2022 Houston National Conference

April 31-2, 2022

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FILTERS APPLIED:PreK - 5, Hands-On Workshop, Developing Accountability Systems for Expanding STEM Participation, Life Science

 

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Creating a Socially Just Science Environment

Thursday, March 31 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 310A



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Session Resources
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STRAND: Strategies for Creating Inclusive Science Classrooms

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Want to establish a TK–5 classroom culture inclusive of all learners? Come experience how connecting Next Generation Science Standards and Social Justice Standards promotes inclusivity.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Experience a hands-on NGSS lesson; 2. Opportunity to get to know the Social Justice standards; and 3. Numerous resources to support science and social justice in your learning spaces.

SPEAKERS:
Channon Jackson (Alameda County Office of Education: Hayward, CA), Nancy Wright (Hayward Unified School District: Hayward, CA)

Meeting Next Generation Science Standards Through Storybooks

Thursday, March 31 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 310C


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Learn how a nature storybook can help you meet Next Generation Science Standards and create crosscutting concepts.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will: 1. review NGSS and cross-curricular concepts for early childhood students; 2. learn how to review a children's storybook for standards alignment, and how to match the text to relevant Next Generation Science Standards; and 3. work in small groups to analyze a text for NGSS alignment as well as cross-curricular concepts and STEM extensions.

SPEAKERS:
Julie Travaglini (Allegheny Land Trust: Sewickley, PA)

NASA STEAM: Biomimicry and Robotics—Robotic Insects

Thursday, March 31 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 322A


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Design a robotic insect to meet the requirements of a given environment and adapt the designs to changes in or new information about the environment.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. NASA engineers use biomimicry to design robots for other planets; 2. NASA STEM educator guides provide detailed information to implement STEM in the classroom; and 3. Practice designing a Robotic Insect.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Kohler (NASA Glenn Research Center: Cleveland, OH)

Storybooks and STEM

Thursday, March 31 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 310B



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2022 STEM Imagination Guides Social Media.pdf
STEM Imagination Guides NSTA Presentation-2.pdf

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Bring the excitement of literacy and STEM to children as you discover how to incorporate STEM Imagination Guides in your classroom!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will: 1. discover this new resource and the potential for community partnerships by utilizing the STEM Imagination Guides; 2. walk away with book suggestions, guided questions, and expanded learning resources to support literacy development, enhance relationships, and make connections with local libraries; and 3. discuss the importance of incorporating nature and STEM into their early childhood classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Sarah Roberts (University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Lincoln, NE), Jackie Steffen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Cedar County: Hartington, NE)

A Perfect Pair: Giverny Award-Winning Storybooks and Elementary Science Literacy Strategies

Thursday, March 31 • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 310B



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CLARY Giverny Alignment example NSTA 2022.pdf
CLARY Giverny Science Stories - Winning Books Concepts NSTA 2022.pdf
sc1601_76 Giverny books S&C sept 2016.pdf
Science Scope article on Giverny books & 5 E Cycle

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SWiRL your classroom with Giverny Award-winning storybooks and literacy strategies! Giverny books deliver outstanding story, art, and science content for elementary science classrooms. Free resources!

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Giverny Award–winning books provide science content within a story; 2. Giverny books can SWiRL literacy in the classroom through speaking, writing, reading, and listening; and 3. Giverny books’ multiple science concepts can be showcased and developed in elementary classrooms through mind maps, magnet summaries, and carousel literacy strategies.

SPEAKERS:
Renee Clary (Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS)

Expanding “Text to…” Strategies to Leverage Personal Experiences in the Science Classroom

Thursday, March 31 • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 352E


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Literacy has used “Text to…”connections  to help students make authentic connections. Strategies/examples of expanded “text to…” connections for science and math are modeled.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will 1. explore how to expand a common literacy strategy of “text to” connections when using picture books in the elementary science classroom; 2. engage in investigations that model the use of “text to” connections that help students connect their own authentic experiences and help them understand and make sense and 3. consider criteria for the selection of books, identification of phenomena, and selection of investigations can be a powerful experience for students.

SPEAKERS:
Christine Anne Royce (Shippensburg University: Shippensburg, PA)

NSTA Press Session: Books, Butterflies, Bugs, and Birds in the Schooolyard

Thursday, March 31 • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 362C


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STEM concepts revealed in the schoolyard as community/citizen science’s impact blossom in journals, artifact collections, and children’s literature. Can students impact the “ultimate phenomena”?

