Bring your computers and join this workshop to explore innovative approaches to enhance science instruction and support teacher effectiveness through personalized learning and AI technology. Develop and share practical examples and leave empowered to transform your science classrooms.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to integrate personalized learning and AI technology into science instruction. Through hands-on exploration of personalized curriculum, instructional strategies, and assessment practices, educators will leave equipped to transform their classroom.

SPEAKERS:
Bonnie Diehl (Catholic Central High School: Burlington, WI)

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: Grayslake, IL), Nicole Vick (Northwestern University: Avon, IL)

Through live demonstrations we will teach attendees the strengths and weaknesses of virtual tutors and best practices for LLM-student learning. During the workshop attendees will construct practice exam questions using ChatGPT and other LLM tools.

TAKEAWAYS:
Through live demonstrations we will teach attendees the strengths and weaknesses of virtual tutors and best practices for LLM-student learning. During the workshop attendees will construct practice exam questions using ChatGPT and other LLM tools.

SPEAKERS:
Daniel Graham (Assistant Professor: Jackson, MS), Hannah Meyer (Student: Jackson, MS), Kristina Stensaas (Millsaps College: Brandon, MS)

Culturally responsive teaching practices are essential in science. You will leave this workshop with NGSS based lessons to help students make sense of identity mapping and positionality in the classroom. Come and design models where identities are atoms and collective identities are molecules.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will experience a set of identity based and NGSS aligned lessons that can be implemented upon return home.

SPEAKERS:
Autumn Burton (The Pike School: Portland, ME), Kathleen Boucher-Lavigne (Pike School: Andover, MA)

Explore our workshop on AI's classroom impact! Learn how AI boosts creativity, engagement, and streamlines tasks for more impactful teaching.

TAKEAWAYS:
This session promises practical insights into using AI to cultivate a more dynamic, responsive, and creatively enriched teaching environment, ensuring both educators and students thrive.

SPEAKERS:
Nadim Sarhan (Faculty Member: Town and Country, MO), Melanie Shedd (The Principia: St Louis, MO)

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): Northbrook, IL), Tracy Smith (New Trier High School, Winnetka Campus: Winnetka, IL)

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: , AB)

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: Scott, LA), Chris Coker (Camden Fairview High School: Camden, AR)

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)

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)

Participants will: Research and design an Inquiry experiment using appropriate technology to gather and analyze data. Use technology to collect/analyze data and visualize what occurs on the submicroscopic level by employing particulate drawings.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will take part in a “hands on” Inquiry experiment, use technology to collect/analyze data, and visualize what occurs on the submicroscopic level in copper chemical reactions by employing particulate drawings.

SPEAKERS:
Gregory Dodd (George Washington High School: Pennsboro, WV)

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: Grayslake, IL), Nicole Vick (Northwestern University: Avon, IL)

The various metals and alloys used in the minting of the US penny over the years will provide for rich explorations. We will share activities that combine some very basic lab activities conducted by some of our chemistry classes with detailed mathematical modeling done by the students in statistics.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will collect and use real data to develop mathematical models and learn how to test our hypothesis by performing an experiment and analyzing the results, combining chemical analysis with statistical sampling for a cross-curricular approach.

SPEAKERS:
Karlheinz Haas (retired: Tequesta, FL)

Case studies are powerful storytelling tools that captivate students and immerse them in learning scientific concepts in context. Discover how to leverage the case studies available through the NCCSTS that are freely accessible on the NSTA website and how to incorporate them into your classroom.

TAKEAWAYS:
Case studies offer various types and teaching methods, from intimate debates and clicker cases to Problem-Based Learning and jigsaw. This session aims to demystify the world of case studies, guiding you through their various forms and how to use them to enhance student engagement.

SPEAKERS:
Kathy Hoppe (STEMisED, Inc: Rio Rico, AZ)

Understanding force interactions is essential to helping students explain atomic behavior. Hear how force interaction ideas are developed throughout OpenSciEd Chemistry units and experience how it is used to explain atomic behavior.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will use particle level manipulatives from two OpenSciEd High School Chemistry units to explain polarity differences of four substances and differences between weak and strong acids emerge from differences in intra- and intermolecular force interactions.

