Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Engage with Hands-On Biology! Flinn Scientific presents a variety of easy to perform and exciting intro and Advanced Biology demonstrations. Come see Flinn’s new demonstrations and some of your old favorites—all guaranteed to make your science classroom come alive. Handouts provided for all.

SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Cambron, M.S.

Explore how excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere makes water more acidic through hands-on activities from the free 5E lesson plans in middleschoolchemistry.com.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will conduct simple, safe, and inexpensive hands-on experiments showing that carbon dioxide gas makes water more acidic, and see how these activities and concepts can be taught to students in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
James Kessler

Combining visual and text elements, Science Explainers help deepen student understanding by creating artifacts that give them creative freedom to walk through the solution to a problem, exercise, or example in a way they understand.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn the best practices for making effective Explainers (physical and video) in their classroom. A variety of topics will be made available, allowing attendees to practice the method themselves and take them back to their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Matt Brady

Implentation of spectroscopic evidence in an elective high school chemistry course to identify various unknown organic structures.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will be provided with resources and assessments to identify an unknown organic compound given its % composition. The spectroscopic methods used are Infrared Spectrometry, Mass Spectrometry, and proton NMR Spectroscopy.

SPEAKERS:
Jeromy Bentley

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Decode concealed clues and unveil invisible evidence using spectroscopy! This demonstration will cover how students can use the Go Direct® SpectroVis® Plus Spectrophotometer and Vernier Spectral Analysis® app to capture and identify the spectra for invisible ink in a note left at a crime scene.

SPEAKERS:
Nüsret Hisim, Colleen McDaniel

A showcase of creating dynamic spreadsheets that provide instantaneous, differentiated feedback to students as they learn or practice new content independently or in small groups. This method amplifies confidence for students of all abilities and frees teachers to assist those most in need.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will make use of existing, free, and relatively ubiquitous digital spreadsheets in making presentations for new content. The use of this tool makes practicing content and skills helpful, engaging, and memorable. Educators will create their own spreadsheets for a lesson in their content.

SPEAKERS:
Sean Regan

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Teaching Chemistry should be AWESOME! Flinn Scientific presents a variety of easy to perform and exciting chemistry.. Come see Flinn’s new demonstrations and some of your old favorites—all guaranteed to make your science classroom come alive. Handouts provided for all.

SPEAKERS:
Savannah Stanley, M.Ed.

Teachers will receive ready-made activity packet to be used with the free middle school lesson plans in middleschoolchemistry.com and the free elementary school lesson plans in inquiryinaction.org.

TAKEAWAYS:
Get access to free comprehensive lesson plans in chemistry for middle school and elementary school students.

SPEAKERS:
James Kessler

We often rely on Crosscutting Concepts within the Next Generation Science Standards as ways of thinking students participate all the time, in every grade, in every subject. But what happens when those skills have not been honed in the way we need them to be for our grade level and disciplinary core?

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Participants will leave our session having attained concepts and skills that will help them measure attainment of Patterns, a critical Crosscutting Concept in the Next Generation Science Standards. Participants will be introduced to assessment resources and instructions for using them.

SPEAKERS:
Sonal Patel-Dame, Anoopa Singh

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Physics should be exciting! Flinn Scientific presents a variety of easy to perform and exciting physics demonstrations. Come see Flinn’s new demonstrations and some of your old favorites—all guaranteed to make your science classroom come alive. Handouts provided for all.

SPEAKERS:
Jonnathan Medina Ramos, Ph.D.

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Explore easy, engaging, and safe chemistry activities that guarantee a reaction in your students. Whether you’re new to chemistry or feeling out of your element, create excitement with hands-on labs, demonstrations, and Carolina’s digital content.These lab activities support 3-dimensional learning.

SPEAKERS:
Laurie Nixon

Materials science combines many fields such as physics, chemistry, engineering, and math to understand the properties of, and create new materials for, the modern world. Get some hands-on learning and get access to resources that will provide exciting cross-content experiences in your classroom!

