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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

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

8:00am CST

Conference 101 - Sat AM Michigan 1 Learn About Free, Phenomenon-Based Materials for Grades 6-8 Science Meeting Room 205Susan Olszewski MI HEARTSafe Schools: Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death of the Young Meeting Room 102Kristy Karasinski Standards Based Grading + NGSS: A Match Made in Heaven Banquet 4Vanessa Logan Wentzloff 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

9:00am CST

Our NGSS Journey at Avondale High School: 3 Years In and Continuing Forward Banquet 4Fahmida Matin • Katie Osborn • Vanessa Logan Wentzloff Questioning Science Regency 1Ashley Driscoll • Lyndsay Mahar • Katie Stevenson Reading, Writing, Talking, and DOING Science: Literacy Strategies in the Elementary Classroom Meeting Room 103Diane Wright Rising Flood Water: Engineering Design Challenge for 3rd Graders Meeting Room 205Tom Loschiavo • Great Minds Using "Complex Instruction" Practices to Facilitate Effective Group Work Banquet 5Michelle Vanhala

10:00am CST

Disciplinary Literacy; Writing in Science Class Meeting Room 202Mari Maltby • Julia McBride Engaging with Socioscientific Issues Through the Media Banquet 6Kirsten D. Edwards • Carly Seeterlin Incorporating Interactive Science Notebooks into NGSS Meeting Room 203Melissa Foster • Jenna Francis Inquiry Based Chemistry Projects for Middle School Students Banquet 4Kathleen O'Connor Learning to Lead Discussions in Science: How to Talk Less so Students Learn More. Meeting Room 101Mark Olson • Naomi Sarelis NGSS Strategies that Work K-12 Capitol 1Megan Bartley • Katie Stevenson ONPAR Assessments for Middle School NGSS Aligned Curricula, including OpenSciEd and IQWST Meeting Room 103Linda Malkin Storytelling with a Twist Capitol 3Lucinda Martinelli Engaging Your Students to Think and Act Like Scientists Banquet 2Dawn McCotter

11:00am CST

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 EdReports – Do Quality Instructional Materials Matter to you? Regency 2Minna Turrell • Bo Winkler Elementary and Middle School Science and STEM Extravaganza Capitol 1Betty Crowder • Conni Crittenden Hands On + Leveled Reading= Science for ALL Meeting Room 204Deborah Vannatter Teaching Forensic Science Without Breaking Your Budget Banquet 3Kathy Mirakovits Using Anchoring Phenomena and Driving Question Boards to Spark Student Questioning Meeting Room 103Diane Wright 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 Field Trip - AgroLiquid and IQhub Field Trip - Self Transportation

12:00pm CST

3D Assessment of 3D Learning: Collisons! Meeting Room 204Deborah Vannatter Are Your Science Test Items High-Quality? Examining Test Items Using a Collaborative Process Meeting Room 202Heather Rottermond • Nathan Spencer Integrating white-boarding into Mi-STAR and Interactions Meeting Room 201Darci Merillat • Allison VanDriessche Making the Math and Science Connection Meeting Room 102Kristen Miller Putting the Pieces Together! Using KLEWS boards, Investigation Notebooks and Science Talk in the Elementary Classroom! Capitol 1Marie Woodman Where Are You Now??? Banquet 2Kristy Butler • Patti Richardson Designing 3-dimensional classroom-based assessments for measuring middle school students' knowledge-in-use of energy: A research-based systematic approach Meeting Room 205Peng He • Namsoo Shin It Can't Wait! Understanding the Importance of Learning Progression Capitol 2Nancy Karre

1:00pm CST

Aquaculture 101: Engaging students through fish, food and so much more Meeting Room 101Elliot Nelson Sequencing for SEL and Productive Talk Banquet 2Lucinda Martinelli Windpower Challenge Banquet 5Kevin Stedman

2:00pm CST

Growing & Propagating Plants in the Classroom Banquet 8Matt Baleja • Kevin Oles Ignite their Curiosity: Science Inquiry in the Elementary Classroom Capitol 2Jamie MacPherson Portraits of Science Meeting Room 202Lorentyna Harkness • Sarah Schumacher Trace Your Sand Origins… and other Sand Activities to use with NGSS Meeting Room 203Maria Gonzalez