Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Studying complex physics phenomena with photogates can be exciting for your students! Join us to explore strategies for engaging your students in learning about velocity vs. time graphs, acceleration, and kinematic equations. Build confidence in these tools and bring hands-on learning to your class!

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

Sponsoring Company: PEER Physics

How can pedagogical tools and materials support students with building and revising mechanistic models? We’ll explore strategies for building models using shared evidence and consensus. Co-presented by PEER Physics and Arbor Scientific.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Quinty (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

Combining visual and text elements, Science Explainers help deepen student understanding by creating artifacts that give them creative freedom to walk through the solution to a problem, exercise, or example in a way they understand.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn the best practices for making effective Explainers (physical and video) in their classroom. A variety of topics will be made available, allowing attendees to practice the method themselves and take them back to their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Matt Brady (Atkins High School: Winston-Salem, NC)

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Get hands-on experience with sensors, demonstrators, and software for graphing motion. For students new to describing motion, position and velocity graphs can be challenging to interpret. Learn accessible methods to help your students solidify their motion graphing skills and comprehension.

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

Physical science and physics offer a wide assortment of authentic, open-ended early learning activities with hands-on multisensory materials and rich opportunities for group work, easily adapted for all learners, including children with diverse learning needs as they explore concepts and ideas.

TAKEAWAYS:
Adults help illuminate concepts and skills as children act on familiar multisensory, hands-on materials, developing their emerging scientific thinking, understanding, & causal reasoning. Before children can see themselves as scientists, adults must view all children as science learners.

SPEAKERS:
Shelly Counsell (Self Employed Consultant: Buffalo, NY)

Demonstrating motion is easy, but what about allowing students to collect data for nonaccelerated motion? A simple activity engages students with dune buggies to show how data is taken for distance and how graphing that data is a great visual representing constant velocity or uniform motion.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn how use a constant speed dune buggy to show students how uniform motion is measured and graphed.

SPEAKERS:
Karen Matsler (University of Texas Arlington: Arlington, TX)

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Learn how to make magnetism visible and quantifiable for students! Dive into Earth science concepts such as modeling field strength, polarity, and orientation using the Go Direct® 3-Axis Magnetic Field Sensor. Investigate permanent magnets and electromagnets with hands-on, ready-to-use experiments.

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

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Physics should be exciting! Flinn Scientific presents a variety of easy to perform and exciting physics demonstrations. Come see Flinn’s new demonstrations and some of your old favorites—all guaranteed to make your science classroom come alive. Handouts provided for all.

SPEAKERS:
Jonnathan Medina Ramos, Ph.D. (Flinn Scientific, Inc.: Batavia, IL)

Get acquainted with OpenSciEd HS, from the anchoring phenomena to the curricular routines to assessment.

TAKEAWAYS:
OpenSciEd HS's storyline approach, curricular routines, student discourse strategies, and assessment systems work together to help students build equitable science learning experiences.

SPEAKERS:
Zoe Buck Bracey (Senior Science Educator and Director of Design for Justice: Colorado Springs, CO), Kate Henson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

This workshop will introduce teachers to classroom investigations using the built-in gyroscope in their smartphones which connect foundational physics to real-world applications such as virtual reality and fitness tracking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will conduct multiple hands-on investigations using the gyroscope sensor in smartphones to explore rotational motion. They will directly experience the amazing capabilities of the sensors and will go away prepared to implement the investigations in their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
David Rakestraw (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Livermore, CA), Michael Tobler (Moreau Catholic High School: Hayward, CA), Helene McLaughlin (JHU Applied Physics Lab: Columbia, MD)

Materials science combines many fields such as physics, chemistry, engineering, and math to understand the properties of, and create new materials for, the modern world. Get some hands-on learning and get access to resources that will provide exciting cross-content experiences in your classroom!

TAKEAWAYS:
Explore materials science and help students make connections between the understanding of the STUFF things are made of and how this can change our world. Making things like cars, cellphones, medical technology, space exploration, sustainable energy and so much more possible! Materials Matter!

SPEAKERS:
Shelly Grandell (Assistant Director of Education and Outreach: Ixonia, WI)

Sponsoring Company: Savvas Learning Company

Why can't you walk through walls? This complex question spans biology, chemistry, physics, and involves strange quantum phenomena. Explore the answer and discover how to incorporate recent scientific innovations into your classroom through compelling storylines.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Moore (University of Nebraska Omaha: Omaha, NE)

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Experience the best way to teach basic circuits! Support student investigations of current, voltage, resistance, and series and parallel circuits with modular components that look identical to schematic drawings. Learn how to skip the tangled wires that confuse students and focus on the physics.

