Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA) has ended

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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

8:00am CST

Science and the Disciplinary Literacy Essentials Banquet 6Mary Starr • James Emmerling Designing Track Traps: Getting Students Outside while Tracking Down NGSS Engineering Standards Meeting Room 204William Hodges Evolution: Embryology Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Lisa Kelp Think! Energy Michigan 3Chaise Ewert-Meyer • Tammi Phillippe • Robin Reinarts Great Lakes Floor Map - Watersheds, River Systems, Environmental Science and More! Banquet 4Chelsea Nester Mi-STAR Information Session: What's New for 2020? Banquet 7Doug Oppliger • Stephanie Tubman 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

9:00am CST

Phenomena and the Web of Life Regency 2Deborah Vannatter Classification Conundrum: Planets - Terrestrial, Gas Giant, Ice Giant, or Dwarf? Banquet 4Cris L. DeWolf • Lisa DeWolf How to Become a Certified Environmental Educator Meeting Room 204Cindy Fitzwilliams-Heck Read-Aloud Two Ways Banquet 1Wendi Vogel Using Criteria, Constraints, and a Decision Matrix to Make Curriculum Decisions Banquet 8Chris Geerer • Alex Gulyas MESTA Free & Inexpensive Rock Shop Rock Shop - Exhibit HallMESTA

10:00am CST

What's New with Modeling Instruction Capitol 1Mike Gallagher Making Your Own POGILs Meeting Room 201Chandler Missig One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Great Lakes Fish ID Meeting Room 203Jonathan Massung • Tracy Page 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 Making it Real... Cheap! Regency 1Darrick Gregory • Julie Hahn • Jodi Heaney Reading, Writing, Reasoning: Using science informational texts to achieve reading and writing standards Capitol 3Kathy Agee At Least 7 Sneaky Ways To Get Students Using Questioning Independently Michigan 3Cheryl Matas

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 Using Field Trips to Ignite Student Interest in STEM Regency 2Amy Emmert • June Teisan • Sandra Yarema Integrating Computation in Science Across Michigan - Teacher Professional Development Capitol 2Danny Caballero • Paul Irving • Daniel Weller STEM, Makerspace and Tech for Elementary Capitol 3Diana Matthews • Lisa Morgan Think in Pictures: Like Temple Grandin Meeting Room 102Michelle Blodgett

1:00pm CST

Biology Interactive Learning Logs Regency 1Lara Gusty • Stephanie Niedermeyer HHMI Bioactive Movie Matinee - From Antsto Grizzlies: A General Rule for Saving Biodiversity Banquet 6Mark Eberhard Seeing the Unseeable: Models That Really Work - Tetrahedrons and Magnetometers Meeting Room 205David Mastie Energy: Hot Bulbs Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Lisa Kelp Creating Nature Makerspace Boxes Meeting Room 204Ashlie Smith Grant Writing 101: Find the Fund$ for STEM Michigan 3June Teisan Developing Little Engineers! Engineering Design in the K-5 Classroom Capitol 4Tom Gantt Did You Know That all of the Graduation Requirements Can Be Met while Maintaining a STEM focus? Let's Talk About the MMC Flexibility! Banquet 4Rashell Bowerman STEM in the Preschool and Early Elementary Classroom Michigan 2Laura Franey • Lisa Ogiemwonyi

2:00pm CST

Growing Student Engagement with an Imaginary Garden Michigan 1Britney Christensen • Gabe Knowles Investigating Data on Great Lakes & Climate Meeting Room 204Dave Chapman Land, Water, and Human Interactions: Cutting Canyons and Building Deltas Meeting Room 104Bill Cline • Lisa Kelp 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 STEM from Nature Aquatic Adventure Meeting Room 203Tracy Page

3:00pm CST

Conservation Project: Penguins Regency 1Claire Lannoye-Hall • Sandy Ling Celebration of Astronomy's Great Debate Meeting Room 202Norbert Vance The Beaver Island Institute Summer Professional Development Banquet 8Karyn McConachie • Todd Starry Safety for the Win Meeting Room 102Monique Wilhelm Engineering in Middle School with Phenomenal Instruction Capitol 4Tom Gantt

