Experience how classroom agreements can create productive and safe spaces for elementary students to share their ideas, let those ideas change and grow, and engage with each other as a community of learners.

TAKEAWAYS:
Elementary students can co-construct classroom agreements that support an environment where they recognize that science can be done in many ways, feel safe and compelled to share their ideas and questions, listen/look/respond to others' ideas, and let their ideas change and grow.

SPEAKERS:
María González-Howard, Carla Robinson, Leticia Garza, Janna Mahfoud

Engage in an OpenSciEd Elementary unit and see how classroom discussions can support ALL students’ in using their ideas, experiences, and evidence for collective sensemaking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about how to engage elementary students in classroom discussion to share initial ideas, build understanding and come to consensus about the phenomenon they are trying to collectively figure out.

SPEAKERS:
Guy Ollison, Susan Gomez Zwiep

Explore the storyline of the newly released OpenSciEd Unit K.2 How Can We Be Prepared for the Weather? and see how students leverage connections to ELA and math as they investigate and make sense of their local weather conditions.

TAKEAWAYS:
OpenSciEd Elementary units provide significant opportunities for students to explicitly connect with grade-level mathematics, reading, writing, speaking & listening, and language standards in service of their science sensemaking.

SPEAKERS:
Gail Housman

How can we fit student-centered science instruction into the varied schedules of K-5 classrooms? Experience and explore how OpenSciEd Elementary’s free high-quality units are designed to support teachers in making time to engage their students in 3D science.

TAKEAWAYS:
OpenSciEd Elementary lessons are organized in four components: Navigate, Explore, Connect, and Synthesize. These components support teachers in understanding the purpose of each part of a lesson, allow for more flexible timing, and can be implemented in various parts of the school day.

SPEAKERS:
Guy Ollison, Gail Housman

Ignite excitement and curiosity about science in your elementary classroom! Engage in and explore how phenomenon-based instruction can spark students' interest in science and go beyond special activities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will experience how including science in the elementary classroom engages children's curiosity about the world while authentically applying literacy and math skills.

SPEAKERS:
Yanira Vazquez

Explore the storyline of OpenSciEd Unit K.1 Why Are Some Surfaces Hot and How Can We Make Them Less Hot? and see how students use science ideas they have figured out to design, build, and test solutions.

TAKEAWAYS:
Engaging in engineering to solve a problem that is relevant to them (such as helping part of the schoolyard stay less hot when it’s sunny out) gives students a meaningful opportunity to use their science ideas.

SPEAKERS:
Gail Housman