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 Great Lakes Floor Map - Watersheds, River Systems, Environmental Science and More! Banquet 4Chelsea Nester

9:00am CST

What is a Species Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Shannon Mareski

10:00am CST

What's New with Modeling Instruction Capitol 1Mike Gallagher Making Your Own POGILs Meeting Room 201Chandler Missig Everything is Connected: Hands-on Human Ecology for Young Students Capitol 4Amanda Syers One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Great Lakes Fish ID Meeting Room 203Jonathan Massung • Tracy Page High School Science Networking Session Banquet 1Lory Thayer • Wendi Vogel Increase Enrollment and Improve Achievement in AP Science Michigan 1Susan Olszewski

11:00am CST

The Island of Avogadro: Teaching the Factor-Label Method can be fun! Michigan 3Kendon Smith River Rewilding Meeting Room 204Eileen Boekestein • Brenda Perry STEM-ulating Activities on Human Ecology Michigan 1Amanda Syers Argument and Explanation in MS Banquet 3Deborah Vannatter Science is for the Birds! - Using Literacy and Discourse to Solve Problems in Elementary Science Governor's RoomSue Codere Kelly • Amy Lazarowicz • Moira Thomas 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

Trick or Treat! Discover What Color Our Candy Really Is Using Electropho-REESE's. Meeting Room 101Richard Chan 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 Why aren’t they talking? Tips and Strategies for More Productive Discourse in Science Banquet 2Laura Ritter Creating Nature Makerspace Boxes Meeting Room 204Ashlie Smith Grant Writing 101: Find the Fund$ for STEM Michigan 3June Teisan Improving hypothetical protein annotation as a bioinformatic project Regency 2Laura Harris • Serena Harris Instructional Change through Productive Talk Walk Throughs Banquet 1Mary Burke

2:00pm CST

Growing Student Engagement with an Imaginary Garden Michigan 1Britney Christensen • Gabe Knowles Building Community Partnerships to Forge Equitable, Enriching STEM Teaching and Learning Michigan 3June Teisan STEM from Nature Aquatic Adventure Meeting Room 203Tracy Page Organism Engineering Meeting Room 201Kristy Butler • Patti Richardson

3:00pm CST

Conservation Districts and Differentiating between Point Source and Nonpoint Source Pollution Meeting Room 203Seth Gibson • Katie Hafner Get Outside with Science! Citizen Science and Opportunities for Authentic Learning Banquet 1Linnea Gibson Teachers of Science are Agents of Change Michigan 3Jane Rice 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 Open SciEd - An Open Education Resource Curriculum for Middle School Banquet 1Mary Starr • James Emmerling Field Trip Metamorphosis: Transform One-Off Trips into Vibrant Place-Based Learning Experiences Banquet 5Amy Emmert • June Teisan

8:00am CST

The Next Generation of Student Stewardship: A Place-Based Watershed Education Curriculum for Middle School and Beyond Meeting Room 202Autumn Mitchell Fake news or real science? Building information literacy in today’s students Banquet 3Anne Jeannette LaSovage Bee Science with SAGE Modeling Banquet 1Larry Kolopajlo Promoting 3-Dimensional Science Teaching and Learning through NGSS-aligned Curricula and a Teacher Support System Governor's RoomJenna Nachazel • Chris Reimann Lab and Activity Enhancements with Google Sheets Meeting Room 204Justin Faught • Connie Kemner Wire me up! Teach STEM with Hands-On Mind-Control, Cyborgs, Reflexes, Reactions... and more! Michigan 2Will Wharton

9:00am CST

STEM based Phenomenon for Biology to Model Form and Functions within Organisms. Banquet 6Andrew J. Frisch More than just alcohol and water: straightforward examples of hydrogen bonding Meeting Room 102Mark Benvenuto • Hayden Cunningham • Courtney Mather 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

10:00am CST

Nature Walk in the Urban Jungle Regency 1Paul Roose

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 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 Modeling With Mi-STAR Banquet 8Jenne Bush • Andrea Williams

12:00pm CST

Build Your STEM Team Banquet 6Susan Olszewski

1:00pm CST

Invading Our Classrooms: Reducing Aquatic Invasive Species Use in Education Meeting Room 201Beth Christiansen Restoration of Southern Michigan's Original Bur Oak Savannah Meeting Room 203Richard G Green Water Quality: Developing Citizen Scientists Banquet 8Jackie Murray A High School's Stem Day Experience at The University of Michigan- John Glenn HS (Westland) Capitol 4Greg Cooper • Haley Kalis Aquaculture 101: Engaging students through fish, food and so much more Meeting Room 101Elliot Nelson

2:00pm CST

Saving the Natural World with Virtual Reality Meeting Room 201Eric Nephew • Mark Schlaudt Growing & Propagating Plants in the Classroom Banquet 8Matt Baleja • Kevin Oles How do you perform quick, data driven, technology-based labs efficiently in a classroom period? PASCO has the answer Banquet 3Julie Thomas Putting International Space Station research in your classroom. Regency 2Tom Drummond • Brett Huffmaster