2024 New Orleans National Conference

November 6-9, 2024

Additional sessions will be added as they are accepted and confirmed over the next several weeks.
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Programmable Sensors for Sensemaking in the Science Classroom

Thursday, November 7 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 391


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Our innovative approach to science and STEM engages students through hands-on and minds-on physical computing. Through this approach you can enable students to leverage Computer Science to investigate, develop models and ultimately enact local and global change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to effectively bring Computer Science and programming into the middle school classroom, based on curriculum add on units developed by Schoolwide Labs at the University of Colorado Boulder. Our place-based focus is a powerful promoter of equity for all students.

SPEAKERS:
Kate Henson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), Greg Benedis-Grab (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

So You Don’t Have a Frog Guy: How to customize your storyline and find local phenomena or experts to bring standards to life.

Thursday, November 7 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 298


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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No curriculum is perfect out of the box. Explore how one district utilized a local frog expert to enhance a newly adopted curriculum. Let hands-on lessons inspire you to find your own Frog Guy, place student inquiry at the center, and go beyond a guest speaker. Extend your storyline and engagement!

TAKEAWAYS:
After a learner-lens experience with frogs, participants will gain insights in identifying areas within a unit storyline and developing customizations aligned to the NGSS and teaching practices to reach all learners. Participants will then have time to apply this process to their own organization.

SPEAKERS:
Samantha Perrelli (STEM Instructional Coach: No City, No State)

Customizing Curriculum: Encouraging Student Voice

Thursday, November 7 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 273


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Wondering how to customize your curriculum to help more students share and build on others’ ideas? Using examples from OpenSciEd as a context, we’ll share tools & strategies for customizing curriculum to elevate student voice and perspective. Come ready to work! 90 minute session

TAKEAWAYS:
If curriculum enactment pairs great materials with support for teachers to make those materials even better, amazing things can happen. Customizing curriculum to encourage student voice repositions students as knowledge makers and support their science identity and motivation and values.

SPEAKERS:
Austin Moore (Graduate Student: , MA), Matt Krehbiel (OpenSciEd: New York, NY), Erika Palys (OpenSciEd: No City, No State), Renee Affolter (OpenSciEd: New York, NY)

Leadership for Equity through the Implementation of High-Quality Instructional Materials

Thursday, November 7 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 267


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Far too often, equity efforts are relegated to the sidelines instead of being embedded in core curriculum leadership tasks. Join us to consider how anchoring science leadership in equity principles can remove barriers to science teaching and learning through curriculum implementation efforts.

TAKEAWAYS:
The implementation of HQIM can lead to more equitable systems when barriers to equity are confronted and removed. The process of confronting barriers includes collaborating for justice, taking small actions to learn, and continual reflection and revision of implementation plans based on data.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Gomez Zwiep (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Jenine Cotton-Proby (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Janna Mahfoud (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

Adapting OpenSciEd Materials to Address Local Phenomena and Community Priorities

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 391



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Full Resource Slides
Please feel free to use this deck to communicate about adaptation strategies with your teachers.
PPT Slides for Presentation

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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It is powerful to connect science instruction to local phenomena and community priorities—but it is challenging work! Join us to explore benefits and cautions of adapting OpenSciEd instructional materials to local contexts and to learn multiple strategies for localization of resources.

TAKEAWAYS:
Leave with practical strategies and resources to adapt OpenSciEd effectively, making science education more culturally relevant, engaging, and impactful for their students.

SPEAKERS:
Kate Henson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), William Penuel (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

Developing Questions That Enable Investigations to Take Flight

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 293


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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In this workshop, you will learn about our "Students as Scientists" unit, the science process, & how to help your student's questions get off the ground. Asking testable questions will help your students launch interesting, relevant, & achievable investigations.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn how to help their students think like a scientist and move from a curious question into a testable question that will launch a student-led investigation.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Licher (Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Ithaca, NY)

Cutting Through the Noise in Climate Data

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 292



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Cutting Through the Noise in Climate Change Data Workshop Slides.pdf
https://climate.tuvalabs.com/
Solar Flux Graph for Cutting Through the Noise in Climate Change Data Workshop.pdf

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Climate literacy and data literacy go hand-in-hand. Variability in data often throws our students off. To truly understand the causes and effects of climate change, students must be adept at cutting across the noise in complex data to look for climate signals.

TAKEAWAYS:
Enhance your students' ability to analyze and interpret variable climate data effectively by implementing strategies to get students to focus on trends instead of individual data points.

SPEAKERS:
Jocelyn Foran (Tuva: No City, No State)

How Do We Study Paleoclimate? Using the Fossil Record to Track Changes in Earth’s Climate

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 387



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Foram-Activity-Graph.pdf
Foram-Activity-Paleoclimate.docx
Foraminifera-Fossils-Left-Coiling.pptx
Foraminifera-Fossils-Right-Coiling.pptx
FORMATIVE-ASSESSMENT-Climate-Analysis-Using-Planktonic-Foraminifera (KEY).docx
FORMATIVE-ASSESSMENT-Climate-Analysis-Using-Planktonic-Foraminifera.docx
Introduction-to-Foraminifera.docx
Using the Fossil Record to Track Changes in Earth’s Climate Presentation.pptx

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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How do scientists study Earth’s historical climate? Are ice cores the only source of data? The fossil record can provide insight into cyclical changes in Earth’s climate. Teamwork, data analysis, and more scientific skills are used to analyze fossil data to study ocean temperature and level changes.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will receive hands-on activities that use fossil evidence which indicates changes in ocean temperatures and levels, showing fluctuations in Earth’s climate over time. Activities can be easily modified based on the needs of the teacher and grade level.

