Science education has a key role to play in supporting a just transition to the climate crisis. Participants will learn about 20 priority areas associated with climate and environmental justice—and explore educational approaches, resources, and groups related to these areas.

TAKEAWAYS:
Working towards climate justice involves a multifaceted set of issues and priorities. Teachers will identify which priority areas relate to their goals and context and learn about related resources. A climate justice framework will help teachers learn about different dimensions of climate justice.

SPEAKERS:
Philip Bell (University of Washington: Seattle, WA), Deb Morrison (University of Washington: Salt Spring Island, BC), Nancy Price (University of Washington: Seattle, WA), Kelsie Fowler (University of Washington: Seattle, WA)

Sponsoring Company: HHMI BioInteractive

We'll explore using BioInteractive's free Model Builder tool to assist students in understanding system models. Choose from a library of models or create your own.

SPEAKERS:
Steven Rogg (Notre Dame College Prep: Lindenhurst, IL), Joseph Evans (Kent County High School: Worton, MD)

Empower students to investigate the natural world as career scientists do. In this workshop, we will explore accessible field and lab activities from the Chicago Botanic Garden Plant Biology and Conservation graduate program including instructional strategies, lesson plans, and low-cost activities.

TAKEAWAYS:
All students deserve access to high-quality and authentic science experiences. Incorporating real-world scientific training into the classroom provides students with opportunities to be successful in science and contribute to expanding scientific knowledge.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Turner-Rosa (Curriculum and Program Developer / Graduate Student: Washington, DC)

Sponsoring Company: BIOZONE Corporation

Step-through BIOZONE's activities and learn how to utilize our unique pedagogical approach to engage students and streamline lessons. See how to integrate BIOZONE'S rich collection of digital assets into your lessons. Attendees receive a FREE print title & 90 day digital access to a title.

SPEAKERS:
Kim Stilwell (BIOZONE Corp.: Naples, FL)

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Dive into three NOAA modules (Observations vs. Models, Predators and Prey, and Ocean Food Webs) that explore scientific modeling as applied to Earth systems using a VR environment. Using these modules students will employ the NGSS practice of developing and using models in hands-on activities.

SPEAKERS:
Randy Russell (Dragonfly Games: Boulder, CO), Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service: Rockville, MD)

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Learn how to lead simple hands-on experiments with sensors. Help students collect and analyze carbon exchange data from plant leaves in real-time! Dispel student doubts in their understanding of photosynthesis and respiration.

SPEAKERS:
Sophia Guzules (PASCO Scientific: Roseville, CA)

This session is for you teachers who want to deepen your understanding of climate change, and gather strategies for teaching it at an age-appropriate level. We will also discuss how to answer a student who declares, “My dad says he doesn’t believe in climate change!” Been there. Let’s talk.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers learn basic climate science and practice conceptual modeling to clarify and communicate their understanding, so they will feel confident teaching climate. Examples of differentiated instruction for ELL, struggling students, and GT students, are also given to reach all children.

SPEAKERS:
Kottie Christie-Blick (University of San Diego: Tappan, NY)

This interactive session will dive into nature-based learning experiences that help youth develop and maintain positive relationships, become lifelong learners, and contribute to a more caring and just world.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session will model a way to advance educational equity using learning environments that feature trusting and collaborative relationships paired with meaningful instruction.

SPEAKERS:
Maurine Banzhaf (Colorado PLT advisory council: Woodland Park, CO)

Undergraduate researchers built a bat house on the Amazon River Basin. The project goals were: 1.) provide natural remediation, 2.) create a marketable commodity (guano), and 3.) reduce overhead costs. The venture has proven beneficial and has far-reaching global effects on the most at-risk humans.

TAKEAWAYS:
Several benefits for the Maijuna can be replicated in other communities. International historical bat projects will be shared. Future ventures with tropical bat houses and other natural resources will be shared. The main takeaway is the use of the natural environment to battle current human struggles.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Bechtel (Wartburg College: Waverly, IA)

Sponsoring Company: HHMI BioInteractive

Use Biointeractive resources to help students explain the relationship between climate change and coral bleaching by analyzing real world data on heat-stress mortality trends.

SPEAKERS:
Dawn Norton (Educator: Holcombe, WI), Chi Klein (Saint Stephen's Episcopal School: Bradenton, FL)

Sponsoring Company: KidWind Project

Join us to explore the science of solar power! During this workshop, educators will learn the foundations of solar power including the science and technology of solar PV. We will also introduce activities for the classroom that engage students in dynamic, hands-on, energy-based learning.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Arquin (KidWind Project: Saint Paul, MN)

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Reimagine standards-aligned enzymology lessons with an updated real-world spin. Attendees will explore lactase enzyme function firsthand and use Vernier Go Direct® sensors to observe lactose breakdown. Students can make real-world connections to digestive health concepts like lactose intolerance.

SPEAKERS:
Colleen McDaniel (Vernier Science Education: Beaverton, OR), Nüsret Hisim (Vernier Science Education: Beaverton, OR)

To leverage the resources developed by the Shedd Aquarium team, this Share-a-Thon Table will offer free, grab-and-go resources for teachers: Sea Curious K-2 Lesson Plans, Stay Home with Shedd 3-5 Lesson Plans, Outdoor Learning Framework 6-12, and hands-on activities creating corals/mussels.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will be able to leverage informal education resources from aquariums connected to NGSS and Amplify Science to bring authentic stories and examples to their theoretical classroom phenomena.

SPEAKERS:
Max Metz Jr (Shedd Aquarium: Chicago, IL)

Connect with Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium to uncover how educators are bringing science to life for all students. At OHDZA, we know learning continues beyond the four walls of a traditional classroom. Join us to gain meaningful ways to connect students to the world around them!

TAKEAWAYS:
Meet with Omaha's Zoo and Aquarium education team to see how HQIM are used in our Zoo Academies, Zoo After-School Programs, Zoo Outreaches, and Citizen Science Programs. Take away innovative ideas using HQIM to build stronger instruction, deeper engagement, and higher achievements.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Bustos (Coordinator of Camps and Classes: Omaha, NE), Leah Litz (Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium: Omaha, NE)

Teachers how to begin planting using upcycled and free materials, how to reuse containers as planters, how to make biodegradable seedling planters in seconds, and how to transform desolate ground into a blooming wildflower garden with seeds and a container of air-dry clay.

TAKEAWAYS:
Simple, easy, and inexpensive methods for starting a school garden by using upcycled and free materials

SPEAKERS:
Rebecca Kurson (Collegiate School: New York, NY)

Check out some dazzling rocks and minerals and learn about the Reginal EMMY Nominated "Every Rock Has A Story" YouTube Channel, a free educational archive of videos created and hosted by Professor Ethan Baxter of Boston College. Inspire your students through the stories of the Earth.

TAKEAWAYS:
There is so much more to rocks and minerals than just identifying them. You will learn some of the amazing and diverse stories locked inside all rocks. Learn how to navigate the 82 episodes from Seasons 1-4, with topics and co-hosts spanning all facets of Earth and Space Science content.

SPEAKERS:
Ethan Baxter (Boston College: Chestnut Hill, MA)

This project uses environmental topics from NGSS to promote research skills and strengthen awareness of the human impact on the planet, while also encouraging creativity through writing and visual arts. Lesson plans, bibliography, and strategies for implementing in K-5 will be included.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to use grade-level, NGSS standards and concepts as inspiration for students to research, write, and illustrate their own picture books.

SPEAKERS:
Kerry Teeple (University of Findlay College of Education: Findlay, OH)

Come build a wildlife crossing! Combine the science behind reconstructing a fragmented ecosystem and the engineering behind building a wildlife crossing into a relevant project-based learning opportunity.

TAKEAWAYS:
Young students will investigate how to be powerful problem solvers in their community. Through hands-on experiences, they will learn the engineering of bridge building combined with the science behind reconnecting a fragmented ecosystem.

SPEAKERS:
Kristen Nordstrom (Ladera STARS Academy: Westlake Village, CA)

We will demonstrate a 5E on the distribution of water on Earth (partially addressing 5-ESS2-2) and show how we give students experiences across the STEM disciplines. Each STEM discipline will be represented in the 5E.

TAKEAWAYS:
You will learn how you can embed science, engineering, technology, and math in a 5E on the distribution of water (5-ESS2-2).

SPEAKERS:
Elyse Clapp (University of Northern Iowa: Traer, IA), Star Swain (student: palo, IA), Jesse Wilcox (University of Northern Iowa: Cedar Falls, IA)

Mission Arctic takes your students on an in-class field trip to the Arctic to explore the environment with scientists. Activities will include exploration of ice in the classroom promoting an understanding of what we can learn from ice and how it can inform our future.

TAKEAWAYS:
Scientists explore our natural world to understand what happened in the past, what is happening in the present, and how it can inform our future.

