Learn about research-to-practice applications of an arts-based data visualization project designed to enhance students’ ability to creatively represent contextual data.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will view examples of teacher and student products of arts-based data representation projects and consider applications of the research to their own classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Kristin Rearden

Do you know Meaningful Integration Strengthens, Supports, and Inspires the Next Generation? This hands-on workshop is designed for middle school instructors to give and share ideas, structures, and strategies to integrate science with math, reading, writing, and critical thinking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants leave ready to collaborate and demonstrate the new found structure and strategies gained from the workshop. The workshop provides attendees with authentic and meaningful ideas that inspire students to read, write, understand mathematics and use critical thinking in science.

SPEAKERS:
Yolanda Williams

A Research Experience for Teachers (RET program) could be an inspiration for science and engineering lessons for the classroom. Our research rekindled our passion for STEM education and we believe it is contagious! Learn about the RET program and check out lesson materials for physics and math.

TAKEAWAYS:
How can you convert a university research experience into a high school classroom lesson?

SPEAKERS:
Tanima Mukherjee, Faith Palombi

This session will explore using Success Criteria as steps toward mastery in math and science assessments to enhance student understanding and engagement. Participants will learn to create quality open educational resources (OER) that align with standards for effective assessment practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will leave with practical strategies for integrating Success Criteria into assessments, promoting student ownership of learning and improving instructional practices in math and science.

SPEAKERS:
Laura - Ashley Hayes

Learn what representations and data your students can use to bridge phenomena and mathematics, and how to use data tasks to assess 3D kinematics understanding, as opposed to rote algebra skills.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to assess student problem-solving ability and conceptual understanding through students' use of multiple representations and approaches in physics classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Moore

Deepen student data literacy and build engagement with data sets that will surprise you! Activate critical thinking and questioning in data readers with innumerable and creative ways to represent data. Experience data representation as a scientist and artist.

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Experience graphing in artful and innovative ways. Modeled after ‘Dear Data,’ attendees will obtain and organize data, then create data visualizations to view as a community. Participants will receive lesson and activity plans to expand students’ thinking around graphing and data representation.

SPEAKERS:
Nina Hipps, Amanda Becker

Carbonated beverage containers, juice and fruit drinks, dairy products, and sports beverages all contain sugar. Using sugar packets to visualize amounts, students see the quantity and volume of sugar in various drinks and gain an understanding of serving size. Reading labels is important!

TAKEAWAYS:
Students can easily compare sugar content in containers of the same volume. Similar drinks packaged in different sized containers, or different drinks packaged in different containers makes calculating sugar content a math problem. Students use math to calculate sugar concentrations and totals.

SPEAKERS:
Suzanne Cunningham

Science, math and social studies educators employ similar strategies for teaching students to build arguments and support conclusions. Explore how to use historical primary sources from the Library of Congress to engage learners in thinking practices they can use the whole school day!

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to inspire students to investigate questions of personal, local, cultural, and societal concern, build new knowledge, and keep coming back to the evidence as their arguments grow in sophistication, across multiple school subjects.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Apfeldorf, Ralph Pantozzi

Looking for a new way to bring Newton’s 2nd Law to life? Come experience a unique investigation from OpenSciEd HS Physics Unit 3: Collisions and Momentum, that you can use with your students to help them uncover Newton's 2nd Law.

TAKEAWAYS:
The method of uncovering Newton's 2nd Law in OpenSciEd Physics Unit 3: Collisions and Momentum is motivated by student ideas. Students are wondering how much time it takes to stop a car. Using a unique piece of equipment, the "force cart", students design the experiment themselves and use the data

SPEAKERS:
Joseph Kremer, Dr. Patty McGinnis

Learning projectile motion can be a challenge for many students in physics. This session will immerse participants on student-centered activities that allow students to work together to understand projectile motion both horizontally and at an angle.

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Participants will go through two lab-based activities to see how students can use mathematical thinking to see projectile motion. They will also be shown a third option to use in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Kyle Thompson

Examine number & geometric patterns, learn the Fibonacci Sequence, understand Native Peoples’ symbiotic relationship with nature, use geometry to recreate a shape in plants or animals captured on the nature walk, draw a Golden Spiral and compose Fibonacci poetry, integrate literacy, math & arts.

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Use Nature and any outdoor space as a classroom and catalyst for learning. Use the power of observation and wondering to lead to innovation. Understand history of Fibonacci & Native Peoples’ symbiotic relationship with nature. How to integrate science, mathematics, literacy, social studies and art.

SPEAKERS:
Danette Riehle

Learn how the NGSS integrates physics and ESS through an introduction to four innovative lessons about heliophysics. All activities are based in research on a survey of physics and ESS teacher needs and interests and have been tested in high school and introductory college classrooms.

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Participants will take back lessons to (1) teach about motion graphs with images of coronal mass ejections, (2) relate sunspot cycles to period and frequency, (3) model spectra from the Sun and other stars, and (4) visualize magnetic fields and their relationship to the Sun and planets.