TAKEAWAYS:
Explore materials science and help students make connections between the understanding of the STUFF things are made of and how this can change our world. Making things like cars, cellphones, medical technology, space exploration, sustainable energy and so much more possible! Materials Matter!

SPEAKERS:
Shelly Grandell

Sponsoring Company: Anatomage, Inc.

The Science Table provides a library of over 60 biology, chemistry, and physics experiments with realistic-quality visuals on an interactive 7 foot-long touch-screen table. The workshop will focus on incorporating the Science Table into middle school, high school, and college level classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Jake Lehman

In this hands-on workshop, participants will work with models of chemical reactions, photosynthesis, and cellular respiration that can help students develop a deep and flexible understanding of these important processes.

TAKEAWAYS:
Modeling, an important component of the NGSS, can help students understand biological processes more fully. These hands-on, minds-on models are engaging and lead to rigorous learning.

SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Hofeld

Get acquainted with OpenSciEd HS, from the anchoring phenomena to the curricular routines to assessment.

TAKEAWAYS:
OpenSciEd HS's storyline approach, curricular routines, student discourse strategies, and assessment systems work together to help students build equitable science learning experiences.

SPEAKERS:
Zoe Buck Bracey, Kate Henson

This presentation will showcase a 3D + NGSS-aligned Northern Lights Storyline designed for High School Chemistry. This presentation will showcase the: Student Activities, Teacher Narratives, Formative and Summative Assessments in this Storyline.

TAKEAWAYS:
Anyone attending this presentation will be shown an example of a completed Chemistry Storyline based on the Northern Lights and learn how to implement three-dimensional learning in their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Charlie Pozen

This session will provide concrete and practical examples of how to implement lab skill performance assessments in the classroom and will offer easy-to-use and tangible information that teachers can take back to their own schools.

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This session will present how to administer performance assessments of five basic lab skills and the benefits to the classroom that result.

SPEAKERS:
Tyler Buchan

OpenSciEd Chemistry's 3rd unit explores how we can use chemistry and Earth and space science understandings to survive living off of Earth. Learn how students build understanding of atomic structure and function through modeling, investigations, and patterns of thinking.

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This unit supports students as they figure out how atomic structure impacts the patterns we see on the Periodic Table and the role of water to sustain life and react with materials to form surface features. Participants will see how students build these ideas through investigations and manipulatives.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Novak, Nicole Vick

Sponsoring Company: Savvas Learning Company

Why can't you walk through walls? This complex question spans biology, chemistry, physics, and involves strange quantum phenomena. Explore the answer and discover how to incorporate recent scientific innovations into your classroom through compelling storylines.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Moore

Teachers will receive ready-made activity packet to be used with the free middle school lesson plans in middleschoolchemistry.com and the free elementary school lesson plans in inquiryinaction.org.

TAKEAWAYS:
Get access to free comprehensive lesson plans in chemistry for middle school and elementary school.

SPEAKERS:
James Kessler

Come and explore ways to integrate materials science across your science curriculum with the University of Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Take sample science kits and access to plans and resources to support students exploration of the materials that improve our lives.

TAKEAWAYS:
Create sample kits to take to your classrooms, access virtual resources and talk with MRSEC staff about the awesomeness of materials science!

SPEAKERS:
Shelly Grandell

Chemistry storylines supporting phenomena-based curriculum and alignment to Next Generation Science Standards. High school chemistry teachers partnered with Northwestern University Materials Research Center to design and implement two new modules— STEM+C Solar Cell Project and SCI+Art Project.

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Learn how NGSS inquiry and design pedagogy can be used with Materials World Modules. Each module connects everyday phenomena to NGSS performance expectations, emphasizing how to build toward design and engineering skills. Presenters will share modifications to meet varying academic levels.

SPEAKERS:
Ami LeFevre

Climate science is interdisciplinary and when broader society issues are addressed, like environmental justice, it becomes even more expansive. This presentation address these challenges by describing specific topics to include in instructional “storylines” that integrate student learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
To learn how to sequence and communicate topics essential to explaining climate change, its environmental impact, and the broader societal concerns.

