Experience how embedding literacy supports for reading, writing, and academic discourse in 3D teaching and learning promotes sensemaking and science understanding for ALL learners! Learn how the BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning instructional model embeds literacy supports throughout cycles of inquiry.

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The research-based BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning instructional model succeeds the 5Es and embeds literacy supports for reading, writing, and academic discourse in conjunction with science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to promote students in figuring out key science ideas.

SPEAKERS:
Cynthia Gay

The goal of this session is for participants to be able to feel confident and competent with incorporating multiple SEPs into everyday sensemaking lessons in their classrooms.

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Participants will experience a hands-on lesson that walks them through the basic steps of how to lead a sensemaking lesson that incorporates multiple SEPs.

SPEAKERS:
Kelly Schumann, Elizabeth Morris

Participants will use the engineering design process to imagine and build challenges that link with popular rhymes. Lively learning activities will integrate NGSS, math, literacy, and SEL, supporting research that science and engineering should be included for early elementary students.

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Engineering activities can be effectively utilized with early primary students, supporting their growth not only in science, but also in math, ELA, and SEL. Participants will experience engineering exercises that can be readily integrated into their classroom practice.

SPEAKERS:
Pam Nolan-Beasley

With literacy making it's way to the forefront of all core curriculum, do you ever feel like you don't have enough time to add a reading assignment to your lesson plans? Don't stress! I will present strategies that I have incorporated into my plans that have had positive results.

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You will take away literacy strategies that can be incorporated immediately into your lesson plans that will encourage students to read aloud, pick out important words and phrases, and put their ideas on paper. Also allows teachers to assess reading abilities and comprehension.

SPEAKERS:
Stacey Barnett

A team of Science Consultants and Early Literacy Coaches in Michigan has utilized recommendations in the power of the Brilliance and Strengths Report, combined with data on elementary-level science education, to devise an approach to support literacy practices within science instructional time.

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The attendees will learn what the SLIC Model consists of, as well as how to find out more to gain supports to implement themselves. There are Facilitator Guides, Train-the-Trainer Professional Learning opportunities, and sessions built out to take with them. This is an OER resource.

SPEAKERS:
Wendi Vogel

To meet the spirit and vision of NGSS, teachers need pedagogies and practices for facilitating scientific discourses at various stages of STEM lessons. This session introduces three discourse frameworks to help students engage in the practices of listening and speaking like scientists and engineers.

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Learn pedagogy and practice for scientific discourses. Participants learn how to facilitate 1.) science talks — how to generate curiosity, wonder, and theorize; 2.) scaffolding action, how to engage and expand scientific investigation and engineering design; and 3.) foster scientific argumentation.

SPEAKERS:
Adam Devitt

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Students model global water movement as driven by the Sun and gravity. They consider how a plant's systems interact over various time and spacial scales. Crosscutting concepts of scale, proportion, and quantity are used to discuss the study of water movement and human impact on water.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Parker

Sponsoring Company: STEMscopes by Accelerate Learning

Come learn how to use effective literacy strategies so that students can better understand science content. Student understanding and critical-thinking skills will improve with these techniques. Join our constructivist approach that promotes literacy in the science classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Heather Thompson

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Join our interactive science workshop where literacy meets exploration! Immerse yourself in a world of discovery as we blend scientific concepts with the power of language. Through engaging activities, see how students will not only unravel the wonders of science but also enhance their literacy skills. Leave with classroom resources.

SPEAKERS:
Hoover Herrera, Dr. Sarah Glassman

Participate in an exploration of science and STEM learning tailored for young learners. Navigate through informative stations, engage with colleagues, and establish connections with science leaders. Depart with lessons and resources designed to elevate STEM and science in your classroom.

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Elementary and early childhood educators will leave with resources, lessons, and ideas that will advance science and STEM learning in their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Williams

Old Enough to Make a Difference? Yes, you are! It is possible for students of all ages to start making a positive difference in their community. Inspirations from student projects will be shared along with resources for teachers. Great ideas for family engagement nights, science fairs, and more!

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Attendees will have resources that can used in the classroom and community right away.

SPEAKERS:
Katie Stevenson

Join two instructional coaches who will lead a medical-themed session where attendees will have the opportunity to travel through the cross-curricular leveling-up (station-based) activity. Attendees will leave the session with instructional strategies to fuel student engagement.

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Attendees will participate in a cross-curricular leveling-up (station-based) activity. Attendees will also receive access to a website that includes meaningful instructional sequences, grade-appropriate resources, a cross-curricular map, rubrics, and student organizers fueling student engagement.

SPEAKERS:
Jamesa Broome, Ann Vitello

A variety of activities exploring seeds, including: comparing and contrasting by size, shape, color, texture; experimenting with samaras to ask scientific questions, like which way do they spin as they fall to the ground; and more. Books about seeds will be available to view.

TAKEAWAYS:
How to integrate science into language arts, using seeds.

SPEAKERS:
Frances Hamilton

Science involves specific vocabulary & terminology. Students cannot develop & use models, analyze & interpret data, or construct explanations without using terminology & language structures that characterize the language of science. Experience using a simple vocabulary scaffold to reduce barriers.

