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WhiteBox Learning: The E in
STEM
Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific, Inc.
This workshop will demonstrate an authentic engineering
practice so compelling that science and engineering students create an average
of 62 virtual design iterations of balsa wood bridges, gliders, mousetrap cars,
wind turbines, drones, and many others before (optionally) building a physical
model of their optimized design.
Takeaways: 1. Time and money (nearly) prohibits science and engineering classrooms from presenting an authentic engineering practice; 2. WhiteBox Learning provides an authentic experience by utilizing powerful web-based tools with roots in industry that leverage gamification for motivation; and 3. It is possible to leverage familiar projects like balsa wood bridges, balsa wood gliders, mousetrap cars, and others to teach engineering in an authentic way. This is great news because the familiarity of these projects makes it easier for teachers to take on engineering.
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Save a Nickel and Learn to Trickle!
Sponsoring Company: Texas Instruments
Learn how to create a project-based camp or classroom
lesson that enable students to apply concepts, such as photosynthesis and the
water cycle, to design a smart irrigation system. Inspired by real-world events,
students are motivated to apply problem-solving skills and learn some basic
programming to come up with innovative solutions to using water more
efficiently.
Takeaways: 1. Developing models to better understand a process; 2. Constructing explanations and designing solutions; and 3. Introducing students to coding to solve a science problem with an engineering solution.
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Virtual Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour
Sponsoring Company: Amazon Future Engineer
Give your students real-world computer science and
career exposure through Amazon Future Engineer's new live, virtual, and
interactive Fulfilment Center Tours! From our online store to doorstep, students
will discover how computer science, state-of-the-art engineering, and incredible
people deliver customer orders at Amazon.
Takeaways: Attendees will learn: how Amazon uses computer science, engineering, and amazing people to deliver customer orders around the globe; 2. how algorithms, sensors, cloud computing, machine learning, databases, and more all help make Amazon possible; and 3. what it's like to be an engineer at Amazon.
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Designing for Phenomena in Food
Production
Discover lesson plans and teaching resources to better
integrate science and engineering practices in our food
system.
Takeaways: 1. Engage in the practice of phenomena-based learning through the phenomena of photoperiodism; 2. Improve critical thinking while investigating food production systems; and 3. Integrate STEM concepts through design thinking.
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Workshop HandoutClick on the live links in this PDF to link directly to resources introduced in the webinar.
Day in the Life of a Robotics Engineer at
Amazon
Sponsoring Company: Amazon Future Engineer
Interested in exposing your students to the careers of the
future? Join three Amazon Robotics Engineers as they discuss what it's like to
build a future in technology. Then, sign up for our Class Chat Program to bring
a virtual speaker to your classroom this spring!
Takeaways: Attendees will learn: 1. what a robotics engineer does day to day at Amazon; 2. an idea of the potential career path required to become a robotics engineer; and 3. how to sign up to bring a speaker to their class.
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Designing for Phenomena in Food
Production
Discover lesson plans and teaching resources to better
integrate science and engineering practices in our food
system.
Takeaways: 1. Engage in the practice of phenomena-based learning through the phenomena of photoperiodism; 2. Improve critical thinking while investigating food production systems; and 3. Integrate STEM concepts through design thinking.
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Investigation DarkSky: A Virtual Escape Room–Type
Activity
Participate in an energy delivery–themed virtual escape
room activity. Solve puzzles and pursue clues to discover the origin of a
cascading blackout.
Takeaways: 1. The U.S. power grid is the system of producers and consumers of electricity. It includes power generators, switches that control the flow of electricity, substations, miles of power lines, and millions of transformers; 2.
Nearly all electricity is used the moment it is generated.
The power grid is continually evolving as we integrate alternative power resources and invent technologies; and 3. This challenging process allows us to deliver energy to homes and businesses in cleaner, more efficient ways and makes the system more resilient to disruption.
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Spreading and Retaining Black Girl Magic in STEM
Classrooms and Beyond
Learn strategies to be more culturally responsive from
an equity framework to not only retain but spread Black girl magic in STEM in
school settings!