SPEAKERS:
Ted Clark

Participants in this session will leave with a STEM inquiry-based project and educational materials designed to captivate students while emphasizing 21st-century scientific applications and UN sustainable goals. Additionally, a list of potential RET opportunities for educators will be provided.

TAKEAWAYS:
Sharing how the RET experience has led to the production of a project that integrates nitrogen cycle pollution into a nitrogen circular economy, where the project's primary focus was on critical topics such as energy, climate, and food security; important topics to empower high school students.

SPEAKERS:
Milene De Farias

Models are excellent tools assisting students’ understanding of chemical structure and function. Different models highlight different aspects of the chemical they represent. Simple models are terrific tools for addressing science misconceptions, too.

TAKEAWAYS:
Models are used to develop questions, predictions, and explanations. As students construct explanations for different products using the same model, students gain an understanding of molecules and life’s complexities.

SPEAKERS:
Suzanne Cunningham

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Students can become crime scene investigators analyzing and defusing a “bomb” using their knowledge of half-lives! Attendees will use the Vernier Go Direct® SpectroVis® Plus Spectrophotometer to gather decay data and apply mathematical thinking to determine when the device was set to detonate.

SPEAKERS:
Nüsret Hisim, Colleen McDaniel

Sponsoring Company: Activate Learning

Come investigate how phenomenon-based science can be articulated in the scheme of project-based learning. We’ll use both physics and chemistry to make the case that the context of a project makes the learning, explanation, and application of phenomena much richer and more relevant for all learners.

SPEAKERS:
Gary Curts

Identify elements in the spectra of supernova remnants to determine the properties of collapsed and exploded stars using web-based NASA X-ray data and image analysis tools.

TAKEAWAYS:
JS9 web-based software can be used to analyze NASA data sets to determine the type of supernova and provides students with real opportunities to do astronomical research.

SPEAKERS:
Pamela Perry

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Seeing is believing! Flinn Scientific presents a variety of easy to perform and exciting chemistry and physical science demonstrations. Come see Flinn’s new demonstrations and some of your old favorites—all guaranteed to make your science classroom come alive. Handouts provided for all.

SPEAKERS:
Mike Marvel, Ph.D.

This session will share innovative activities to use with students where they will explore properties and patterns of the periodic table.

TAKEAWAYS:
Join us to share in ways to help students discover for themselves the patterns hidden in the periodic table.

SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Maguire

Gain strategies and tools for enhancing opportunities for computational thinking in your current high school life or physical science curriculum. Bring current lessons and leave with concrete ideas for helping students engage authentically in the SEP of Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will take home strategies and tools based on the Computational Thinking for Science Framework that they can use to enhance opportunities for CT-S in any high school science curriculum. They will receive immediate feedback on lesson modifications they can implement in their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Maia Binding, Timothy Hurt, Ari Krakowski, Wendy Jackson

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Learn the best way to develop deep student understanding of colorimetry and Beer's Law. Help students discover the link between solution concentration and light absorption through hands-on experimentation. We’ll show you how to teach students to use wireless sensors to collect and analyze data.

SPEAKERS:
Sophia Guzules

Join this workshop: “A Chemical Inquiry: Let’s Master Equilibrium!” and participate in a “hands-on” activity to help students overcome common chemical equilibrium misconceptions.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn to use Inquiry to overcome student misconceptions about chemical equilibrium, a critical chemistry topic.

SPEAKERS:
Gregory Dodd

There is no shortage of jaw-dropping discoveries made from meteorites. Known as the “poor man’s space probe” most meteorites come from the asteroid belt. Now that we have actual material from a known asteroid we better sharpen up about meteorite science, because we’re going to need it.

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Attendees will learn the exciting history and evolution of meteorites science through meteorite falls and discoveries. 500 years ago to the most recent meteoritic events, the science just keeps pouring out of these enigmatic rocks from space. Meteorites are the foundation for sample-return missions.

SPEAKERS:
Martin Horejsi

Come learn how two teachers have added Python programming, engineering design, and data collection applied to real-world applications in the context of their Chemistry classrooms. No experience necessary!

TAKEAWAYS:
Coding and engineering design in the Chemistry classroom based on real-world data collection.