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Attendees will experience using a simple vocabulary scaffold to reduce language barriers. This will support teachers' efforts to support students efforts to talk and write about science.

SPEAKERS:
Julie Jackson

Check out and learn how to access free ML-PBL integrated science curricular units for Grades K-5. See how the features of PBL support sensemaking, check out examples of unit overviews, literacy integration and recommended trade books, and research supporting the Multiple Literacies in PBL Project.

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After viewing examples from multiple units within the ML-PBL K-5 unit sequence, participants will learn how to access the free K-5 curricular resources on the Sprocket site. Handouts provide access to support for accessing and implementing the resources, or for adapting current units.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Codere

This year’s OSTB award books will be available for participants to peruse and enjoy. Additionally, we will share our methods and findings for a review of all 246 submitted books for topics in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Also, learn about our experiences serving on the committee!

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Participants can view and discuss the latest Outstanding Science Trade Book winners.

SPEAKERS:
Ana Houseal, Katie Morrison

Communicating your findings is a huge piece of any science investigation or project. Come and see some of the different forms such communication can take in P-2 classes, as well as create some of your own!

TAKEAWAYS:
Ideas and formats for communicating science findings.

SPEAKERS:
Annette Venegas, Anne Lowry

Learn effective ways to help students formulate effective questions, design explorations to answer their questions, apply analytical and critical thinking skills, collect and interpret data, and determine effective ways to communicate their findings and the concepts they have learned. Handouts.

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Attendees will learn how to help students read like a scientist, how to formulate effective questions they want to answer, how to set up explorations and learning experiences, how to apply skills and communicate their findings so that students can think, act, and communicate like scientists.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Knoell

Blank stares and closed mouths no more! The Visual Non-Glossary makes rich, equitable small-group conversations super easy by providing structured visuals and guiding discussion questions and sentence stems for each of 1,500+ vocabulary words K-12 in Science, available in both English and Spanish.

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Attendees will learn how to get kids to think deeply and talk elaborately about science content. We will interact in small groups with science content to see how all students of different backgrounds can intuitively engage with structured visuals.

SPEAKERS:
Stephen Fleenor

Join the US Patent & Trademark Office with activities from the free online invention education platform EquIP HQ, Patent Sensei, and Patent Quest. Gain a conceptual understanding of some of the steps needed to take during the patent process including developing skills to help perform a patent search.

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All students have the power to invent. The USPTO is committed to providing free resources to help K-12 students realize their potential as inventors. Unlocking young inventors' potential, EquIP HQ introduces students to the patent process, igniting creativity and innovation in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Juan Valentin

Sponsoring Company: TCI

This workshop offers a unique opportunity for educators to gain practical insights into integrating literacy skills within the science curriculum. Attendees will leave with tangible strategies and tools to enrich their teaching practices, fostering a more engaging learning experience for students.

SPEAKERS:
Sara Kumar

Presenters will share three units in which science is integrated with ELA, math, and social studies. This session will share the process of unit creation and how incorporation with other content areas strengthens science instruction. Three units will be shared: kindergarten, 3rd, and 5th grade.

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Attendees will learn how to integrate multiple content standards to strengthen science instruction, as well as leave with three examples of fully integrated elementary units. In addition to the sharing of the units, presenters will share the creation process so participants can engage in this work.

SPEAKERS:
Mandie Sanderman, Chelsie Byram

Although teachers understand the importance of literacy integration, the process of literacy integration remains elusive...until now! This session will support the development of a concrete plan for integrating literacy into your classroom. Resources included!

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Literacy integration does not mean teaching students to decode. Literacy integration, at its core, is the process of making text visible in the classroom so students can read, write, and speak like professional scientists. Literacy integration makes science fun!

SPEAKERS:
Mesa Davis

Sponsoring Company: Activate Learning

Learn how to enhance students’ overall communication in and out of the science classroom throughout their learning. Delve deeper into topics that include listening using classroom norms, strategies that help students with short response, and how to enhance students’ use of CER!

SPEAKERS:
Brian Klaft

Prior experience and knowledge are key to reading comprehension, especially for tackling complex texts. Join us for an interactive session where we'll explore how doing science and applying effective reading strategies are what students need to be successful readers and scientists.

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Students need to engage fully in the science and engineering practices in order to build reading comprehension. Science cannot be learned through reading alone, and readers need to be able to draw upon their experiences in science to understand and make sense of new concepts.

SPEAKERS:
Claudio Vargas, Diana Velez

Engage in a research strategy grounded in the Global Competence Framework. Using maps and data visualization tools, including the EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening Tool, participants will consider different perspectives, investigate the world, communicate ideas, and plan to take action.

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Learn a research strategy that helps make student research personally meaningful and globally relevant while developing their global competence. Learn how to use data visualization tools to explore environmental justice in your own community and inspire students to take action for a more just world.

SPEAKERS:
Holly Emery, Catherine Knasas, Caroline Stabile

Phenomena-based teaching and learning in science authentically lends itself to integration with literacy, language development, and other subject areas, yet each is often taught in silos. Explore how to shift K-5 classroom practice towards an integrated approach that supports all students’ learning.