SPEAKERS:
Cathy Barthelemy (STEMexperts: Keller, TX)

Learn about all the ways that Denver Botanic Gardens connects K-12 students with nature and take back free resources and strategies to use in your classrooms. We will highlight virtual programs, STEM career exploration resources, and free worksheets and curricula around climate change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn about educational opportunities with Denver Botanic Gardens and Budburst, a project of Chicago Botanic Gardens. Take back free resources on STEM career exploration, climate change, citizen science, pollinators and more.

SPEAKERS:
Katelin Gaeth (Denver Botanic Gardens: Denver, CO)

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Learning sequences to drive phenomena through a unit is one way to help students understand the content. In this model activity from our Lab-Aids program: Science and Global Issues: Biology, developed by SEPUP, you will use data to investigate how abiotic factors and species diversity are related.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Parker (Dublin Coffman High School: Dublin, OH)

Our students are concerned about their environment and are making a difference in their community. Join us to learn how you can use our new curriculum to engage your students in civic action for the environment. You’ll take leave with resources to implement this curriculum with your community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Formal and nonformal educators will learn how to facilitate community engagement projects for the environment with their students so they can learn about environmental issues in their community and potential solutions.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Cayton (Campbell University: Four Oaks, NC), Megan Ennes (University of Florida: Gainesville, FL)

Using a probe from the popular “Uncovering Student Misconceptions” series, the co-author will share student responses to address this key concept for teaching climate change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Understanding student misconceptions in this foundational component of climate change is critical prior to teaching the subject. Discover how engaging, open-ended probes provide insight into student ideas and misconceptions, while learning ways to support them in understanding the concepts accurately.

SPEAKERS:
Brett Thomsen (Science Department Head: Chimacum, WA), Laura Tucker (Consultant: Port Townsend, WA)

In New Brunswick, NJ, district leaders and educators engaged in collaborative spaces to design placed-based and phenomena-driven learning experiences centered on climate science and environmental justice. The community became our curriculum as we advocated for the local/global environment.

TAKEAWAYS:
We will explore a placed-based, phenomena-driven instructional model to address local/global environmental issues, and engage in interdisciplinary learning centered on climate change standards, creating a collaborative space for us to dig deeper into climate science and environmental justice.

SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Nunez (New Brunswick Public Schools: Passaic, NJ)

Participants will engage in the development of a PBL Life Science unit— from start to finish for any secondary student. Several examples of successful PBL Units will be shared and participants will have the opportunity to create their own PBL— specifically Brownfields, Env. Disasters, etc.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will be able to walk away with a partial or entire PBL unit.

SPEAKERS:
Margaret Busker-Postlethwait (Teacher/presenter: Ravenna, OH)

Dr. Michael Wysession, NGSS co-author and geophysics professor, will explore ideas for climate-related phenomena and storylines from the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a way of making climate science relevant and engaging for students.

TAKEAWAYS:
The latest science (AR6 report) from the IPCC is a great resource for phenomena and storylines that can engage students and prepare them for assessments for the HS-ESS3-5 and HS-ESS3-6 NGSS performance expectations covering climate forcings, feedbacks, impacts, and environmental justice.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Wysession (Washington University in St. Louis: Saint Louis, MO)

Sponsoring Company: Simulation Curriculum

Teach about plate tectonics, minerals & rocks, earthquakes & volcanoes, geologic time, atmosphere, weather and climate using the most effective and recognized tool available - Layered Earth! We invite teachers to come and see our newest, browser-based NGSS aligned editions.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Goodman (Simulation Curriculum: Hopkins, MN)

Sponsoring Company: Wildlife Conservation Society

WCS presents Field Sight pairs the insight of our educators with the expertise of WCS field staff to bring you stories of the conservation work we are doing all over the world. Learn about our exciting fieldwork protecting wildlife, and bring this valuable information into your classroom!

SPEAKERS:
Anine Booth (Wildlife Conservation Society: Bronx, NY)

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

As a NOAA Planet Stewards Educator you can become a STEM agent of change in your school and community. Learn how to access professional development opportunities, education resources, and funding, to increase students’ science literacy, and have them respond to real world environmental threats.

SPEAKERS:
Symone Barkley (NOAA National Ocean Service: Silver Spring, MD), Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service: Rockville, MD), Karen Metcalf (Cornerstone Learning Community: Tallahassee, FL), Kelley Hodges (Patronis Elementary School: Panama City Beach, FL), Kyla Trahan (Beaumont Middle School: Lexington, KY)

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Gain vital teaching tools to make global phenomena feel relevant to students to improve their understanding of climate change. We’ll show you how to engage students while monitoring local CO2 levels, modeling ocean acidification, and exploring global data sets with free classroom-ready resources.

SPEAKERS:
Sophia Guzules (PASCO Scientific: Roseville, CA)

Justice-centered science instruction is a critical process for building transformative, empowering classrooms. The TEECH Justice toolkit for K-12 educators provides resources and planning templates for creating community-driven, justice-centered science learning experiences for students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Classroom learning experiences that center local issues impacting students and their communities are more engaging and meaningful for students, especially for students traditionally underrepresented and underserved by science education.

SPEAKERS:
Stacy Meyer (Educational Service District 112: Vancouver, WA)

Have you felt all the responsibility of teaching climate in only your classes? Every K-12 classroom can integrate climate literacy & action. Join us to learn about Washington State’s ClimeTime Program’s resources and support for integrating climate literacy and action across all content areas, K-12.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave with practical solutions to create connections between the climate literacy found in the Framework and non-science K-12 content areas. Guidance for working with their peers to anchor classroom instruction around climate change and climate solutions will also be provided.

SPEAKERS:
Korey Peterson (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA), Jacob Parikh (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA), Lori Henrickson (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA)

Learn citizen science activities to increase student engagement. Join a classroom teacher, National Geographic Explorer, and an education specialist at the Jacksonville Zoo, and integrate geospatial applications to help students build science skills through connections in their local community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Youth can drive change as citizen scientists in their local community while developing science skills in field research and data collection. Educators will learn how to empower youth to address community issues as young scientists and changemakers of tomorrow.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Blum (School Program Specialist: Jacksonville, FL), Alicia Pressel (Creekside High School: Jacksonville, FL)

This workshop will introduce participants to environmental science agency as a climate change learning outcome. Participants will engage in student hat as they try tools to support student agency, and then brainstorm ways to use the tools in their classrooms. All materials are freely available.

TAKEAWAYS:
Climate change education requires more than just content acquisition about the science of climate change. It should also cultivate a sense of agency for students to act within and beyond the classroom, which can be supported by classroom instructional tools.

SPEAKERS:
Candice Guy-Gaytán (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Lindsey Mohan (BSCS Science Learning: Burnet, TX)

Three different options will be shared that will help teachers bring their students outside where they can connect with nature. This includes 2 PBLs. Logistics and content will be clearly explained so that teachers can use these ideas immediately with their classes that focus on ecology.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn 3 different successful low-cost activities (including 2 PBLs) that they can use directly in their classrooms to connect their students with nature regardless of their geographic location. The presenter will share materials to help teachers plan logistics and content.

SPEAKERS:
Nadene Klein (Daniel C. Oakes High School: Elizabeth, CO)

We use the 3-H socioemotional learning cycle to engage learners, using hands-on inquiry around the composition of different soil types. Teachers learn how to identify the soil types of clay, humus, sand, and compost, and apply this information to what can grow and flourish in different soil types.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will be provided with lesson plans and student work to initiate discussions about classroom applications. At the end of the session, participants will learn how to apply the 3-H model to engage students' hearts, heads, and hands in science learning using the phenomenon of soils.

SPEAKERS:
Kathy Trundle (Utah STate University: Peachtree City, GA), Rita Hagevik (The University of North Carolina at Pembroke: LAURINBURG, NC)

Learn about a free unit of instruction that uses a GIS data explorer tool from the USDA Forest Service to explore connections between forests and watersheds. You’ll have an opportunity to try out the activities and receive copies of three lesson plans connected to NGSS and CCSS.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will have the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to engage students in using cutting-edge GIS technology in learning about natural systems and the connection between forests and the water they drink. Walk away able to use these tools immediately in your classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Kate Nagle (Project Learning Tree: Silver Spring, MD), Jaclyn Stallard (Sustainable Forestry Initiative: Washington, DC)

Use the My NASA Data Earth System Satellite Cards and Data Literacy Cubes in multiple activities with different strategies to analyze global NASA Earth data, understand the relationship among different environmental variables, and explore how the data changes seasonally.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will engage in active learning about Earth as a system and the relationship between key environmental variables. They will also learn how to engage learners in analysis of false color images of satellite data using scaffolded questions for different Lexile and WIDA proficiency levels.