SPEAKERS:
Chris Coker, Stacy Thibodeaux

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Middle Schoolers lover Hands-on Science! Flinn Scientific presents a variety of easy to perform and exciting demonstrations. Come see Flinn’s new demonstrations and some of your old favorites—all guaranteed to make your science classroom come alive. Handouts provided for all.

SPEAKERS:
Jillian Saddler

Test some heat-treated metal samples; practice your math skills and artistry with a STEAM activity; work in groups for an engineering challenge! There’s a little something for everyone and we won’t judge anyone for wanting to be hot and cheap in the classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
There can be a lot of fun learning and STEM possibiltiies with cheap, accessible materials, application of heat, and a little creativity. Teachers will leave with a number of ideas useful for all levels of high school classroom: chemistry, physics, physical science, math practice, and engineering.

SPEAKERS:
Scott Spohler, Briana Richardson

How can we take advantage of simple ingredients like yeast to connect science to students’ interests, explore different cultures, & encourage students to meaningfully and safely design their own experiments? Learn through this fun & easy bread-in-a-bag lab with differentiated versions for gr6-12.

TAKEAWAYS:
Explore a lesson that centers around the phenomena of bread and yeast, and see how you can make bread within classroom parameters. Consider how bread can be used to explore multiple science concepts like chemical reactions, organisms, phase changes, and heat transfer; make cultural connections.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Velasquez, Meredith Moore, Shawn Boggs, Kate Strangfeld

Using coding in the science classroom, attendees will see how to put meaning to electromagnetic spectrum calculations homework. Using technology and coding attendees will see how they can make the calculations of frequency, energy, and wavelength come to life with sound, colors, and pictures.

TAKEAWAYS:
Bringing meaning to work in the science classroom. Have students interact with the work that we expect from the calculations from the EM spectrum equations.

SPEAKERS:
Stacy Thibodeaux, Chris Coker

Set up a simple lab and watch a cool demo to talk about resources and the environment, using copper as a specific example. These labs can be used for many levels of understanding - geology, environmental science, chemistry; and a focus on environmental impact of resource acquisition.

TAKEAWAYS:
Recovering pure copper will provide chances to talk about environmental impacts and concerns of resource acquisition. The Berkeley Pit in MT and mining in CO will be discussed. Resources provided will help students understand the challenges faced when balancing competing interests.

SPEAKERS:
Scott Spohler, Briana Richardson

Explore the structure of the OpenSciEd High School assessment system across Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

TAKEAWAYS:
In OpenSciEd HS, the assessment system is structured to support teachers in assessing all three dimensions of the NGSS through formative, summative, peer, and self-assessment opportunities.

SPEAKERS:
Nicole Vick, Zoe Buck Bracey, Kate Henson

Participants will engage in a hands-on activity and a series of investigations to consider how fresh cheese is made (anf how this relates to science topics like pH and solubility). This activity will be delivered at ~grade 9, but can easily be scaled up or down to accommodate grades 5-12.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about what components in milk make up curds and how they chemically change during curd formation and get resources that facilitate eliciting student prior knowledge, making observations, asking questions, and constructing claims based on evidence.

SPEAKERS:
Kate Strangfeld

Hear how an elements project integrates technology, literacy, and arts into the study of atomic structure and the periodic table.

TAKEAWAYS:
Student-generated learning project that can be done at any level by any student, which integrates STEAM in the physical science curriculum.

SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Weissman

This poster will specifically discuss the implementation of information literacy into an upper-division inorganic chemistry lab and the strategies employed to improve students’ information literacy in the laboratory courses.

TAKEAWAYS:
Strategies to develop information literacy practices in STEM classrooms need to be explicitly taught. These explicit activities need to familiarize students with concepts, as well as provide specific scaffolding to support its implementation.