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Teachers and leaders will gain insight into principles of content integration with science as the anchor and will explore tools, strategies, and system-wide approaches they can use in their own K-5 context in order to identify and plan for more equitable interdisciplinary science instruction.

SPEAKERS:
Diana Velez, Rebecca Abbott

Learn about the differences between content and disciplinary literacy. Participants will understand the benefits of implementing literacy strategies in science. Participants will learn vocabulary and literacy strategies that they can take to help build their student's comprehension of science texts.

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In this session, participants will learn about the differences between content and disciplinary literacy, and engage in vocabulary and comprehension strategies that they can use in the classroom to build their student comprehension.

SPEAKERS:
Megan Hamada

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Why aren't there eclipses during each lunar cycle? Explore this phenomenon through a modeling activity that looks at both the Earth's and the Moon's orbital planes. Come experience this hands-on interactive session and take home your own Lab-Aids Orbital Plane model.

SPEAKERS:
Ed Miller

Sponsoring Company: Publisher Spotlight

The Roccos will discuss their new book, Wild Places: The Life of Naturalist David Attenborough, and the Children’s Book Creators for Conservation goal of creating free conservation-based programs for schools nationwide. They will end with an interactive “game show” about endangered animals.

SPEAKERS:
John Rocco, Hayley Rocco

Teaching students to use the Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) Framework is not easy. This workshop bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing a stepwise strategy that makes the process of evidence-based critical thinking visible to students. All activities are student-approved!

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Attendees will learn how to successfully implement CER in their classrooms. In addition, attendees will leave the session with three readymade activities that are easily implemented but have a high impact.

SPEAKERS:
Mesa Davis

Delve into children’s literature that merges storytelling and science explanations, inviting elementary students to unravel intriguing investigations and uncover how and why science works.

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Attendees will examine children’s literature that enhances critical thinking and guides elementary students in refining science models and explanations post-investigation. This session will showcase the transformative potential of literature in elementary science.

SPEAKERS:
Colleen Saxen, Michelle Fleming

Participants will engage in a variety of activities, collect information, discover new resources, and network with middle-level leaders from NSTA and NMLSTA. The new ideas and materials will be something that can be used next week.

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Attendees will have networking opportunities with other middle-level science educators, both presenters and other attendees. In addition, they will discover new resources for all aspects of science teaching and they will engage in a variety of new activities to use with their students.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Lou Lipscomb

Experience the “magnetic attraction” of science and literacy while figuring out a noncontact force. Participants use speaking, listening, reading and writing to engage in a phenomenon routine that includes noticing, wondering, modeling, and finding evidence to support or refute their thinking.

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Participants understand the interdependency of science and literacy, receive knowledge of where to find investigations embedded with “inquiry principles” incorporated in the science and engineering practices, a sample interactive read aloud, and a resource list for everything shared in the session.

SPEAKERS:
Sandra Ryack-Bell, Kathy Renfrew

Explore a suite of free, standards-aligned lessons that get elementary students engaged with climate science by connecting them to their environment, fostering empowerment, and supporting social-emotional and interdisciplinary learning.

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Attendees will learn how climate science can be included in elementary classrooms in ways that help students feel empowered, connected to their environment, and grow their social-emotional skills as they learn how climate works and how climate change happens.

SPEAKERS:
Melissa Rummel, Leanne Rehme, Katie Wolfson, Lisa Gardiner

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.

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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

Join us as we explore classroom activities that engage students in thinking, exploring, and making sense of the world using an integrated science and literacy approach. Learn how to use our 5 thinking routines to collect assessment evidence to support student learning.

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Participants gain a toolkit of engaging science activities strategically paired with literacy strategies to enhance instructional effectiveness and empower students to develop essential thinking routines to tackle scientific challenges, because together this approach 'just works' in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Lionel Sandner, Sandra Mirabelli

Beatrix Potter, mycologist? George Washington, agriculturalist? Rosalynn Carter, entomologist? Learn how biographies and other trade books about citizen scientists can lead to the exploration of the wonders of nature.

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Participants will explore how they can address the NGSS and integrate literacy through incorporating high-quality science trade books about citizen scientists such as Beatrix Potter.

SPEAKERS:
Amy Broemmel, Kristin Rearden

This session will provide teachers with practical and effective strategies for supporting Multilingual Learners. Through hands-on activities, we will model best practices for scaffolding the language demands of a science lesson and the language development opportunities provided by the Practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Science learning and language development are mutually supportive. Language learning occurs as a product of using language. As Multilingual Learners engage in the SEPs, they use disciplinary language to make sense of phenomena and use their emerging language to communicate their new understanding.

SPEAKERS:
Diana Velez, Claudio Vargas

Come discover how free, NSF-funded resources from The Concord Consortium and EL Education can bring literacy, math, and social studies into the science classroom through engaging students with authentic real-world datasets. Bring a device to this interactive session and take away tips and resources!

TAKEAWAYS:
Resources and strategies for interdisciplinary sensemaking through interactive data-exploration simulations and activities.

SPEAKERS:
Katherine Miller

Learn how to build upon the NGSS SEPs so that students get more out of investigations and labs. Using hands-on explorations, students can learn to improve their collection and analysis of data – along with the communication of the results and learning. These strategies will make a difference.