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

Workshop participants will conduct investigations using the built-in magnetometer sensors in smartphones to investigate the 3D properties of magnetic fields, including the Earth's magnetic field and magnetic information storage.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will conduct multiple hands-on investigations using the magnetometer sensor in smartphones to explore magnetic fields. They will directly experience the amazing capabilities of the three-axis magnetometer sensor and will go away prepared to implement the investigations in their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
David Rakestraw (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Livermore, CA), Michael Tobler (Moreau Catholic High School: Hayward, CA), Helene McLaughlin (JHU Applied Physics Lab: Columbia, MD)

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: Activate Learning

Come investigate how phenomenon-based science can be articulated in the scheme of project-based learning. We’ll use both physics and chemistry to make the case that the context of a project makes the learning, explanation, and application of phenomena much richer and more relevant for all learners.

SPEAKERS:
Gary Curts (Activate Learning: Greenwich, CT)

A hands-on beam lab produces graphs critical to understanding beam properties for engineering. Focus on making, interpreting, and teaching the graphs in class. Real-world uses and applications of stress-strain curves in engineering will be shared and help to illustrate the importance of such graphs.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will take part in a simple beam lab using weights to determine the deflection of the beam material. Groups will have different beams and varying results will help support understanding of the graphs created. The results will then be graphed as a load-deflection curve and shared.

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

The accelerometer sensor in smartphones provide students with the ability to precisely measure changes in 3D motion. Workshop participants will conduct investigations to experimentally determine the change in motion of an object, including the often tricky static and kinetic friction experiment.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will conduct multiple hands-on investigations using the accelerometer sensor in smartphones to explore changes in motion. They will directly experience the capabilities of the three-axis accelerometer sensor and will leave prepared to implement investigations in their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
David Rakestraw (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Livermore, CA), Michael Tobler (Moreau Catholic High School: Hayward, CA), Helene McLaughlin (JHU Applied Physics Lab: Columbia, MD)

Sponsoring Company: Flinn Scientific

Seeing is believing! Flinn Scientific presents a variety of easy to perform and exciting chemistry and physical science demonstrations. Come see Flinn’s new demonstrations and some of your old favorites—all guaranteed to make your science classroom come alive. Handouts provided for all.

SPEAKERS:
Mike Marvel, Ph.D. (Flinn Scientific, Inc.: Batavia, IL)

Learn how high-energy astrophysics can be brought into the classroom by engaging in real-world research data. Explore cosmic gamma radiation using fresh popcorn, not one but two frustratingly addictive games, and discover how computers and machine learning are vital in scientific research.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees work through classroom activities designed to introduce students to photon (gamma) radiation and proton (hadron) radiation so that attendees are able to engage their students in real-world astrophysics research and gain an appreciation for how computers are utilized in current research.

SPEAKERS:
Katelyn McCarthy (Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center: Kalamazoo, MI)

In Unit 2 of the OpenSciEd Physics course, a series of Earth phenomena in Ethiopia motivate the need for forces to explain our observations. Students establish conventions for modeling forces and think deeply about the connection between unbalanced forces, energy transfer, and motion.

TAKEAWAYS:
This unit introduces students to the concept of force in an intuitive and grounded context. Students understand fundamental Earth Science ideas related to plate tectonics, radioactivity, convection, and rock formation at a HS level.

SPEAKERS:
Diego Rojas-Perilla (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Zoe Buck Bracey (Senior Science Educator and Director of Design for Justice: Colorado Springs, CO)

Yes, your students (even freshmen) can derive energy equations and solve complicated energy conservation problems, and have fun doing it, using toys! Find out how using force vs. distance graphs and a graphic organizer using multiple representations.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn to use the idea of Work done on a system to derive energy equations and then use this knowledge to solve for variables in various hands-on stations. Participants will experience how students must make judgments on how to analyze systems to complete multi-step energy analyses.

SPEAKERS:
Kimberlee Freudenberg (Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory: San Francisco, CA)

Modeling workshops are structured inquiry approaches to physics teaching that incorporate computers and insights from content and physics education research. Modeling workshop attendees develop skills in scientific discourse, Socratic questioning, and in assessment of student learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees at this session will be introduced to the Modeling Method via a hands-on activity that is engaging and is representative of a typical modeling paradigm lab.

