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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

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8:00am CST

Making the Most Out of Your First 5 Years Teaching Regency 1Vanessa Logan Wentzloff Great Lakes Floor Map - Watersheds, River Systems, Environmental Science and More! Banquet 4Chelsea Nester Mi-STAR Information Session: What's New for 2020? Banquet 7Doug Oppliger • Stephanie Tubman Let's Go Outside: Taking science to the great outdoors! Meeting Room 203Becky Durling • Natalie Elkins Literacy Connections: Adding Rigor to Science Literacy with STEMscopes Capitol 4Maeve Green Hands-On With New Tools in Electricity and Magnetism Meeting Room 205Sebastian Jolta • Don Pata

9:00am CST

Teach AP Computer Science or MS Computer Science with Code.org Michigan 2Larry Wyn How to Become a Certified Environmental Educator Meeting Room 204Cindy Fitzwilliams-Heck It’s not just the curriculum! How to use district science leaders to support elementary science education. Michigan 3Amy Bohm • Andrea Brook • Pamela Moreman Read-Aloud Two Ways Banquet 1Wendi Vogel

10:00am CST

Making Your Own POGILs Meeting Room 201Chandler Missig One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Great Lakes Fish ID Meeting Room 203Jonathan Massung • Tracy Page High School Science Networking Session Banquet 1Lory Thayer • Wendi Vogel Making it Real... Cheap! Regency 1Darrick Gregory • Julie Hahn • Jodi Heaney Assessment Fixer-Upper: Learn to assess "knowledge in use" with Item Clusters Banquet 6Jessica Ashley Spin Art, STEAM from Parts to Art Banquet 2Michele Bielby • Kelly Swales

11:00am CST

The Walking Dead: Deer, Disease and Science Meeting Room 203Kevin Frailey • Julie Melotti The Island of Avogadro: Teaching the Factor-Label Method can be fun! Michigan 3Kendon Smith River Rewilding Meeting Room 204Eileen Boekestein • Brenda Perry STEM-ulating Activities on Human Ecology Michigan 1Amanda Syers Science is for the Birds! - Using Literacy and Discourse to Solve Problems in Elementary Science Governor's RoomSue Codere Kelly • Amy Lazarowicz • Moira Thomas Using Field Trips to Ignite Student Interest in STEM Regency 2Amy Emmert • June Teisan • Sandra Yarema Integrating Computation in Science Across Michigan - Teacher Professional Development Capitol 2Danny Caballero • Paul Irving • Daniel Weller

1:00pm CST

Mammal Mania Meeting Room 203Kevin Frailey Seeing the Unseeable: Models That Really Work - Tetrahedrons and Magnetometers Meeting Room 205David Mastie Chasing Windmills! - Using Energy, Engineering, and Explanations in Elementary Science Classrooms Governor's RoomChiara Kirkland • Michelle Neelands • Deborah Peek-Brown Energy: Hot Bulbs Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Lisa Kelp Improving hypothetical protein annotation as a bioinformatic project Regency 2Laura Harris • Serena Harris Of the 3 R's, which R is most important. Meeting Room 202Kathleen Klein Instructional Change through Productive Talk Walk Throughs Banquet 1Mary Burke Understanding Light and Optics by Mark Davids Banquet 8Mark Davids • Sebastian Jolta

2:00pm CST

Growing Student Engagement with an Imaginary Garden Michigan 1Britney Christensen • Gabe Knowles P51 Glow Labs to Investigate DNA Structure, Enzyme Activity and Synthetic Biology Meeting Room 102Ally Huang Land, Water, and Human Interactions: Cutting Canyons and Building Deltas Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Lisa Kelp Watershed Observational Walk: Teaching Science Outdoors Capitol 1Kara Haas • Roberta Howard Hunter • Eleanor Kenimer Building Community Partnerships to Forge Equitable, Enriching STEM Teaching and Learning Michigan 3June Teisan Guess Who’s Back, Back Again: The Benefits of Multiple Touchpoint STEM programs. Regency 1Rebecca Petrone • Andrea Reynolds • Lannis Smith STEM from Nature Aquatic Adventure Meeting Room 203Tracy Page Let’s Engage Students through Phenomena-based Science Instruction Meeting Room 205Maeve Green

3:00pm CST

The Beaver Island Institute Summer Professional Development Banquet 8Karyn McConachie • Todd Starry Safety for the Win Meeting Room 102Monique Wilhelm Student-Generated Questions to Lead Investigations: Students “Driving the Bus” Banquet 7Emily Gochis • Kim Smith Kolasa • Jennifer Pera

4:00pm CST

Flying Wild and Ebird for Educators– Resources to incorporate bird migration and conservation into curricula. Meeting Room 203Kathleen Dougherty A River Runs Through It Meeting Room 204Samantha Lichtenwald Using H2O Q Banquet 8John Gordon • Dale Lecaptain The Matrix, Fully Loaded: Sharing Best Practice in the Science Classroom Meeting Room 205Lucinda Martinelli Field Trip Metamorphosis: Transform One-Off Trips into Vibrant Place-Based Learning Experiences Banquet 5Amy Emmert • June Teisan