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This session provides teacher strategies and resources to support students with investigations and labs. The quality of observations and analysis of scientific data can be enhanced, thus helping students communicate their findings to others.

SPEAKERS:
Jason Harding

Conducting a novel study is a wonderful opportunity to develop some STEM activities that allow for practicing those skills while also developing a deeper understanding of the book being read. This session will share examples of projects and guide participants through developing their own project.

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Attendees will leave the session with project ideas for integrating STEM into novel studies.

SPEAKERS:
Amy Bebell

Learn about and apply tools from a federally-funded professional development program around translanguaging. These tools will allow you to plan lessons that leverage emergent bilinguals' multilingualism and lived experiences as they analyze and interpret data and scientific texts.

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Translanguaging recognizes, values, and leverages emergent bilinguals full communicative repertoire. Science teachers can use strategic translanguaging moves to strengthen how science practices, such as analyzing and interpreting data, better foster biliteracy development.

SPEAKERS:
Edward Lyon

In this session, teachers will experience the integration of reading, math, and science instruction, and get more bang for their buck. The session will also discuss and demonstrate differentiation to support all learners. There will be a rotation simulation for brain stimulation!

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The hands-on session provides: ideas on classroom management for integrated stations and centers, detailed small-group instruction, Lexile-leveled lessons, and much more!

SPEAKERS:
Yolanda Williams

An examination of how drama can be incorporated into science lessons to facilitate teacher assessment and support retrieval practice. This will be followed by a series of activities where the delegates will explore various drama techniques.

TAKEAWAYS:
How can drama be used to assess children's scientific understanding.

SPEAKERS:
David Allen

Sponsoring Company: STEMscopes by Accelerate Learning

Come learn how to use effective literacy strategies so that students can better understand science content. Student understanding and critical-thinking skills will improve with these techniques. Join our constructivist approach that promotes literacy in the science classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Heather Thompson

Reading proficiency is tied to academic success. Teaching various reading and testing strategies while using high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and innovative technology can help students overcome their challenges with comprehension and vocabulary acquisition.

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How to use reading strategies coupled with technology to help all students develop ways to navigate grade-level, challenging text. How creating a classroom culture can cultivate an environment conducive for welcoming and increasing literacy in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Leslie White-Keuchler

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Students use diagrams to create a 3D clay model of some of the organs and structures in the human torso. The concepts of structure and function are introduced as students begin to think about how the organs can be grouped into body systems based on their function within the human body.

SPEAKERS:
Ed Miller

Sponsoring Company: Society for Neuroscience

This workshop offers an opportunity for teachers to explore a new neuroscience curriculum designed for third through sixth grade students. The curriculum encompasses lessons aimed at improving academic performance and increasing mental health literacy among students.

SPEAKERS:
Carolann Berns

Come learn how to use the Justice, Equity, and Inclusion in Science Picture Books Checklist to select high-quality picture books for your classroom. In this interactive workshop, participants practice using the checklist and discuss takeaways. Several picture books will be raffled to participants.

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Participants learn about a tool to analyze science picture books they select that center justice, equity, and inclusion. Participants practice using the tool with recently published picture books, analyze the value of the tool, and discuss how they can integrate it in their teaching environments.

SPEAKERS:
Ingrid Carter, Caitlin Fine

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Join our interactive science workshop where literacy meets exploration! Immerse yourself in a world of discovery as we blend scientific concepts with the power of language. Through engaging activities, see how students will not only unravel the wonders of science but also enhance their literacy skills. Leave with classroom resources.

SPEAKERS:
Hoover Herrera, Dr. Sarah Glassman

This session shares resources to create meaningful, integrated learning experiences for young learners. By incorporating trade books tailored for young learners, the session offers insights into how these books can function as catalysts for sparking curiosity and providing pathways for SEPs.

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Participants will learn techniques to evaluate science content from trade books and will take away a curated collection of recommended literature and hands-on activity ideas built on science and engineering practices.

SPEAKERS:
Melissa Parks

Interactive modeling aids in addressing alternate conceptions for major science concepts and develops students’ science identity. This session will share the research results from a middle school Earth Science classroom and explore methods to incorporate modeling for increased Earth Science literacy

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Teachers will leave with ideas to incorporate Iterative modeling in Earth Science classrooms, addressing alternate conceptions to increase Earth Science literacy and using modeling for formative and summative assessment.

SPEAKERS:
Jocelyn Miller, Missie Olson

Receive practical ideas to integrate computational thinking (CT) into K-5 science, mathematics, and English Language Arts curriculum.

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Learn examples about how to integrate STEM, Literacy, and Computational Thinking into everyday lessons. Different technological tools available for educators.

SPEAKERS:
Chelsie Pratt, Michaela Slagle, Dylan Singleton, Chihche Tai

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.

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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.

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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

This poster session will provide examples of activities that build language comprehension skills for English Learners. Activities will help connect science content to background knowledge while thinking critically about scientific concepts using informational text, visuals, and hands-on exploration.

TAKEAWAYS:
They will learn about a scaffolded set of activities designed to build language comprehension skills using a science concept.