SPEAKERS:
Jessica Taylor (NASA Langley Research Center: Hampton, VA), Rosalba Giarratano (Outreach Coordinator: East Elmhurst, NY), Angela Rizzi (NASA Langley Research Center/ADNET: Newport News, VA)

Biogeochemical cycles are often an abstract concept students struggle to make a meaningful connection with. “Why are we learning this” sustainable agriculture through use of plant nutrients is a real-world bridge for that conceptual gap.

TAKEAWAYS:
Students will learn about biogeochemical cycles and their environmental importance through the lens of sustainable agriculture by exploring the chemical makeup of plant nutrients and how they interact with soil chemistry in order to sustainably grow food.

SPEAKERS:
Amy Guevara (High School Environmental and Agriscience Teacher: New Smyrna Beach, FL)

Climate goals like the Paris Agreement are only possible if we transition to a more sustainable protein supply. Alternative protein science offers real-world applications and tangible links between lessons in biology, chemistry, engineering, and more, with climate solutions and career opportunities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Incorporating alternative protein science into existing course material offers a means for educators to link science and technology with students’ values-driven interests. Attendees will learn how to achieve this through instruction and experiential learning opportunities.

SPEAKERS:
Nathan Ahlgrim (Good Food Institute: Hickory, NC)

In this workshop, we will explore the benefits of incorporating BIPOC ecological knowledge into curriculum and engage with methods to support culturally inclusive science learning. Using Papahānaumokuākea as an example, we will investigate how to infuse hope and SEL into climate science.

TAKEAWAYS:
Incorporating diverse ecological perspectives and knowledge systems can enrich students' well-being, sharpen their scientific skills, and empower them to tackle diverse climate and environmental issues.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Turner-Rosa (Curriculum and Program Developer / Graduate Student: Washington, DC)

Sponsoring Company: The NEED Project

Inquiry-based, hands-on STEM and critical thinking activities that help students to develop a comprehensive understanding of energy, electricity, hydropower, and emerging ocean technologies.

SPEAKERS:
Vernon Kimball (NEED Facilitator: Manassas, VA)

Come and see a model for an outdoor education day where invited scientists and environmental educators gather in a local state park to teach every student in our 3rd through 5th grade school. We have been hosting this event at a State Park near our school and it works. You can do it, too.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to successfully put together an outdoor education day involving local scientists, environmental educators, and conservationists. We have been putting together this event for over 10 years and can share what we have learned along the way.

SPEAKERS:
Jacob Tanenbaum (Cottage Lane Elementary School: Tappan, NY)

Experience PreK-2 lessons, learn outdoor classroom management, and hear philosophies from School in the Woods, a public school with an outdoor focus. Crosscurricular lessons that meet your standards with 3-D Learning through outdoor, hands-on, minds-on discovery. Turn your classroom inside OUT !

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will experience outdoor lessons to use with students to meet all areas of the curriculum (with indoor alternatives and in/out infusion ideas). Free nature notebook.

SPEAKERS:
Maurine Banzhaf (Colorado PLT advisory council: Woodland Park, CO), DeLene Hoffner (Retired & eleSTEMary: Colorado Springs, CO)

Explore the application of phenomenon-based science teaching through the lens of fishing. Applications for any state enable students to explore human impacts on natural recourses and the impact on the overall health of the ocean. Essential questions are investigated using mini-projects and more.

TAKEAWAYS:
This unit models a phenomenon-based unit about fishing and aquaculture. Students explore cultural, economical, and ecological impacts around fishing to explore human impacts on our natural resources. Mini project-based learning and dissections are used as teaching strategies in this unit.

SPEAKERS:
Ashley Garcia (MAP Academy: East Wareham, MA)

Use the STEM Teaching Tool’s self-documentation strategy as we go outdoors and create a map of our schoolyard. We will document observations & questions that can drive our learning. Consider how you might use a similar activity to connect classroom learning to your outdoor spaces.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to use outdoor spaces to keep students engaged and invested in building new science ideas driven from their own observations and questions.

SPEAKERS:
Kelly Houle (The University of Rhode Island: Wakefield, RI), Holly Emery (GEMS-Net, University of Rhode Island: West Greenwich, RI), Zachary Orefice (GEMS-Net, University of Rhode Island: High Point, NC)

An integrated science+CS module about invasive species sets the stage for inclusive and culturally responsive instruction. Come to find out how we embedded inclusive approaches into our lessons, and take away hands-on, practical strategies to apply these approaches in your own classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will apply an Equity-Centered Curriculum Framework to inspect and modify existing science lessons to create classroom experiences that meet the needs of all learners. The Framework synchronizes Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning, and Project-Based Learning.

SPEAKERS:
Carla Strickland (UChicago STEM Education: Chicago, IL), Annmargareth Marousky (Broward County Public Schools: Fort Lauderdale, FL), Jeanne Di Domenico (The University of Chicago: St. Louis, MO)

In this session, we will explore how educators and partners are working together in Boston to create climate change project-based learning opportunities for students in grades 6-12.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will explore teacher-created, climate-focused PBL tasks, citizen science resources, and strategies for building sustainable partnerships.

SPEAKERS:
Rebecca Shoer (Senior Program Manager, Education & Engagement: Somerville, MA), Elisabeth Colby (Director of Visitor Experience and Engagement Programs: Boston, MA), Holly Rosa (Boston Public Schools: Quincy, MA)

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 (Penguin Young Readers), Hayley Rocco (Penguin Young Readers)

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is the best resource for accessing free and scientifically vetted instructional resources on everything related to climate and energy. This session introduces tips for utilizing this comprehensive resource for your teaching scenario.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to access, curate, and combine high-quality climate science, climate change, and energy resources for your teaching scenario.

SPEAKERS:
Margaret Holzer (none: Somerset, NJ)

With NGSS and Common Core-aligned teaching guides and materials, tutorials, hands-on activities, PD and funding opportunities, NOS Education supports the teaching of ocean, coastal, climate, and Earth science at all student levels, and engages students and communities in hands-on stewardship.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn about new and exciting data-driven, standard-aligned NOS Education resources to enhance their ocean, climate, Earth science content knowledge, and facilitate their planning and delivery of interactive, phenomena-based, age appropriate, classroom, and out of doors programs via a

SPEAKERS:
Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service: Rockville, MD)

Showcasing free educational resources, classroom materials, and teaching strategies surrounding the Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops series of scientific documentaries. The documentaries and their resources are suitable for grades 6-12.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to incorporate these documentaries to teach specific climate change science in the classroom in an interactive and engaging manner, utilizing our free resources designed for educators.

SPEAKERS:
Arlo Perez (Creative Producer: DENVER, CO)

Use 3-D learning to engage students in understanding the balance between human activities, finite natural resources, and ecosystem health. Participate in lively simulations, modeling and problem-solving exercises for your classes and receive lessons matched to NGSS.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn ways to guide students’ inquiry around key environmental challenges, using hands-on simulations and modeling activities that employ 3D learning in an inclusive classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Merryn Cole (University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Las Vegas, NV), Diana Buirgy (Glenwood Springs High School/Roaring Fork School District: Glenwood Springs, CO)

Engage students in answering the question "How can I impact change?" as you partner Civics with Ecology. Learn to take students from hearing about ecology to taking a stand on ecological policy, and developing passion projects to influence change at the local, state, or national level.

TAKEAWAYS:
Walk away from this session with a cross-curricular project that takes students from merely hearing about ecology, to caring deeply about an issue, to take a stand and answer the question “How can I impact change?”

SPEAKERS:
Katherine Willet (Williamsburg Middle School: Annandale, VA)

Climate change and other drivers of change in global systems are complex, interdisciplinary phenomena. Learn about a conceptual framework that connects drivers of change with global systems to help students understand the science behind the headlines.

TAKEAWAYS:
Human-biosphere interactions offer relevant narratives and conceptual frameworks that integrate cause-and-effect; systems and system models; structure and function; and stability and change.

SPEAKERS:
Joseph Levine (Savvas Learning Company: Concord, MA)

Participants in this session will leave with a STEM inquiry-based project and educational materials designed to captivate students while emphasizing 21st-century scientific applications and UN sustainable goals. Additionally, a list of potential RET opportunities for educators will be provided.

TAKEAWAYS:
Sharing how the RET experience has led to the production of a project that integrates nitrogen cycle pollution into a nitrogen circular economy, where the project's primary focus was on critical topics such as energy, climate, and food security; important topics to empower high school students.

SPEAKERS:
Milene De Farias (Southcrest Christian School: Lubbock, TX)

Practice techniques for carbon footprinting and novel ecological impact assessment strategies for influencing mindful consumer choices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will gain tools to guide students to consider the systemic ecological impact of consumption choices.

SPEAKERS:
Maya Bhagat (The School District of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA), Maggie Osman (The U School - School District of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA)

Using myths and legends which explain phenomenon. Examples of culture and place of Hawaii will be shared. Attendees will experience a lesson which weaves a Hawaiian legend (past) based on a phenomenon and be challenged to validate the legend with today's technology (present).

