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Important Dates:
12/19/2008: Raffle Form Deadline for Inclusion in Brochure
2/16/2009: Early Registration Deadline
3/03/2009: Bag Insert Arrival Date
3/05/2009 to 3/07/2009: 2008 MSTA Conference
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Michigan Science Teachers Association
56th Annual Conference March 5-7, 2009 Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan |
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SB-CEU SessionsThursday, March 5, 20098:20 a.m. - Noon
Brain Based Learning Instructional Strategies = S.T.E.M. Literacy for ALL Students
Friday, March 6, 20098:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
BLAST-BC-TICKLES! Teachers Investigate Collaborative Knowledge Based Learning Engagement Strategies
Building a Better Investigation: Considerations for Planning Student Inquiry Projects
Data Literacy for ALL Students
Effective Science for Special Education Students
Innovative Vehicle Design: Excellence in CTE/Industry Partnership
Integrating Reading, Writing and Vocabulary Strategies in Science Instruction
Making Sense of Science Texts
MI Environmental Education Curriculum Support (MEECS) - Overview Session
Renewable Energy in Today's Classroom
Strive to Thrive: A Great Resource for Your Science Club
The Earth Spins Location: Brule B
Using Controversial Topics in the Classroom to Promote Critical Thinking
Grade 5 Force and Motion Unit (Part of the SEPUP Michigan Model Curriculum)
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Biotechnology in High School - Getting Started
BLAST-BC: Strategies for Student Organization and Self-Assessment
ChemCom: It Can Fulfill The Chemistry Requirement For Graduation!
Creating an Effective and Organized Science Unit
Easy, Fun and Inexpensive Activities for Chemistry and Physics
Feeling Left Behind? PBL as A Technique for Learning New GLCE's/HSCE's
Getting Physical in Lower Elementary
Investigate the State: Collaborating To Study Science Issues In Michigan
Junk Food Chemistry
Junk Science: Does It Have a Place in the Science Classroom?
Long-term Data Collecting Using Multiple Sensors
Managing an Inquiry Based Classroom
MI Department of Environmental Quality Environmental Education Update
Monitoring Water Quality - This Water Should Bug Me!
Reading and Learning: A Toolkit for Helping Struggling Readers
Solar System - Interesting Facts and Stories You May Not Know
9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Chemical Management in Schools
Inquiry Based Hands-on Activities and Demonstrations
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
BLAST-BC: The Paperless Classroom - - The Future or Now?
Cool Tools for Projectile Motion
Help you're Students Create Multimedia Presentations
Materials of the Earth Location: Duluth B
Problems Teaching Science? PBL as a Technique for Studying Teaching
Raising Salmon in the Classroom
Say What You Mean! Strategies to Help Students Better Communicate Science
Truth or Dare - Double Dare
Turfgrass, Soccer and the Beijing Olympics
Using Benchmark Assessment to Improve Learning
10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Grade 6 Science Teachers - Energy Unit (Part of the SEPUP Michigan Model Curriculum)
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
BLAST-BC: Lessons to Engage Diverse Learners
Chemistry for All Blackboard Resource
Creating a New Generation of Science Leaders
Exploring Southwest Astronomy
Finding Time for Inquiry
Go LEGO - Facilitating a Junior First LEGO League
Not Your Ordinary Road Kill - - Forensic Entomology
Responsible Use of Animals in the Classroom
Sandfastic
Solar Powered Cars in the Classroom
Teaching Anatomy: Facial Reconstruction
Using Design to Integrate Science and Other Subjects (STEM)
What's Stomata With You? Student-Designed Investigations Using Leaf Imprints
WMCTA Presents: Equilibrium and Thermodynamics Activities That Engage Students
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Anatomy in ClayR, Muscular Anatomy
BLAST-BC: BLASTing Through To Inquiry Learning
Cooking with the Sun
Physics of Fun - Playground Physics
R3 - R Generation. R Solutions. R Fuels
The Dam Problem: A Michigan Case Study on River Erosion
Water Quality - From Michigan to Japan
WMCTA Presents: Redox and Electrochemistry Activities That Engage Students
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Cool Tools for Light and Color
FUNdamentals of Electromagnetism with Paul and Mike
Grade 7 Science Teachers - Chemistry of Materials Unit (Part of the SEPUP Michigan Model Curriculum)
Great Lakes Beach/Life Forms and Physical Processes
Home and School Science
NASA Lunar Exploration - Engaging Our Future Explorers, Today's Students
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
The Best of Both Worlds - Letter Grades and Mastery Learning
A Field Trip to the Zoo with Experts
BLAST-BC: Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Student Inquiry
Chemistry, Math, Archeology, and Global Warming Effects in the Amazon
Dan's Pretty Good Science #4
Differentiated Instruction to Enhance Students' Content-Area Achievement
Ready Set Go
The Wonders of Wonderscience
2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Inquiry Activities That Build Particulate - Level Understanding Of Chemistry Concepts
Weather Sense with AIMS: Hands-On Air Moisture
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Alien Invaders Underneath Logs! Exploring Pill Bug Habitat and Behavior
FREE Internet Sites and Programs to Use in Your Classroom
From "Berry Full Of DNA" To Gel Electrophoresis
Incorporating the Scientific Method
It's All In The Tube!