SPEAKERS:
Amanda Die

This action research investigates the impact of job-embedded professional learning (focused on using science and literacy strategies in the science classroom) on the performance and achievement of students, and the effectiveness of the science teacher.

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The key takeaways will include a suite of strategies and interventions that can be implemented district-wide or at the classroom level. These strategies focus on the intersection of science and literacy, and how they interplay in the science classroom and curriculum.

SPEAKERS:
Marissa Murdock

In Discourse with an Equity Lens in a Science Classroom participants will explain what it means to disaggregate science instruction and discuss the role of linguistic bias in science classrooms, explain the process of “figuring out”, and identify teacher talk moves and productive talk.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers can use discourse to promote sensemaking and affirm students’ science identity.

SPEAKERS:
Evelyn Larose, Alicia Wedderburn

Pokémon cards depict fictitious animalian life stages that can be leveraged to discuss life science concepts such as inherited and acquired traits. After briefly reviewing inherited versus acquired traits and 5E lessons, participants will explore the cards to develop sci-fi writing samples.

TAKEAWAYS:
While some Pokémon character cards depict physical and behavioral development over two or more stages, such character cards may be leveraged as science fiction writing seeds, to help early adolescents apply their understanding of life science concepts while learning about the Science Fiction genre.

SPEAKERS:
Omah Williams-Duncan

This interactive session will provide fun ways for students to argue with evidence. CER ideas and activities will be provided as well as rubrics for assessments.

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Participants will analyze student CERs, learn methods of implementation, and write claims with evidence and reasoning.

SPEAKERS:
Leah Ward, Allison Halling, Becky McKinney

Participants will engage in computational thinking practices to identify trustworthy scientific sources in the media. This session includes classroom-ready activities focused on disciplinary core ideas to enhance media literacy through science and engineering practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Computational thinking (CT) is an iterative process useful for identifying trustworthy scientific sources in the media. Through inquiry, CT enables students to disaggregate media content, recognize patterns, focus on important information, and develop systematic processes to improve media literacy.

SPEAKERS:
Missie Olson, Dennis Liu, Jocelyn Miller

Sponsoring Company: Amplify Science

Unlock the powerful connections between science and literacy to improve learning outcomes in both disciplines. Experience how literacy-rich NGSS-designed learning sequences from UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science are synergistic with language comprehension goals from the Science of Reading.

SPEAKERS:
Alestra Menendez, Rebecca Abbott

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Explore the use of sensemaking strategies to help students understand how selective gene expression works. Come experience a model lesson from the Lab-Aids' program: Science and Global Issues: Biology, developed by SEPUP. This hands-on workshop will also show a connection to genetic engineering.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Parker

The underpinning of meaningful professional learning lies in coherent and sustained professional development experiences teachers can apply in the classroom. This session focuses on how to apply the Science Professional Learning Standards in modeling discourse to improve instruction.

TAKEAWAYS:
A clear understanding of how to apply the Science Professional Learning Standards to select and design professional learning experiences. A set of strategies and lesson plans for modeling classroom discourse and applying these strategies in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Candace Penrod, Brett Moulding

Follow butterflies, bees, birds, and childrens' books into the school yard with an NSTA Press author who shares strategies for journaling like wilderness explorers and wildlife habitat champions interwoven with stories of creating and preserving the phenomenon of Monarch migration. Free seeds!

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The main takeaway is most prominently the set of strategies (nature journaling, integrating childrens' literature) that help students in interdisciplinary efforts to use or create school gardens that promote pollination and provide a pathway for migrating butterflies, various birds, bees, and bats.

SPEAKERS:
Steve Rich

Join us and learn how to revitalize STEM instruction using Library of Congress primary sources which align with Next Gen Science Standard and visual thinking. Inspire future STEM leaders using practical strategies and inquiry with digitized resources from our nation's library.

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This session showcases how digital resources from the Library of Congress offer authentic connections to STEM concepts and NGSS. By examining primary sources, teachers and students can explore scientific ideas, technological innovations, and the societal impact of STEM advancements.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Israelsen, Michelle Pearson

Transform static word walls into interactive tools that involve students, include visuals, organize content, target key vocabulary, and support student discourse. Bring vocabulary to life so students can build meaningful relationships with Disciplinary Core Ideas rather than simply memorizing them.

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Attendees will learn how to transform static word walls into interactive teaching tools that involve students, include visuals, organize content, target key vocabulary, and support student discourse. We will build an interactive word wall and use it to support academic discourse during the session.

SPEAKERS:
Julie Jackson

Science can be challenging for multilingual learners because it is heavy with tier two and three vocabulary. Educators may be challenged by the needs of those at the entering or beginning level of proficiency. Comprehensible input makes content and concepts visible, thereby improving accessibility.

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Participants will learn several strategies that make content visible and therefore more accessible to multilingual learners. Comprehensible input strategies include explicit vocabulary and pictorial compacting. Comprehensible output strategies include student-generated realia and thinking maps.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Schell, Nathalie Guerin

Come join in the Design Thinking Process: Define, Empathize, Ideate, Prototype, Test, and Improve. This process helps students (and teachers) to brainstorm, understand others, and solve problems creatively and collaboratively in a K-5 science education!

