Making a Difference: MSTA 2008 Conference
Michigan Science Teachers Association
55th Annual Conference
March 6-8, 2008
Radisson Hotel & Lansing Center
Lansing, Michigan
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Friday

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

  • Benchmark This: Chemistry Labs for the Michigan Merit Curriculum
    LC - Banquet 3
  • DAPCEP/ITEST
    LC - 101
  • Develop High Quality Common Assessments in Science
    R - Regency 2
  • Forensics OR Laboratory Science? Which to Choose?
    R - Michigan 1
  • Investigations in Environmental Science (It's About Time): Cased-based Approach
    LC - 104
  • No Child Left Inside
    LC - 204
  • Nuclear Science for All Ages: Outreach from a Research Laboratory
    LC - Banquet 1
  • Pulling In Students with the Manetometere: An Underrated Attraction
    LC - 103
  • Sequences to Diseases: A Bioinformatic Approach
    LC - Banquet 7
  • Summer Teacher Institutes At Michigan Tech Are FUN!
    R - Michigan 3
  • There Is A Mystery Here, HELP!
    LC - 205
  • Worried About Chemistry And The Trimester? Let me Help
    LC - 102

8:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

  • Hassle-Free Dialysis Tubing Activities
    LC - Banquet 4

9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

  • A Potpourri of Physics Products with Application to Content Expectations
    LC - Banquet 1
  • Action Packed Atomic Theory: Engaging Activities For Your Students!
    LC - Banquet 7
  • Changing Land Uses: Engaging Students in Assessing Environmental Impacts
    R - Michigan 3
  • Igniting Curiosity through Discrepant Events - Part II
    LC - 103
  • Incredible Isle Royale Inspires!
    LC - Banquet 8
  • Inquiry Classroom: Physics Ideas for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
    LC - 104
  • Owl Pellets
    LC - 204
  • Physics and Chemistry Demos for the New Michigan Curriculum
    LC - Banquet 3
  • Physics: For the Elementary Teacher
    LC - 205
  • Problem-Based Learning - A Professional Development Project for K-12 Science Teachers
    LC - 201
  • Southwest Astronomy - Summer 2008!
    R - Michigan 1
  • Stoichiometry - Where Students Stumble
    LC - Banquet 5
  • Teaching Science in the Trimester
    R - Capital 1

    9:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

    • Let's Get Physical with Sound and Light
      LIMITED TO 50 ATTENDEES FEE - $10.00
      LC - 202

    10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

    • Applets/Animations Galore: MASER New Format of Sites
      LC - 204
    • Bee Keeping Across the Curriculum
      LC - Banquet 4
    • Creating a New Generation of Science Leaders Through University Partnership
      LC - 102
    • Density Vignette
      R - Michigan 2
    • Differentiated Instruction to Enhance Students' Content Area Achievement
      R - Capital 1
    • Discrepant Events: What Just Happened?
      LC - Banquet 3
    • Force and Motion
      LC - Banquet 1
    • MEAPing the Science Benchmarks Through Environmental Education
      LC - 205
    • Problem-Based Learning: A Tool for Building Your Science Foundation
      LC - 201
    • Review Activities to Keep Concepts Fresh All Year
      R - Regency 2
    • Shipping On the Great Lakes
      R - Michigan 3
    • Tree Keepers Kids (TKK) Revitalizing Detroit
      LC - Banquet 7
    • Using Historical Items to Demonstrate the Nature/Historical Aspects Of Chemistry
      LC - Banquet 5

    1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

    • Can Your Students Think Like A Scientist?
      LC - 104
    • Geology in a Ditch
      LC - Banquet 6
    • Getting Smart with Technology
      LC - 205
    • How Do THEY Put The 5th Grade Science MEAP Together?
      R - Regency 2
    • PBL - Analyzing Your Practice through Teacher Research
      LC - 201
    • Science Literacy Strategies
      LC - 204
    • The Cheapest Ballistic Pendulum Ever!
      R - Stateroom 1
    • Unresistable Professional Development for All!
      R - Michigan 1
    • Water Quality Analysis - What To Use
      LC - Banquet 8
    • You REALLY Can Replace Lectures with Guided Inquiry
      LC - Banquet 5

    1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

    • Animal Defenses: Introducing Students to Protection Used By Animals
      LC - 203
    • Close The Hatch! Creating a Closed-system Environment for Space
      LC - Banquet 4
    • Forces and Friction Are Fun
      LC - Banquet 1
    • Introducing Force, Motion and Energy
      LIMITED TO 50 ATTENDEES FEE $10.00
      LC - 202
    • NASA Missions Engage Students in Science
      R - Capital 1

    2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

    • Bees In The Classroom: What's All the Buzz About?
      LC - 205
    • ChemCom and the High School Expectations For Chemistry
      R - Regency 2
    • Flood Prediction and Inquiry Science Education
      LC - Banquet 6
    • Introducing Biocomplexity
      R - Stateroom 1
    • Monitoring the Health of a River
      LC - Banquet 2
    • Problem-Based Learning - Tools for Building PBL Science Lessons
      LC - 201
    • The Chemistry Student and the Content Expectations
      R - Michigan 2
    • You Too Can Haiku!
      R - Michigan 3

    3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

    • Art-Full Science
      R - Michigan 1
    • Awesome Discrepant Event Demonstrations to Amaze and Engage Your Students
      LC - Banquet 1
    • Build Your Own Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
      R - Michigan 3
    • Hands-on Earth Science
      R - Capital 1
    • Managing an Investigation Based Classroom
      LC - 101
    • Mapping the Motion Of the Planets
      LC - Banquet 6
    • Using the Michigan Water Industry as an Educational Resource
      LC - Banquet 8
    • Wetlands through Performance
      LC - 205