SPEAKERS:
Jon Anderson (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: Minneapolis, MN)

Gain strategies and tools for enhancing opportunities for computational thinking in your current high school life or physical science curriculum. Bring current lessons and leave with concrete ideas for helping students engage authentically in the SEP of Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will take home strategies and tools based on the Computational Thinking for Science Framework that they can use to enhance opportunities for CT-S in any high school science curriculum. They will receive immediate feedback on lesson modifications they can implement in their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Maia Binding (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA), Timothy Hurt (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA), Ari Krakowski (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA), Wendy Jackson (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Skokie, IL)

Knowles Engineering teachers co-developed and piloted a scaffolded framework for integrating social justice into engineering design that we are excited to share with the NSTA community. Come ready to explore how to empower your science students through intentional engineering curriculum design!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will interact with examples of empowered engineering curriculum, as well as apply the framework to their own classrooms. Teachers will leave with concrete ideas for how to incorporate more social justice work into their own engineering curriculum in manageable and expanding ways.

SPEAKERS:
Kylie Bertram (Science Teacher: Willingboro, NJ), Emily Berman (Global STEM Challenges Program: Washington, DC)

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)

See how students can use carts and tracks to determine the cause and effect relationships in Newton’s 2nd law through gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data. Briefly learn how technology-mediated lesson study has helped rural science teachers collaborate to design 3 dimensional lessons.

TAKEAWAYS:
In one class period, students can gather, analyze, and interpret data to derive Newton’s 2nd Law by testing the cause-and-effect relationship of force and mass on acceleration.

SPEAKERS:
Douglas Morris (Carbon High School: Price, UT), Joshua Stowers (Brigham Young University: LEHI, UT)

Inspired by recent space launches? Wondering how to capture the excitement with your students? Join us to learn how we use rocketry and avionics to teach data analysis and system engineering. This course allows exploration of Newton's Laws through guided modules that develop knowledge and skills.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will explore the phenomena of rocketry through hands-on activities focused on hardware and flight. They will then formulate how predictive and actual data tells the whole story of the rocket's flight. The session culminates with the supports to make rocketry accessible in their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Heather Arnett (STEM Coordinator: Normal, IL)

Thinking robotics is just for computer science and technology? In this session, explore how you can utilize robotics to teach forces and interactions, energy, and waves with an innovative approach using robots with sensors.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will use robots to experiment with robotics and the engineering design process to apply real-world application of concepts in a way that they can test and visualize the effects in their everyday lives. Sample lessons will be provided.

SPEAKERS:
Lori Birch (Sr Specialist Education and Workforce Development: Fraser, CO)

Use STEM web-based analysis software and real data to determine the rate of a supernova remnant expansion and its uniformity.

TAKEAWAYS:
JS9 web-based software provides students with real opportunities to do astronomical research.

SPEAKERS:
Pamela Perry (Lewiston High School: Brunswick, ME)

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Investigate force and motion with the new Vernier Cart Fan accessory! Attendees will collect force, acceleration, and velocity data by adding these easy-to-use, modular fans to our wireless Sensor Carts. Explore three different Newton’s second law lessons that you can use in your classroom.

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

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Engage students in a real-world engineering challenge! Learn how students can design and test crash barriers with live collision data to explore the link between momentum and impact forces. Analyze the resulting data to improve upon further design iterations.

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

Explore the structure of the OpenSciEd High School assessment system across Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

TAKEAWAYS:
In OpenSciEd HS, the assessment system is structured to support teachers in assessing all three dimensions of the NGSS through formative, summative, peer, and self-assessment opportunities.

SPEAKERS:
Nicole Vick (Northwestern University: Avon, IL), Zoe Buck Bracey (Senior Science Educator and Director of Design for Justice: Colorado Springs, CO), Kate Henson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

Teachers will explore the role of reflection as a metacognitive strategy and learn how to facilitate high-quality metacognition. They will work in groups to develop a reflection tool they can apply in their classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
Through small group discussion and collaboration, participants will identify what cognitive strategies are best suited for their practice and co-create a metacognitive reflection tool. This tool will allow them to leverage those strategies and empower students to be independent learners.

