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Student-Centered Science Notebooks in Your
Classroom
Join the author of Notable Notebooks and
Exemplary Evidence to discuss effective notebooking practices. Get a
preview of her upcoming book about elementary science
notebooks!
Takeaways: 1. Science notebooks are an essential component of 3-D student-centered classrooms; 2. While there are a variety of notebook models in use, a flexible, hybrid approach is best to meet the needs of elementary students; and 3. Notebooks can be a rich source of formative and summative assessment data.
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Preservice Day Session: Preservice Teacher
Welcome
Come meet the NSTA Presidents and discover how NSTA can
help you on your path to becoming a teacher of science at all
levels.
Takeaways: 1. Meet the NSTA Presidents; 2. Learn about how NSTA can help preservice teachers; and 3. Discover NSTA resources available to you as a preservice teacher.
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Preservice Day Session: Science and Literacy:
Complimentary Disciplines Inciting Critical Science Citizenry
Explore the placement of science literacy within the
nature of scientific knowledge and the Next Generation Science
Standards. Gain insights on implementing science literacy
strategies.
Takeaways: 1. Exemplars with steps for implementing three or more literacy strategies; 2. Overview of how Science Literacy connects with the Nature of Scientific Knowledge; and 3. Overview of the position of Science Literacy within the NGSS.
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Preservice Day Session: It’s Debatable…for Preservice
Teachers! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy,
K–12
During this session, participants will explore the use
of controversial societal issues related to science to develop their students’
scientific literacy.
Takeaways: 1. Learn more about socioscientific issues; 2. Understand how socioscientific issues relate to scientific literacy; and 3. Learn how to address socioscientific issues in the classroom.
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Preservice Day Session: Teaching Science in a Virtual
Learning Environment
Join us as we discuss strategies to provide ALL students
opportunities for engaging in science and engineering practices individually
from home and sensemaking collaboratively with their peers.
Takeaways: 1. Learn more about inequities that virtual learning has illuminated; 2. Strategize ways to make virtual learning more equitable; and 3. Learn more about NSTA resources to support that.
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Preservice Day Session: Elevating the Discourse Between
Science and Religion
How do you address students’ questions on science and
religion? Join me for a conversation on different ways to address science and
religion in a science classroom.
Takeaways: Learn more about how teachers can: 1. address students’ questions about science and religion
; 2. better understand the relationship between science and religion; and 3. clarify the role of science teachers in helping students navigate the differences.
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Preservice Day Session: ELL Inclusion in Science
Teaching
Learn about implementation of culturally relevant
resources in secondary science and practices to teach ELLs in elementary and
middle grades science.
Takeaways: Learn how to: 1. use bilingualism (English/Spanish) in science; 2. use and create culturally relevant resources; and 3. promote socioscientific reasoning in science
.
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Preservice Day Session: Using Place-Based Education to
Teach Beyond the Test
Learn how to incorporate place-based learning within
your instruction to allow ALL students to apply their factual knowledge in
practical, meaningful ways within a relevant context.
Takeaways: 1. Construct a deeper understanding of the content presented in state curriculum standards; 2. View experiential learning events as a critical aspect of science education in their classrooms; and 3. Discover how investigations of local natural phenomena can serve as the foundation on which investigations of more distant or abstract phenomena can be constructed.
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Preservice Day Session: Supporting Equity and Justice
Through 3-D Science Instruction: The Road Travelled and the One
Ahead
Explore how instruction can equitably support science
learning that is consequential to students and their communities while promoting
a more just society and flourishing world.
Takeaways: 1. Learn more about what equitable science teaching is; and 2. Learn how to use the STEM Teaching Tools resources to support equitable science instruction.
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Preservice Day Session: Making Science
Fairs More Equitable Online
Come hear how preservice teachers organized and hosted a
virtual science fair that aligns with the NGSS science practices—and
learn how to do this yourself!
Takeaways: Learn how: 1. to hold a science fair virtually; 2. to align the traditional science fair project with the NGSS science and engineering practices; and 3. preservice teachers can learn from this real-world practicum experience.
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Preservice Day Session: Safety in the
Classroom
In this session, learn more about safety protocols
specific for science and
critical to teaching science during a pandemic from
NSTA’s Safety Advisor!
Takeaways: 1. Learn about NSTA supports for safety; 2. Explore safety issues for science teaching; and 3. Learn more about pandemic-related safety issues.
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Preservice Day Session: Next Generation Science
Assessment
Next Generation Science Assessment (NGSA) consists of
tasks designed to meet the Next Generation of Science Standards and for
teachers to use formatively in their science classrooms. Come learn how to
access and use equitable assessment tasks to engage all students in 3-D
learning!
Takeaways: 1. Learn about how to assess 3-D learning; 2. Understand how formative assessment aligns with the NGSS; and 3. Learn more about resources to support equitable assessment through NGSA.
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Preservice Day Session: Navigating Your Student
Teaching
Join our panel of these recent student teachers to
find out how to successfully navigate your student teaching, Ask questions and
interact with these graduating seniors.
Takeaways: 1. Hear from recent student teachers about the challenges they faced; 2. Ask questions about what to expect while student teaching; and 3. Get advice on how to handle the unexpected.
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Preservice Day Session: Developing Leadership Through
NSTA Student Chapters
Discover how an NSTA student chapter on your campus can
support your professional growth and development! We’ll share tips for growing
or starting your student chapter!
Takeaways: 1/ Learrn how to organize and start an NSTA student chapter for preservice teachers at your college or university; 2. Discover the wide range of activities that a chapter can organize for professional growth and development; and 3. Find out how NSTA is rebuilding our student chapter program at the National level.
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Preservice Day Session: Preservice Teacher
Wrap-Up
Don’t miss this final, short session to give feedback
about the conference and how NSTA can help you. We have some final
information and door prizes as well!
Takeaways: 1. Provide feedback for today’s sessions; 2. Let us know how NSTA can help you grow as a preservice teacher; and 3. Win a $25 gift card for NSTA Press.
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Effective Questioning Strategies to Engage Students in
STEM
Collaborate and share tools that can be used either in
person or in a distance-learning environment. Discover how you can use these
tools in the science classroom, especially with STEM projects and
competitions.
Takeaways: 1. Collaborate and share tools that can be used either in person or in a distance-learning environment; 2.
Discover how you can use these tools in the science classroom, especially with STEM projects and competitions; and 3. Engage with educators that are interested in improving science literacy with K-12 students via interactive engagement strategies for students.
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Preservice Session: Preparing to Tackle Equity,
Diversity, and Inclusion in Science Education
Ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the science
classroom are challenges for new teachers. Strategies, tools, and resources will
be given to support preservice educators.
Takeaways: 1. How to teach for equity, diversity, and inclusion; 2. What you may not know and weren’t taught in your preparation program; and 3. Resources to help address these issues.
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Urban Science Educator Discussion and
Panel
Educators share challenges and strategies to enhance
STEM learning in the urban environment. A variety of real-world issues and their
successful solutions will be shared.
Takeaways: 1. Engage with educators who have led their school systems to meet various challenges; 2. Learn from successful programs; and 3. Discuss relevant issues related to urban science educators.
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