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They will learn how we can put empathy in the design thinking process, so we can bridge the connection between our students and the community with STEM. We often see science at a global scale, but this will help bring back the focus at a local level.

SPEAKERS:
Tram Nguyen

Come explore different ways we can assist our students to “muck about” in their data to get comfortable and better understand it. We will discuss the importance of Exploratory Data Analysis as a compliment to more traditionally emphasized Explanatory Data Analysis.

TAKEAWAYS:
Identify ways to increase student engagement in data activities using real-world data in existing curriculum to build their data and sensemaking skills as you teach your science.

SPEAKERS:
Kristin Hunter-Thomson

A major aspect of the NGSS is the inclusion of 3D summative assessments. However, this is something with which all teachers struggle. Using the National Center for Science Education’s free, high-quality assessments as a model, learn how to use phenomena to create assessments for your own students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will walk away with the confidence to select appropriate phenomena to use as the foundation for a summative assessment and an understanding of how to build a 3D assessment using a phenomenon.

SPEAKERS:
Lin Andrews

Using a Peer-assisted-learning model, you can learn how to establish a writing center at your school to support science literacy and foster student leadership. Doing so can also emotionally support students and build student self-confidence while communicating in multiple ways.

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Attendees will be provided an approach for developing a writing center at their schools with research outlining the necessity of science literacy and for science teachers to support and teach literacy.

SPEAKERS:
Brooke Whitworth, Ashley Hunter, Althea Roy

Words are the currency of education. Teachers and students use words to share ideas, ask questions, and demonstrate learning. Selecting vocabulary is challenging. Learn how to use a research-based Vocabulary Planning Document to ensure vocabulary selection is focused, intentional, and systematic.

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Attendees will use a research-based Vocabulary Planning Document (Graves 2006, 2016) to identify critical academic vocabulary and word-learning strategies associated with specific Disciplinary Core Ideas. This process ensures that lesson vocabulary selection is intentional, focused, and systematic.

SPEAKERS:
Julie Jackson

Looking for a new tool to help students accurately evaluate science-related media? Join NCSE to explore this technique that allows students to examine the worth of the media content, inspect data legitimacy, and make sense of graphical analysis, all while evaluating the emotions the media elicits.

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The goal of this session is for participants to move past functional data literacy to critical data literacy. Students will learn to evaluate data-based claims for various types of bias, intent, and misleading data representations, in addition to basic strategies for understanding data.

SPEAKERS:
Wendy Johnson, Lin Andrews

Make the literacy connection to science with fairy tales. Join us as we explore activities that integrate multiple content areas with an emphasis on writing across the curriculum. We will even engineer a house for a pig.

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This workshop has been designed to show educators: -how to become advocates of literacy for elementary science and engineering -to provide connections between science and literacy and -to learn strategies for actively engaging all learners.

SPEAKERS:
Amber Dobbs, John Hutchens

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

How do we engage students to ask questions and develop evidence-based explanations? In this hands-on activity from the Lab-Aids EDC Earth Science program, discourse occurs authentically as you role-play a geologist testing various site extractions for molybdenum, a valuable mineral.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Parker

Where do you start a new school year? How about an introductory unit that will engage your students in the basic tenets of Scientific Literacy? This workshop will engage participants in hands-on activities aimed at laying the foundation for Scientific Literacy through inquiry.

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Participants will take away 5 activities that immerse students in Scientific Inquiry in ways that may not seem very "sciencey" but will build foundational skills in Scientific Literacy.

SPEAKERS:
Vanessa Ueltzen

This session will focus on the integration of STEM and Language Arts/Reading through standards-driven, inquiry-based units. Participants will have the opportunity to experience one lesson from a unit that demonstrates integration of robotics, engineering, mathematics, and language arts.

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This session will demonstrate integration of STEM and Literacy through the use of robotics. Participants will be provided with an example of a unit based on a young adult book. They will be able to use the unit as provided and will be able to develop their own integrated lessons following the model.

SPEAKERS:
Lisa Douglass

In science classrooms, we often focus on the "subject of study" without addressing the other two "subjects" in the room: the teacher and student. Awakening the spirits of the educator and students in the classroom leads to a stronger sense of belonging and respect, & greater lesson effectiveness.

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Participants will learn two foundational models of human awareness and behavior, then create interpersonal intentions that will provide a higher level of effectiveness and enjoyment for themselves and students in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Mick Scott

Tired of hearing: Why are we learning this? When will we ever use this? This session will discuss how to use news articles to teach reading comprehension and increase science literacy in secondary students of all levels. Also, connect 3D Lessons and Science and Engineering Practices.

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Attendees will leave with multiple ways of implementing science in the news into their classrooms. Science will become dynamic and applicable.

SPEAKERS:
Misty Heredia

Many students struggle to become effective science communicators through writing. Our research study reveals why some life science instructors are no longer assigning traditional lab reports. Strategies to help your students with science writing are provided.

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A surprisingly large number of college faculty have stopped assigning traditional lab reports in introductory life science courses. Our research study reveals several barriers, some of which are quite surprising. We provide a list of classroom-ready strategies to improve students’ science writing.

SPEAKERS:
Timothy Slater, Kristy Palmer

Literacy has used “Text to…” connections to help students make authentic connections. A rationale for expanding this strategy and examples of expanded “text to…” connections for science and math will be shared.