SPEAKERS:
Melissa Kovar (Denver North High School: Denver, CO), Mary Frances Harris (Senior Analyst: Richmond, VA), Julian Martins (Professional Research Assistant / Lead Curriculum Developer: Boulder, CO)

Discover a transformative, three-year NGSS curriculum that's equity-focused and engineering-based, including climate science. Adopted in 33+ Northwest districts, this vertically articulated program could revolutionize your high school science program.

TAKEAWAYS:
Discover a transformative, three-year NGSS curriculum that's equity-focused and engineering-based, including climate science. Adopted in 33+ Pacific Northwest districts.

SPEAKERS:
Matt McCollum (Mountainside High School: Beaverton, OR), Bradford Hill (Mountainside High School: Lake Oswego, OR)

How to use Rube Goldberg contraptions to teach physics and physical science.

TAKEAWAYS:
Create a fun way for students to learn about simple machines and apply those concepts to a hands-on interactive project.

SPEAKERS:
Godwyn Morris (Dazzling Discoveries / Skill Mill NYC: New York, NY)

This session will take a deeper look at experiential physics courses. We’ll evaluate the impacts of peer questioning in terms of supporting deep content learning, providing differentiated instruction for advanced students, and affecting attitudes of science as measured by CLASS survey.

TAKEAWAYS:
Session participants will explore the impacts of peer questioning as a learning strategy in high school science courses and take away concrete strategies for implementing peer questioning in their own science courses.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Sarbanes (Green Street Academy: Baltimore, MD)

In this powerful workshop, teachers will learn how to promote an equitable and safe space to design, experiment, and investigate the topics of work and power as an alternative to the traditional stair lab.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will work through an alternative lab that allows students to build and examine the work and power involved in a conveyor belt system. The lab, suggested materials, and analysis will be supplied to teachers.

SPEAKERS:
Sabrina Whitaker (Farmingdale High School: Farmingdale, NY)

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Master motion concepts using Vernier wireless sensor carts! Collect position, velocity, acceleration, and force data and investigate graph slopes firsthand in kinematics and dynamics experiments. Walk away equipped with go-to motion experiments and ready-to-use activities to try in your class.

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

Many elementary students have a basic understanding of motion, but may be unable to graph motion in terms of distance, direction, and intervals of time. We will use a dune buggy to examine and graph motion. The activity can easily be taken back to your classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
This hands-on session provides a learning cycle for constant motion using a constant speed buggy. Attendees will make physical graphs using adding machine tape and/or sticky notes or washers.

SPEAKERS:
Jan Mader (Retired Physics and Chemistry Teacher: Great Falls, MT)

Join award-winning science educator Griff Jones and members of the IIHS Vehicle Research Center to practice a sample of engaging demos and hands-on activities, such as paper car crashes and egg drop competitions, from the IIHS’s free “Crash Science in the Classroom” program.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will try out a selection of inquiry-oriented discrepant events and hands-on crash science activities, and learn how to access other free, video-supported, classroom-tested lessons and resources to teach crash-related science and engineering concepts.

SPEAKERS:
Joe Young (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Highway Loss Data Institute: Arlington, VA), Griff Jones (University of Florida: Newberry, FL)

In my AP Physics 1 class I have a student who can’t rearrange simple equations alongside a student who got a 5 on AP Calc BC. I have the star of Honors English Lit and a new international student who doesn’t yet understand simple directions in English. How can I reach and challenge every student?

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to cater for every student in your classroom using my three guiding rules: facilitate self-paced learning, emphasize mastery, and playing to students’ strengths. This will ensure all students get a solid conceptual foundation and have the support that they need to reach their full potential.

SPEAKERS:
Abigail Vega (Physics & Chemistry Teacher: San mateo, CA)

Sponsoring Company: PEER Physics

PEER Physics invites students into the joy of doing science. We engage teachers, raise rigor, and reignite joy through a community dedicated to the love of learning. Celebrate our 10 year anniversary! In this session, we’ll hear inspiring stories from PEER Physics teachers from around the country.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Quinty (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

Sponsoring Company: Arbor Scientific

In this fun, Make-and-Take workshop you will construct loudspeakers and hear them play your favorite songs. This session will also explore the physics behind the design and operation of the speakers, allowing you to confidently embed this content within your electromagnetism and STEM teaching

SPEAKERS:
Alex Gonzalez (Arbor Scientific: Saline, MI)

Sponsoring Company: PASCO

Rediscover the most versatile tool in your physics lab: the meter stick! Learn how to facilitate student investigations of rotation, torque, optics, and even Lenz's law using the PASCO Aluminum Meter Stick and accessories.