SPEAKERS:
Sabrina Ewald (The University of Texas at Austin: Austin, TX)

Three Dimensional Assessment and Standards Based Grading: It just makes sense!

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 290



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Standards Based Grading and 3D Assessment
Standards Based Grading and 3D Assessment slides

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Assessing student sensemaking can be time-consuming, and applying standards-based grading can seem overly vague. In this session we’ll analyze 3D assessment scenarios to uncover their scaffolded structure, and use that structure to develop leveling rubrics that quickly convert to traditional grades.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with samples of high-quality, scaffolded three-dimensional assessment scenarios, and strategies to make standards-based grading quick and consistent.

SPEAKERS:
Barbara McIntyre (Michigan Technological University: Houghton, MI), Chris Geerer (Mi-STAR: , MI)

Using the NGSS to Explore the Human Body: Engaging Students in the Scientific Modeling of Homeostasis

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 386



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https://tinyurl.com/NSTA-HumanBody-2024

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Learn how to engage your students with the rich phenomena of a runner that fails to maintain homeostasis, using an open-source NGSS-driven unit.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will deepen their understanding of how to use phenomena-driven three-dimensional instruction to attend to student interest and relevance, develop a clear vision for how to use modeling to teach homeostasis, and will learn how to access, use, and a use, and adapt a free EQuIP-reviewed unit.

SPEAKERS:
Devin Foschi (New Visions for Public Schools: New York, NY), Joy Otibu (Mott Hall Bronx High School: Bronx, NY)

Generating Classroom lessons from NSF funded facility resources

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 294


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Explore free existing K12 resources and contribute to the development of new resources through collaborative engagement with three US NSF-funded facilities. Experiment with activities on electromagnetism, light and wave interference.

TAKEAWAYS:
Resources from NSF facilities are useful in connecting the NGSS aligned K-12 classroom to current, cutting-edge science efforts that are implementing Science and Engineering practices in real-time.

SPEAKERS:
Carlos Villa (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory: Tallahassee, FL), Robert Sparks (NSF's NOIRLab: Tucson, AZ), William Katzman (LIGO's Science Education Center: Livingston, LA)

Encourage Curiosity, Spark Inquiry: Teach students to ask their own questions

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 388



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Presentation PowerPoint

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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The Question Formulation Technique (QFT), created by the Right Question Institute, will be explored in a hands-on, multidisciplinary, teacher-to-teacher training session exploring “How can we work together on creating more opportunities for all students to ask their own questions?”

TAKEAWAYS:
This session will give educators a proven and novel instructional strategy, and teachers who participate in the session will understand the mechanics of the QFT strategy, have experience practicing the QFT strategy, and obtain concrete examples of how to use the QFT strategy in their classrooms.

SPEAKERS:
Katy Connolly (Right Question Institute: Cambridge, MA), Maureen McGrail (University of Notre Dame: Notre Dame, IN)

Letting Children Lead Investigation and Design - Part of the COESEE strand

Thursday, November 7 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 266


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Elementary-age children come to science learning with expansive resources that we must leverage for sensemaking. If you are considering adapting or creating your own instructional materials, join us as we learn to frame investigations from students lived experiences.

TAKEAWAYS:
Many curriculum materials minimize elevating students’ brilliance with teacher directed, pre-designed activities. COESEE envisions classrooms where students’ ideas are foregrounded andn learning is centered in students’ lived experiences.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Starr (Michigan Mathematics and Science Leadership Network), Carla Zembal-Saul (Penn State: University Park, PA), Miranda Fitzgerald (University of North Carolina Charlotte: No City, No State)

How are "traditional" chemistry topics addressed in OpenSciEd HS Chemistry?

Thursday, November 7 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 391



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Chemistry Topics OSE Alignment_Matter Progressions.pdf
Alignment of OSE HS Chemistry + Earth & Space Science units with ACS Guidelines. Matter progressions throughout the five units.
Chemistry Topics Teacher Reflection.pdf
Teacher reflection handout for current chemistry alignment thinking.
Traditional Chemistry Topics.pdf
Presentation slides

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Where are “traditional” chemistry topics such as naming compounds, stoichiometry, and gas laws addressed in OpenSciEd High School Chemistry? Discover how we approached and have incorporated “traditional” chemistry topics into the five OpenSciEd units.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will leave with information on opportunities to incorporate “traditional” chemistry topics into OpenSciEd High School Chemistry storylines without breaking coherence or giving away students’ aha moments.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Novak (Northwestern University: Evanston, IL), Nicole Vick (Northwestern University)

Leading Learning for ALL Students Using the Anchored Inquiry Learning (AIL) Instructional Model

Thursday, November 7 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 267


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Explore how leaders can use the new BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning (AIL) instructional model to support teachers in creating learning experiences that motivate students with significant, real world phenomena and problems! Learn how AIL cycles of inquiry and sensemaking culminate in student agency!

TAKEAWAYS:
The research-based BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning instructional model succeeds the 5Es and forms the basis for high-quality instructional materials. Leaders can leverage this model to support teachers in creating a student centered classroom that provides effective teaching and learning for all.

SPEAKERS:
Cynthia Gay (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

BIG! Build It Green - a middle school energy unit with an architectural design emphasis

Thursday, November 7 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 274


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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This 60-minute workshop presents a new NSF-funded Middle School science storyline curriculum unit called Build it Green! (BIG!). BIG! addresses human impacts of energy systems through a green building engineering design process.

TAKEAWAYS:
Workshop participants will learn about our 14-lesson unit, the standards it addresses, and its unique use of digital tools, architectural design, and hands-on learning. Participants have a chance to engage with a new digital design tool that was made for BIG! using authentic architectural data.