SPEAKERS:
Matilynn Lam, Katy Miller

Information literacy (IL) is an essential skillset in the digital era, making it important to develop throughout students' academic careers. However, the ethical topics of IL may be difficult to introduce to younger students. We identify the possible challenges and provide strategies to tackle them.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators face several challenges teaching elementary students ethical information usage. To combat this, we have devised a few strategies that can make this aspect of information literacy easier to develop in younger students.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Randles, Matilynn Lam

Gaining meaningful access to a discipline requires students to engage with multiple literacies. Here we report on a study investigating postsecondary faculties interpretations, implementations, and assessment of information literacy in university classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
Embedding information literacy (IL) practices in postsecondary chemistry classrooms will require significant curriculum and professional development to support faculty to implement IL practices in their classroom, given faculty temporal and capability restrictions.

SPEAKERS:
Matilynn Lam

As teachers we know students can verbalize a correct response, but when posing with the same question and asking for a written response, students often do not answer in the same ways they did verbally. So, where is the disconnect?

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The objective of this session is to explore how teachers can improve students' writing in science classes. We will explore how to help students transfer the verbal response to the written in order to help improve students’ ability to write in the discipline of science.

SPEAKERS:
Lisa Neesemann, Catherine Walsh

How can food and cooking encourage students to connect science concepts to their everyday lives, communities, and global issues? What can this look like in a science classroom? See examples of lessons and multimedia resources you can use to use this approachable, accessible medium to teach science.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn about resources that include videos, lesson plans, labs, and readings that they can use to teach science through food and cooking. Resources target grade levels 6-12. They will also learn how a building community of teachers is using these resources and see a sample lesson.

SPEAKERS:
Meredith Moore, Mary Velasquez, Kate Strangfeld

We will introduce our forthcoming NSTA book containing a collection of units and resources to help teachers engage students in three-dimensional learning through model-based inquiry.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn about four chemistry model-based inquiry units for rigorous and equitable instruction. Developed with secondary science teachers, the session guides three-dimensional learning, anchoring phenomena, modeling, and scientific explanations.

SPEAKERS:
Ron Gray, Todd Campbell

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

The persistence of laboratory incidents injurious to high school students demonstrates the need for work towards implementing strong safety cultures in our school science labs. Please join us to learn about simple things you can do to make the laboratory a safer environment for your students.

SPEAKERS:
Mike Marvel, Ph.D.

How do we cultivate students’ voice & agency through civic action? Through a partnership between UC Irvine and Anaheim Union High SD, we co-designed equity/justice-centered, NGSS-aligned units and created a civic engagement matrix. We'll share how to use this tool to support students' civic action.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn a civic action matrix that can be used to guide students' projects and empower students to become agents of change in their communities.

SPEAKERS:
Daniel Lieu, Jessica Yett, Hosun Kang

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Explore easy, engaging, and safe chemistry activities that guarantee a reaction in your students. Whether you’re new to chemistry or feeling out of your element, create excitement with hands-on labs, demonstrations, and Carolina’s digital content.These lab activities support 3-dimensional learning.

SPEAKERS:
Laurie Nixon

Sponsoring Company: 3D Molecular Designs

Discover how modeling with interactive, collaborative tools can help your students learn about this new gene editing technology. Hear how the treatment has helped people.

SPEAKERS:
Tim Herman, Kris Herman

Join me as we engage with many high-leverage SEL strategies I regularly incorporate into my high school classroom. I use these strategies to foster a sense of belonging and support strong development of the NGSS SEPs. We’ll discuss successes and strategize your adaptations of my ready-to-use tools.

TAKEAWAYS:
One core SEL strategy I’ll share is a “temperature check” in which students take 5 minutes of class weekly to fill out a digital (or paper) survey to let me know how they’re doing. I’ll share my rationale behind the questions I use and how they have increased my ability to support students.

SPEAKERS:
Andrea Ames

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to facilitate deeper student understanding of mole ratios, stoichiometry, and limiting reactants. This hands-on activity uses common household chemicals to simplify setup and a Wireless Pressure Sensor to support live data collection and immediate data analysis.

SPEAKERS:
Sophia Guzules

This session will connect the teaching methods of our elders to the current best practices in STEM education. This will include the removal of barriers to learning as well as taking the lessons into the world of students. Lesson templates will be shared as well as examples of all methods.