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

Attendees will collect and analyze uniform motion data from a dune buggy and nonuniform motion with a fan cart, identify dependent and independent variables, and create large graphs that can be easily interpreted by using adding machine tape.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will: Observe that if Fnet = 0 N motion is uniform. Observe that if Fnet ≠ 0 N motion is non-uniform. Interpret graphs of position vs. time, velocity vs. time, and acceleration vs. time for uniform motion and nonuniform graphs that yield the Physics Kinematics Equations.

SPEAKERS:
Jan Mader (Retired Physics and Chemistry Teacher: Great Falls, MT)

Learn about the newest iteration of Modeling Instruction: Computational Modeling Physics First. Give ALL students exposure to coding by having them teach Physics to the computer to program simulations to learn Physics concepts more deeply.

TAKEAWAYS:
We will learn about the newest curriculum in Modeling Physics, how a computational representation enhances understanding, and why we choose to teach using Computational Modeling. We will work through the constant velocity sequence, using coding to enhance critical and proportional thinking.

SPEAKERS:
Kimberlee Freudenberg (Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory: San Francisco, CA)

Is crash-testing biased against women? Join science education professor Griff Jones and IIHS Vehicle Research Center staff to learn about the latest research regarding equity issues and crash-testing, and participate in a live Q&A with crash test dummy research experts.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn why ensuring equity in crash-testing research is more complex than simply putting a female dummy in the driver’s seat and how IIHS’s “Deep Dive with Dummies” free video series can be used to teach grade 5-12 students about the nature of science.

SPEAKERS:
Joe Young (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Highway Loss Data Institute: Arlington, VA), Griff Jones (University of Florida: Newberry, FL)

Come discover how free, NSF-funded simulations and curricula from The Concord Consortium can add all dimensions of the NGSS to your physics, physical science, and chemistry teaching with a special emphasis on the Science Practices. Bring a device to this interactive session and get free resources!

TAKEAWAYS:
Strategies in the use of simulations for 3D NGSS-aligned teaching.

SPEAKERS:
Chad Dorsey (The Concord Consortium: Concord, MA)

Practice activities with simple materials exploring the EM Spectrum and explanatory models that illustrate real world space science applications. Learn about the Virtual Astronomy Academy program.

TAKEAWAYS:
Practice "Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning," and a gallery walk of student work to review models; practice collaborative learning to investigate filters and wavelengths. Attendees will also learn how to join NASA's Virtual Astronomy Academy professional development program.

SPEAKERS:
Ann Marie Dubick (Cherokee County School District: Smyrna, GA), Coral Clark (SETI Institute: Agua Dulce, CA), Jenny McCall (Winburn Middle School, Fayette County Public Schools: Nicholasville, KY), P Harman (Pamela Harman: PACIFICA, CA), Brittany Chase (Mahone Middle School: Kenosha, WI), Milo Maughan (Utah State Board of Education: Salt Lake City, UT), Diane Ripollone (Cardinal Gibbons High School: Garner, NC)

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)

In Rubin Observatory’s new online Expanding Universe investigation, students use galaxy redshift and supernova data to reconstruct Hubble’s law, then advance to a higher redshift data set to discover how the expansion of the Universe has changed over time, and its connection to dark energy.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to use the free interactive Expanding Universe online investigation and support materials designed for NGSS teaching and learning, as well as scaffolded teaching, and formative assessment strategies to ensure that all students may achieve a successful learning experience.

SPEAKERS:
Justine Schaen (NSF's NOIRLab: Tucson, AZ), Ardis Herrold (Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Oro Valley, AZ)

Learn about a variety of instructional strategies that utilize movement to engage students in learning chemistry and physics. All attendees will participate in activities themselves and be given resources to bring back to the classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn about pedological strategies that promote movement and student engagement.

SPEAKERS:
Jessica Gutierrez (Science Dept. Chair: Santa Monica, CA)

Join the fun and inquiry as we apply a variety of hands-on activities to core concepts across grade levels, from elementary to middle school to high school.

TAKEAWAYS:
One of the goals of the NGSS is that topics should not be taught in a striated series of unrelated levels, but rather learning should be articulated vertically through the grade bands.

SPEAKERS:
Karen Ostlund (The University of Texas at Austin: Austin, TX)

Sponsoring Company: Vernier Science Education

Take motion studies to the next level! Use updated Vernier Video Analysis® tools to capture position, velocity, and acceleration data on student devices. Foster a deeper understanding of physics through learner-driven experiments using data from sample and student-recorded videos.

