maryland Association of Science Teachers for the many hours of time they volunteered in planning this conference . Conference Chairperson Local Arrangements Committee Mary C .H . Weller NSTA Director, District III Guides Manager Strand Leader: Charting the Course for Innovation Nicole Veltre-Luton Lauren Thompson Allen Secondary Science Coordinator Digital Harbor High School Office of Teaching and Learning Howard County Public School System Baltimore, MD District of Columbia Public Schools 10910 Clarksville Pike Washington, DC Volunteers Manager Ellicott City, MD 21042 Julie Damico Program Representatives mary_weller@hcpss org. Baltimore County Public Schools Naté Hall Program Coordinator Towson, MD Howard County Public School System Asli Sezen-Barrie Manager of Services for People with Special Needs Ellicott City, MD Assistant Professor Alison Hapka College of Education and Human Elkton High School Godfrey Rangasammy Elkton, MD Development Prince George’s County Public Schools University of Maine Capitol Heights, MD Program Committee 5766 Shibles Hall Strand Leader: Anchoring Our Natural Treasures Stephanie Wright Orono, ME 04469 Through Environmental Literacy Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation asli sezenbarrie@maine. edu. Olukayode Banmeke Smyrna, DE Local Arrangements Coordinator DuVal High School Lanham, MD Conference Advisory Board Liaison Mary K . Stapleton Carolyn Hayes Director of Bioscience Education and Strand Leader: Tying the Knot: Coherence in 2015–2016 NSTA President and Retired Educator Outreach 3-D Science Learning Greenwood, IN Center for STEM Excellence René Baker Maria Montessori Academy Towson University North Ogden, UT 701 E . Pratt St ,. Suite 200 Baltimore, MD 21202 mkstapleton@towson edu. 4 NSTA Baltimore Area Conference on Science Education President’s Welcome elcome to the NSTA Area Confer- provide coherence within and across grade levels . In this strand, par- Wence in Baltimore . If you have not ticipants will learn to use storylines, find ways to adapt instruction explored the Inner Harbor area, you are in using responsive strategies, and focus on learning progressions . for a treat—great food, museums, and history The final strand is Charting the Course for Innovation . To develop await . You might even still catch an Orioles innovative scientific leaders for tomorrow, we must foster creativity, game at Camden Yards . What you will not academic risk-taking, and perseverance within ALL students today . want to miss are the great speakers and sessions Participants will investigate effective classroom examples supporting that we have lined up for you . The conference preK–16 student learning that involves engineering design projects, theme is Making Science Accessible: Full Speed use of technology, and computer science . Ahead . Along with this theme, the conference I encourage you to take full advantage of this area confer- committee has planned the conference around three strands that ence to improve your knowledge on making science accessi- explore topics of current significance . ble for all students, not only through these selected strands, but The first strand is Anchoring Our Natural Treasures Through Environ- through the other featured speakers, sessions, professional learn- mental Literacy . This strand focuses on how today’s students are tomor- ing opportunities, as well as the exhibit hall . Take time to find new row’s leaders . In this strand, participants will learn to elevate student colleagues and share ideas that you bring to this conference with experiences by partnering with informal educational providers, get- others . I am sure that you will agree with me that