TAKEAWAYS:
For many attendees, existing materials and methods can be adapted to the worlds of the students and drastically increase engagement, critical thinking, and practical application. This will result in a strengthening of the student's identity as a STEM learner, as well as STEM being a possible career.

SPEAKERS:
Joel Truesdell

Food is a powerful tool to teach science: it’s approachable, accessible, & relevant to students and can give them agency in how they make sense of science & how it relates to them. But classrooms aren’t kitchens- how can we harness the power of food in a traditional classroom & why should we do it?

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Participants will engage in an investigative, food-based mini-lab and learn from teachers about how they have used food-based labs in their classroom with different classroom parameters, and why it was worth it. This lab will be at a high school level, but this can easily be adapted to middle school.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Velasquez, Shawn Boggs, Meredith Moore, Kate Strangfeld

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Knowledge is the food of the soul, and these real-world food chemistry experiments cover complex concepts using science that students can see and understand. Attendees will use Vernier Go Direct® pH and CO2 Gas Sensors to explore the differences between baking soda and baking powder.

SPEAKERS:
Nüsret Hisim, Colleen McDaniel

Come and take part in this workshop: “Copper: Two Inquiries to Begin and End the School Year” and learn about the chemical properties of copper using appropriate technology in a “hands-on” activity.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will take part in an Inquiry experiment, use technology to collect/analyze data, and visualize what occurs on the submicroscopic level by employing particulate drawings.

SPEAKERS:
Gregory Dodd

Come try out the Digital Molecule Maker, a platform created by the Molecule Maker Lab Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Supported by AI research, learners can explore the world of molecular synthesis and create novel molecules alongside complimentary hands-on activities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how novel AI techniques in chemistry have allowed researchers to create a system that enables learners to combine different molecular building-blocks and get feedback on predicted molecular properties. They will also get examples of complimentary hands-on activities.

SPEAKERS:
Sabrina Abdulla, James Planey

What makes it rain? M&Ms versus Skittles? Baking soda versus baking powder? Free online lesson plans of hands-on activities and animations help your elementary students build foundational concepts in chemistry.

TAKEAWAYS:
By conducting hands-on investigations of common phenomena and interacting with molecular model animations, teachers will develop grade-appropriate explanations using atoms and molecules to help students better understand the causes of the phenomena they observe.

SPEAKERS:
James Kessler

We’ll share teaching resources teachers may use in the classroom in a playful way, focusing on the next stage of the Man on the Moon with Artemis Mission. Teachers put hands-on teaching resources to maintain human life on the Moon and build a didactic game (Battleship Exploring the Periodic Table).

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will inquire, “How may we build a lunar base?” To solve this problem, teachers will explore the elements of the Moon soil and will build a Periodic Table battleship game. Participants will dig deeper into the organization of the Periodic Table and understand that elements are all over.

SPEAKERS:
Isabel Borges, Carla Sofia Ranito, Adelina Machado, Sandra Vasconcelos

Learn about a variety of instructional strategies that utilize movement to engage students in learning chemistry and physics. All attendees will participate in activities themselves and be given resources to bring back to the classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn about pedological strategies that promote movement and student engagement.

SPEAKERS:
Jessica Gutierrez

Explore the use of biotechnology by having your students build their own 3D-printed gel electrophoresis equipment and perform experiments with inexpensive and easily obtainable materials.

TAKEAWAYS:
Biotechnology can be accomplished using inexpensive 3D-printed equipment and easily obtainable generic materials.

SPEAKERS:
James Lettieri, Judith Campo-Sobota

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Let Flinn help you develop as a teacher. Whether this is your first-year teaching, or your first-year teaching science, this session will show you how to do science safely that will lead to better student outcomes.

SPEAKERS:
Jillian Saddler

Join the fun and inquiry as we apply a variety of hands-on activities to core concepts across grade levels, from elementary to middle school to high school.

TAKEAWAYS:
One of the goals of the NGSS is that topics should not be taught in a striated series of unrelated levels, but rather learning should be articulated vertically through the grade bands.

