Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA) has ended

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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

8:00am CST

Human Population: Where Its Been and Its likely Future Banquet 8Larry Feldpausch Conference 101 - Fri AM Michigan 1Christie Morrison Thomas Great Lakes Floor Map - Watersheds, River Systems, Environmental Science and More! Banquet 4Chelsea Nester Enhance Science Practices and Data Literacy Using HHMI BioInteractive Resources Meeting Room 201Mark Eberhard The Opioid Epidemic: Exploring the Genetic Associations of Opioid Abuse Capitol 1Tamica Stubbs Hands-On With New Tools in Electricity and Magnetism Meeting Room 205Sebastian Jolta • Don Pata

9:00am CST

How to Become a Certified Environmental Educator Meeting Room 204Cindy Fitzwilliams-Heck Keynote: Unlocking our potential: Leveraging crosscutting concepts as a path to science agency and identity Banquet 5Aneesha Badrinarayan MESTA Free & Inexpensive Rock Shop Rock Shop - Exhibit HallMESTA

10:00am CST

What's New with Modeling Instruction Capitol 1Mike Gallagher Assessment Fixer-Upper: Learn to assess "knowledge in use" with Item Clusters Banquet 6Jessica Ashley Field Trip - Michigan State University Museum Field Trip - Bus from Lansing Center

11:00am CST

The Walking Dead: Deer, Disease and Science Meeting Room 203Kevin Frailey • Julie Melotti The Crosscutting Concepts as Suites of Questions Guiding Development of Explanations Meeting Room 205Joyce Parker Healthy Grading: A Moral Imperative Capitol 1Don Pata Field Trip - Michigan State University Cyclotron Lab Field Trip - Bus from Lansing Center

1:00pm CST

Mammal Mania Meeting Room 203Kevin Frailey Seeing the Unseeable: Models That Really Work - Tetrahedrons and Magnetometers Meeting Room 205David Mastie Grant Writing 101: Find the Fund$ for STEM Michigan 3June Teisan 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 Understanding Light and Optics by Mark Davids Banquet 8Mark Davids • Sebastian Jolta

2:00pm CST

P51 Glow Labs to Investigate DNA Structure, Enzyme Activity and Synthetic Biology Meeting Room 102Ally Huang We Love to Hate Assessments - Let's Do Something About It! Banquet 2Aneesha Badrinarayan 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 Organism Engineering Meeting Room 201Kristy Butler • Patti Richardson

3:00pm CST

Earth Science Downtown Field Trip Capitol 3Lu Anne Cuthbert Celebration of Astronomy's Great Debate Meeting Room 202Norbert Vance Infusing Informal STEM Learning Opportunities into your Classroom Regency 2Adrianne Cole • Dr. Betsy Diegel 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

A River Runs Through It Meeting Room 204Samantha Lichtenwald My calculator can be a thermometer, pH sensor, and motion detector? Regency 1Texas Instruments

6:00pm CST

Field Trip - Lansing Brewery Tour Field Trip - Self Transportation

7:00pm CST

Field Trip - Lansing Brewery Tour Field Trip - Self Transportation

8:00am CST

Fake news or real science? Building information literacy in today’s students Banquet 3Anne Jeannette LaSovage Conference 101 - Sat AM Michigan 1 Standards Based Grading + NGSS: A Match Made in Heaven Banquet 4Vanessa Logan Wentzloff Bee Science with SAGE Modeling Banquet 1Larry Kolopajlo Wire me up! Teach STEM with Hands-On Mind-Control, Cyborgs, Reflexes, Reactions... and more! Michigan 2Will Wharton

9:00am CST

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 Touching the Untouchable: Models That Really Work - Satellite Orbits and Floating Golf Balls Meeting Room 202David Mastie 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 NASA Resources, GLOBE Program and Student Research Governor's RoomDavid Bydlowski • Kevin Czajkowski • Janet Struble Model Development in Electricity and Magnetism Banquet 1Don Pata • Laura Ritter MESTA Free & Inexpensive Rock Shop Rock Shop - Exhibit HallMESTA

10:00am CST

Are You Moddy? Meeting Room 204Texas Instruments Using Models to Drive Student Understanding of the Central Dogma Meeting Room 201Mark Eberhard Help your students be better at science, life and CERs through sound reasoning Banquet 7Brian Danhoff • Lori Hall • Tony Matthys

11:00am CST

Free-flight Birds and Integrative Science Capitol 3Craig Perdue Making metals and making medals: A nexus of science and art Meeting Room 203Mark Benvenuto • Steve Kosmas Teaching Forensic Science Without Breaking Your Budget Banquet 3Kathy Mirakovits Lights, Camera, Learning: Take a virtual field trip with your class! Governor's RoomRebecca Petrone • Lannis Smith Field Trip - AgroLiquid and IQhub Field Trip - Self Transportation

12:00pm CST

Michigan's Frogs and Toads: 25 Years of Monitoring Capitol 4Larry Feldpausch A Method to Encourage Recycling and Earn Cash with a Mobile App Banquet 3Mark Supal

1:00pm CST

Invading Our Classrooms: Reducing Aquatic Invasive Species Use in Education Meeting Room 201Beth Christiansen A High School's Stem Day Experience at The University of Michigan- John Glenn HS (Westland) Capitol 4Greg Cooper • Haley Kalis Modeling the Flint Water Crisis with Pennies Banquet 1Monique Wilhelm Solar Heat Collectors: A Single PBL Project to “3R” them All! Capitol 3Jesse Arp • Richard Eberly • Sarah Eberly

2:00pm CST

Putting International Space Station research in your classroom. Regency 2Tom Drummond • Brett Huffmaster