College Strand Sessions
Sessions
Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
Breathing Life into the New Life Science Standards
Carole Gutteridge - North Road Elementary
Primary Subjects:
Interest Level: Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 203
Life science activities will be shared that are connected with the new content standards for later elementary.
No Child Left Inside
Paul Roose - Hartley Outdoor Education Center
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 204
Learn what Nature Deficit Disorder is and what you can do to combat it. We will step outside to prevent the Nature Deficit Disorder bug from biting us.
There Is A Mystery Here, HELP!
Shirley Werner - New Haven Schools
Michelle Kirkland - Mt. Clemens Middle School
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Instruction/Pedagogy
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Learn how to modify the GEMS Mystery Festival to meet the needs of special education students.
Sessions
Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Owl Pellets
Elizabeth Larwa - Spencer Elementary School
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Instruction/Pedagogy
Interest Level: Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 204
Experience a hands-on life science lab geared for elementary kids using GLEC's and Newman's Principles.
Physics: For the Elementary Teacher
Elizabeth O'Rourke - Millington Community Schools
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Physics
Interest Level: Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 205
I will share activities on density mass, volume and other types of measurement. The activities will range from practical to inquiry-based. The activities, which will develop a greater understanding, require minimal equipment for the classroom teacher. Handouts will be provided.
Workshops
Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Electric Circuits Are Elementary
Cookie Rathkamp - SVSU Regional M/S Center
Primary Subjects: Physics
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 203
Participants will explore electric circuits hands-on, and build their own steady hand game using a circuit. Handouts available.
Sessions
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Applets/Animations Galore: MASER New Format of Sites
Douglas Hansen - SVSU/Math & Science Center
Mary Cieszlak - Saginaw Public Schools
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Curriculum
Interest Level: College, Early Elementary, High School, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 204
A CD will be provided to all attendees as well as the MASER websites. This disk has the new K-7 and high school content expectations format. Over 350 new sites added and many are applets and animations.
MEAPing the Science Benchmarks Through Environmental Education
Jason Byler - Ebersole Center
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Prepare to get your hands wet and experience hands-on activities. Learn ways to link environmental education lessons to the elementary science benchmarks. Walk away with new class ideas and handouts to use in the classroom.
Tree Keepers Kids (TKK) Revitalizing Detroit
Sarah Haller - The Greening of Detroit
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - Banquet 7
Learn how Detroit children are taking back their outdoor space as they learn in the natural world through place-based and service learning project.
Sessions
Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Getting Smart with Technology
Michelle Kirkland - Mt. Clemens Middle School
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Computer/Technology
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
See how a Smart Board can be used in a science classroom. Watch your kids enjoy interacting with our power points.
Science Literacy Strategies
Cherie Hunter - Monroe ISD
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Literacy
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 204
This interactive session is designed to demonstrate how science concepts can be integrated with reading comprehension and writing strategies using current children's nonfiction selections.
Workshops
Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Animal Defenses: Introducing Students to Protection Used By Animals
James McDonald - Dept. of Teacher Education . CMU
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Instruction/Pedagogy
Interest Level: Early Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 203
The GEMS guide, Animal Defenses, will be shared with participants. Walk away with a GEMS guide that introduces K-2 students to camouflage, predators and defenses.
Sessions
Friday: 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Bees In The Classroom: What's All the Buzz About?
Jason Byler - Ebersole Center
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Discover how interesting and "sweet" honey bees can be. Learn about their social order and ways to incorporate bees into a classroom setting. See a working beehive, taste honey and receive handouts to take back to the classroom.
Bees In The Classroom: What's All the Buzz About?
Jason Byler - Ebersole Center
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Discover how interesting and "sweet" honey bees can be. Learn about their social order and ways to incorporate bees into a classroom setting. See a working beehive, taste honey and receive handouts to take back to the classroom.
Spaced Out!
Gary Dewey - North Shore Christian Middle School
Primary Subjects: Earth Science
Interest Level: Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 204
If you want ideas about space studies, aeronautics, or astronomy, come to this session. Be prepared to share your ideas in addition to receiving many ideas.
Spaced Out!
Gary Dewey - North Shore Christian Middle School
Primary Subjects: Earth Science
Interest Level: Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 204
If you want ideas about space studies, aeronautics, or astronomy, come to this session. Be prepared to share your ideas in addition to receiving many ideas.
Sessions
Friday: 3:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Move-Venture
Beth Post - Williamston Schools
Primary Subjects: Integrated Science
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 204
Learning science concepts through dance and movement.
Wetlands through Performance - CANCELED
Pam Daniels - Discovery Elementary School
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Go through the process with 2nd graders as they learn about the Wetlands through a service learning project.
