The crosscutting concepts are particularly powerful at the elementary level. Join as we explore their power!

TAKEAWAYS:
Leverage crosscutting concepts in ways that help elevate science learning across the k-5 grades

SPEAKERS:
Carla Zembal-Saul, Mary Starr

Explore the myriad of ways K-5 learners share their sensemaking

TAKEAWAYS:
Expand ways in which we see children's ways of communicating.

SPEAKERS:
Carla Zembal-Saul, Mary Starr

Former teacher and host of the freely-available Tumble Science Podcast for Kids Marshall Escamilla will guide science educators in the nuts and bolts of creating a classroom podcast. We’ll cover the very basics of getting set up and sharing your content with the entire community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees at this session will learn the very basics of how to create a classroom podcast from a professional podcaster.

SPEAKERS:
Marshall Escamilla, Mary Starr

Let's talk about how you can foreground science while you elevate literacy in an interdisciplinary classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn to identify opportunities to include high-quality science-focused literacy in the elementary classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Miranda Fitzgerald, Marshall Escamilla, Mary Starr

Elementary-age children come to science learning with expansive resources that we must leverage for sensemaking. Their brilliance unfolds when we create and maintain space for them to lead investigation and design opportunities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Through an elem science example, focus on how elem. science learning changes when students lead.

SPEAKERS:
Carla Zembal-Saul, Mary Starr