SPEAKERS:
Karen Ostlund

Come discover how free, NSF-funded simulations and curricula from The Concord Consortium can add all dimensions of the NGSS to your physics, physical science, and chemistry teaching with a special emphasis on the Science Practices. Bring a device to this interactive session and get free resources!

TAKEAWAYS:
Strategies in the use of simulations for 3D NGSS-aligned teaching.

SPEAKERS:
Chad Dorsey

Educators and researchers from the inquiryHub partnership between DPS and CU Boulder share their experiences as they co-designed (and co-redesigned) the iHub Chemistry curriculum, professional learning to accompany it, and other classroom tools to support its use.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers partnering with researchers can yield engaging curriculum materials that support more equitable teaching and learning.

SPEAKERS:
Douglas Watkins

A high school senior, her teacher, and her mother will discuss the execution and benefits of a third-year chemistry class that was driven by a local disaster.

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Attendees will gain perspective on using real-life occurrences to help drive student engagement, scientific inquiry, and course content.

SPEAKERS:
Kristen Miller, Karagin Miller, Veronica Kotel

Conduct energy transformation experiments using items encountered in everyday life. Motion, sound, thermal, radiant, electrical, and chemical energy transformations are studied using glow sticks, handwarmers, batteries, etc. Confidently teach energy forms & transformations!

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about forms of energy and energy transformations by engaging in experiments just as their students would, to better understand visually what they are and how they occur.

SPEAKERS:
Vernon Kimball

The various metals and alloys used in the minting of the US penny over the years will provide for rich explorations. We will share activities that combine some very basic lab activities conducted by some of our chemistry classes with detailed mathematical modeling done by the students in statistics.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will use real data to develop mathematical models and learn how to test our hypothesis by performing an experiment and analyzing the results, combining chemical analysis with statistical sampling for a cross-curricular approach.

SPEAKERS:
Karlheinz Haas

Explore a unifying framework used in OpenSciEd for making connections between matter, energy, and forces across Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science. Dig into this tool in free NGSS-aligned units to explain phenomena and consider how it could be applied to other phenomena in your context.

TAKEAWAYS:
The Framework calls for “a common use of language about energy and matter across the disciplines in science instruction.” The MEF triangle uses cues and prompts to draw attention to interactions between matter, energy, and forces to help students make sense of complex phenomena across domains.

SPEAKERS:
Jamie Noll, Diego Rojas-Perilla

This session will explore acid base chemistry. Hands-on, data collection, simulations, and card sorts will be utilized to encourage participants to have fun with the complex chemistry topic of acid base chemistry.

TAKEAWAYS:
Acid base chemistry and buffers are difficult concepts for students to grasp. This session will help teachers create and modify traditional lecture activities to be student-centered, hands-on learning opportunities.

SPEAKERS:
Chris Coker, Stacy Thibodeaux

This presentation will introduce a problem-solving experiment using Beer's Law to find the concentration of tartrazine in a high school chemistry class.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session's takeaway is a fun and novel lab that attendees can implement into their own chemistry class.

SPEAKERS:
Kevin Mason, Gregory Matthias

Sponsoring Company: BFW Publishers

Capture high school chemistry students’ interest by inviting them into a phenomenon-based curriculum! Perform a periodic table card sort and learn how to build an understanding of whether it is possible to turn a copper penny into gold—presented by Living by Chemistry author, Dr. Angelica Stacy.

SPEAKERS:
Angelica Stacy

Differentiation is a buzz word in education, but how can teachers effectively differentiate while keeping all students engaged? Blended, mastery-based instruction allows the classroom to become student-led and flexibly paced within each unit of instruction.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to effectively differentiate instruction and provide individualized attention to struggling learners while keeping students engaged and managing classroom behavior.

SPEAKERS:
Amanda Richardson, Kathryn Allen, Laura Martin-Lauzer

Students often find it perplexing that elevated atmospheric CO2 reduces carbonate ion concentrations in the ocean as they learn that increasing the concentration of reactants enhances product formation. Join this session to explore the underlying processes using an interactive computer model.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will utilize an interactive computer model to investigate how three interconnected reactions influence oceanic pH and dissolved inorganic carbon dynamic as atmospheric CO2 level changes. They will also receive ready-to-use classroom activity materials and tips for implementation.