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

Sponsoring Company: EarthScope Consortium

Use simple and inexpensive models to engage your students to explore how ground deformation from plate tectonic and volcanic motions, and rapid glacial melting leads to earthquakes, eruptions, and sea level change.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Hubenthal (EarthScope Consortium: Port Crane, NY), Shelley Olds (EarthScope Consortium: Nederland, CO)

Explore the nexus between science and statistics using PhET simulations and CODAP tools. Delve into experimental design, uncertainty, data metrics, and the “Projectile Motion: Data Lab” simulation. Sneak a peek into PhET’s latest work and gain ready-to-implement lesson ideas.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will acquire strategies and resources to seamlessly integrate experimental design with sources of uncertainty and statistics into their physics lessons, fostering data fluency and analytical thinking in students using PhET simulations and CODAP.

SPEAKERS:
Katherine Perkins (PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), Matthew Blackman (PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder: Morristown, NJ)

Explore a unifying framework used in OpenSciEd for making connections between matter, energy, and forces across Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science. Dig into this tool in free NGSS-aligned units to explain phenomena and consider how it could be applied to other phenomena in your context.

TAKEAWAYS:
The Framework calls for “a common use of language about energy and matter across the disciplines in science instruction.” The MEF triangle uses cues and prompts to draw attention to interactions between matter, energy, and forces to help students make sense of complex phenomena across domains.

SPEAKERS:
Jamie Noll (BSCS Science Learning: Evanston, IL), Diego Rojas-Perilla (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

Complete a distracted driving hands-on activity and discover award-winning videos and more inquiry-based activities from IIHS’s free Crash Science in the Classroom program that illustrates the vital connections between biology, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and teen crash safety.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will measure their reaction time and complete a distracted driving simulation using a series of 4 activities simulating the 4 major types of driving distractions. Participants will also learn how to access detailed lesson plans, teacher tips videos, student lab sheets, and answer keys.

SPEAKERS:
Griff Jones (University of Florida: Newberry, FL)

In my first year teaching I worked 16 hours a day, swamped with planning and grading. Despite my best intentions, neglecting my own needs had a negative impact on my teaching. I now leverage technology to work smarter not harder, reducing my workload while improving my students’ learning experience.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to reduce your workload whilst maximizing students’ benefit. Reduce grading workload using my three rules for grading: automate it, delegate it, and simplify it! Save time lesson planning using my 3 favorite tools: the 5-minute lesson plan, video examples, and Google suite.

SPEAKERS:
Abigail Vega (Physics & Chemistry Teacher: San mateo, CA)

This session explores techniques for creating learning environments that foster deep-level thinking and support students with applying ideas to new contexts. Participants will explore questioning strategies and teacher moves that can build classroom cultures that value learning above knowing.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with teacher moves and questioning strategies to support students with thinking more deeply and critically about disciplinary core ideas. Attendees will experience what it looks like to take the role of a facilitator rather than a lecturer.

SPEAKERS:
Angela Berk (Arcadia High School: Scottsdale, AZ), Kali Hines (High School Science Teacher: Holyoke, CO)

This parachute STEM lesson is introduced by reading some history using the book, “Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot” by Margot Theis Raven. Discussing problems and how engineers and scientists work to solve them assists students in learning about engineering and the Design Process as well as physics.

TAKEAWAYS:
Reading, problem-solving, engineering design, physical science, and math are used by groups of fourth graders to build and test parachutes in this STEM lesson. Students work in groups of three and preliminary designs are drawn, put together, and tested.

SPEAKERS:
Suzanne Cunningham (Purdue University: Lafayette, IN)

Conduct energy transformation experiments using items encountered in everyday life. Motion, sound, thermal, radiant, electrical, and chemical energy transformations are studied using glow sticks, handwarmers, batteries, etc. Confidently teach energy forms & transformations!

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about forms of energy and energy transformations by engaging in experiments just as their students would, to better understand visually what they are and how they occur.

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

The Little Shop of Physics at Colorado State University has always been a hands-on program, something that sets it apart from other science engagement programs. We teach that science is something anyone can do, anywhere, with anything!

TAKEAWAYS:
Come explore our hands-on experiments built out of everyday objects. Then ask us how to start a similar program or maker space at your school or institution!