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

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)

Attendees will participate in several activities designed to make atomic scale ideas visible and understandable. We will be looking at the Rutherford Gold Foil Experiment, the meaning of Schrodinger probability plots, and covalent bonding.

TAKEAWAYS:
Students learn best by doing and experiencing. This workshop will present new ways to help students experience atomic scale chemistry in a way that they can touch and make sense of.

SPEAKERS:
Larry McAfoos (Jack Barrack Hebrew Academy: Bryn Mawr, PA)

This session will explore acid base chemistry. Hands-on, data collection, simulations, and card sorts will be utilized to encourage participants to have fun with the complex chemistry topic of acid base chemistry.

TAKEAWAYS:
Acid base chemistry and buffers are difficult concepts for students to grasp. This session will help teachers create and modify traditional lecture activities to be student-centered, hands-on learning opportunities.

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

Learn a variety of implementation strategies to include debating/ argumentation into your science curriculum. Strategies include ideas such as Four Corners, tabletop debate, and full class debate. Ways to differentiate strategies to accommodate different learning abilities will be discussed.

TAKEAWAYS:
Educators will be able to implement different debating/argumentation strategies into their science curriculum.

SPEAKERS:
Melanie Craig (Croatan High School: Newport, NC)

Participants will: Undertake a “hands on” equilibrium Inquiry with a large K value. Use Inquiry to resolve equilibrium misconceptions. Use appropriate technology for data collection/analysis.

TAKEAWAYS:
Participants will learn to use Inquiry to overcome student misconceptions about chemical equilibrium.

SPEAKERS:
Gregory Dodd (George Washington High School: Pennsboro, WV)

Student choice generates buy-in, project based learning awakens scientific inquiry, and engagement allows critical skill development. Attendees will hear how to design Scientific Research classes to meet the highest student needs through exploring student exemplar topics and making a fishing lure.

TAKEAWAYS:
Take away ideas of how to combat the overwhelming apathy of students entering the current science classroom through projects and topics that can be modified and adjusted to fit not only the individual students of a particular class, but the teacher's unique skills, education, and experience.

SPEAKERS:
Clark Moore (Sequatchie Co High School: Dunlap, TN)

In our Exciting, hands-on workshop participants will get to learn about and experience excited electrons as a part of the modern atomic theory and excited molecules in gases. Participants will leave with relevant materials, supply lists, vendor information and instructions to use in their classes.

TAKEAWAYS:
In this workshop, we will demonstrate various examples of exciting electrons using heat, visible light, ultraviolet light, chemical energy and electrical energy. In addition, participants will investigate the relationships that exist in gases between temperature, pressure and volume.

SPEAKERS:
Amy Este (Fontainebleau High School: Abita Springs, LA), Cylinda Barron (Retired: Slidell, LA)

Participants will experience a lesson designed to use argument from evidence to learn about how the structure and function of natural and designed macromolecules differs. Briefly learn how technology-mediated lesson study has helped rural science teachers collaborate to design 3 dimensional lessons.

TAKEAWAYS:
In one class period, students will make a claim from initial evidence and then revise that claim as they gather evidence through five different tests used to teach them about the structure and function of cotton and spandex.

SPEAKERS:
Rebecca Sansom (Texas A&M University: College Station, TX), Douglas Morris (Carbon High School: Price, UT)

Soil science IS the Science of Life! The elements present in our soil today become our food tomorrow. Participants will make connections between Biology, Chemistry and Geology through use of the periodic table, soil studies and biogeochemical cycles.

TAKEAWAYS:
Attendees will gain an understanding of the importance of soil chemistry and how soil studies connect life and physical sciences.

SPEAKERS:
Ann Smart (Cabrini High School: Covington, LA)

Learn to apply some cool technology to the old calculations of wavelength, energy, and frequency. We will apply some vertical whiteboarding with some calculator technology and a dab of coding to engage students in the classification of the electromagnetic spectrum with lights, sounds, and pictures.

TAKEAWAYS:
Learn how to enhance the rudimentary calculations of energy, frequency, and wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum with hands on activities and ideas.

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