SPEAKERS:
Caiden Webb (Graduate Student), Rebekah Snyder (University of Missouri: Columbia, MO)

Developing Culturally Relevant Physics Instructional Units Using the NGSS

Thursday, November 7 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 388



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Materials.pdf
Materials: Projector and Screen: For displaying the PowerPoint slides. Laptops/Devices for Participants: Encourage participants to bring laptops or tablets to access any digital resources, Mentimeter, or work on lesson redesigns. Wi-Fi Access: Make sure there’s reliable Wi-Fi for the interactive elements like Mentimeter, and for participants to access online resources. Mentimeter Account: For collecting survey responses from participants during the Framing the Problem section. Printed Hando

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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This workshop will focus on describing methods that physics teachers can use to develop instructional units leveraging students' cultural resources as a way to engage with physics ideas. We will go through the process of developing these units and designing assessments.

TAKEAWAYS:
The takeaway from this workshop is that physics teachers will gain a reference and a clear outline of steps for developing instructional units. These units will be especially useful for students from backgrounds where physics is not typically emphasized.

SPEAKERS:
Clausell Mathis (Assistant Professor: , MI)

TeachEngineering: Engaging All Students Through Engineering Design and Design Thinking

Thursday, November 7 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 293


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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TeachEngineering will lead STEM educators through a hands-on activity that integrates engineering with science learning. Utilizing the seven steps of the engineering design process, participants see how they can combine engineering design to enhance their students' learning of scientific concepts.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will experience the seamless integration of design and design-thinking with science learning as they use the engineering design process to ask, research, imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own wind-powered sail cars!

SPEAKERS:
Jennifer Kracha (Teach Engineering: No City, No State), Ellen Parrish (Teach Engineering: No City, No State)

Reflect, Learn, and Grow: Enhancing the Practice of Asking Questions and Making Arguments

Thursday, November 7 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 292



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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k3s46baCHQAawxq_dRJaYcg6An9Qv9TP?usp=drive_link

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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How do you know if you are effectively implementing the science and engineering practices (SEPs)? What should teachers and students be doing? We will assist teachers in reflecting on their classroom activities and learn new approaches to practices, specifically questioning and engaging in arguments.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will leave with immediately applicable strategies and ideas for evaluating their practices in alignment with the standards.

SPEAKERS:
Summer Landreth (educator: , SC), Augustine Owusu Achiaw (Graduate Assistant: Clemson, SC)

Accessing and Elevating Children’s Ways of Communicating and Negotiating Ideas for Sensemaking - Part of the COESEE strand

Thursday, November 7 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 266


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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We will explore expansive ways we can notice students’ sensemaking assets and use those ideas to engage students in deeper learning. This session supports educators who are exploring modification or creation of instructional materials to better serve all students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Explore the expanded ways of communicating and negotiating meaning children use as they engage in sensemaking at all ages. Work with us as we share ways to becoming more attuned to the multiple ways children engage in meaning making

SPEAKERS:
Mary Starr (Michigan Mathematics and Science Leadership Network), Miranda Fitzgerald (University of North Carolina Charlotte: No City, No State)

Help Students Show What They Know with 3D Transfer Tasks

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 391


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Many high-quality curricula use transfer tasks, phenomenon-based assessments where students demonstrate their three dimensional understanding while exploring a novel scenario. In this session, educators will work through an example of a transfer task and an activity structure.

TAKEAWAYS:
Leave with an understanding of what transfer tasks are and an activity structure to use with students learning how to engage in this assessment practice.

SPEAKERS:
Kate Henson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), Melissa Campanella (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), William Penuel (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

Adapting Instructional Materials to Focus on Climate Justice: A High School OpenSciEd Physics Example

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 276



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Drive with slides and resources

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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We show how instructional materials can be adapted for local contexts—and how to elevate issues of climate justice and ethical responses to the climate crisis. Participants will learn about how a high school physics unit from OpenSciEd was adapted to attend to Indigenous land rights and sovereignty.

TAKEAWAYS:
In relation to science and engineering projects in society (e.g., associated with the energy transition, ecological restoration, urban development), teachers will learn how to engage students in exploring moral and ethical dimensions of trade-offs in project approaches.

SPEAKERS:
Kelsie Fowler (University of Washington: Seattle, WA), Philip Bell (University of Washington: Seattle, WA)

Start Your Engines: Middle School Physics Fun

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 293



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Participant Folder
Folder includes all presentation resources and links.

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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We will be sharing activities for a 6-8 aligned unit on force and motion. The activities will include: a hands-on activity with technology to collect and analyze data that will aid in calculating speed and a hands-on activity using technology to graph motion in real time.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will experience physics fun for 6-8 Science as they apply to the new standards. We will use Hot Wheels to collect data to calculate speed and create motion graphs using hands-on technology.

SPEAKERS:
Becky Walker (Hudson Middle School: Lufkin, TX), Amy Rush (Lufkin Middle School: Lufkin, TX)

Nature's Doppelgangers: Understanding Convergent Evolution and Phylogenetic Trees

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 386


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Explore the relationship between adaptations and niches using an interactive lesson from the National Center for Science Education. This activity uses phenotypes and karyotypes to illustrate the complexities of creating phylogenetic trees of marsupials and placental mammals.

TAKEAWAYS:
The goal of this session is for participants to experience a lesson from students’ perspective and take the free materials back to their own classrooms. The purpose of the activity is to address the NGSS standards related to evidence for evolution, natural selection, and adaptation.