TAKEAWAYS:
The hope is for attendees to reflect on their sense of "Place" as a platform tool to engage students to understand their surroundings and cultures and how to use 21st century technology to validate a phenomenon.

SPEAKERS:
Diane Tom-Ogata (W. R. Farrington High School: Honolulu, HI)

Hands-on workshop highlights considerations of water use and equity. Uses anthropology, geosciences, and environmental sustainability principles to discuss water equity and incorporating these concepts and disciplines into science education. Bring a laptop/tablet to fully participate.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will investigate the ethnohistoric context of water ownership, access and use in their regions, and practice how to unpack the complex topic of water equity and incorporate various aspects into activities that address the learning objectives of their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Chelsie Romulo (Associate Professor of Geography, GIS, and Sustainability: Greeley, CO), Sharon Bywater-Reyes (Associate Professor of Geoscience: Greeley, CO), Sarah Johnson (Wild Rose Education: Carbondale, CO)

Stewardship Through Outdoor Learning Learn strategies to get kids connected to learning, stewardship, and climate data. Leave with a Nature Journal and confidence in managing middle schoolers outside. Participants will: build a nature journal, &get strategies to manage middle school students outside

TAKEAWAYS:
Gain confidence and techniques to teach stewardship and climate data through nature journals.

SPEAKERS:
Bridget Burke (Central Kitsap Middle School: Silverdale, WA)

Join me as I share my experience of transforming a local citizen science project into a phenomenon-driven unit that uses a storyline approach.

TAKEAWAYS:
You’ll walk away with a step-by-step process for taking a place-based or citizen science project and learning how to build a storyline around it, including finding an authentic phenomena that will not only drive the unit, but engage you and your students.

SPEAKERS:
Kyle Beeton (Lisbon School Department: Lisbon, ME)

Sponsoring Company: STEM Sports®

STEM Sports' session will provide participants with a hands-on approach to learning STEM disciplines through Sports. Attendees will take on the role of students and be given an overview of how to design a sustainable golf course by considering the good of the planet, people, and profitability.

SPEAKERS:
Jeff Golner (STEM Sports®)

Sponsoring Company: LaMotte Company

Water is the single most valuable resource essential for life on Earth, yet is subject to increasing scarcity, pollutants, and overuse. The Tapwater Tour curriculum makes the real world connection between the phenomena explored in the lesson and actual hands-on laboratory activities.

SPEAKERS:
Joseph Evans (Kent County High School: Worton, MD)

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

SOS Explorer® is used to explain global environmental data. A mobile app version has always been free, but for the first time, the desktop version is also free and ready to install on your computer. Come learn how to download a free copy for yourself and see how we use it in a classroom setting.

SPEAKERS:
Hilary Peddicord (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory: Lyons, CO), Beth Russell (NOAA Office of Education: Silver Spring, MD), Eric Hackathorn (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory: Boulder, CO), Juan Pablo Hurtado (NOAA: Washington, DC)

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Add excitement to your class with live organisms! Explore how organisms find food and interact. Discuss how these two hands-on activities can be applied to younger students: How creatures find food, and to older students: Social behavior and inter-species interactions.

SPEAKERS:
Laurie Nixon (Watauga High School: Blowing Rock, NC)

Sponsoring Company: HHMI BioInteractive

Students often struggle with visualizing photosynthesis across biological scales. Join us as we use BioInteractive resources to explore how photosynthesis models make student thinking visible.

SPEAKERS:
Amit Morris (Science Teacher: Toronto, ON), Katherine Ward (Aragon High School: San Mateo, CA)

This session will provide a brief overview of the basic science behind global warming and its consequences, plus discussion of how we can in principle achieve a “post-global warming” future in which today’s children will someday be able to talk about global warming as a problem of the past.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to teach global warming science without “gloom and doom” — and without provoking parents — by inspiring students to envision a post-warming future.

SPEAKERS:
Jeffrey Bennett (Big Kid Science: Boulder, CO)

Climate science is interdisciplinary and when broader society issues are addressed, like environmental justice, it becomes even more expansive. This presentation address these challenges by describing specific topics to include in instructional “storylines” that integrate student learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
To learn how to sequence and communicate topics essential to explaining climate change, its environmental impact, and the broader societal concerns.

SPEAKERS:
Ted Clark (The Ohio State University: Columbus, OH)

We’ll share 5 free online modules that engage students in the importance oysters and mussels play in watersheds via field studies, role plays scenarios, and a dynamic simulation. This NOAA-funded MWEE effort has students investigate, collaborate, and debate solutions to authentic problems.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers gain awareness of and access to OER support curriculum and student exemplars developed across a 3-year grant aligned with the 3 dimensions of NGSS and NOAA’s meaningful watershed educational experience framework. The modules were piloted across 3 diverse school districts (urban and rural).

SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Edmondson (Virginia Commonwealth University: Richmond, VA), Al Byers (AB Advising: Ashburn, VA)

Environmental issues, such as plastic pollution in the ocean, are often global in scale and thus overwhelming for students to consider. We’ll explore how engineering can frame these problems so that they are manageable for students to solve in the classroom while remaining relevant to global issues.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to apply socially engaged engineering to environmental problems using free lessons from the Museum of Science, Boston. Experience open-ended design challenges that get students thinking about large-scale environmental issues while building their confidence in solving problems.

SPEAKERS:
Darshita Shah (Senior Director of Curriculum: Boston, MA)

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.

TAKEAWAYS:
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 (UCAR Center for Science Education: Boulder, CO), Leanne Rehme (UCAR Center for Science Education: Boulder, CO), Katie Wolfson (School & Public Programs Manager: Boulder, CO), Lisa Gardiner (UCAR Center for Science Education: Boulder, CO)

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Discover how to create 3D learning opportunities for your students with KidWind. Explore the engineering design elements of a wind turbine, build prototypes, and test and optimize them for design efficiency. Sharpen students’ problem-solving and engineering skills through real-world applications.

SPEAKERS:
Josh Ence (Vernier Science Education: Beaverton, OR), David Carter (Vernier Science Education: Beaverton, OR)

Sponsoring Company: Edvotek

Unlock biology's mysteries with model organisms! Join our workshop to learn how to culture and study C. elegans in your classroom laboratory. Explore heavy metal effects using a simple locomotion assay. Integrate STEM concepts, data collection, and statistics for an enriching learning experience.

SPEAKERS:
Danielle Snowflack, PhD (Edvotek Inc.: Washington, DC), Tom Cynkar (Edvotek Inc.: Washington, DC)

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Students use a river model to investigate how flowing water erodes and deposits sediments to create common landforms. They then design erosion control structures and use the river model to test them. Based on the results of their initial testing, students redesign and retest their structures.

SPEAKERS:
Donna Parker (Dublin Coffman High School: Dublin, OH)

Participate in sample activities from our collection of 40 FREELY available lesson plans that comprise our youth-led environmental citizen science curriculum. This NGSS-aligned curriculum brings our research on student science identity development into practice with authentic, place-based learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
You will experience how to implement this research-informed curriculum to strengthen student science identity development, and learn how to use environmental sensors and environmental monitoring data in lessons that build skills in SEPs, science communication, and scientific technology use.

SPEAKERS:
Charlie Blake (Assistant Professor: Edwardsville, IL)

This hands-on workshop will help participants incorporate the natural world phenomena of underwater sound into classroom physical and biological science activities. Online resources will be shared, including an audio gallery of the underwater sounds produced by animals, people, and the natural world

TAKEAWAYS:
Using the topic of underwater sound can be an engaging vehicle for middle and high school students to explore and connect with the undersea environment and the science of sound.

SPEAKERS:
Gail Scowcroft (Inner Space Center at The University of Rhode Island: Narragansett, RI), Liesl Hotaling (University of Rhode Island: Highlands, NJ)

Utilize argument-driven scaffolds for Earth and environmental science topics to critically evaluate connections between evidence and alternative scientific explanations with model-evidence link (MEL) diagrams to construct deeper student understanding of socio-scientific issues.

TAKEAWAYS:
An introduction to MEL instructional scaffolds designed to assist learners as they construct arguments to evaluate the plausibility of evidence connected to models and the research base that supports using these scaffolds. Participants receive access to all instructional materials and guides.

SPEAKERS:
Lorraine Ramirez Villarin (University of North Georgia: Dahlonega, GA), Margaret Holzer (none: Somerset, NJ), Donna Governor (University of North Georgia: Pensacola, FL)

Learn how a class studying local ecosystems as part of a community science project utilizes multiple modeling approaches, including embodied modeling, system modeling with SageModeler, and data analysis using CODAP to enhance learning, contribute to research, and raise environmental awareness.