Takeaways: 1. The school-based and classroom-based factors that are contributing to Black girls starting off with the highest interest in STEM but resulting in the lowest retention of STEM; 2. The seven elements of the ICUCARE equity framework in the classroom; and 3. Three to five strategies (to then develop and apply) for providing learning experiences in the school setting that empower our Black girls to remain in STEM.
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Using Maggots, Flies, and Flesh to Solve a
Mystery!
Sponsoring Company: Texas Instruments
A decomposing corpse is found in a field. Four possible
missing persons fit the description. But who is it? Using clues near the scene
will help determine identity. Forensic anthropologist Diane France helped to
develop this free middle school and high school forensic science
lesson.
Takeaways: 1. Forensic science is a great career field that combines science with criminal justice; 2. Natural processes of decomposition of flesh can be clues to determining cause of death; and 3. Storytelling is a great way to engage students in science.
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Day in the Life of a Software Development Engineer at
Amazon
Sponsoring Company: Amazon Future Engineer
Interested in exposing your students to the careers of the
future? Join four Software Development Engineers as they discuss what it's like
to code at Amazon. Then, sign up for our Class Chat Program to bring a virtual
speaker to your classroom this spring!
Takeaways: Attendees will learn: 1. what a normal day looks like as a software developer at Amazon; 2. potential career paths that can lead to becoming a software developer; and 3. how to register to bring a virtual guest speaker to your class to talk about careers in technology!
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Sharing Microscopy Techniques and Images in Person or
Remotely
Sponsoring Company: Ward's Science
How do we get students engaged and inspired in hands-on
labs and experiments while learning remotely without access to classroom
equipment and supplies? Microscopy can be especially difficult for students who
can't touch or adjust the microscope the same way as if they were sitting right
in front of it.
Takeaways: 1. An affordable solution for sharing microscopy techniques and images in person or remotely; 2. Entire class benefits from seeing the image as it should appear; and 3. Included software enables instructors and students to view, capture, share, save, annotate, and manipulate images.
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Using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Science
Classes
Sponsoring Company: XR Guru
Integrate VR/AR science modules to help your students
understand complex topics in an immersive engaging
environment.
Takeaways: 1. Learn the research on using VR/AR in education; 2. View sample science module content; and 3. View the teacher portal and receive immediate free access to all content.
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Beyond Polar Bears: Disproportionate Impact of Climate
Change on Low-Income and Marginalized Communities’ Health
Critical examination of public social and scientific
data resources will provoke awareness of the legacy of bias, as well as identify
mitigation and reparation activities.
Takeaways: 1. Due to legacy of bias, as reflected in the redlining of urban communities in the early 20th century, extreme heat events associated with climate change have a disproportionate impact on low-income and marginalized urban communities; 2. This legacy can be integrated into NGSS ESS activities thanks to publicly available digital social and scientific data; and 3. Science knowledge coupled with a value for justice can orient and inform students and teachers to make decisions and identify mitigation (e.g. changing surface material and/or color) and reparation activities (orienting efforts toward low-income and marginalized communities). A virtual national network of NSTA members can advance this work.
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Climate Change Phenomena and Carbon
Hoofprints
Explore how to engage students in the science of climate
change using the question., “How will we produce food in a changing
climate?”
Takeaways: 1. Resources for students to understand that food is grown in climate-specific areas of the world; 2. Critical thinking regarding the environmental footprint of food production; and 3. Context for the carbon cycle.
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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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Summer STEM Institute Goes Virtual: Creating an Engaging
STEM Learning Program
We will share the strategies and activities that made
our first virtual STEM institute an engaging and educational experience for
diverse upper elementary and middle level youth.
Takeaways: Participants will: 1. identify best practices for engaging youth in informal STEM experiences, including an end-of-summer celebration; 2. learn how we delivered programming in STEM with multiple grade-level bands; and 3. gain a list of valuable resources we used to teach scientific concepts, including how we created and distributed kits.
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