Macromolecules and Biogeochemical Cycles - FUN!
Notebooking in the Elementary Classroom
To The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Space Science Activities
You Built It and They Will Come
3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Cut, Stab, Slice, Dice: Using Potatoes in the Science Classroom
4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Art-Full Science
Celebrating Michigan Snakes!
I Love Science in the Elementary, Middle, and High School Grades
Raising the Science Achievement of Literacy Challenged Students
Teaching For Understanding in a Flat World
True Inclusion. Is It An Illusion?
Upstream Matters!
Weather Sense with AIMS: Hands-On Air Pressure and Wind
WMU Core Kids Know What's Underfoot In Michigan!
Saturday, March 7, 20088:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Chemistry Computer and Technology Tips and Tricks
Identifying and Assessing Power Expectations: Focusing On Critical Learning
Rowing Your Way to an Alternative Energy Option
Social Studies in Science
Understanding Memory: An Inquiry-Based Unit for Grades 9-12
Web 2.0 in the Classroom: Collaborative Learning Tools for Science
Detecting Radiation in Our Radioactive World
Grade 5 Force and Motion Unit (Part of the SEPUP Michigan Model Curriculum)
Helping Teachers Do Inquiry Science
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Activities to Discover Your Students' Perceptions of Geologic Time
Clean Green Chemistry
Do You Go To Weight Watchers Or Mass Watchers?
Doing a Dig in Your Classroom
Material Science - What We Need To Do!
Ready Set Go
WMU Core Kids Know What's Underfoot In Michigan!
You REALLY Can Replace Lectures with Guided Inquiry
9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
A Windy Problem
Let's Get Physical with Sound and Light
Woody Biomass in the Bioeconomy
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Activities, Mini-labs, and Inquiry Lessons to Teach the Content Expectations in Biology
Adventures and Research on the Great Lakes
Anatomy in ClayR, Neural Anatomy
Chem Demos for the HSCE's
The Science of Alcohol
Visualizing the Impact of Burning Coal
10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
All Heated Up!
Grade 6 Science Teachers - Energy Unit (Part of the SEPUP Michigan Model Curriculum)
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
A Colorful New Stat - Acids & Bases and Other Helpful Strategies
Biology Manipulatives for Those Hard To Teach Topics
Case of the Dying Robins
Colorful Coordination Compounds in Chemistry
Computer Application Issues For Education in Information & Technology Age
Exploring the Timing and Location of the Next Hawaiian Volcano
Helicopter Seeds And Hypotheses....That's Funny!
Infrared Astronomy: Seeing the Invisible
Kids and Videophilia - Finding the Cure
Motivating Middle School Students with Demos and Discrepant Events
One Lab, Multiple Contexts
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Corntraversal
Matching the Lab to the Content
Reflection of Teaching in U.S. Community Colleges
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Chemistry Demonstrations to Knock (or blow) Your Socks Off
Grade 7 Science Teachers - Chemistry of Materials Unit (Part of the SEPUP Michigan Model Curriculum)
Hands-on Exploration of Population, Consumption and Our Changing Climate
Integrating the Science of Sustainable Energy into Your Curriculum
Introducing Force, Motion and Energy
Motion Commotion
Teaching High School Physics for Graduation Credit
The Amazing Race-a-lesson On How to Use Compasses
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
A Lamp Lights the Way to Scientific Discourse
Honeybees: A Modern Specimen for Multiple Topics
Michigan Wolves - Balancing Fantasy with Reality
Science and 1:1 Computing: What A Way to Learn!
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