SPEAKERS:
Cherie Bornhorst (Teacher in Residence: Fort Collins, CO)

Sponsoring Company: EarthScope Consortium

Learn how geophysical instruments help to measure the changes in our environment such as landslides and river evolution using freely available lidar, measure volcanic deformation, space weather, climate change, and more! We will share and demonstrate FREE activities you can use in your classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Shelley Olds (EarthScope Consortium: Nederland, CO)

The primary reasons students choose to end their science education are they don’t find science interesting or they think it is too difficult. A proposed solution: integrating more case studies and hands-on activities into our science teaching.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn where to find case studies and hands-on activities for their discipline, and how to effectively use them in a high school science classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Kling (West Morris Central High School: Chester, NJ)

Tired of hearing: Why are we learning this? When will we ever use this? This session will discuss how to use news articles to teach reading comprehension and increase science literacy in secondary students of all levels. Also, connect 3D Lessons and Science and Engineering Practices.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with multiple ways of implementing science in the news into their classrooms. Science will become dynamic and applicable.

SPEAKERS:
Misty Heredia (UTRGV: Brownsville, TX)

STEP UP is a national community that designs lessons to inspire women to pursue physics in college. Learn about our Careers in Physics lesson, including tools you can use to match students’ interests with physics-related careers and increase enrollment in the physics classes your school offers.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about and practice using STEP UP’s Careers in Physics online career matching tool and options for using it in their classroom. Participants will also learn ways to increase interest and enrollment in high school physics programs.

SPEAKERS:
Kori Bowns-Kamphuis (Lindblom Math and Science Academy: Chicago, IL)

The radio spectrum is invisible, yet it enables our cell phones, contactless payment, and air travel. Learn approaches to facilitate diverse youth, families, and museum visitors using hands-on activities, mobile apps, and guides in Spanish and English from the NSF Making Waves with Radio project.

TAKEAWAYS:
Hands-on activity using everyday materials, conversation prompts, and mobile apps together can engage youth and families in playful experimentation to learn about the science and technology of radio waves and wireless radio communications. Get free educator guides and lessons in Spanish and English.

SPEAKERS:
Sherry Hsi (BSCS Science Learning: Berkeley, CA)

This session is a cross-curricular project between forensic science and AP physics. These teachers have worked together to solve the age old question – when do we need that in real life? Hello, real world application! Here the session merges multi-level learners and teaches them to apply physics.

TAKEAWAYS:
1.) Cross-curricular projects help strengthen student engagement and increases learning, 2.) The activity will be shared with participants for immediate use and implementation in the classroom upon their return from NSTA 3.) Developing ideas with other content areas keeps the original content “fresh.”

SPEAKERS:
Tessah Zepeda (Los Fresnos CISD: Los Fresnos, TX), Misty Heredia (UTRGV: Brownsville, TX)

The Everyday Actions Guide includes a self-reflection for teachers and suggestions for actions in and out of the classroom to foster a strong physics class community. Come learn about strategies to help all students, especially those historically left out of physics, see themselves as “physics people.”

TAKEAWAYS:
The STEP UP Curriculum includes two NGSS-aligned lessons proven to encourage women and other marginalized groups to consider pursuing physics. The Everyday Actions Guide is filled with suggestions for encouraging all students to pursue physics and improve their physics identity throughout the year.

SPEAKERS:
Bree Barnett Dreyfuss (Physics teacher, Science Department Chair; STEP UP Ambassador Program Coordinator: Pleasanton, CA)

Tired of the same old Egg Drop Experiment? Meet Egg Wars where engineering meets demolition! Students design devices to protect their egg while trying to destroy their opponent's in this physics-based engineering battle. Devices swing on a pendulum into each other for big impact and even bigger fun!

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to bring the excitement of Egg Wars to your classroom! Attendees will receive: documents outlining project criteria and constraints, a sample timeline for the project, a materials list, instructions for building an Egg Wars pendulum, and student examples.

SPEAKERS:
Christopher Lucht (Middle School Science Teacher: Hoffman Estates, IL), Leora Kurtz (8th Grade Science Teacher: Northbrook, IL)

Physics educators utilize culturally-based teaching methods. We spotlight professional communities of physics instructors emphasizing (1) strong teacher identity, (2) effective curriculum design, and (3) student comprehension assessment.

TAKEAWAYS:
Physics educators emphasize culturally-based teaching, focusing on teacher identity, curriculum design, and student understanding. They lean towards culturally relevant pedagogy, facing challenges in fostering critical thinking and student autonomy.