Workshops
Friday: 3:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Animals in the Classroom
Lisa Lava-Kellar - Estabrook School
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Biology
Interest Level: Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 202
Kids are curious about the world around them. Use animals to stimulate your students; facilitate inquiry, and fulfill the State of Michigan benchmarks at the same time. Hands-on with handouts.
Great Lakes Beach/Life Forms and Physical Processes
Steven Tchozeski
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Instruction/Pedagogy
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 203
What happens along a typical Great Lakes beach? This presentation explores some of the life forms, physical processes and natural changes from a beach. Each participant will receive a classroom ready activity.
Sessions
Friday: 4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Preschool-Second Grade GEMS Share-a-thon
Sigrid Grace - Almont Orchard Primary School
Gisela Hough - Orchard Primary School
Kathy Clulo - Fountain Elementary School
Sarah Morin - Leslie Seabase, Saginaw Chippewa Academy
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Curriculum, General Science
Interest Level: Early Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 204
Teachers from the PK-2 cohort from the Central Michigan GEMS Center will present their favorite GEMS activities. Guides will be available for purchase.
The Big Science Lesson
Conni Crittenden - Williamston Schools
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Integrated Science
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Students use a local hands-on museum as their classroom for a week.
Sessions
Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Plan a Super Science Saturday: An Experience for All Levels
Paula Hughes - Marlenn Maicki, Gillian VonSeeger, Detroit Country Day School
Primary Subjects: General Science
Interest Level: Early Elementary, High School, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 202
Come learn how to plan and hold a Super Science Saturday, with elementary student participants and high school student teachers. We will include hands-on samples of activities, organizational strategies, and timelines. Handouts provided.
Science Talks - Application in the Classroom
Dave Brigham - Lansing School District
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: General Science, Instruction/Pedagogy
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Science Talks is a teacher-guided, student-led discussion. It incorporates informal assessment, effectively engages and motivates students, establishes mutual respect, and corrects strongly held student misconceptions.
Smart Boards and Science
David Schofield - Elizabeth Worth, Schweitzer Elementary School
Primary Subjects: Computer/Technology, Instruction/Pedagogy
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 203
Keeping up with technology is easy. This class will show you and let you use a SMARTBOARD in a "real life" classroom setting. Handouts will be available.
Sessions
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
Developing YOUR Magnetic Personality - CANCELED
Scott Alan Blanchard - Briscotti Educational Center
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Physics
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 202
In this session, we will discover new and exciting ways to teach the concepts of magnetism to students. Handouts and samples too.
Workshops
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Dig into Science: Plants Go To School
Jessica Albright - 4-H Children's Garden
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 203
Discover ways to bring plants into your classroom and develop your students' green thumbs by nurturing their curiosity about the plant world. This session will provide hands-on activities and materials to take back to your classroom.
Sessions
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Cross District Scientific Collaboration: A Story of Two 4th Grade Classrooms
Brook Wilke
Lauren Kinsman - W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Instruction/Pedagogy
Interest Level: College, Early Elementary, High School, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Fourth grade teachers at Lawton and Martin are working with two Michigan State graduate students to build a partnership for scientific collaboration. Topics include science question boards, schoolyard habitats and curriculum integration. Handouts provided.
Sessions
Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Binder Park Zoo - Michigan Project Learning Tree
Kathy Fischer - Project Learning Tree
Vendor Session
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education
Interest Level: Early Elementary, High School, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Through hands-on activities and live animals, you will learn how to use outside organizations as a resource to enhance your science curriculum. Learn how you can get over 90 activities that you can use in your classroom.
Science in a Cereal Box
Deborah Bryant - Kalamazoo Valley Community College
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: General Science
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary
Location: Lansing Center - 203
Use cereal to teach scientific method in this hands-on session. Handouts will be available.
Sessions
Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Come, See, Get and Go GEMS Share-a-thon
Cheryl Czarnik - Davis Jr. High School
Michelle Kirland - Mt. Clemens Middle School
Deb Zolynsky - Kennedy Middle School
Jeff Katt - Jill Bartlett, Standish-Sterling Middle School
Michele Svoboda - Mill Creek Middle School
Leslie Seabase - Sarah Moring, Saginaw Chippewa Academy
Primary Subjects: Curriculum
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 203
Come and see how teachers have used different GEMS guides. As you walk around the share-a-thon, you can pick up a lesson plan from each presenter, then go to another session.
Learning in the Rain
Joy McFadyen - Bay City Public Schools
SB CEU Sessions
Primary Subjects: Environmental Education, Earth Science
Interest Level: Early Elementary, Later Elementary, Middle Level
Location: Lansing Center - 205
Create excitement about caring for the earth. Plant a rain garden! Students become research scientists, perform experiments, produce information pamphlets, and learn first hand about our hydrosphere. Handouts will be available.