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Explore how to expand a common literacy strategy of “text to...” connections when using picture books in the elementary science classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Christine Anne Royce

A qualitative study to determine how students learn best through text - physical books, audio books, and e-books. We tested comprehension, conducted interviews, and created journals.

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Attendees will be able to understand how to determine which type of reading media will work best for their students. Attendees will see how they can test their students and how to draw conclusions to find the best fit for their classroom and individual needs.

SPEAKERS:
Kaylyn Hoth, Mikayla Prusha

Get a brief introduction to free OER-integrated science curricular units for Grades 3-5 and see how well the features of Project-Based Learning provide the tools and routines to support sensemaking. Learn more about the research behind the resources, and resources available to support implementation.

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Participants will get a detailed description of the free resources, look at how PBL works, hear examples from the Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL) Research and Development Project. They will learn how to access the free resources for later review, and connect with free support.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Codere

See how Baltimore City Schools is using student questions to drive student learning and supports Disciplinary Literacy. Participants will explore strategies such as interactive word walls, and DQBs to support student questioning, discourse, differentiation, and ML students.

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Be more intentional of when and what strategies to employ to support Disciplinary Literacy and Multi-Lingual students.

SPEAKERS:
Sage Caspersson, Melissa Devlin, Kevin Garner

What could possibly make an experience working with 100,000+ stinging insects even better? Let's document it and put it on social media! In this session, you will learn how a small liberal arts college has made a commitment to pollinator education, curriculum integration, and experiential learning.

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Innovation is change that unlocks new value; simple to say, yet very hard to do. Establishing an apiary, a new company, embracing entrepreneurship, and developing curriculum represent innovation and the future of higher education. It requires that we push creative boundaries and take risks.

SPEAKERS:
Patrick Krantz

Through collaborative teacher education teams, lesson plans were developed to promote the integration of social justice and environmental awareness to the secondary science through Cli-fi. Curriculum examples of the YAL text Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet will be shared in this session.

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Recommended practices and resources for fostering environmental awareness and social justice through Cli-fi.

SPEAKERS:
Chelsea McClure

Elevate science and literacy in your elementary classroom through practical integration strategies. Utilizing a lesson template and science trade books to design a plan to stimulate knowledge building allows you to engage, equip, and empower your students by contextualizing their comprehension.

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INTEGRATING science and literacy ALLEVIATES challenges (time constraints, disconnected learning, low engagement). This presentation includes evidence-based research, practical insights, and hands-on application to empower educators with knowledge and practical tools to contextualize comprehension.

SPEAKERS:
Stephanie Westhafer

Learn about a successful cross-curricular model creating an opportunity for students to explore the science, history, and culture of their community. Add math skills, physical education, and poetry, too. This collaboration brings staff together to create a unique student learning opportunity.

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Participants will learn about a successful all-school science-led, cross-curricular week highlighting the school's local environment, history, and culture with the opportunity to brainstorm how to create a similar activity for their own schools.

SPEAKERS:
Alison Seymour

Science and literacy go hand in hand in the early elementary classroom. In this session we will use non-fiction picture books to help our students understand scientific and STEM concepts, teach them to connect to the texts, and teach them how to apply these connections to their everyday lives.

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As elementary teachers, we love to implement literature into our teaching. In this session, attendees will be given several student-approved non-fiction picture book ideas and lessons they can take back with them to encourage problem-solving, creativity, and relationships in their science classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Megan Hunt

Using student questions and related books, you will lead your students to planting, maintaining, and harvesting your school garden. The school garden offers a place to enrich teaching efforts with powerful hands-on experiences that make learning come alive.

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School gardens are a fantastic way to transition from a more traditional classroom to an outdoor, experiential learning opportunity centered on student engagement and critical thinking. A school garden can be integrated into many subjects such as math, science, health, literacy, and social studies.

SPEAKERS:
Rhonda Gadino

To validate and celebrate the interests and experiences of our students, we will delve deep into the significance of culture as it relates to food and gardens, and also as it relates to the diverse populations with whom we work. We will explore ways to celebrate and center culture through gardening.

TAKEAWAYS:
By their nature, gardens embody diversity. Garden education is increasingly recognized as an interdisciplinary approach that integrates academic goals, health and wellness, place-based education, and community connections and relationships.

SPEAKERS:
Rhonda Gadino

Experience a grade 6-8 science project engaging students in science inquiry including field work, data analysis, and submission of research papers to a peer-reviewed student journal. See how students improve data literacy and scientific communication skills by investigating relevant questions.

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Student work generated during an inquiry investigation focused on understanding broader questions related to changing climate illustrates how to support students in all aspects of the scientific process including field protocols, authentic questions, data analysis, and rigorous scientific writing.

SPEAKERS:
Monica Wright

By 2025, it’s estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created daily; that’s like 212,765,957 DVDs/day! How can our students know if the information they receive is credible? Generation Skeptics teaches the necessary skills with lessons and guest speakers. (www.generationskeptics.org)

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Generation Skeptics arms educators with free resources to instill skepticism in students. Recognizing the proliferation of misinformation, GenSkeps seeks to equip the next generation with the enduring principles of the scientific method and the importance of substantiating claims with evidence.

