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Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2018 (MSTA)

8:00am EST

Teaching about Floods Using Extreme Weather Events Meeting Room 202Stephen Mattox • Nickolaas Vlietstra Creating 3D Learning: Modeling, Argumentation and Explanation in your classroom through NGSX study groups! Banquet 1James Emmerling Digital Data Nuggets - real research, real data, real classrooms Meeting Room 205Marcia Angle • Melissa Kjelvik • May Lee • Elizabeth Schultheis

9:00am EST

Weaving Stories Throughout Your Biology Course Using HHMI Biointeractive Resources Banquet 4Mark Eberhard Merging High School Geology with NGSS Banquet 8Chris Bolhuis • Stephen Mattox • Ashley Meyer • Claire Sobolak • Brad Stevens Incorporating Science Practices into STEM Classrooms: Design and Assessment Meeting Room 201Danny Caballero Becoming a Certified Environmental Educator Meeting Room 203Cindy Fitzwilliams-Heck

10:00am EST

Coffee 101 with BIGGBY® COFFEE Meeting Room 203Nikki Walsh • Heather Zink Creating System Thinkers --- Transforming Student Illustrations into Scientific Models Banquet 1Jessica Ashley • Michael Gallagher Virtual Field Trips with Google Expeditions Meeting Room 102Ann Pearson Secondary Teachers of Science as Agents of Change: An NGSS Approach to Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Everyday Decisions Capitol 1Joyce Parker • Jane Rice Electromagnetic Spectrum & Radioactivity Banquet 8Kevin Dehne MSTA Garage Sale Garage Sale (Coat Room)

11:00am EST

What's in the Woods? Meeting Room 204Kevin Frailey A Teacher Friendly Version of the Stratigraphic Column of Michigan Banquet 8Conner Frymier • Stephen Mattox The Voice of the Teacher - For Students, For Science, For Our Futures Capitol 2Christine Royce Ed.D You've Got This - Teach More Discipline Less! Regency 2Jennifer Gottlieb

1:00pm EST

Michigan Predator Prey Project Meeting Room 204Kevin Frailey Summer isn't just for suntans. It is for Research too! Regency 2Marty Buehler • Connie High Healthy Grading: A Moral Imperative Capitol 1Don Pata Mathematizing Biodiversity: Using Species Accumlation Curves to Measure Biodiversity Banquet 4William Hodges • Heather Peterson Lloyd's Toolbox of Engineering Ideas & Activities Michigan 3Lloyd Hilger

2:00pm EST

Effectively engaging youth in the process of science Meeting Room 101Tracy D'Augustino • Norm Lownds

3:00pm EST

Elemental Fictions: Storytelling and Narratives in Introductory Science Capitol 4Courtney Mather • Prasad Venugopal One Crime Scene; 100 Students! Oh my! Meeting Room 205Kathy Mirakovits WALLS: Water, Air, Land, Lifeand Space. Regency 2David Mastie

4:00pm EST

Michigan Environmental Public Health Tracking - A Tool You Can Use! Capitol 2Jill Maras • Sydney Ogden Great Demos on a Small Budget Capitol 4Mark Sheler Ignite Your Classroom With Digital Storytelling (Featuring GoPro Cameras). Meeting Room 204Josh Nichols

5:00pm EST

Night at the Movies - Sponsored by HHMI Banquet 1Mark Eberhard

8:00am EST

The Triple E’s of Climate Change: Environmental Change, Epidemiology & ELISA Testing! Meeting Room 205Tamica Stubbs Muffins for MSTA Members Regency 1Roberta Cramer NGSS Puzzles and Mysteries: Using Phenomena in the Classroom Meeting Room 102Ann Pearson Creating professional learning communities around 3D Formative Assessment Banquet 1Mary Starr Energy and the NGSS Capitol 1Don Pata • Laura Ritter MSTA Garage Sale Garage Sale (Coat Room)

9:00am EST

Classification Can Be Fun Regency 1Lu Anne Cuthbert We've got Gall, do you? Michigan 3Edward Johns • Steve Vree 1 Class Period+ 1 Model System + 2 Cellular Processes= Success 4 Students! Meeting Room 205Tamica Stubbs Creating a space for the Crosscutting Concepts: from questions to explanations to assessments Banquet 1Mary Starr Biological and health student's perception about academic integrity. Michigan 2Samuel Coronel-Nuñez • Rafael Diaz-Garcia • Jorge Joel Reyes-Mendez

10:00am EST

Beyond CER: Explanation and Argument - Distinctions & Implications for Instruction Banquet 1Amy Deller-Antieau • Darcy McMahon Journaling in Science using Evidence Notebooks Meeting Room 102Todd Koenig Man’s Real BFF 2.0 Banquet 3Roberta Cramer • Cheryl Hach Tips You Can Use in Class Tomorrow: Building Community, Accountability, and Class Relevance Meeting Room 202Mark Francek

11:00am EST

Investigating Ecological Relationships Using HHMI Biointeractive Resrources Banquet 4Mark Eberhard Exploring Biology through Dissection with Flinn Scientific Capitol 2Matt Anderson Exponential inquiry- merging math and biotech to amplify learning Meeting Room 204Richard Chan • Mindy Lee-Olsen

12:00pm EST

STEAMing Up Our Science Programs Capitol 1Lloyd Hilger

1:00pm EST

Evo-Ed Cases: Connecting Biology Across the Curriculum Banquet 3Clinton Bartholomew • Alexa Warwick Digital Microscopy for $40 Michigan 3Bob Myers "Mr. Mastie, I Can Still Remember When We...." Regency 1David Mastie Influence of research experiences on science teacher knowledge and practice Meeting Room 203Abbi Halkola • Amy Lark The Lecture Is Dead: Using Alternative Classroom Models to Enhance Student Learning Banquet 5Vanessa Logan Wentzloff Discrepant Events Abound Michigan 2Rachel Badanowski

2:00pm EST

AP Chem Labs with Minimal Prep Capitol 4Jamie Benigna • Alice Putti Cosmetic Experiments for Grades 8-12 Regency 1Larry Kolopajlo Justify Your Energy-Based Claims Capitol 3James Gell • Nicole Murawski Challenge Your Students to Make a Dozen Classroom Motors Meeting Room 104Michael Suckley