TAKEAWAYS:
Using multiple modeling approaches throughout the year improves understanding and is more inclusive by providing multiple avenues for students to engage with core ideas and crosscutting concepts, as they engage in multiple NGSS practices, specifically those related to modeling and data analysis.

SPEAKERS:
Daniel Damelin (The Concord Consortium: Bolton, MA), Angela Gospodarek (Gorham Middle School: Gorham, ME)

Explore how our sources of protein can affect human and environmental health. Experience hands-on, minds-on, NGSS practice-based lessons related to One Health – the connections between human, animal, and environmental health.

TAKEAWAYS:
Using a hands-on, minds-on, NGSS practice-based approach, participants will leave with classroom-ready materials to engage their students in investigating protein malnutrition and how different protein sources affect the environment. Activities focus on the science practice of modeling.

SPEAKERS:
Lisa Brosnick (SUNY Buffalo State College: Eden, NY)

Through a hands-on lab investigation, students will explore landfill mining as a practice for the recovery of non-renewable resources and as a means to reclaim landfill areas for alternative uses. Students will learn about benefits, drawbacks, and steps involved in landfill mining.

TAKEAWAYS:
Through a hands-on lab investigation, students will explore landfill mining as a practice for the recovery of non-renewable resources and as a means to reclaim landfill areas for alternative uses. Students will learn about benefits, drawbacks, and steps involved in landfill mining.

SPEAKERS:
Stephanie Burns (Connetquot Central School District: Baiting Hollow, NY)

Learn about Conserve It or List It, an exciting series of inquiry investigations driven by student questions that you can use to teach environmental and life science. You will participate in one of the experiments and receive the project guidelines as well as strategies for classroom implementation.

TAKEAWAYS:
Conserve It or List It is an exciting way to engage students in environmental and life science through inquiry-based lessons driven by phenomena and student questions, with the goal of helping students invest in science and bringing the outdoors into classroom instruction.

SPEAKERS:
Sandra Ryack-Bell (Wade Institute for Science Education: Dartmouth, MA), Kathryn Atkins (Wade Institute for Science Education: North Adams, MA), Rachel Stronach (Lloyd Center for the Environment: Dartmouth, MA)

"A Walk Through Water" combines project-based learning with NGSS-aligned education, immersing students in real-world environmental exploration. This approach nurtures environmental consciousness, fosters scientific problem-solving, and promotes responsible citizenship.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will experience integrated art, science, and NGSS-aligned education through phenomenon exploration and sculpting an organism with model magic to create deeper connections in order to build empathy and connection to the natural world, in order to solve important environmental issues.

SPEAKERS:
Nikki Atkinson (Visual Arts and CTE Media Arts: Fort Collins, CO), Deborah Holman (Wellington Middle School: Fort Collins, CO)

Explore Retro Report’s videos and the free, high-quality classroom resources that accompany them. Participants will view a 12-min documentary on the hole in the ozone layer and act as high school science students to examine the related lesson.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how Retro Report videos can be used to infuse multiple disciplines in the science classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Jacqueline Katz (Princeton Public Schools: Princeton, NJ)

Participants will use activities that work in CP and Honors Biology to help students decide whether and how we should genetically modify corn. Materials can be integrated into DNA (genes), evolution (artificial selection), and/or ecology (environmental impacts of GMOs).

TAKEAWAYS:
Teach kids to make informed decisions about GMOs. Learn to scaffold group argumentation and CER skills in this unit. Students work in teams to discuss data and create a speech about how we should deal with this complex issue. This curriculum closed the gap between our CP and Honors students!

SPEAKERS:
Lindsey L'ECUYER (Andover High School: Andover, MA)

So your students understand the basics of climate science, but what’s next? Dig deeper into climate literacy by focusing on solutions. In this workshop we will explore hands-on activities and digital interactives that help high school students learn how we can solve and adapt to climate change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will walk away from this workshop with several classroom activities that they can use to help high school students learn about climate solutions and develop a deeper understanding of the choices communities must make when designing mitigation and adaptation strategies.

SPEAKERS:
Lisa Gardiner (UCAR Center for Science Education: Boulder, CO), Kathryn Boyd (CIRES Education & Outreach: Boulder, CO), Melissa Rummel (UCAR Center for Science Education: Boulder, CO)

Sponsoring Company: HHMI BioInteractive

Join us as we explore the relationship between environmental changes and wildfires using free BioInteractive resources that feature authentic phenomena and data analysis.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Dinerman (Sherwood High School: Sandy Spring, MD), Beth Cates (Western Sierra Collegiate Academy: Rocklin, CA)

There’s an ever-growing need for accessible resources to inform teaching climate change concepts in a variety of disciplines. Participants will tour the new Fifth National Climate Assessment and Climate Literacy Guide, share feedback with developers, and explore applications for the classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
This interactive workshop will immerse educators in new authoritative climate information resources: the Fifth National Climate Assessment website; featuring an art gallery, key messages, engaging graphics, and the updated Climate Literacy Guide, a framework of climate principles and concepts.

SPEAKERS:
Carol ODonnell (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC), Jenna Hartley (US Environmental Protection Agency: Hillsborough, NC), Haley Crim (Climate Engagement and Capacity-building Coordinator: Silver Spring, MD), Frank Niepold (NOAA Climate Program Office: Silver Spring, MD), Aaron Grade (National Climate Assessment Staff Scientist: Washington, DC)

Bring your laptop or tablet for a guided tour of the public database (NCBI) and an activity on how simple bioinformatics tools can help identify threats to our food supply.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants learn basic terms and tools (DNA barcodes, bioinformatics) used for DNA sequence analysis. A simple activity demonstrates how bioinformatics tools are used to solve problems in the real world.

SPEAKERS:
Jane Hunt (Nourish the Future - Education Projects, LLC: Dublin, OH), Zack Bateson (National Agricultural Genotyping Center: Fargo, ND)

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Introduce new scientific concepts to your students by studying climate change phenomena. We'll discuss experiments that help students use data-collection technology to study climate change in the classroom, including an investigation into the effect of carbon dioxide on ocean and freshwater pH.

SPEAKERS:
Colleen McDaniel (Vernier Science Education: Beaverton, OR), Nüsret Hisim (Vernier Science Education: Beaverton, OR)

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Learn the best way to develop deep student understanding of colorimetry and Beer's Law. Help students discover the link between solution concentration and light absorption through hands-on experimentation. We’ll show you how to teach students to use wireless sensors to collect and analyze data.

SPEAKERS:
Sophia Guzules (PASCO Scientific: Roseville, CA)

Sponsoring Company: Adventerra Games North America LLC

Come play & hear from teachers using Adventerra’s unique games to engage students and achieve curricular goals while also addressing students’ eco-anxiety. Will include updates from a Johns Hopkins Univ. study on the effectiveness of our K-12 environmental education games in teaching eco concepts.

SPEAKERS:
Bryan Mundell (Founder: Paradiso, Switzerland), Lauren Kelly (Crowley ISD: Burleson, TX), Cynthia Crockett (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian: Antrim, NH), Sue Mundell (Adventerra Games North America: Boston, MA)

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Why are sea levels rising? Why is it so dangerous for everyone - no matter where in the US they live? How can we address it? Using hands-on role-playing activities from NOAA, engage your students on one of the most dangerous climate impacts of our time.

SPEAKERS:
Symone Barkley (NOAA National Ocean Service: Silver Spring, MD), Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service: Rockville, MD)

Sponsoring Company: LaMotte Company

Participants will learn how to use simple unit dose tablet reagents to assess water quality. Discover lesson ideas to turn your students into citizen scientists and advocates for their local watershed. Hands-on activities, curriculum connections and assessment ideas will be provided. Take aways.

SPEAKERS:
Joseph Evans (Kent County High School: Worton, MD)

This workshop provides participants the opportunity to engage in and reflect on science learning aligned to a framework for designing instruction that is more equitable and engaging for all students. Participants will reflect on the framework and consider ways it can apply in their own setting.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will walk away with a framework and concrete examples of its application for creating science learning experiences that are more equitable and engaging, and reflect on its use at the school, district, or regional level in supporting enactment of high-quality curriculum & instruction.

SPEAKERS:
Christi Sanderson (mySci Instructional Specialist: University City, MO)

Discover how and at what point in the curriculum to teach climate change in the elementary NGSS classroom. Explore student-friendly online resources to engage students, science projects to deepen understanding, and the many ways to move forward with environmental stewardship.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers are introduced to “classroom-tested” climate change activities and online resources that they can use to engage and educate diverse learners. They will also learn how to inspire their students to take climate action, helping to decrease climate anxiety and increase a positive outlook.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Levine (South Orangetown Central School District: Blauvelt, NY), Kottie Christie-Blick (University of San Diego: Tappan, NY), Jacob Tanenbaum (Cottage Lane Elementary School: Tappan, NY)

Ready to engage students in climate learning while attending to equity, 3D teaching, and integration across content areas? Join Washington State’s ClimeTime network to dive into K-12 NGSS-aligned lessons and resources about climate science learning available for free from our state open-access hub.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session will share example lessons for teachers, professional learning resources, and other ways that climate science learning has been supported across Washington State. Attendees will then have the opportunity to explore and incorporate these resources into their own practice.