SPEAKERS:
Blake Touchet (National Center for Science Education: Oakland, CA)

Coaching Science Teachers in Integrated STEM with the STEM Observation Protocol

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 267


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Learn how the STEM Observation Protocol – a tool that highlights integrated STEM practices – can be used for creating curricula, instructional coaching, and formative assessment on practice. This workshop will address observing lessons, modeling coaching conversations, and reflecting on practice.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will gain a better understanding of how to bring integrated STEM education into their current science classrooms. Resources – including access to a set of online learning modules – will be provided to support teacher growth and practice beyond the workshop.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Dare (Louisiana State University: No City, No State)

Polishing Students’ Argumentation Skills: Using Discussion Diamonds to Support Evidence-Based Discourse and Writing

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 388



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Polishing Students’ Argumentation Skills.pptx

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Experience how discussion diamonds can help support students’ argumentation skills and Claim Evidence Reasoning writing through peer discourse. This workshop will introduce the discussion diamond protocol and allow participants to engage in the activity from the students’ perspective.

TAKEAWAYS:
The discussion diamond protocol is a versatile tool that can be adapted for students of varying skill levels and across any subject. It provides a supportive environment for students to engage in discourse and develop their argumentation skills.

SPEAKERS:
Nicole Ciccarello (Beverly Hills High School: Beverly Hills, CA)

It's All Fun and Games in High School Chemistry

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 397



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It's All Fun and Games in HS Chemistry
It's All Fun and Games in HS Chemistry printable and downloadable files - rules and materials

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Academic games can support the understanding of challenging concepts. Come play device-free comprehensive unit review games that are designed to provide an opportunity for all chemistry students to problem solve and think critically while working as a team in a growth-mindset environment.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will walk away with device-free game materials and proven strategies that encourage collaboration and communication while increasing students' application of concepts in 14 units of the high school chemistry curriculum. All resources are free, editable & adaptable to various levels taught.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Hessling (New Trier High School, Winnetka Campus: Winnetka, IL), Elaine Kollar (New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL (retired)), Tracy Smith (New Trier High School, Winnetka Campus: Winnetka, IL)

Learning in Places: Wondering Walks, Wondering Talks, and Should We Questions Support Ethical Decisions through Field-based Science Learning - Part of the COESEE strand

Thursday, November 7 • 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 266


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Learning in Places is an OER that helps educators engage with students in field-based transdisciplinary learning. It is the perfect way to start science learning from students’ places while engaging with families and communities. This session is perfect for educators developing their own materials.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learning in Places envisions science learning as a vehicle to ethical decision making. Educators will become familiar with the Learning in Places storylines and how to use them with their students.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Starr (Michigan Mathematics and Science Leadership Network)

Discovering the Wonders of Waves

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 296



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Exploring Waves Participant Folder
This folder contains the presentation slides and resources including links.

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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We will be sharing activities for a 6 & 8 Force, Motion, and Energy aligned unit using hands-on laboratory investigations, simulations and technology to compare the characteristics of amplitude, frequency, and wavelength in transverse and longitudinal waves, including the electromagnetic spectrum.

TAKEAWAYS:
The activities the participants will experience will include: a hands-on activity with technology to collect and analyze data by comparing the characteristics of amplitude, frequency, and wavelength in transverse and longitudinal waves, including the electromagnetic spectrum.

SPEAKERS:
Amy Rush (Lufkin Middle School: Lufkin, TX), Becky Walker (Hudson Middle School: Lufkin, TX)

Drones in Alaska: Elementary students building STEM workforce skills aligned with tribal priorities

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 295


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Engage in hands-on exploration of a place-based drone curriculum co-developed with tribal communities for elementary students in Alaska. Access the free student and teacher lesson plans and educational videos, and identify place-based drone applications for your community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will don "student hat" to participate in a hands-on lesson about how drones fly, learn how to access a suite of free resources for teaching about drones, and also learn tips for STEM curriculum co-production by Indigenous and Western institutions.

SPEAKERS:
Mariah McNamara (Education Specialist: Fairbanks, AK), Lori Schoening (Geophysical Institute: Fairbanks, AK)

Rebel Women of STEM

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 299


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Looking to spice up your STEM classes and help the material come alive? Check out the contributions of historical and current rebel women of STEM to infuse new connections into your units. Align their ideas to your content standards and elevate the ways women shape the world of STEM.

TAKEAWAYS:
From this session participants will learn about important historical and current women of STEM and the impact of their contributions along with engaging ways to infuse this information alongside their content standards.

SPEAKERS:
Rachelle Haroldson (University of Wisconsin-River Falls: River Falls, WI)

Formative Assessment Tasks Supporting Science and Literacy Learning

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 263


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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This session will explore how formative assessment tasks can reveal students’ 3D learning as well as students’ ability to use language to demonstrate their learning. Come learn how students’ use of language can be an asset for making sense of science learning and literacy growth for all students.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will come away with new knowledge about how 3D assessments can elicit important information about students’ 3D learning as well as students’ ability to use language to demonstrate their learning. This knowledge is highly valuable for using assessment to support ongoing learning.

SPEAKERS:
Daniel Damelin (The Concord Consortium: Concord, MA), Christopher Harris (WestEd: San Francisco, CA), David McKinney (Senior Research Associate: , CA)

More than Just a Model: Using Anchor Charts to Increase Scientific Reasoning

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 298


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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In this session teachers will focus on implementing anchor charts into instruction to develop deeper scientific reasoning skills for students. Participants will create and modify anchor charts to show the progression of student learning and the deepening of scientific reasoning during learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Anchor charts can increase student scientific reasoning skills and teachers ability to assess student learning when used effectively. This session will demonstrate how to use anchor charts to increase student scientific reasoning skills.