SPEAKERS:
HAVA TURKAKIN, Francesca Viale

Participants will use the engineering design process to create models that support science, literacy, and math standards. Energetic engineering activities will be linked with nursery rhymes for research-based learning that can be easily replicated in the classroom. Come engineer with us!

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to teach science and engineering practices to young learners who undoubtedly need these foundational skills. Engineering explorations will be seamlessly integrated with language, literacy, and math standards, leading to valuable cross-curricular learning.

SPEAKERS:
Pam Nolan-Beasley

Parallax is hard to understand from traditional illustrations. Here's a fresh take on parallax, and how to use your cellphone with google apps and a little dance to measure angular displacement between images, calculate distances, and validate your results.

TAKEAWAYS:
You'll learn to measure your phone camera's field-of-view, and use that information with layout tools in the Google Suite (or any similar suite) to measure angular displacement between views and calculate distances. We'll also discuss the Gaia mission to use parallax to make a 3-D map of our Galaxy.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Kaiser, Vincent Urbanowski

PhET simulations are evidence-based open education resources shown to improve student learning. Engage with PhET’s 170+ simulations, find and evaluate lesson plans against an equity-centered rubric, and curate a collection of your best finds using our newly-redesigned Activities database.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to (1) navigate the newly redesigned PhET Activities database with the capacity to save their favorite lesson plans, (2) evaluate lesson plans for quality and equity, and (3) become a contributor and reviewer for activities.

SPEAKERS:
Matthew Blackman

This session will show how integrating Success Criteria with sensemaking pillars enhances 3D learning for elementary students. Participants will learn to create clear Success Criteria that guide young learners through authentic phenomena and foster equitable engagement in science practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Success Criteria empower elementary students to engage deeply with scientific phenomena, connecting their ideas to practices and achieving clarity in their learning, promoting a more equitable 3D learning environment.

SPEAKERS:
Laura - Ashley Hayes

Learn how to develop family-friendly STEM events that foster curiosity, collaboration, and lifelong learning. This session will provide practical insights, real-world examples, and actionable tips, tools, and strategies to help you make your family-friendly STEM events successful!

TAKEAWAYS:
Session attendees will come away with a list of must-haves for family STEM engagement. They will participate in STEM activities from past STEM events hosted at the Oakley STEM Center at TN Tech University.

SPEAKERS:
Amanda Edwards, Jennifer Meadows, Kelly Moore, Leslie Suters

This presentation will explore the implementation of Standards-Based Grading (SBG) within an integrated math and science 9th grade course, highlighting its benefits, challenges, and practical strategies for effective assessment.

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Explore Integration of Math and Science: Present the pedagogical rationale for integrating math and science in the freshman curriculum. Share examples of interdisciplinary lessons and assessments that utilize SBG principles.

SPEAKERS:
Andrew Vogl, Zhanna Glazenburg

Saving Flood Line Area is based on Research that my students and I did at Boys Latin Charter High School. Based on the flooding of the Vine Street Express way three years ago. Students look at the change in weather and ways that we could possible help other cities.

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This presentation gives knowledge about the changing in our weather climate and how we can support each other in these changes due to flooding in areas.

SPEAKERS:
Anthony Edmond-Pinckney

This session will engage participants in authentic data using dynamic, publically available interactive tools. The data tools presented empower learners to evaluate biodiversity distribution, protected areas, and human impacts on sustainable development.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will be able to construct an explanation of humans' multiple impacts on biodiversity using interactive research tools that are dynamically updated to reveal global and local species distributions and changes in human land use.

SPEAKERS:
Missie Olson, Jocelyn Miller

In this session, we will examine how to leverage time used to practice and reinforce math and reading skills to also include phenomenon-based science. By using math and ELA standards as a starting point, short units building off of a common science phenomenon are created.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will experience a phenomenon-based, science-focused lesson series that was designed to help reinforce and practice the standards in math and ELA.

SPEAKERS:
Miranda Orellana

Based on work by Lupi & Posavec. Gather, tabulate, then create an artistic, visually appealing graph to engage the reader. An artistic presentation of data draws readers in and encourages curiosity and questioning. Central tendencies of mean never looked more beautiful!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will discover that data and graphing can be presented in many ways and can be personal as well as artistic and informative. Learn how to engage students and expand their thinking in data science through art. Use graphs and data to interpret trends and make predictions.

SPEAKERS:
Nina Hipps

The student-centered activity engages students in considering global conservation challenges through mathematical thinking and data analysis. It uses up-to-date, authentic data used by scientists and policymakers alike, preparing them to meet performance expectation HS-LS2-1.

TAKEAWAYS:
Data science is integral to studying, conservating, and managing ecosystems worldwide.

SPEAKERS:
Missie Olson, Jocelyn Miller

Struggling to make the case in your community for why science time is important? A new research study shows that a phenomena-driven science curriculum paired with high-quality professional learning had positive effects on ALL students, not only in science but also in math and reading.

