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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

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8:00am CST

ALL Learners Succeed in Co-taught Classes Regency 2Kate Hojnacki • Heater Moskal Conference 101 - Fri AM Michigan 1Christie Morrison Thomas Making the Most Out of Your First 5 Years Teaching Regency 1Vanessa Logan Wentzloff ONPAR Assessments for Middle School NGSS Aligned Curricula, including OpenSciEd and IQWST Meeting Room 103Linda Malkin Providing Secondary Teachers and Students with Comprehensive Skills and Strategies To Accomplish The Intended Vision Of The SEP and CCC Banquet 1Laura Chambless • Minna Turrell Think! Energy Michigan 3Chaise Ewert-Meyer • Tammi Phillippe • Robin Reinarts 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

9:00am CST

By Design: The Mi-STAR method for developing NGSS-aligned assessments Banquet 7Barb McIntyre • Chris Wojick Does it make sense? Regency 1Jeanane Charara • Melissa Renko Google Class Room Banquet 6Catherine Hamilton I've Searched Everywhere. Found! A K-5 Science Curriculum Meeting Room 102Mike Fine • Bo Winkler It’s not just the curriculum! How to use district science leaders to support elementary science education. Michigan 3Amy Bohm • Andrea Brook • Pamela Moreman Keynote: Unlocking our potential: Leveraging crosscutting concepts as a path to science agency and identity Banquet 5Aneesha Badrinarayan Teaching Science to Dyslexic Students Banquet 2Cynthia Duncan • Simon Duncan Using Anchoring Phenomena and Driving Question Boards to Spark Student Questioning Meeting Room 103Diane Wright Using Criteria, Constraints, and a Decision Matrix to Make Curriculum Decisions Banquet 8Chris Geerer • Alex Gulyas

10:00am CST

Addressing English Language Learners in a Science Class Regency 2Thomas Long Consensus Meetings in Science: Making Student Thinking Visible & Incorporating Student Voice Banquet 3Tiffany Henfling Engineering the Future Meeting Room 103Gary Curts High School Science Networking Session Banquet 1Lory Thayer • Wendi Vogel Keynote: Building on Young Children’s Curiosity: Lessons from the SOLID Start (Science, Oral Language, and Literacy Development from the Start of School) Project Banquet 5Amelia Gotwals • Tanya S. Wright Making it Real... Cheap! Regency 1Darrick Gregory • Julie Hahn • Jodi Heaney Nature Journaling: Blending Art and Science Meeting Room 204Misty Klotz • Meredith Zettlemoyer The Great Escape Capitol 2Monica Wadler Assessment Fixer-Upper: Learn to assess "knowledge in use" with Item Clusters Banquet 6Jessica Ashley Do we REALLY know ourselves and our students? Ensuring "all students" really DOES mean "all students" Banquet 4Jill Griffin Mi-STAR’s assessment tools for NGSS - how to make them work for you Banquet 7Barb McIntyre • Ashley Poole Field Trip - Michigan State University Museum Field Trip - Bus from Lansing Center

11:00am CST

A Focus on Modeling in the Phenomenon- based classroom Meeting Room 103Diane Wright AP Biology PLC Sponsored by MABT Meeting Room 201Kristy Butler • Heather Peterson • Mark Eberhard • Patti Richardson Argument and Explanation in MS Banquet 3Deborah Vannatter Panel Discussion - Coherence, Flexibility, and Pathways to HS Proficiency Banquet 5Rich Bacolor Providing Elementary Teachers and Students with Comprehensive Skills and Strategies To Accomplish The Intended Vision Of The SEP and CCC Banquet 1Laura Chambless • Minna Turrell Science is for the Birds! - Using Literacy and Discourse to Solve Problems in Elementary Science Governor's RoomSue Codere Kelly • Amy Lazarowicz • Moira Thomas Success in the Changing Science Classroom Regency 1Laura Hagen The Crosscutting Concepts as Suites of Questions Guiding Development of Explanations Meeting Room 205Joyce Parker Field Trip - Michigan State University Cyclotron Lab Field Trip - Bus from Lansing Center

1:00pm CST

Chasing Windmills! - Using Energy, Engineering, and Explanations in Elementary Science Classrooms Governor's RoomChiara Kirkland • Michelle Neelands • Deborah Peek-Brown Make Time for Science with Project-Based Learning Capitol 2Terra Tarango Panel Discussion - The Future of Science Teaching in Michigan Banquet 5Rich Bacolor Supporting K-2 Student Science Talk Through Purposeful Reflection on Teaching Practices Capitol 1Tanya S. Wright • Blythe Anderson • Amelia Gotwals • Eleanor Kenimer • Arianna Pikus Who gets to be a Smart Science Student in your Classroom? Banquet 3Christie Morrison Thomas Why aren’t they talking? Tips and Strategies for More Productive Discourse in Science Banquet 2Laura Ritter Instructional Change through Productive Talk Walk Throughs Banquet 1Mary Burke

1:30pm CST

Field Trip - Impressions 5 Science Center (SOLD OUT) Field Trip - Self Transportation

2:00pm CST

NGSS Laboratories Capitol 2Kaitlyn Johnson We Love to Hate Assessments - Let's Do Something About It! Banquet 2Aneesha Badrinarayan Let’s Engage Students through Phenomena-based Science Instruction Meeting Room 205Maeve Green

3:00pm CST

Celebration of Astronomy's Great Debate Meeting Room 202Norbert Vance Get Outside with Science! Citizen Science and Opportunities for Authentic Learning Banquet 1Linnea Gibson Reading, Writing, Talking, and DOING Science: Literacy Strategies in the Elementary Classroom Meeting Room 103Diane Wright Field Trip - Preuss Pets (SOLD OUT) Field Trip - Bus from Lansing Center Student-Generated Questions to Lead Investigations: Students “Driving the Bus” Banquet 7Emily Gochis • Kim Smith Kolasa • Jennifer Pera

4:00pm CST

My calculator can be a thermometer, pH sensor, and motion detector? Regency 1Texas Instruments Open SciEd - An Open Education Resource Curriculum for Middle School Banquet 1Mary Starr • James Emmerling Putting the Pieces Together: Supporting Synthesis Discussions in K-2 Science Classrooms Michigan 2Kirsten D. Edwards • Amber Bismack • Tanya S. Wright • Amelia Gotwals • JoAnne West Science Modeling, My trials and Tribulations and why I still believe in it. Capitol 3Lynnelle Buchanan Science Vocabulary: Turning Research into Practice Meeting Room 202Karen Kudla The Language of Science Michigan 3Debra Jewell • Jami Neubecker The Matrix, Fully Loaded: Sharing Best Practice in the Science Classroom Meeting Room 205Lucinda Martinelli

6:00pm CST

Field Trip - Lansing Brewery Tour Field Trip - Self Transportation

7:00pm CST

Field Trip - Lansing Brewery Tour Field Trip - Self Transportation