SPEAKERS:
Lori Henrickson (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA), Brad Street (IslandWood: SEATTLE, WA), Jacob Parikh (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA), Korey Peterson (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA)

Bring your laptop and come explore a place-based, virtual climate change investigation. This activity uses real-world data from across the country to highlight the potential impacts of a changing climate.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees at this session will leave with a virtual activity that can be tailored to science classrooms across the country.

SPEAKERS:
Merryn Cole (University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Las Vegas, NV), Jake Johnson (Desert Pines High School/UNLV: North Las Vegas, NV)

Attendees will initiate sense-making through the data-driven phenomenon of pollinator decline. Attendees will analyze and interpret evidence on how resource availability affects native bee populations. Finally, we will design a school native bee habitat to encourage native bee biodiversity.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave the workshop with lesson ideas and strategies to problem-frame the decline of native bee species and develop a possible solution by designing a native bee habitat for their school or community.

SPEAKERS:
Rita Hagevik (The University of North Carolina at Pembroke: LAURINBURG, NC), Kathy Trundle (Utah STate University: Peachtree City, GA)

Learn to use the Solutionary Framework to design instruction that engages students in solving real-world problems in their community. Empower young people to become climate solutionaries who explore complex problems and enact solutions that do the most good for all stakeholders.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will use the four-part Solutionary Framework to expand their ability to design units that empower students to address the complex climate issues facing their generation.

SPEAKERS:
Julie Meltzer (Director of K-12 and Teacher Education: Southwest Harbor, ME), Angela Whittaker (Institute for Humane Education: Rice, VA)

Hands-on lessons for your students to explore how we produce, consume, and save energy, and how this can affect our homes, communities, and our health.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn activities to help students develop an awareness of environmental justice and inequities that can have influences on one’s local environment and personal health outcomes.

SPEAKERS:
Kimberly Swan (The NEED Project: Manassas, VA)

Follow a prekindergarten journey to design a shared immersive experience bringing together the school community. Participants will play with loose parts to deepen our relationships with the natural world alongside children.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will consider how to deepen adult and child relationships with the natural world.

SPEAKERS:
Kirsten Zimbelman (Mentor Advisor: Boulder, CO)

NGSS alignment is quite challenging for most teachers. We have designed open-source materials that achieved NGSS-aligned outcomes for 80-90% of students while reducing the challenges of instruction. We will guide participants through example materials that support NGSS implementation.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees of this session will leave with specific strategies and options to improve NGSS alignment without significantly adding to the day-to-day burden of classroom instruction. This will also broaden their understanding of the goals and objectives of NGSS alignment.

SPEAKERS:
Craig Kohn (Waterford Union High School: Waterford, WI), Abigail Helmke (Biology teacher: greenfield, WI)

The science of climate change is simple to learn but serious for communities. Yet, it is solvable! Through role-playing, attendees will engage in an NGSS-aligned lesson for high school or college students centered on visualizing climate change from diverse cultural and economic perspectives.

TAKEAWAYS:
The Simple, Serious, Solvable model makes the teaching of climate change engaging, relevant, and accessible to students and teachers in diverse settings. Teachers across science content areas can adapt this NGSS-aligned lesson that focuses on drawing, role-playing, self-evaluation, and discussion.

SPEAKERS:
Scott Denning (Professor: Fort Collins, CO), Elizabeth Diaz-Clark (PhD Student: Fort Collins, CO), Meena Balgopal (Colorado State University: Fort Collins, CO)

Learn how one school implemented a science-based, service learning program that takes elementary students into our local wetlands and brings the Science and Engineering Practices to life.

TAKEAWAYS:
1.) Learn how to establish mutually beneficial local partnerships that support science instruction; 2.) Discover how to encourage students to problem-solve local issues and take action in their communities; and 3.) Walk away with ideas and strategies for taking learning beyond the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Elaine Sevin (Isidore Newman School: New Orleans, LA), Jennifer Williams (Isidore Newman School: Belle Chasse, LA)

A look to the water source of your place; the flow and distribution of water, and how water was an integral part of indigenous cultures. Examples of the interaction and interdependence of water in a variety of cultural ecosystem settings and society.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will reflect on where their water comes from, it's path, and it's importance in the culture of their place, their surrounding indigenous practices, and compare their water source with global communities.

SPEAKERS:
Kimberley Norris-Jones (Richland Northeast Hs: Columbia, SC), Diane Tom-Ogata (W. R. Farrington High School: Honolulu, HI)

Wildfire, floods, and drought are becoming more severe; the impacts are most heavily felt by frontline communities. Experience an NGSS-driven curriculum that explores the science of hazards and engages students with scenario-based role-play games and community action projects to build resilience.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will be introduced to free units that use Colorado-based data and games to empower students to help their community be more resilient to climate-related hazards. Veteran teachers will share stories about actions they have taken with their students and communities using the curriculum.

SPEAKERS:
Alicia Christensen (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences: Boulder, CO), Krystal Brown (Teacher: Gunnison, CO), Mike Munoz (Teacher: Paonia, CO), Jamie Breitner (Teacher: Littleton, CO), Katya Schloesser (University of Colorado Boulder: Gunnison, CO)

Sponsoring Company: HHMI BioInteractive

Students can be change-makers! We’ll model using BioInteractive resources including Wild Hope, a new film series, to engage students in developing solutions for restoring biodiversity.

SPEAKERS:
Paul Strode (Fairview High School: Boulder, CO), Ann Brokaw (Rocky River High School: Rocky River, OH)

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth, investigates the relationship between the ocean, weather and climate on global to local scales. This workshop introduces ten hands-on activities for upper ES and MS students to reinforce Earth science concepts related to oceanography, meteorology and climate.

SPEAKERS:
Peggy Steffen (Ready, Set, STEM: West Liberty, IA), Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service: Rockville, MD)

This workshop provides an overview of a 2 week project-based learning unit that empowers students to advocate for legislation that will improve local air quality. Teachers will create scaffolds to support student-authored policy briefs that address equity in considering the needs of communities.

TAKEAWAYS:
We can advocate for policy changes that will address some of the sources or sinks of air pollutants to improve our community’s health. By understanding air quality in our community, we can present solutions that meet our needs and address historical and modern inequities.

SPEAKERS:
Amber Eglund (Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment: Denver, CO), Madelyn Percy (Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment: Denver, CO)

Sponsoring Company: Carolina Biological Supply Co.

Participants will examine how models can be used to drive understanding of complex concepts. Tree ring data will be used as an example of a line of evidence to support climate models and a balloon model will be used to support universe expansion.

SPEAKERS:
Crystal Risko (Carolina Biological Supply Co.: Burlington, NC)

Sponsoring Company: Edvotek

Wildlife conservators often return captive-bred animals to their native habitats to rewild the area. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the use of RFLP analysis and phylogenetics in conservation biology to analyze the DNA samples of two lions. Can we return them to their ancestral home?

SPEAKERS:
Danielle Snowflack, PhD (Edvotek Inc.: Washington, DC), Tom Cynkar (Edvotek Inc.: Washington, DC)

Climate change impacts are causing distress and anxiety among young people. Join NCSE and CLEAN to practice and engage with strategies that promote hope and empowerment. Participants will receive free teacher-tested lesson plans, storylines, activities, and other classroom resources.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will walk away with engaging climate change resources that foster a sense of hope. They will learn how to support their students in the face of climate change-induced stress, as well as help students develop social-emotional skills to cope with climate anxiety.

SPEAKERS:
Wendy Johnson (National Center for Science Education: Grand Rapids, MI), Alicia Christensen (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences: Boulder, CO), Kathryn Boyd (CIRES Education & Outreach: Boulder, CO), Lin Andrews (Independent Contractor: Wichita, KS)

Designing and implementing meaningful sustainability-focused learning involves all stake-holders in a community. Join CSSS members as they share their use of the Building Awareness for Sustainability Education (BASE) framework to advance equitable sustainability education in their communities'.

TAKEAWAYS:
Decisions about advancing sustainability education in a region should be made at the local level and include all local stake-holders.

SPEAKERS:
Carol ODonnell (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC), Lori Henrickson (Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction: Olympia, WA), Deb Morrison (University of Washington: Salt Spring Island, BC)

NGSS alignment is quite challenging for most teachers. We have designed open-source materials that achieved NGSS-aligned outcomes for 80-90% of students while reducing the challenges of instruction. We will guide participants through example materials that support NGSS implementation.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with specific strategies and options to improve NGSS alignment without significantly adding to the day-to-day burden of classroom instruction. This will also broaden their understanding of the goals and objectives of NGSS alignment.