SPEAKERS:
Clausell Mathis (Assistant Professor: Lansing, MI)

Explore an NGSS-aligned 3D learning journey merging physics, earth science & engineering via inquiry & projects. Delve into a storyline based on creating a Sustainable Energy Plan, engaging in hands-on activities like building speakers, engineering wind turbines, and modeling solar cells.

TAKEAWAYS:
At the end of the workshop, the entire year of Patterns Physics resources will be shared.

SPEAKERS:
Bradford Hill (Mountainside High School: Lake Oswego, OR), Matt McCollum (Mountainside High School: Beaverton, OR)

Participants will gain tools for reducing marginalization in the physics classroom. This session begins with STEP UP’s Women in Physics curriculum and ends with resources and strategies for having difficult but necessary conversations about equity and inclusion.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will gain resources and strategies for having DEI–related conversations in the classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Praisy Poluan (STEM Teacher & Education Researcher: Long Beach, CA)

My first years of teaching Physics at Title 1 schools in Memphis were challenging. Many of my students were very behind, especially in math. However, I developed 3 strategies to make learning physics engaging and accessible.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will come away from this session with a list of labs and strategies that they can immediately implement in their classrooms to make physics more accessible and engaging, especially for their lower-level learners.

SPEAKERS:
Jack Replinger (FormerTeacher / Founder: Bainbridge Island, WA)

Cognitive science research provides substantial evidence for flexible and often counterintuitive cognitive strategies, including spacing, interleaving, and retrieval practice that boost student learning. Teachers will learn how to implement these techniques within their classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to apply multiple practical, flexible, and research-based cognitive strategies, including retrieving information from memory, distributing practice across time, scaffolding, and mixing together different examples within their own classrooms to improve student learning.

SPEAKERS:
Jonathan Tullis (The University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ)

Join this panel discussion that highlights the strategies that three science teachers use for adapting the Matter, Energy, and Forces framework, a tool integrated in OpenSciEd materials. This tool aims to support student sense making of disciplinary core ideas across multiple domains

TAKEAWAYS:
The Framework promotes the use of language about energy and matter across the disciplines in science instruction. There are productive instructional practices to use the MEF triangle to draw students' attention to interactions between matter, energy, and forces as they explore natural phenomena.

SPEAKERS:
Joe Kremer (Denver Public Schools: Denver, CO), Kathryn Fleegal (Denver Public Schools: Commerce City, CO), Diego Rojas-Perilla (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

Explore our new web-based interactive earthquake lab! Engage your students in learning and practicing earthquake location and analysis techniques with real seismic data! Bring a laptop/ipad!

TAKEAWAYS:
Analyze and interpret data to help explain how patterns in seismic data allow earthquakes to be located. Construct an explanation of how models of Earth structure are used to calculate earthquake locations. Investigate how different methods can be applied using an online toolkit.

SPEAKERS:
Shelley Olds (EarthScope Consortium: Nederland, CO), Michael Hubenthal (EarthScope Consortium: Port Crane, NY)

Modeling unit conversions through water beads makes an abstract concept of units into a concrete model. Students use different-sized cups and class averages to determine unit conversion factors. Students use these conversion factors to answer word problems.

TAKEAWAYS:
Unit conversions are an important skill to learn for a variety of fields of science. Modeling this abstract idea helps all students understand the importance of converting units in other contexts.

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

Radioactive decay is taught in high school (NGSS-HS-PS1-1); however, materials and experimental equipment can be expensive. We compare and contrast the performance of centicubes and dice to accurately model radioactive decay and half-life for in-class investigations.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn about alpha, beta, and gamma decay, as well as the advantages and limitations of using everyday materials (pennies, dice, carbonated beverages, centicubes, etc.) as simulation analogies to teach radioactivity and half-life.

SPEAKERS:
Alexandria Black (Undergraduate Student: Butler, KY)

Rubin Observatory resources support common astronomy topics for advanced middle school through college students. Short, accessible interactive investigations use authentic data in a three-dimensional learning design. Each comes with phenomena, assessments, videos, and more teacher support materials.

TAKEAWAYS:
Rubin Observatory’s classroom-ready investigations can be completed within two hours, and come with options for adding introductory materials, assessments, and extension activities. Extensive teacher guides and a community of practice provide background content and ongoing implementation support.

SPEAKERS:
Ardis Herrold (Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Oro Valley, AZ)