TAKEAWAYS:
Discover the characteristics to look for in HQIM and HQPL that can lead to improved student achievement in science, math, and reading.

SPEAKERS:
Amy D'Amico

This session will focus on the main methods of statistical analysis used most commonly in Student Research Projects. Participants will be guided through statistical tests using free resources on DataClassroom and see examples of data analysis from student research projects.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to guide students through statistics analyzing their data from Authentic Science Research Projects.

SPEAKERS:
Christine Girtain

Experience relevant STEM+ reasoning routines as a way to center student voice, engage learners, and ensure that STEM is a routine experience where concepts and practices are fostered. Then take the opportunity to adapt or plan your own STEM+ reasoning routine that fits your instructional context.

TAKEAWAYS:
Walk away with different types of authentic and relevant STEM+ reasoning routines, grounded in the NGSS crosscutting concepts, that consider all students sensemaking specific to your instructional context.

SPEAKERS:
Kendra Heffelbower

Discover how to integrate authentic data into your STEM lessons. Explore practical strategies, share experiences, and brainstorm innovative projects, leaving with actionable ideas to enhance student engagement and critical thinking.

TAKEAWAYS:
The integration of real-world data into STEM lessons not only enhances student engagement and critical thinking but also empowers learners to connect theoretical concepts with practical applications, fostering a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

SPEAKERS:
Stephen Bowen, Ashish Gilbert Bowen

This session will explore using Success Criteria as steps toward mastery in math and science assessments to enhance student understanding and engagement. Participants will learn to create quality open educational resources (OER) that align with standards for effective assessment practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will leave with practical strategies for integrating Success Criteria into assessments, promoting student ownership of learning and improving instructional practices in math and science.

SPEAKERS:
Laura - Ashley Hayes

Through an Educational Video Game (EVG), we connect aspects of kinematic motion to video games. The EVG creates the mathematical representations of this phenomena and helps develop sensemaking for students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will integrate EVGs into their classrooms to enhance equitable math integration in the science classroom and promote access to high quality.

SPEAKERS:
Eric Rivera Rodríguez

Identify a variety of shark tooth fossils of the Miocene in a hands-on investigation. Work with fossils to make inferences about the past environments and learn how to teach this with upper elementary students. Curriculum handouts and fossil kits will be provided to the first 35 participants.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to use shark tooth fossils to analyze and interpret data during a NGSS-aligned 5E investigation. Identify shark tooth fossils from Chesapeake Group and make inferences about the past environment in the Miocene Epoch. Teachers will receive materials to use with elementary students.

SPEAKERS:
Kayce Wills, Laura Schneider

Teachers often refer to THE scientific method, but actual scientists use several different methods in their practice. Why not represent science this way at a younger age? Teaching science thinking using a multi-dimensional approach gives students a more holistic view of the discipline of science.

TAKEAWAYS:
Using different science methods in class will expand students’ view of science as a discipline, and the variety maintains student interest. Hear ideas to incorporate additional methods into lessons. Other possible science methods include mathematical modeling, observational studies, and statistics.

SPEAKERS:
Rama Sreekantham

This workshop highlights 10 unique and unusual science-based examples of solar system modeling for students that use simple materials and all activities stress use of decimals, fractions, and proportions in a scalable, adaptable, and fun exploration of the planets, distance, time, density, and scale

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will participate. in memorable and effective hands-on solar system scale activities that personalize both the experience and the information while encouraging confidence and understanding through fun, sometimes funny models.

SPEAKERS:
Martin Horejsi

Struggling to make the case for spending time on science in elementary school? A new study shows that high-quality science instructional materials and high-quality professional learning can improve reading, math, and science scores. Experience the strategies to implement in your school or district!

TAKEAWAYS:
Discover the characteristics to look for in HQIM and HQPL that can lead to improved student achievement in science, math, and reading.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Short, Katherine Fancher, Katie Gainsback

How can K-5 teachers directly address and utilize ELA and Math while students are deeply immersed in science learning? Join us to explore how phenomena-based teaching and learning authentically lends itself to content integration and take away tools to integrate subject areas in your own context.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will gain ideas about how ELA, math and science play a mutually supportive role in figuring out scientific phenomena, and will take away a three-step process to be able to apply these ideas to their own context.

SPEAKERS:
Diana Velez, Claudio Vargas

We can raise the level of excitement in our STEM-Based classrooms by using pop culture trends. In this session, we will use ZOMBIES to model brain anatomy, physiology and the spread of a "Zombie Virus" through a population of humans.

TAKEAWAYS:
Although Zombies are not necessarily "real-world", using them to model real-world settings and systems is incredibly engaging and of high interest. We will use Zombies to put a contextual spin on brain anatomy, mathematical modeling and the "realities" of the spread of a disease through a population

SPEAKERS:
Jeffrey Lukens