4:00pm CST

Flying Wild and Ebird for Educators– Resources to incorporate bird migration and conservation into curricula. Meeting Room 203Kathleen Dougherty My calculator can be a thermometer, pH sensor, and motion detector? Regency 1Texas Instruments The Matrix, Fully Loaded: Sharing Best Practice in the Science Classroom Meeting Room 205Lucinda Martinelli 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 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 Standards Based Grading + NGSS: A Match Made in Heaven Banquet 4Vanessa Logan Wentzloff Bee Science with SAGE Modeling Banquet 1Larry Kolopajlo A Penny For Your Thoughts Banquet 5Jordan Smith Making Sense of Light Regency 2Deborah Vannatter Builders, Makers, and Creators: Engineering in the Elementary Classroom Capitol 3Jon Oosterman • Ben Talsma Phenomena! Does One Size Fit All? Banquet 6Rob Keys Teaching Kids to Ride the Struggle Bus Banquet 8Laura Sloma Learning Adventures - Creative Curriculum for Classroom and Field Trip Capitol 2Chelsea OBrien Tips and Tricks for Mi-STAR Labs Banquet 7Megan Doorlag • Dawn Kahler 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 Where did the fat go? A biology storyline for teaching growth & cellular respiration Meeting Room 201Wendy Johnson • Cassie Oostindie More than just alcohol and water: straightforward examples of hydrogen bonding Meeting Room 102Mark Benvenuto • Hayden Cunningham • Courtney Mather Gravity and Marbles: A 5th graders Dream Capitol 1Brian Stroble • Jessica Stroble 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 Questioning Science Regency 1Ashley Driscoll • Lyndsay Mahar • Katie Stevenson Comfortable Chaos Capitol 3Steven Tezak MESTA Free & Inexpensive Rock Shop Rock Shop - Exhibit HallMESTA

10:00am CST

Storytelling with a Twist Capitol 3Lucinda Martinelli 3D printing more than toys and gadgets instead design, engineer and create motion! Banquet 8Kyle Ondersma Energy ReWork Michigan: Energy Audit and Curriculum Training Meeting Room 205Katy Adams • Martin Morgan • Mackenzie Munro Help your students be better at science, life and CERs through sound reasoning Banquet 7Brian Danhoff • Lori Hall • Tony Matthys

11:00am CST

Equitable Systems of Learning and Assessment and Positive Student Outcomes Meeting Room 102Holly Hereau • Wayne Wright 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 Hands On + Leveled Reading= Science for ALL Meeting Room 204Deborah Vannatter Modeling With Mi-STAR Banquet 8Jenne Bush • Andrea Williams Lights, Camera, Learning: Take a virtual field trip with your class! Governor's RoomRebecca Petrone • Lannis Smith STEMgineering Instruction for Elementary Students Regency 1Linnea Gibson The Henry Ford's Early Childhood Curriculum Michigan 2Alexandra Cavinee • Robert Oleary

12:00pm CST

Animal Adaptation Rotations Capitol 3Nicole Jakubowski • Meghan Kurleto • Marlenn Maicki Anti-racist science teaching methods Banquet 1Scott Milam A Method to Encourage Recycling and Earn Cash with a Mobile App Banquet 3Mark Supal Demonstrations that Really Grab Attention! Banquet 8Mark Sheler Chihuly in The Science Classroom Regency 2Jennifer Edwards • Maria Shadbolt The KAMSC Astronomical Research Balloon program Banquet 5Michael Sinclair

1:00pm CST

Invading Our Classrooms: Reducing Aquatic Invasive Species Use in Education Meeting Room 201Beth Christiansen Water Quality: Developing Citizen Scientists Banquet 8Jackie Murray High-Tech, Low-Cost NGSS Investigations for Physical Science Banquet 6Emily Cizmas 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 Saving the World through Engineering Meeting Room 204Deborah Vannatter

2:00pm CST

Saving the Natural World with Virtual Reality Meeting Room 201Eric Nephew • Mark Schlaudt Fostering Envrionmental Science Into Science Lessons Regency 1Landon Bell • Chelsea Helrigel Putting International Space Station research in your classroom. Regency 2Tom Drummond • Brett Huffmaster