SPEAKERS:
Morgan Dallas (Caddo Parish Public Schools: Shreveport, LA)

Unlocking Science Through Tangible Learning: Exploring Manipulatives for Teaching about DNA , Atomic Models, Neurons and Beyond

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 393


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Join us as we delve into the transformative power of manipulatives in science education. This workshop offers a hands-on approach to teaching intricate scientific concepts. Discover how simple no-cost paper models can transform your teaching method and enhance student comprehension.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session will allow attendees to increase their teacher toolbox by learning about several no-cost hands on activities. Participants will take part in paper folding, coloring, and cutting to create materials that can be used to teach a wide variety of science topics.

SPEAKERS:
Molly Swanson (Teacher: Edmonton, AB)

HOT STUFF!! Thermochemistry made fun and easy!

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 397



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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EE7fKrB4heLE7LkoeAzCWXlEmG84FvBd?usp=sharing

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Use manipulatives and drawings to bring meaning and sense to the world of thermochemistry all while reviewing other topics like VSEPR and Lewis structures along the way.

TAKEAWAYS:
How to get students to "see" the reasoning behind Enthalpy and the structures of molecules.

SPEAKERS:
Stacy Thibodeaux (Southside High School: Youngsville, LA), Chris Coker (Camden Fairview High School: Camden, AR)

Lead with the Science and Include the Literacy: Keeping Science Learning in the Foreground (Science and Literacy, Part 1) - Part of the COESEE strand

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 266


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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We see tradebooks and read-alouds as a powerful support for elementary science. In this session we will share 100+ trade books that align to the NGSS and provide our evaluation tools so you can better choose your own resources. This session is great for educators developing their own materials, too.

TAKEAWAYS:
Children’s meaning making in elementary science can be enhanced by engagement with high-quality literacy. We have identified over 100 high quality read aloud books that align to the science standards and elevate both science and math and the tools for educators to select their own materials.

SPEAKERS:
Mary Starr (Michigan Mathematics and Science Leadership Network), Miranda Fitzgerald (University of North Carolina Charlotte: No City, No State)

Explorations in Science

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

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STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Explorations provide a strategic and clear to engage students in learning science regardless of the curriculum implemented. Explorations create a framework for student learning and formative assessment that provide streamlined and effective opportunities for scaffolding and student-driven learning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn the components of the Exploration framework, examine its efficacy, and act as students moving through the exploration framework to learn about its ability to transform classroom learning.

SPEAKERS:
Tyler Miller (Teacher: Tulsa, OK), Jennifer Miller (Tulsa Public Schools: Tulsa, OK)

Crossing Over: Incorporating Energy & Science in Language Arts

Friday, November 8 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 280


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Introduce basic energy concepts early on with hands-on lessons delivered through songs, stories, games, & chants to teach energy buzz words and science concepts. Teach and learn while having fun!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to teach energy, efficiency, and conservation to young students through the guise of entertaining games and activities.

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

Customize a Climate Change Storyline Unit with locally relevant phenomena and solutions that connect with students’ interests and communities

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 272



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Climate Education Pathways Resources
Presentation slides

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Participants will engage with a unit on climate change designed to be localized. They will use tools to brainstorm local anchoring phenomena and ways to make the unit relevant for their students, community, and teaching context. All materials are freely available.

TAKEAWAYS:
Climate change units should help students understand the impacts they are experiencing and prepare them to participate in solutions. Localizing students’ climate learning is one way to do that. Storyline design tools and resources can support teachers in developing this kind of localized learning.

SPEAKERS:
Candice Guy-Gaytán (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Betty Stennett (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Audrey Mohan (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Lindsey Mohan (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Emily Harris (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

Building District Capacity to Design and Use Common Assessments for 5D Science

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

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5D Assessment Website
This website has links to tools for designing common assessments that are "5D" -- that is where students use all three dimensions of science to explain phenomena that connect to students' interests and identities
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Want to improve learning through common assessments? To do so, you need a way to design assessments efficiently that cover a wide range of standards and a way to score assessments that fits your capacity as a school or district. In this workshop, join us to explore practical common assessment design.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave with a process for designing, administering, and scoring common assessments that require students to apply three dimensions of science to explain phenomena and solve problems that are meaningful to students and important to their communities.

SPEAKERS:
Abraham Lo (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Kate Henson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), William Penuel (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)

Science in the Early Childhood Classroom

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 270



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Magnet_Curriculum.pdf
Curriculum, resources, and recording sheets for magnet study
Science in the EE Classroom-New Orleans.pdf
Slideshow from our presentation

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will come away with strategies to: • Plan investigations to integrate science into their early childhood curriculum. • Build scientific practice skills in all of our youngest learners. • Reveal and document student understanding through lab notebooks.

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

Navigating the 3D Classroom: Evaluating 3D learning environments

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 295


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Join us for a hands-on session tailored for educators/coaches to discover what inquiry-based learning SHOULD look like in the classroom! Discover how to recognize best practices and evaluate 3D learning in action. Equip yourself with tools and insights needed to conduct exceptional investigations!

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will evaluate their own teach practices in the context of inquiry-based learning to determine what exception science instruction looks like, sounds like, and feels like for students in a 3D learning environment.

SPEAKERS:
Leah Pinto (Director of professional development: Gilmer, TX)

Level Up: Research Based Ways to Incorporate Student Discourse and Writing into Hands-on Activities

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

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bit.ly/GISDNSTA
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xIx3RNuPKourkWe0K4wOU4DmBtZ74kCv87_LR4jJIio/edit?usp=sharing

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Join us for an interactive workshop where we delve into research-based methods for seamlessly weaving student discourse and writing into hands-on activities. Discover strategies to engage students in discussions and foster writing skills while they actively participate in learning experiences.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn to incorporate strategies that promote student discourse and writing when students engage in hands-on activities. These strategies are research based and focus on ensuring students walk away with deep content understanding while engaging in an interactive learning experiences.