SPEAKERS:
Abigail Helmke (Biology teacher: greenfield, WI), Craig Kohn (Waterford Union High School: Waterford, WI)

Often overlooked, but key to our survival, soils are vital to sustaining life. What makes this natural resource so special? Join us for an active session that digs into numerous soil science concepts and vetted teaching resources connecting soils to the lives of everyone, everywhere.

TAKEAWAYS:
No matter where one lives, soils are the foundation upon which life exists on Earth. The life that teems below ground supports the life above ground. Understanding the ecosystem services provided by soils requires cross-disciplinary thinking and reveals how vital soils are to our existence.

SPEAKERS:
Margaret Holzer (none: Somerset, NJ)

Set up a simple lab and watch a cool demo to talk about resources and the environment, using copper as a specific example. These labs can be used for many levels of understanding - geology, environmental science, chemistry; and a focus on environmental impact of resource acquisition.

TAKEAWAYS:
Recovering pure copper will provide chances to talk about environmental impacts and concerns of resource acquisition. The Berkeley Pit in MT and mining in CO will be discussed. Resources provided will help students understand the challenges faced when balancing competing interests.

SPEAKERS:
Scott Spohler (Global Impact STEM Academy: Springfield, OH), Briana Richardson (Washington High School: Columbus, OH)

Come to this session to learn how one teacher engaged students in analyzing graphical and map-based data to explore environmental justice in the local community. We’ll introduce a variety of data sources that can be used no matter where you live and share learning tasks that use those data sources.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to engage students in analysis of environmental justice issues in their community by exploring a variety of data sources and mapping tools. They will also walk away with data analysis scaffolds to support student engagement with these tools/data sources.

SPEAKERS:
Brianna Balke (Blackstone Academy Charter School: Providence, RI)

How do scientists identify harmful algal blooms and other aquatic microbes? Bring your laptop or tablet for an introductory lesson and discussion on DNA analysis using free web-based tools.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants learn basic terms and tools (DNA barcodes, BLAST) used for sequence analysis. The activity explores the public database (NCBI) used by educators and scientists around the world.

SPEAKERS:
Jane Hunt (Nourish the Future - Education Projects, LLC: Dublin, OH), Zack Bateson (National Agricultural Genotyping Center: Fargo, ND)

Come learn about how the FREE Explore the Salish Sea curriculum supports culturally responsive elementary science teaching through engaging students in using Western and Indigenous knowledge to solve local environmental problems.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about culturally responsive elementary science teaching through concrete examples from Explore the Salish Sea, a place- and project-based science curriculum aligned with the NGSS. Lessons are freely available and customizable.

SPEAKERS:
Josie Melton (Western Washington University: Bellingham, WA), Debi Hanuscin (Western Washington University: Bellingham, WA)

For the past 5 years, I have partnered with my state's wildlife agency to use the invasive bullfrogs they remove that are threatening native species throughout the state. My students collect data that is used by the department to determine the impact these frogs have on Arizona ecosystems.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to establish a partnership with local wildlife agencies and scientists to get your students collecting data that is useful to scientists and gives meaning to organisms that are frequently discarded by scientists but still useful in an educational setting.

SPEAKERS:
Shoshanna Kroeger (Phoenix Coding Academy: Phoenix, AZ)

Inspired by the Transatlantic Outreach Program STEM Study Tour for teachers, the free online lessons use phenomena common to the United States and Germany. Framed as a virtual tour of Germany, the four STEM unit topics are sustainability, renewables, climate change, and ecosystems.

TAKEAWAYS:
In addition to accessing STEM lessons and information on future, free TOP STEM Study Tours, attendees will learn how science and engineering can be applied to local and global sustainability issues.

SPEAKERS:
Loris Chen (none: Fair Lawn, NJ)

Classrooms engage with the Float Your Boat program by decorating small wooden boats to deploy on the Arctic sea ice alongside a parent buoy and then track its path across the northern top of the planet. Students learn about Arctic Ocean circulation, its sea-ice cover, and how it’s changing.

TAKEAWAYS:
Students engage with the Float Your Boat program fostering connections with the Arctic sea ice, ocean circulation, and its changing conditions. This International Arctic Buoy Programme project reaches numerous young people annually around the world, expanding their understanding of the Arctic Ocean.

SPEAKERS:
Sarah Johnson (Wild Rose Education: Carbondale, CO)

Explore free WATERS student-centered activities and models for middle school classrooms for learning water concepts and building water career awareness. Students predict the likelihood that water will follow one pathway over another and to trace the connections among groundwater, surface water and

TAKEAWAYS:
The lessons include these learning activities: discover your local watershed; learn about your stream organisms; test your local water chemistry; manipulate water models; explore your schoolyard; investigate your schoolyard; model improvements to your schoolyard; and create a road map to action.

SPEAKERS:
Carolyn Staudt (The Concord Consortium: Concord, MA)

CLEAN is a climate education project that supports educators of all types to bring climate and energy topics into their teaching. CLEAN stewards a collection of nearly 900 resources including videos, visualizations, and activities that are reviewed by scientists and educators and easily searchable.

TAKEAWAYS:
Through our resource collection, teaching guidance pages, and network, we work to center people, place, and science in climate education. CLEAN offers educators multiple perspectives and ways to understand the challenges, relationships, responsibilities, and solutions for climate change.

SPEAKERS:
Kathryn Boyd (CIRES Education & Outreach: Boulder, CO), Patrick Chandler (CIRES Education & Outreach: Boulder, CO)

View the results of a case study highlighting engineering, problem-solving, creativity, and SEL in a first-grade classroom. Presentation includes research, data, pictures, assessments, and student artifacts. Learn why research supports immersing young learners in science and engineering practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will see a summary of research, data sets, and student work from a recent onsite first-grade case study in engineering. Experience and evidence support the research that schools need to include science and engineering in the early learning curricular lineup.

SPEAKERS:
Pam Nolan-Beasley (Science Teacher Trainer and Elementary STEAM Teacher: Walla Walla, WA)

As teachers we know students can verbalize a correct response, but when posing with the same question and asking for a written response, students often do not answer in the same ways they did verbally. So, where is the disconnect?

TAKEAWAYS:
The objective of this session is to explore how teachers can improve students' writing in science classes. We will explore how to help students transfer the verbal response to the written in order to help improve students’ ability to write in the discipline of science.

SPEAKERS:
Lisa Neesemann (Bay Ridge Prep: Brooklyn, NY), Catherine Walsh (College Board: Alachua, FL)

Sponsoring Company: HHMI BioInteractive

Models help make student thinking visible. Join us as we engage with different methods and scaffolds to model ecological phenomena using free HHMI BioInteractive resources.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Johnson (Arroyo High School: Oakland, CA), Brian Mason (Teacher: Eagle River, AK)

CO voter's approved Prop 114, a plan to restore and manage gray wolves in CO. Join CPW to learn how you can engage students in lessons that utilize this current and relevant work to understand the relationship between science and society in conservation and wildlife management.

TAKEAWAYS:
Conservation and wildlife management does not happen in a silo, but needs to take into account many stakeholders' wants, needs, and concerns. It's important to understand the perceptions of people as much as the ecological and biological requirements of a species for a reintroduction to be successful.

SPEAKERS:
Heather Hubbard (Statewide Formal Education Coordinator: Denver, CO)

This session will inspire you to take your classes outside by featuring a high school ecology class that promotes student discovery of local ecosystems, campus stewardship, and engagement with the science community (professional partnerships on grants/projects to explore & restore native habitats).

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will be inspired to put textbooks aside and get outside to create meaningful experiences that connect students to local ecosystems, deepen understanding of concepts, & build community in/around their school. Participants will be able to identify essential steps to creating a similar course.

SPEAKERS:
Jim Ardoin (Pinelands Regional High School: Tuckerton, NJ), Kimberly Clark (Pinelands Regional Junior High School: Little Egg Harbor, NJ)

Sponsoring Company: NOAA

Explore a new resource that you educators and students can use to assess environmental injustices in their neighborhoods and school communities. This tool features a community inventory, indicators of environmental justice, and stewardship-based solutions.

SPEAKERS:
Symone Barkley (NOAA National Ocean Service: Silver Spring, MD), Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service: Rockville, MD)

Learn about using maps and authentic data your classroom with free resources co-designed by scientists and instructional specialists from the University of Colorado Boulder. Geospatial data and GIS data helps students visualize how effects from far away places like Greenland impact us.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will explore how to use authentic Greenland-focused geospatial data in their own classrooms using the open-source QGIS software and the step-by-step tutorials and beginner video series produced by QGreenland.

