Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA) has ended

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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

8:00am CST

Designing Track Traps: Getting Students Outside while Tracking Down NGSS Engineering Standards Meeting Room 204William Hodges 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 Let's Go Outside: Taking science to the great outdoors! Meeting Room 203Becky Durling • Natalie Elkins

9:00am CST

Phenomena and the Web of Life Regency 2Deborah Vannatter

10:00am CST

Making Your Own POGILs Meeting Room 201Chandler Missig High School Science Networking Session Banquet 1Lory Thayer • Wendi Vogel

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 The Crosscutting Concepts as Suites of Questions Guiding Development of Explanations Meeting Room 205Joyce Parker Think in Pictures: Like Temple Grandin Meeting Room 102Michelle Blodgett Zoo Exhibit Design Challenge Brings STEM to Life Banquet 8Megan Burkhart • Rhiannon Mulligan

1:00pm CST

Mammal Mania Meeting Room 203Kevin Frailey Seeing the Unseeable: Models That Really Work - Tetrahedrons and Magnetometers Meeting Room 205David Mastie Who gets to be a Smart Science Student in your Classroom? Banquet 3Christie Morrison Thomas Creating Nature Makerspace Boxes Meeting Room 204Ashlie Smith Grant Writing 101: Find the Fund$ for STEM Michigan 3June Teisan Of the 3 R's, which R is most important. Meeting Room 202Kathleen Klein Instructional Change through Productive Talk Walk Throughs Banquet 1Mary Burke

2:00pm CST

Investigating Data on Great Lakes & Climate Meeting Room 204Dave Chapman Building Community Partnerships to Forge Equitable, Enriching STEM Teaching and Learning Michigan 3June Teisan

3:00pm CST

Get Outside with Science! Citizen Science and Opportunities for Authentic Learning Banquet 1Linnea Gibson Teachers of Science are Agents of Change Michigan 3Jane Rice 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 Keep Invasive Species Out of the Classroom Regency 2Paige Filice Meet the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center and our Michigan Fisheries Education Initiative! Banquet 6Natalie Cypher • Katie Gillies • Catie Olszewski A River Runs Through It Meeting Room 204Samantha Lichtenwald My calculator can be a thermometer, pH sensor, and motion detector? Regency 1Texas Instruments Field Trip Metamorphosis: Transform One-Off Trips into Vibrant Place-Based Learning Experiences Banquet 5Amy Emmert • June Teisan

8:00am CST

Field Trip Success: from planning to post-field trip extensions Banquet 2Erin Parker • Sandy Ling Bee Science with SAGE Modeling Banquet 1Larry Kolopajlo Builders, Makers, and Creators: Engineering in the Elementary Classroom Capitol 3Jon Oosterman • Ben Talsma Learning Adventures - Creative Curriculum for Classroom and Field Trip Capitol 2Chelsea OBrien Wire me up! Teach STEM with Hands-On Mind-Control, Cyborgs, Reflexes, Reactions... and more! Michigan 2Will Wharton

9:00am CST

Dive in! Engaging with freshwater and marine science through the Great Lakes Bowl Banquet 2Erin Parker Touching the Untouchable: Models That Really Work - Satellite Orbits and Floating Golf Balls Meeting Room 202David Mastie Using "Complex Instruction" Practices to Facilitate Effective Group Work Banquet 5Michelle Vanhala Geospatial Technology for the Michigan Science Standards Banquet 8Andrew Bruen • Russell Columbus NASA Resources, GLOBE Program and Student Research Governor's RoomDavid Bydlowski • Kevin Czajkowski • Janet Struble

10:00am CST

Nature Walk in the Urban Jungle Regency 1Paul Roose Land Use and Water Quality Project-Base Learning Banquet 5Carolyn Mammen

11:00am CST

Free-flight Birds and Integrative Science Capitol 3Craig Perdue Break Down the Walls of Your Classroom: Enhance Science Curriculum and Engage Students with Virtual and Augmented Reality Experiences! Meeting Room 202Eric Nephew • Mark Schlaudt Using NGSS Science and Engineering Practices to Create Interdisciplinary Collaboration Banquet 5Katie Torkelson-Regan • Michelle Vanhala Modeling With Mi-STAR Banquet 8Jenne Bush • Andrea Williams

12:00pm CST

Michigan's Frogs and Toads: 25 Years of Monitoring Capitol 4Larry Feldpausch The KAMSC Astronomical Research Balloon program Banquet 5Michael Sinclair

1:00pm CST

Design a Bird Community Governor's RoomKim Smith Kolasa An Integrated Approach to Teaching High School Earth and Space Science Standards Meeting Room 104Rebecca Caldwell • Jennifer Garland 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 Aquaculture 101: Engaging students through fish, food and so much more Meeting Room 101Elliot Nelson Windpower Challenge Banquet 5Kevin Stedman Saving the World through Engineering Meeting Room 204Deborah Vannatter

2:00pm CST

Growing & Propagating Plants in the Classroom Banquet 8Matt Baleja • Kevin Oles Trace Your Sand Origins… and other Sand Activities to use with NGSS Meeting Room 203Maria Gonzalez Fostering Envrionmental Science Into Science Lessons Regency 1Landon Bell • Chelsea Helrigel How do you perform quick, data driven, technology-based labs efficiently in a classroom period? PASCO has the answer Banquet 3Julie Thomas