SPEAKERS:
Ashley Shine (Garland Independent School Dis: Garland, TX), Jawan Wiltz (Science Instructional Design Facilitator), Leon Chatman (Garland Independent School District: Garland, TX)

Breaking Down 3-Dimensional NGSS Standards with Ochsner Education Outreach

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 298


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Participants will learn how to break down 3-dimensional standards for their grade level/content into the crosscutting concepts, science and engineering practices, and disciplinary core ideas and what mastery of the standard looks and sounds like in your classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn the importance of internalizing and breaking down 3-dimensional standards so that they can be more intentional when planning their lessons. Intentionally teaching the 3-dimensions leads to students getting more “at bats” doing science, which helps builds joy and investment.

SPEAKERS:
Melvenia Martin (Ochsner Clinic Foundation: New Orleans, LA), Rachel Thomas-Little (Manager), Carlin Czerniak (Ochsner Health: No City, No State)

Using Integrated (NGSS/CCSS) Project-Based Learning to Support Use of Literacy and (Age-appropriate) Understanding Climate Change in Early Elementary Science Classrooms

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 268


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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In this workshop participants experience modeling and literacy activities from integrated project based science 3-day unit that address life and earth science performance expectations for grade K-3. We explore strategies for supporting students in sharing experiences related to climate change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will explore teaching experiences and pedagogy ideas through discussion, and be ready to teach an integrated project-based 3 day lessons about climate change that use ELA practices to promote three dimensional learning in early elementary science.

SPEAKERS:
Ayca Fackler (University of Missouri: Columbia, MO)

Is there lead in my water? Transdisciplinary curriculum resources for real-world science learning.

Friday, November 8 • 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 296


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Join us for a hands-on workshop to learn how Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids free, standards-aligned curriculum materials support upper elementary, middle, and high school students learn about mitigating lead in water.

TAKEAWAYS:
Lead in water is a problem that disproportionally affects children and low-income communities of color. Come away with free standards-aligned, transdisciplinary curriculum materials that s help students in upper elementary, middle, and high school understand the problem and potential solutions.

SPEAKERS:
Ashley Allen (Instructional Specialist: Research Triangle Park, NC), Dr. Whitney White (RTI International: Research Triangle Park, NC)

5D Assessment: Using student interest & identity to design meaningful, phenomenon-driven assessment opportunities for students

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 272



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5D Assessment Website
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STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Learn how student interest & identity are co-equal dimensions with disciplinary core ideas, science & engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts when designing phenomenon-driven assessments. Participants will learn how to use tools to elicit information about students for use in design.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators engage with the 5D Assessment Project's tools to elicit and use information about students' interests and identities to design meaningful, phenomenon-driven assessment opportunities. Work with examples of meaningful assessment aligned to the elements of the NGSS.

SPEAKERS:
Elaine Klein (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), William Penuel (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), Abraham Lo (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

Customizing Curriculum: Increasing Relevance for Students

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 12:10 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 273


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Wondering how to customize your curriculum to be more relevant for your students? Using examples from OpenSciEd as a context, we’ll share tools and strategies for customizing curriculum to increase relevance. Come ready to work! 90 minute session

TAKEAWAYS:
If curriculum enactment pairs great materials with support for teachers to make those materials even better, amazing things can happen. Customizing the use of phenomena in quality materials to support relevance for students is a great way to increase engagement.

SPEAKERS:
Erika Palys (OpenSciEd: No City, No State), Austin Moore (Graduate Student: , MA), Renee Affolter (OpenSciEd: New York, NY), Matt Krehbiel (OpenSciEd: New York, NY)

Leading Change

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 267


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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The implementation of high-quality instructional materials requires support as teachers make the shifts needed for effective use. Dig into Change Management from The Elements of curriculum based professional learning to figure out how key lessons can help you lead change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Join other leaders to consider key lessons from change and dig into Change Management from The Elements: Transforming Teaching through Curriculum-based Professional Learning.

SPEAKERS:
Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Jim Short (Carnegie Corporation of New York: Ridgefield, CT)

Grading for Understanding

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 296


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Grading for Understanding is a standards-aligned assessment practice that provides greater clarity to teachers, students, and parents. Using the Grading for Understanding, teachers can provide more valuable feedback to students and focus on assessing current understanding of science standards.

TAKEAWAYS:
Teachers will learn how Grading for Understanding reduces biases in grading and supports growth mindsets and hope for students to succeed in science.

SPEAKERS:
Tyler Miller (Teacher: Tulsa, OK), Jennifer Miller (Tulsa Public Schools: Tulsa, OK)

A Transdisciplinary Performance Task Framework for STEM Project-Based Learning

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 295


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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This session will provide a conceptual framework for transdisciplinary learning and share a template for designing project-based learning tasks, in which students assume a STEM-related career role to create a product for an authentic audience and in response to a real-life question or problem.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will learn how to create a transdisciplinary task that can be brought back to their schools, utilized in practice with students, and shared with colleagues in their school building.

SPEAKERS:
Stefanie Holloway (Greater Oregon STEM Hub: La Grande, OR)

Elevating Learning Through Modeling: Techniques for Enhancing the Practice of Developing and Using Models.

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 298



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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fpo0Y4yNQDhGNOgCppRxHfbwcymZTUdD?usp=drive_link

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Models are essential resources for encouraging deeper knowledge, simplifying challenging concepts, and encouraging critical thinking in students. This workshop explores how effective development and utilization of models can enhance learning outcomes by offering specific classroom strategies.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will leave the session with applicable and useful knowledge and strategies for developing and using models in the classroom. Resources will be provided at the conclusion of the session.