    3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

    • Animals in the Classroom
      LC - 202
    • Great Lakes Beach/Life Forms and Physical Processes
      LC - 203
    • Scholar Chemistry: Safety, storage And Hands On Learning In The Chem Lab
      LC - Banquet 7

    4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

    • An Egg-Citing Mystery: Density of Saltwater Solutions
      LC - 103
    • High School Inquiry Chemistry Labs to Meet the New HSCEs
      LC - Banquet 5
    • Preschool-Second Grade GEMS Share-a-thon
      LC - 204
    • Problem Based Learning Experience In the Classroom
      R - Michigan 2
    • Sandfantic
      LC - Banquet 2
    • The Big Science Lesson
      LC - 205
    • Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Your Gateway to Marine Science
      R - Michigan 3

    Saturday

    8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

    • Integrating Bee Keeping into Curriculum - Share-a-thon
      LC - Banquet 1
    • Introducing the GLOBE Program: Doing authentic science with a worldwide audience
      LC - 101
    • Science Talks - Application in the Classroom
      LC - 205
    • The New Grade Level Content Expectations for Elementary (K-4)
      LC - 201

    8:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

    • Electrify Your Day with Mike and Paul
      LC - 204
    • Kings, Queens and Mystery Boxes: Teaching the Process Of Science
      LC - 103
    • Microbial Activities and Food Safety
      LC - Banquet 4

    9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

    • Cool Tools for Projectile Motion
      LC - Banquet 1
    • Developing YOUR Magnetic Personality - CANCELED
      LC - 202
    • EcoJars - Bringing Ecology to Life in Your Classroom
      LC - Banquet 2
    • Harnessing the Literacy Bully
      LC - Banquet 6
    • Rock Cycle Elaboration Projects
      LC - 205
    • Step 1: Follow Directions; Step 2: Throw Out Directions
      R - Stateroom 1
    • Student Research Projects Using Technology
      LC - Banquet 3
    • The Clear Lake Environment Camp for Educators
      LC - 101
    • The New Grade Level Content Expectations for Middle School (5 - 7)
      LC - 201
    • The Press to Assess: Effective Classroom Assessment
      R - Regency 2

    9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

    • Applying Brain Research in Science = Increased Achievement
      R - Capital 4
    • Chemistry Demonstrationst to Knock (or blow) Your Socks Off
      LC - Banquet 5
    • Dig into Science: Plants Go To School
      LC - 203

    10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

    • AP Chem Ideas: Quantitative Color Labs, Teaching Tools and Morale Boosters
      LC - 102
    • Biotech Buzz: Learn the Steps to Implementing a Biotech Program
      LC - Banquet 3
    • Cross District Scientific Collaboration: A Story of Two 4th Grade Classrooms
      LC - 205
    • Forensics OR Laboratory Science? Which to Choose?
      R - Michigan 2
    • GLOBE in Action
      LC - 101
    • High School Science Clarification Documents
      LC - 201
    • Horticulture as a Middle School Elective
      LC - Banquet 8
    • Nanoscience: The Science of Small
      LC - Banquet 4
    • Stoichiometry Activities
      LC - Banquet 7
    • Summer Camps: Research of Perceptions, Learning Styles and Assessment Methods
      R - Michigan 3
    • Using Benchmark Assessments to Improve Learning
      R - Regency 2

    10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

    • Let's Get Physical with Sound and Light
      LIMITED TO 50 ATTENDEES FEE - $10.00
      LC - 202
    • No Child Left Behind: From the Classroom to the Forest
      LC - Banquet 6

    11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

    • A Cosmetics Chemistry Titration Experiment for High School
      LC - Banquet 7
    • Chemistry Demos from SEMCTO
      C - Banquet 5
    • Data Literacy for ALL Students
      R - Capital 4
    • Hope CSI: An Outreach Program Providing FREE Science Resources
      LC - Banquet 1
    • Michigan Department of Education - Questions and Answers
      LC - 201
    • Science in a Cereal Box
      LC - 203
    • Science Writing In the Physics Curriculum
      R - Stateroom 1
    • Strategies and Materials for Teaching Molecular Genetics and Genomics
      LC - Banquet 3

    1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

    • A Closer Look at the Twenty Four Earth Science Content Statements
      R - Regency 2
    • Elementary GLOBE Storybook
      R - Capital 4
    • How to Generate "Chem"-Thusiasm among Your Chemistry Students
      LC - Banquet 5
    • Innovative Vehicle Design: Integrated Engineering in the Classroom
      R - Michigan 3
    • Invertebrate Podcasts: Inquiry Activities with Non-insect Arthropods
      LC - Banquet 4
    • Learning in The Rain
      LC - 205

    1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

    • Bring Physics to Life with Technology
      LC - Banquet 6
    • Can We Grow On Like This? Hands-On Human Ecology
      LC - Banquet 8
    • Cool Tools for Light and Color
      LC - Banquet 3
    • Cool Tools for Sound and Waves
      LC - 204
    • Introducing Force, Motion and Energy
      LIMITED TO 50 ATTENDEES FEE $10.00
      LC - 202
    • NASA Missions Engage Students in Science
      LC - Banquet 7
    • Solar Systems - What's New? What's Cool?
      LC - 101

    2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

    • Corrosion and NACE. What Is It?
      LC - Banquet 2
    • MABT Share-a-thon
      LC - Banquet 4
    • Teaching Science in the Trimester
      LC - Banquet 1