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Teachers will get strategies to go with specific children's book titles that work well with citiizen science in the schoolyard; 2. Solid examples of prominent citizen scientists will demonstrate what is possible—such as in the NSTA Kids book, Mrs. Carter's Butterfly Garden; and 3. Integrated hands-on/minds-on strategies will be shared, including how to make nature journaling more impactful, and how to safely navigate the schoolyard to collect artifacts and evidence of animals and plants.

SPEAKERS:
Steve Rich (Science Author/Consultant: Atlanta, GA)

Little Changes, Big Impact: Integrating Evolution in Science and ELA

Thursday, March 31 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 310A



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Link to Little Changes, Big Impact Presentation Supplemental Files
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Join us to explore the use of fiction to help make complex topics like evolution, heredity, and natural selection more fun, understandable, and meaningful for elementary students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to: 1. conduct example activities using a fictional story that can help integrate science and ELA topics; 2. engage students in science and literature by scaffolding their learning with inquiry-based and hands-on activities related to a fictional story; and 3. apply these examples and strategies to other science content using other fictional titles.

SPEAKERS:
Christine Moskalik (NSTA), Nicole Ross (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy: Aurora, IL)

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Thursday, March 31 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 332A


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Want to engage students in inquiry lessons, but don’t know where to start? Join us for hands-on experiences to take back to your classroom!

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Participate in a three-phase inquiry; 2. Obtain resources and materials for designing an inquiry; and 3. See how to link phenomena, inquiry, and the three dimensions of NGSS.

SPEAKERS:
Nicole Bay (Charles H. Barrows STEM Academy: North Windham, CT), Kim Lewis (Charles H. Barrows STEM Academy: North Windham, CT)

Assessing Science Through "Break Out Game" Strategy

Friday, April 1 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 352D


STRAND: Promoting Effective Assessments in the STEM Classroom

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Incorporate “Escape Room” activities that will assess and enrich your science lessons by using technology and cross-curricular connections. Come "Break Out"! Bring your own device.

Please note that hands-on materials are available to the first 40 participants.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to: 1. use a digital platform in creating break-outs for the classroom; 2. understand the benefits of using break-outs; and 3. participate in a hands-on engaging session that will leave you excited about how to implement and assess in your classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Headrick (AMSTI-University of Alabama, Huntsville: Huntsville, AL), Cayce Perry (AMSTI-University of Alabama, Huntsville: Huntsville, AL), Charles Holloway (The University of Alabama in Huntsville: Huntsville, AL), Ann Iott (AMSTI-University of Alabama, Huntsville: Huntsville, AL), Shundra Morris (AMSTI-UAH: No City, No State)

Integrated STEM as a District-Wide Equity Move

Friday, April 1 • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 332 E/F



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Integrated STEM in Tracy Unified.NSTA.4.1.2022.pptx

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Come experience how one California district is leveraging an opportunity to bring equitable STEM experiences to all preK–12 students.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. How one district approaches integrated STEM; 2. What an integrated STEM unit feels like; and 3. How one district supports and builds accountability for equitable STEM instruction.

SPEAKERS:
Scott Reynolds (Community Training and Assistance Center (CTAC): Boston, MA), Dean Reese (Tracy Unified School District: Tracy, CA)

CSSS-Sponsored Session: Using Science Investigation to Motivate Students to Read, Engage in Discourse, and Write

Friday, April 1 • 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 332B


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This session provides educators with strategies and resources to use scientific investigation to motivate students to read to obtain information, academic discourse, and write explanations.

TAKEAWAYS:
Science educators will: 1. take away strategies for how to use scientific investigation to motivate students to read, engage in discourse, and write; 2. learn how to use over 340 investigations as effective reading strategies to engage students in active science learning; and 3. have access to a set of strategies to effectively teach students how to use the ideas and concepts of science presented in the Framework and 3-D science standards.

SPEAKERS:
Brett Moulding (Partnership for Effective Science Teaching and Learning: Ogden, UT), Juan-Carlos Aguilar (Georgia Dept. of Education: Brookhaven, GA)

Science in the Early Childhood Classroom

Friday, April 1 • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 342B



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EE_Science_UCDS.pptx
slideshow
UCDS_Magnet_Curriculum.docx
Magnet curriculum and recording sheets

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Investigate fostering scientific understanding and practice skills in our youngest learners. Take away topics of inquiry and tools for planning experiments and documenting student thinking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will come away with strategies to: 1. plan investigations to integrate science into their early childhood curriculum; 2. build scientific practice skills in our youngest learners; and 3. reveal and document student understanding through lab notebooks.