SPEAKERS:
Augustine Owusu Achiaw (Graduate Assistant: Clemson, SC), Summer Landreth (educator: , SC)

Come Explore Sprocket: An online and open project-based science curriculum portal

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

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Come Explore Sprocket - Educurious Presentation Slides
sprocket.educurious.org

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Introducing Sprocket: Powered by Educurious! Sprocket is a free platform with OER project-based learning science courses for educators everywhere. Created by researchers, experts, and educators, Sprocket is now part of Educurious. Join us for a guided tour of Sprocket’s courses and online community.

TAKEAWAYS:
Sprocket is the world’s only OER platform providing access to evidence-based, full-year, project-based learning courses at no cost. Participants will learn how to navigate Sprocket, access the curriculum, and connect with an online community of colleagues and collaborators.

SPEAKERS:
Adrian Baez-Alicea (Educurious Partners: Seattle, WA), Hanna Jaramillo (Educurious Partners: Seattle, WA)

Adding Dimensionality to Your Assessments

Friday, November 8 • 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 397



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Adding Dimensionality to Your Assessments 2024
We live in a 3D world. Do your assessments? Come learn how to measure the dimensionality of your assessments and how to write two- and three-dimensional questions. Participants will be given time to apply their learning to their own assessments to integrate the CCCs and SEPs.

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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We live in a 3D world. Do your assessments? Come learn how to measure the dimensionality of your assessments and how to write two- and three-dimensional questions. Participants will be given time to apply their learning to their own assessments to integrate the CCCs and SEPs.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will learn how to write two- and three-dimensional questions and edit current assessment questions to integrate the cross-cutting concepts and science and engineering practices.

SPEAKERS:
Laura Cohen (Lake Zurich High School: Lake Zurich, IL), McKenna Serowka (Lake Zurich High School: Lake Zurich, IL)

Leadership for Launch--Getting the Right People on the Bus!

Friday, November 8 • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 267


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Once you’ve adopted high-quality instructional materials, how do leaders ensure effective and sustained implementation, especially at high school? Join us to explore features of transformative professional learning that address a range of concerns teachers may have about implementation and change.

TAKEAWAYS:
Effective and sustained implementation of high-quality instructional materials requires planning for change prior to implementation, generating excitement, providing transformative professional learning, monitoring implementation progress and using data to support continuous improvement.

SPEAKERS:
Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), Jim Short (Carnegie Corporation of New York: Ridgefield, CT), Cynthia Gay (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

Choosing Phenomena for Standards-Based Assessments that Connect to Students’ Interests and Community Priorities

Friday, November 8 • 1:20 PM - 2:50 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 272



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5D Assessment Website
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STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Want to create 3D assessment tasks that students enjoy completing and leave wanting to learn more? Join us for this session where we will explore three different approaches to choosing phenomena and problems for assessments that align to standards and connect to students’ interests and identities.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will leave with a plan for learning about your students’ interests and the priorities of their communities pertaining to a 3D standard you are teaching and assessing next semester.

SPEAKERS:
Elaine Klein (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO), William Penuel (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO), Abraham Lo (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)

How does a cross-disciplinary approach help support the development of chemistry ideas?

Friday, November 8 • 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 391



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Cross Disciplinary Approach in Chemistry.pdf
Presentation slides

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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OpenSciEd High School Chemistry incorporates physical science, Earth and space science, and engineering, technology, and applications of science NGSS performance expectations into its five units. Hear how using this cross-disciplinary approach supports student development of chemistry ideas.

TAKEAWAYS:
OpenSciEd High School Chemistry incorporates physical science, Earth and space science, and engineering, technology, and applications of science NGSS performance expectations into its five units. Hear how using this cross-disciplinary approach supports student development of chemistry ideas.

SPEAKERS:
Michael Novak (Northwestern University: Evanston, IL), Nicole Vick (Northwestern University)

Unraveling the Mysteries of Black Worms: Using Hands-on Research to Engage Students in Learning and Literacy

Friday, November 8 • 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 386



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11-8-24 Black Worms CER Worksheet.pdf
11-8-24 Student Sample - Black Worms Claims_Evidence_Reasoning.pdf
Brisk Black Worms Grade Level 9 - Lesson Plan and Worksheet.pdf
CER-Checklist.pdf
Feedback Form
Google Slides - Unraveling the Mysteries of Black Worms
All presenter documents are linked in speaker notes.
Sentence Stems for CER.pdf
Unraveling the Mysteries of Black Worms ClaimsEvidenceReasoning
Watch blackworms unknot themselves in a flash | Science News

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Participants will receive a worm culture to interact with, record observations, and conduct research to determine and list facts about the worms. They will then use the results of this research to write a nuanced claim about the worm culture, using facts as evidence to explain their reasoning.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn about hands-on activities that engage students in science and research, and strategies to improve evidence-based writing in the science classroom including a CER checklist, scaffolding techniques for struggling writers, vocabulary banks, sentence frames, and peer feedback.

SPEAKERS:
Maureen Barclay (Captain Shreve High School: Shreveport, LA), Amy Douglas Kendrick (Jena High School: Jena, LA)

Exploring Watersheds: A Hands-On Workshop for Grade 3-5 Educators

Friday, November 8 • 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM

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Slides
Exploring Watersheds: A Hands-On Workshop for Grade 3-5 Educators

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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During this hands-on lesson exploring the significance of local watersheds, participants create a model of a watershed and explore its role in the water cycle. We will share insights with educators to help them integrate this lesson plan into their classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
This workshop highlights the value of hand-on experience and adapting investigations to integrate sustainability principles to support teaching the NGSS. Leave with insights and strategies to adapt this investigation in your classroom to support sustainability education.