SPEAKERS:
Lin Xiang

A periodic table battle ship game that I created with Google Sheets allows students to play a game that enables students to use the periodic table as a playing field. Students communicate with each other, building their understanding, fluency, sportsmanship, and positive classroom community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn the benefits of the game and be able to participate in game play with another attendee. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RhRi_x4IAZwGNfor-JkiU-B5kisb1Wqm7OXtTQTsoRQ/edit?usp=sharing

SPEAKERS:
Peter Kelly

Do you wish your Math department was on the same page as your science classroom? In this session, you will participate in activities involving real-world data collection that can be engaging in both science and mathematics classrooms. There is no limit to what you can do with the S and M in STEM!

TAKEAWAYS:
Through simple real-time data collection, you can incorporate your science classroom with the mathematics classrooms in your school. Come learn how to build the community your school needs!

SPEAKERS:
Stacy Thibodeaux, Daniel Wilkie

Join this panel discussion that highlights the strategies that three science teachers use for adapting the Matter, Energy, and Forces framework, a tool integrated in OpenSciEd materials. This tool aims to support student sense making of disciplinary core ideas across multiple domains

TAKEAWAYS:
The Framework promotes the use of language about energy and matter across the disciplines in science instruction. There are productive instructional practices to use the MEF triangle to draw students' attention to interactions between matter, energy, and forces as they explore natural phenomena.

SPEAKERS:
Joe Kremer, Kathryn Fleegal, Diego Rojas-Perilla

Cognitive science research provides substantial evidence for flexible and often counterintuitive cognitive strategies, including spacing, interleaving, and retrieval practice that boost student learning. Teachers will learn how to implement these techniques within their classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to apply multiple practical, flexible, and research-based cognitive strategies, including retrieving information from memory, distributing practice across time, scaffolding, and mixing together different examples within their own classrooms to improve student learning.

SPEAKERS:
Jonathan Tullis

To understand chemistry in crime fiction novels with examples of authors who had applied chemistry will be shown. How I use them in my fiction books will be presented.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn about connection of chemistry and crime in literature. Examples of chemicals used to commit crimes will be presented.

SPEAKERS:
Bal Barot

Development and cultivation of a partnership between a high school and local university for the purposes of providing students with authentic experiences in a post-secondary laboratory. This includes student collection and analysis of Infrared Spectra, Mass Spectra, and Proton NMR Spectra.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how this partnership was developed and how the partnership has evolved over the past 18 years. Examples of student-collected data and interpretation of results will be presented to show the "final product."

SPEAKERS:
Jeromy Bentley

Bohr’s model works well to help students visualize compounds, but ending with Bohr cuts the story short. This session will use a paper model to deepen the teacher’s knowledge base and result in students having a richer and more accurate portrayal of the atom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Free resource available to use in the classroom which models the current model of the atom.

SPEAKERS:
Karen Matsler

Come play device-free comprehensive unit review games that are designed to provide an opportunity for all chemistry students to problem solve and think critically while working together as a team in a growth-mindset environment.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will walk away with device-free game materials and proven strategies that encourage collaboration and communication while increasing students' application of concepts in 14 units of the high school chemistry curriculum.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Hessling, Elaine Kollar, Tracy Smith

Learn to use pressure sensors, simulations, computer graphing, and whiteboards to have students model and understand the particle behavior of gases. Also, teach gas law problem-solving using proportional thinking to make the numbers make sense physically!

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will use various representations of particle behavior to explain Gas Laws and mathematically model the relationships, using pressure sensors and simulations. They will learn to calculate using proportional thinking, leading to a verbal description of WHY variables change as they do.

SPEAKERS:
Kimberlee Freudenberg

Artificial Intelligence chatbots have upended teaching and learning. Negative aspects of their use have been raised, but there are positive ones too. Research into the performance of students and ChatGPT in a chemistry class will be shared and future directions discussed for student learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Chatbots are here to stay. Teachers and students need to know how to use them to support learning.

SPEAKERS:
Ted Clark