SPEAKERS:
Alyse Thurber (University of Colorado Boulder: Geneva, IL)

How can we teach students to be inventors and provide them with skills to solve real problems? Join PBS NewsHour Classroom's session on "Invention Education" with teachers whose students have successfully solved problems in their communities through the invention process.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with a solid understanding of Invention Education, the 7-step invention process, and how students, who are natural inventors and problem-solvers, can implement this strategy to solve problems in their own communities and beyond.

SPEAKERS:
Martin Momsen (Houston High School: Houston, MN), Mary Lynn Hess (Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School: Sanford, FL), Victoria Pasquantonio (PBS NewsHour: Alexandria, VA)

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!

TAKEAWAYS:
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 (GA Dept of Education (Ret): Douglasville, GA)

Teaching climate change in diverse contexts often means we need to meet communities where they are at and teach through concerns that are central to their lives. The SDGs provide a framework of 17 central goals that help to foster thriving and sustainable communities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Explore the interrelationships between the SDG Framework and climate learning goals across diverse contexts. Using resources provided, plan possible connection points with the SDG Framework to your own teaching to help foster climate awareness and agency.

SPEAKERS:
Carol ODonnell (Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC), Deb Morrison (University of Washington: Salt Spring Island, BC), Tana Luther (Louisiana Dept. of Education: Baton Rouge, LA)

Engage in hands-on, critical thinking, and math-savvy activities that will help students distill a somewhat complex topic and understand how the consumption of energy sources relates to climate.

TAKEAWAYS:
Lessons aimed for students to understand more about energy, carbon dioxide, climate, and climate change with regard to their personal energy choices as well as a global perspective – recognizing choices made in the U.S. have an impact on the global environment.

SPEAKERS:
Vernon Kimball (NEED Facilitator: Manassas, VA)

Join us to discover and discuss how NASA satellite data can enhance sensemaking in your environmental science instruction (all levels including AP). Learn how short, engaging, phenomena-based, Earth system instructional nuggets can help students build toward Big Science Ideas.

TAKEAWAYS:
NASA satellite data and observations are excellent resources to support phenomena-based instruction within environmental science lessons. Participants learn how to integrate satellite observations to support sensemaking opportunities in classroom instruction centered on various spatial phenomena.

SPEAKERS:
Angela Rizzi (NASA Langley Research Center/ADNET: Newport News, VA), Margaret Holzer (none: Somerset, NJ), Natalie Macke (Pascack Hills High School: Franklin Lakes, NJ)

Want to teach climate literacy but don’t know where to start? NOAA offers lesson plans, videos, data, webinars, and more, to inform and inspire students. This session is appropriate for 3rd grade through college educators and informal educators.

TAKEAWAYS:
How to improve climate literacy and discuss climate and climate change in your classroom with free resources from NOAA.

SPEAKERS:
Kayla Smith (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Silver Spring, MD), Bekkah Lampe (NOAA Office of Education: College Park, MD)

Bees are dying! Investigate the causes of declining bee populations and how this loss can affect your food supply. Experience hands-on, minds-on, NGSS practice-based lessons related to One Health – the connections between human, animal, and environmental health.

TAKEAWAYS:
Using a hands-on, minds-on, NGSS practice-based approach, participants will leave with classroom-ready materials to engage their students in investigating why bee populations are declining. Activities focus on the science practices of constructing an explanation and designing solutions.

SPEAKERS:
Lisa Brosnick (SUNY Buffalo State College: Eden, NY)

Sponsoring Company: STEM Sports®

STEM Sports' session will provide participants with a hands-on approach to learning STEM disciplines through Sports. Attendees will take on the role of students and be given an overview of how to design a sustainable golf course by considering the good of the planet, people, and profitability.

SPEAKERS:
Jeff Golner (STEM Sports®)

Sponsoring Company: KidWind Project

In this workshop you will explore some activities which combine Microbits with wind, solar and hydropower.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Arquin (KidWind Project: Saint Paul, MN)

Sponsoring Company: Lab-Aids

Use a DQB to make phenomena meaningfully connected to science content. Pro-tips and exemplary DQB walkthrough – an experienced trainer will guide development of a sample DQB, using a model lesson from our middle school program that looks at the effects of an introduced species on an ecosystem.

SPEAKERS:
Ed Miller (Selden Middle School: Centereach, NY)

Pumped Hydro Storage facilities store vast amounts of energy and can help society transition to cleaner energy sources. In our workshop, we will share an inquiry-based lesson where student teams control hands-on, interactive models of a city’s storage facility while exploring sustainable energy use.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will participate in a cross-disciplinary activity for science and math students around sustainability and energy conversion. Attendees will receive complete instructions on how to create their own models and lesson plans aligned to current NGSS science and Common Core math standards.

SPEAKERS:
Caitlin Anderson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), Scott Sieke (STEM Education Designer: Loveland, CO)

To deepen our connections with our students, community, and place, educators must be committed to social justice and culturally sustaining pedagogies. In this session, educators will have an opportunity to cultivate new perspectives and skills to provide a meaningful science education.

TAKEAWAYS:
One main takeaway is that educators will understand that Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and that teaching science can be aligned to indigenous knowledge systems, different languages, community assets, and indigenous/cultural values.

SPEAKERS:
Phillippe Fernandez-Brennan (Halau Ku Mana Public Charter School (Hawai'i Department of Education): Honolulu, HI)

Create a successful indoor garden using basic materials, and on a budget. Perfect for the urban classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
How to choose appropriate plants and materials for an indoor environment.

SPEAKERS:
Rebecca Kurson (Collegiate School: New York, NY)

We will learn about the German fourth-grade bicycle license program, Fahrradführerschein, and consider ways to incorporate the world of biking into our teaching. We will plan bike-related sustainability, climate change, or physics lessons.

TAKEAWAYS:
Bikes are a useful tool to teach about sustainability, climate change, and physics. We can teach our students how to advocate for better bike infrastructure in their communities so they can ride more safely. We can use bikes as a tool to empower our students to build more sustainable communities.

SPEAKERS:
Andrew Patel (Second and Third Grade Math and Science Teacher: Berkeley, CA)

Polar regions are in the vanguard of climate change and are also remote, exciting parts of the world. In this workshop, try activities that will help you bring polar issues to life in middle and high school classrooms. These include glaciology, Indigenous lifeways, energy balance, and tundra life.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will sample classroom activities, hands-on and online, to investigate climate change and polar conditions, enriching their understanding of the relevance of the Arctic and Antarctic to all regions of the Earth.

SPEAKERS:
Katie Lodes (St. Joseph's Academy: Ballwin, MO), Anne Schoeffler (Seton Catholic School: Macedonia, OH)

Investigate the spread of tick-borne diseases in humans and animals. Experience hands-on, minds-on, NGSS practice-based lessons related to One Health – the connections between human, animal, and environmental health.

TAKEAWAYS:
Using a hands-on, minds-on, NGSS practice-based approach, participants will leave with classroom-ready materials to engage their students in investigating the problem of tick-borne diseases and climate change. Activities focus on the science practices of analyzing data and constructing explanations.

SPEAKERS:
Lisa Brosnick (SUNY Buffalo State College: Eden, NY)

Explore the use of zebrafish (Danio rerio) a freshwater fish at the forefront of biomedical research and easily maintained in a classroom aquarium, to spark ALL students’ curiosity and scientific engagement with real-life science experiences through multiple-learning modalities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learning how zebrafish and low-budget pet store supplies can be used to engage diverse learners, including English learners, in multimodal (visual, kinesthetic) real-life science learning experiences.

SPEAKERS:
Pam Kirkland (The University of Texas at Dallas: Richardson, TX), Vinita Hajeri (The University of Texas at Dallas: Richardson, TX)

Explore the effective use of a Driving Question Board (DQB) as a tool for generating, organizing, and revisiting student questions that serve as the driving force behind investigating an anchoring phenomenon. See how DQBs progress student thinking through inquiry and collaborative learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will discover how the Driving Question Board (DQB) strategy supports the Science Practice of “Asking Questions”; understand the prerequisites, purpose, and the 'why' for using DQBs; and identify the benefits of DQBs that support student sensemaking.

SPEAKERS:
Lindi Kudlacek (Katy ISD: Katy, TX), Tina Hovance (Katy ISD: Katy, TX)

Explore a seabird study and the effects of climate change. We will share our integrated curriculum: authentic data analysis, field techniques, seabird biology, the Arctic ecosystem, and talking about climate change with students. Come try a fish foraging simulation, bird banding, and research tools!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will explore an integrated curriculum centered on a 49-year Arctic seabird study and the impacts of climate change on the Arctic ecosystem. Hands-on: fish foraging simulation (very fun!), bird banding activity, research tools, and strategies for talking about climate change with students.

SPEAKERS:
Alyssa Barr (Science Teacher: Seattle, WA), Katie Morrison (University Child Development School: Seattle, WA)