SPEAKERS:
Emily Rogers (SubjectToClimate: No City, No State)

Teaching Wave Particle Duality using Phenomena

Friday, November 8 • 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM

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STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Using phenomena to teach Wave Particle Duality (WPD) helps students understand this crazy property of light that is critical for understanding how technology works. By sequencing several activities appropriately, students can understand that light is both a particle and a wave. Mystery solved.

TAKEAWAYS:
Clarification of how light has dual properties; sequencing of phenomena, and activities help guide students to a deeper understanding. Teachers will have instructional resources to teach WPD.

SPEAKERS:
Karen Matsler (University of Texas Arlington: No City, No State)

Genetic Tech Investigations

Friday, November 8 • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM

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Public-facing materials
Teacher guide and links to student materials.

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Reinforce genetics concepts by exploring the molecular processes technologies employ to understand genetic disorders. Experience an interactive curriculum module that is a window into biochemical processes at different levels from DNA to protein, and the technologies that illuminate them.

TAKEAWAYS:
How to access and use a free, NGSS-friendly curriculum module that helps students gain a deeper understanding of molecular genetics and the ways genetic disorders affect the pathway from DNA to a functioning protein by exploring the biochemical processes that technologies employ to detect a disorder.

SPEAKERS:
Molly Malone (The University of Utah: Salt Lake City, UT)

Shared Waters: a Free Classroom Ready Elementary Curriculum Exploring Watershed Health

Friday, November 8 • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 289


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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The Shared Waters Curriculum is a watershed-focused, 10-lesson curriculum that explores watershed health and human impacts. It culminates with a student action project. The curriculum is classroom-ready for teachers, providing access to all lesson materials and a complete teacher's guide.

TAKEAWAYS:
Discover how the Shared Waters curriculum enriches elementary education, fostering student-driven environmental action through hands-on watershed health lessons.

SPEAKERS:
Bill McConnell (Virginia Wesleyan University: Norfolk, VA), Nanette Marcum-Dietrich (Millersville University: Millersville, PA)

Thinking Routines to Achieve Equity

Friday, November 8 • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 390


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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In this workshop teachers will get a hands-on experience using Harvard's Project Zero Thinking Routines, which are routines designed to guide students as they explore and organize their thoughts about a new topic. Teachers will leave with routines and activities they can start implementing ASAP!

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will gain familiarity with and learn how to embed Harvard's Project Zero Thinking Routines into their curriculum, which help them to successfully have all students explore and organize their thoughts around a topic while participating in academic lessons.

SPEAKERS:
Dani Maloney (Mamaroneck High School: Mamaroneck, NY)

Lead with phenomena and content integration will follow

Friday, November 8 • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 268



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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K8PwK8QbB7Z1v7cs2xnar8vGrCzF9xCc

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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How can K-5 teachers directly address and utilize ELA and Math while students are deeply immersed in science learning? Join us to explore how phenomena-based teaching and learning authentically lends itself to content integration and take away tools to implement this approach in your own context.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will gain ideas about how ELA, math and science play a mutually supportive role in figuring out scientific phenomena, and will take away a three-step process to be able to apply these ideas to their own context.

SPEAKERS:
Leslie Stenger (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA), Rebecca Abbott (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA)

Exploring Extreme Heat with Understanding Global Change

Friday, November 8 • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM

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Materials and Resources Landing Page
This is a landing page with links to all the materials and resources shared during the workshop.
San Diego Science Project Website
Understanding Global Change Website

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Explore an extreme heat based phenomenon with the Understanding Global Change (UGC) framework’s modeling practices. Learn UGC practices and tools to help incorporate an Earth systems perspective into your curriculum and adapt existing resources.

TAKEAWAYS:
Experience the nature and processes of science by constructing explanations about a global change phenomenon with the Understanding Global Change framework and explanatory modeling practices.

SPEAKERS:
Alec Barron (UC San Diego: No City, No State)

Customizing Curriculum: Increasing Student Engagement through Community Connections and Industry Partnerships

Friday, November 8 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 273


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Feeling phenomena fatigue? Wanting to help students connect their work to the broader community? Hear tips for incorporating community experts into units, including ways to prep your students and guests for an experience that validates student ideas.

TAKEAWAYS:
Localize phenomena/storyline curriculum without having to rewrite the entire unit with a different local phenomena. Community connections and industry partnerships can address questions, ideas for investigations and related phenomena that students generate during the anchoring phenomena routine.

SPEAKERS:
William Baur (Washougal High School: Washougal, WA)

Using the NGSS to Explore Space: Engaging Students in Evidence-based Arguments about Exoplanets

Friday, November 8 • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 268



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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PwA8ysrbqueweqKtKT_dJ0ihEDt-Bf9tYxd8IxMvA2E/edit#slide=id.g312b250cbda_0_1093

STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Learn how to engage your students with the rich phenomena that stars and exoplanets can provide through the use of a free high school ESS unit that received an NGSS Design Badge.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will deepen their understanding of how to use phenomena-driven three-dimensional instruction to attend to student interest and relevance, and develop a clear vision for how to use argumentation to teach ESS concepts.

SPEAKERS:
Devin Foschi (New Visions for Public Schools: New York, NY), Charles Link (DeWitt Clinton High School: Bronx, NY)

Leadership for Sustainability and Ongoing Improvement

Saturday, November 9 • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 267


STRAND: Curriculum and Assessment

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Sustaining the use of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) requires monitoring progress throughout implementation. Join us to consider how leaders from one district gathered and analyzed data to inform decisions and how lessons learned can help refine your plan for the sustained use of HQIM.

TAKEAWAYS:
Deepen understanding of data collection tools and how to use them to inform planning to support the sustained and effective use of high-quality instructional materials.

SPEAKERS:
Jody Bintz (BSCS Science Learning: Colorado Springs, CO)