SPEAKERS:
Katie Morrison (University Child Development School: Seattle, WA), Deb Chickadel (University Child Development School: Seattle, WA)

Integrating Makerspace for an Inclusive Classroom

Friday, April 1 • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 351E


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Participants will dive into makerspace as a means to create an inclusive classroom with student choice for many outcomes, including sensemaking and assessments.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Explore key elements of makerspace activities; 2. View makerspace challenges as a means to provide student choice and voice in how they make sense of a phenomena, a solution to a problem, and core ideas; and 3. Explore ways to use makerspace activities where student choose a means to demonstrate their understanding of a core ideas as a means of assessment.

SPEAKERS:
Michele Detwiler (Gary Adult High School: Tampa, FL)

Getting Little Hands on the Land: STEM Outside

Friday, April 1 • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 352E


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This hands-on workshop will engage participants in outdoor STEM activities and experiments they can utilize in an early childhood classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will: 1. learn about the research outcomes surrounding outdoor learning for early childhood students, and the importance of nature and greenspace to mental and physical health; 2. engage with and complete at least three outdoor STEM activities such as sound maps, making scientific observations and drawings, journaling, etc.; and 3. take home at least six new ideas for outdoor STEM activities as well as accompanying resources.

SPEAKERS:
Julie Travaglini (Allegheny Land Trust: Sewickley, PA)

WIDA-Sponsored Session: Engaging Multilingual Learners (MLs) in Science Sensemaking

Friday, April 1 • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 310C


STRAND: Using Science Inquiry to Facilitate Learning for Multilingual Learners

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Learn effective strategies for engaging multilingual learners and culturally diverse students in collaborative phenomenon-based sensemaking.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Examine the principles for equitable engagement co-developed by NSTA and WIDA, and discuss how these relate to national reform efforts, but more importantly, how they are applied in science classrooms for multilingual students; 2. Examine suggested classroom norms that support collaboration and equitable engagement among linguistically diverse students and their peers—participants will engage in group discussion about equitable science teaching practices describing the data practices they currently use and which practices they would like to expand upon within their science teaching; 3. Learn new ideas about language and some new approaches to support multilingual students’ deep engagement in sensemaking; and 4. Map WIDA’s Teacher Discourse Moves and Student Discourse Moves onto the sensemaking process to support the exploration and transformation of science understanding.

SPEAKERS:
David Crowther (University of Nevada, Reno: Reno, NV)

Inspiring Literacy and Science Interest with Real-World Data

Saturday, April 2 • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 352D



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We use data to do science; data literacy is its own set of skills. Young learners benefit when we integrate data, literacy, and science together.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Identify how data literacy is a critical aspect of literacy and science literacy in the 21st century; 2. Explore strategies and resources to use to authentically integrate data into K–5 science instruction; and 3. Develop a plan for next steps to elevate data as an aspect of meaningful connections between literacy and science.

SPEAKERS:
Kristin Hunter-Thomson (Dataspire Education & Evaluation, LLC)

Makerspace: Engaging K–12 Learners and Growing a Society of Critical Thinkers and Innovators

Saturday, April 2 • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 361B



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https://linktr.ee/cgraf3

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Makerspace is an engaging teaching pedagogy where students participate in sensemaking to solve real-world problems through innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. Makerspaces are versatile and encourage student engagement; 2. Makerspaces teach students crucial 21st-century life skills; and 3. Hands-on exploratory learning leads to increased retention and understanding.

SPEAKERS:
Courtney Graf (Student: Shippensburg, PA)

NSTA Press Session: How to Give Children More Opportunities to Use Science and Literacy to Make Sense of the World Around Them Using Argument-Driven Inquiry

Saturday, April 2 • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

George R. Brown Convention Center - 310A


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This session introduces a way to create learning experiences that will give students opportunities to talk, read, and write in the service of sensemaking as they use the DCIs, CCs, and SEPs to explain natural phenomena.

TAKEAWAYS:
1. How to ensure students have access to science by designing investigations that promote and supports the use of literacy skills; 2. How literacy can be used in the service of sensemaking; and 3. How to embed formative assessment of science practices and literacy skills into an investigation in a meaningful and informative way.

SPEAKERS:
Victor Sampson (The University of Texas at Austin: Austin, TX)

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