Tag Archives: sessions

Getting the most from the NSTA conference

By Mary Bigelow | Published: March 2, 2013

Are you attending the NSTA conference in San Antonio this spring? At this point, you should be registering, making arrangements for lodging and transportation, and thinking about your lesson plans for the substitute (if you haven’t done so already). If this the first time you’ve attended the national conference, it can be overwhelming at first. [...]

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“Can It Reflect Light?” and other probing questions

By Claire Reinburg | Published: December 11, 2011

Can it reflect light? Is it a plant? Is it made of cells? These questions are among more than 100 formative assessment probes developed by Page Keeley and her colleagues to help teachers elicit information about what students think about key science concepts. A capacity crowd at Keeley’s Seattle conference session turned out to learn [...]

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Off to the races with physics!

By Debra Shapiro | Published: November 13, 2011

I enjoyed watching auto races as a child, so I decided to check out Norm Barstow’s session, Elastic Power: Wind Up Your Engines and Explore (a.k.a. “NASCAR in New Orleans”).

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Fun and games with the carbon cycle

By Debra Shapiro | Published: November 11, 2011

Demonstrating the carbon cycle was never so much fun as it was in Kristen Dotti’s session, Drop the Lecture and Let the Students Pick Up the Learning in Environmental Science.

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Picture-perfect elementary STEM

By Debra Shapiro | Published: November 11, 2011

This morning in New Orleans, as part of the Urban Science Education Leadership (USEL) session, presenters from the Baltimore City Public Schools described their district’s Elementary STEM Teacher Clinic and how it transformed the teachers who participated in it.

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With STEM, almost everything is possible

By Debra Shapiro | Published: November 11, 2011

In New Orleans, we heard from DARPA’s Geoffrey Ling about an amazing medical breakthrough.

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The scoop on the Next Generation Science Standards

By Debra Shapiro | Published: November 10, 2011

Stephen Pruitt enlightened conference attendees about the standards and asked them to lead the way for implementation in their states.

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Picture science and reading together

By Claire Reinburg | Published: November 10, 2011

Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry, authors of the popular Picture-Perfect Science Lessons Series, led a lively group of teachers in exploring classroom strategies and lessons that combine science with reading in the elementary grades. The Picture-Perfect Science Preconference Workshop at the New Orleans NSTA Area Conference included activities highlighting reading strategies like making connections, questioning, [...]

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Science at The National Association for the Education of Young Children’s national conference

By Peggy Ashbrook | Published: November 2, 2010

The National Association for the Education of Young Children‘s annual conference has plenty of sessions about teaching science to young children, so many that I am going to have to make some tough decisions about which to attend. Fortunately, presenters can upload their handouts to the NAEYC website so I can look there to get [...]

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Adapting to the beak you have

By Tyson Brown | Published: October 29, 2010

Seventy or more science educators vied for 50 seats in one popular workshop at the NSTA Conference in Kansas City. It was called “Activities from Across the Earth System.”  Adaptable for K-12 students, the experts handed out these practical lessons and urged groups to demonstrate “adaptation investigation” the first of five take-aways. Acting as birds [...]

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