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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

Connie Kemner

Lake Shore HS
Science teacher
LSHS - St Clair Shores, MI

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8:00am CST

It's Melting! Banquet 5Kristy Butler • Jason Colegrove 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 If you can't see it...how do you know it's there? Governor's RoomIsrael Touitou • Angela Kolonich

9:00am CST

DNA Forensics Solves the Murder Mystery of Dr. Ward Meeting Room 101Kathy Mirakovits Tools for Thinking (not Worksheets) Banquet 3Emily Pohlonski • Christie Morrison Thomas Does it make sense? Regency 1Jeanane Charara • Melissa Renko Keynote: Unlocking our potential: Leveraging crosscutting concepts as a path to science agency and identity Banquet 5Aneesha Badrinarayan

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 High School Science Networking Session Banquet 1Lory Thayer • Wendi Vogel The Great Escape Capitol 2Monica Wadler NGSS aligned curriculum and teacher pedagogy at the high school level - a practical approach Meeting Room 202Israel Touitou

11:00am CST

The Island of Avogadro: Teaching the Factor-Label Method can be fun! Michigan 3Kendon Smith The Crosscutting Concepts as Suites of Questions Guiding Development of Explanations Meeting Room 205Joyce Parker

1:00pm CST

How to Start Biology and Chemistry NGSS Units using Driving Question Boards to Investigate Phenomena Meeting Room 201Andrea McCune • Lauren Nacy Instructional Change through Productive Talk Walk Throughs Banquet 1Mary Burke Why aren’t they talking? Tips and Strategies for More Productive Discourse in Science Banquet 2Laura Ritter

2:00pm CST

Chemistry to make Students React Meeting Room 103Gary Curts Let’s Engage Students through Phenomena-based Science Instruction Meeting Room 205Maeve Green We Love to Hate Assessments - Let's Do Something About It! Banquet 2Aneesha Badrinarayan

3:00pm CST

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 Teachers of Science are Agents of Change Michigan 3Jane Rice

4:00pm CST

Favorite Demos do fit with NGSS! Banquet 3Kristen Garavaglia • Mary Jordan McMaster

8:00am CST

pH Scale Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Brandon Watters Fake news or real science? Building information literacy in today’s students Banquet 3Anne Jeannette LaSovage Promoting Student Agency: Building interest and identity as scientists while developing student skills to plan and carry out investigations Meeting Room 101Holly Hereau • Wayne Wright A Penny For Your Thoughts Banquet 5Jordan Smith Lab and Activity Enhancements with Google Sheets Meeting Room 204Justin Faught • Connie Kemner Phenomena! Does One Size Fit All? Banquet 6Rob Keys Teaching Kids to Ride the Struggle Bus Banquet 8Laura Sloma

9:00am CST

Muffins for Members Michigan 1Betty Crowder • Roberta Cramer • Brian Peterson More than just alcohol and water: straightforward examples of hydrogen bonding Meeting Room 102Mark Benvenuto • Hayden Cunningham • Courtney Mather One in a Million Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Brandon Watters Our NGSS Journey at Avondale High School: 3 Years In and Continuing Forward Banquet 4Fahmida Matin • Katie Osborn • Vanessa Logan Wentzloff Using "Complex Instruction" Practices to Facilitate Effective Group Work Banquet 5Michelle Vanhala Geospatial Technology for the Michigan Science Standards Banquet 8Andrew Bruen • Russell Columbus

10:00am CST

Disciplinary Literacy; Writing in Science Class Meeting Room 202Mari Maltby • Julia McBride Engaging Your Students to Think and Act Like Scientists Banquet 2Dawn McCotter Learning to Lead Discussions in Science: How to Talk Less so Students Learn More. Meeting Room 101Mark Olson • Naomi Sarelis Help your students be better at science, life and CERs through sound reasoning Banquet 7Brian Danhoff • Lori Hall • Tony Matthys

11:00am CST

Making metals and making medals: A nexus of science and art Meeting Room 203Mark Benvenuto • Steve Kosmas EdReports – Do Quality Instructional Materials Matter to you? Regency 2Minna Turrell • Bo Winkler Teaching Forensic Science Without Breaking Your Budget Banquet 3Kathy Mirakovits Using NGSS Science and Engineering Practices to Create Interdisciplinary Collaboration Banquet 5Katie Torkelson-Regan • Michelle Vanhala Using Summary Tables for Sense-Making in Science Capitol 4Sydney Barosko Let's DIVE-in To Engineering and the Engineering Design Process Meeting Room 104Maeve Green Lights, Camera, Learning: Take a virtual field trip with your class! Governor's RoomRebecca Petrone • Lannis Smith

12:00pm CST

Anti-racist science teaching methods Banquet 1Scott Milam Are Your Science Test Items High-Quality? Examining Test Items Using a Collaborative Process Meeting Room 202Heather Rottermond • Nathan Spencer Demonstrations that Really Grab Attention! Banquet 8Mark Sheler Title: Invent! Investigate! Intrigue! Applying Green Chemistry to Engineering Meeting Room 101Jonathan Baek • Erika Fatura • Jennifer Sherburn

1:00pm CST

Modeling the Flint Water Crisis with Pennies Banquet 1Monique Wilhelm Sequencing for SEL and Productive Talk Banquet 2Lucinda Martinelli High-Tech, Low-Cost NGSS Investigations for Physical Science Banquet 6Emily Cizmas

2:00pm CST

Portraits of Science Meeting Room 202Lorentyna Harkness • Sarah Schumacher How do you perform quick, data driven, technology-based labs efficiently in a classroom period? PASCO has the answer Banquet 3Julie Thomas