SPEAKERS:
Bertha Vazquez

Explore how science notebooks can empower Multilingual Learners and high-needs students, offering differentiation and creativity in science education.

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You will take with you the ideas behind embracing flexible science notebooks to foster creativity and promoting inclusivity in science education K-12.

SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Warren

We integrated WIDA ELD science standards into our 9th-grade biology curriculum using an APA-style lab report framework, making it adaptable for teachers. ChatGPT accelerated alignment work with iterative prompts. Our process and products will be presented for consideration.

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Each section of the APA lab report (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion) features unique language functions and features described in the WIDA ELD standards. By focusing on one section per quarter, we can cover all standards through a predictable and transferable structure.

SPEAKERS:
Velvet Karg, Bryan Rolfsen

DoD STEM resources offer a variety of pathways to explore, design, and reimagine STEM in grades K-12. Albert Einstein Fellows will showcase a variety of DoD platforms for educators, parents, students, and community members to build a strong foothold for student success.

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DoD STEM resources can be used to connect students with STEM mentors, providing students with guidance and support as they explore their interests in STEM, and develop the skills they need to succeed in STEM careers. DoD initiatives strive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.

SPEAKERS:
Melissa Thompson, Pamela Joslyn

In Strategies for Improving Writing in the Science Classroom, participants will learn how to disaggregate science writing through explicit science writing instruction. They will experience strategies that support students with drawing models and writing in science.

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Writing in science is a specific genre of writing, therefore students need to be explicitly taught how to deconstruct and construct science writing/models.

SPEAKERS:
Evelyn Larose, Alicia Wedderburn

3rd graders are fascinated by how organisms change over time. Teachers build a model of the natural selection mechanism that explains adaptation and speciation. They apply it to explore how urban anole lizards came to be different than forest anoles and how fossils provide evidence for speciation.

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Participants will understand the mechanism of natural selection - how the proportion of traits in a population shift over time when the environment changes. They will learn how to adopt the free Evolving Minds curriculum, which addresses 3D learning through an inquiry-based approach.

SPEAKERS:
Gillian Puttick

Have you read great articles in the NSTA journals that changed or added to the ways you and your students do science for the better? You could inspire other educators across the country in the same way by sharing your teaching ideas, activities, or lessons as an NSTA journal author!

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Instructions and tips on how to prepare and submit your manuscript for publication in NSTA's journals.

SPEAKERS:
Dr. Patty McGinnis, Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn, Ann MacKenzie, David Wojnowski, Peter Lindeman, Beth Murphy

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.

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

SPEAKERS:
Bal Barot

Getting up to speed on the new standards and related NGSS is a challenge. The solution we have been implementing is to see how different professionals with different skill sets see information from a variety of lenses. This approach produced fun activities, while developing social emotional skills.

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This poster will give attendees the tools to create a dynamic team to execute a sustainable project. It will specify ways individuals can use data to assess the community’s needs and to plan meaningful activities that are engaging and fun. It will highlight how we can pay attention to new standards.

SPEAKERS:
Vicky Condello, Michelle Memoli, Aimee Ferguson

ML-PBL teachers find ways to further integrate literacy and science throughout their day. ML-PBL's free OER project-based curriculum resources support students in applying their figuring out and critical thinking processes to all subject areas. Check it out!

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Attendees will be exposed to free resources and ideas for selecting resources for literacy lessons that allow students to continue to fine-tune and extend the ideas they are developing in science class. Handouts, links to resources and research findings, and examples of texts will be available.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Codere

Use children's literature to teach the engineering design process and bring STEM into your K-5 classrooms!

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Participants will gain a better understanding of the engineering design process while integrating it with literacy into their elementary classrooms. They will gain knowledge of appropriate texts, strategies, and design challenge ideas.

SPEAKERS:
Melissa DeBruin, Elizabeth Nelson

Science instruction creates rich opportunities to integrate other content areas— particularly ELA or math. Explore a process for designing integration opportunities that allow both domains to support each other. Bring a science lesson plan or use a shared example to try the process together.

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Participants will try out a process built upon foundational practices identified in science education and integration research to analyze a science lesson plan for moments of student sensemaking and opportunities for content integration.

SPEAKERS:
Janna Mahfoud, Amy Belcastro

Have you ever wanted to start a science research program and get your students involved in authentic scientific research? Learn how to initiate and run a science research program at your school, including the benefits, methods, and challenges involved.

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Attendees will learn how to initiate and operate a program of student scientific research at your school. Discussion of choosing research topics, timetables, challenges, and possible venues of the presentations of the students' final results will be covered.

SPEAKERS:
Olivia Kuper, Thomas Rutherford

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.

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

SPEAKERS:
Ted Clark

In Using Reading Strategies to Create Access to Science Text, participants will identify the three text types (written, visual, and symbolic) in science classrooms. Discuss what makes a text complex or enabling. Experience strategies for analyzing text in science (ex: slow reveal graphs, Identify an

TAKEAWAYS:
We can utilize reading strategies to analyze science text.

SPEAKERS:
Alicia Wedderburn, Evelyn Larose