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SESSION 1 (50 MINUTES): 8:00-8:50AM

Data Discussions in Patterns Science
Audience: High School, all science/STEM topics-data discussion used in the patterns curriculum, but can be used in any science course

Location: TBD

Students have just collected data in a lab - now what? Join us as we discuss how to create an environment where students engage in a rich discussion that deeply analyzes the experimental evidence and explains the components of the mathematical pattern or trend, ultimately leading to an informed explanation of what was observed. Key Learning Objectives: Creating a safe space for risk-taking; Sensemaking after collecting lab data; Protocols for student talk for discussing data

Kristi Miller and Kathrine Kraft, Beaverton School District, PMSP

Getting Started with Anchor Phenomena in FOSS

Audience: Primary (k-2); Intermediate (3-5)

Location: TBD

Students need to experience and make sense of relevant science phenomena - a challenging task for teachers. Participate in a lesson that engages you with local and relevant phenomena. Plan to incorporate phenomena into your everyday instruction. Attendees will learn how to use anchor phenomena in the elementary classroom to meet the NGSS standards. They will engage in a hands on lesson using the FOSS Pathways curriculum.

Stephanie Lundin, Foss-School Specialty

Make a Phenomenal Escape! The Discovery Education Science Escape Room Game

Audience: General Science, K-12

Location: TBD

Come join Discovery Education, Mystery Science, and Pivot to unlock student-centered, inquiry-based learning opportunities that transform your ordinary science lesson to a phenomenal experience for students in a fun escape activity that will have you exploring, interacting, collaborating and best of all having fun!
Sandra Pierce, Discovery Education

Bring Science and STEM Professionals into your K-12 Classroom with Oregon Connections

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Oregon Connections - a convenient, equitable tool for providing virtual interactive contact between science and STEM professionals and your students. The platform reflects NGSS standards for K to 12. Unlimited opportunities for live chats with professionals in private industry or academia: the sky’s the limit in connecting industry with education.

Amy Lukens, Southern Oregon Education Service District

Harnessing Energy from Waves

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Teachers will engage in an activity to create, test, and iterate a wave energy device. Resource and lesson ideas will be shared as well as a kit to take back to your classroom. These items will be provided by Clean Energy Bright Futures.
Stacey Zaback, Luckiamute Valley Charter School

Learning with Data in our Communities: Bringing together data science and place-based STEAM learning

Audience: K-12, General

Location: TBD

The Language, Culture and Knowledge-building through Science (LaCuKnoS) project at Oregon State University works with science teachers across the state to support language-rich and community-focused STEAM learning. This session shares hands-on model lessons and strategies based on learning with data in our communities.

Cory Buxton, Oregon State University; Jay Well; Karla Hale; Felisha Dake

Promoting Coherence and Equity Through Co-Designed Resources

Audience: General

Location: TBD

The Advancing Coherent and Equitable Systems of Science Education (ACESSE) project brings together partners from educational research and practice to promote equity and coherence in science education. The project is based on a deep collaboration in resource development and seeks to support science leaders, educators, and others working to foster equitable science learning. Participants in this session will engage with these resources and provide feedback on those currently in development by the PNW Regional ACESSE Team to advance coherent and equitable science education.

Jamie Rumage, ACESSE Regional Project (Advancing Coherent and Equitable Systems of Science Education - NSF Grant) via ODE, Noelle Gorbett; Johanna Brown (OSPI)

Bringing Back the Macromolecule Lab Without Crazy Prep

Audience: Middle and High School

Location: TBD

Finally a FUN way to teach macromolecules without the crazy prep! In this microscaled lab activity, students can test for starch, glucose, protein, lipids and even DNA, without the need for large volumes of reagents, cleaning test tubes, or boiling reagents. Students can use their new knowledge to perform tests on some unusual samples. (MiniOne Systems).

Holly Lynn, Teacher at South Eugene High School 

Coding with Vernier: Connecting Go Direct sensors to Web VPython

Audience: High School

Location: TBD

Participate in this hands-on workshop where you will learn how to integrate Vernier sensor technology into coding activities. Explore how to introduce coding to your science students, or bring some real world data into your coding experience. Please bring your own Windows or Mac Computer and sign up for a free account at https://www.glowscript.org/. Go Direct sensors will be provided.

Tom Smith, Vernier

Developing Junior Engineers by focusing on the SEPs from NGSS

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Egg drop and more!  Learn how to take this activity, and other projects to the next level with SEPs and phenomenal problem-based learning. This exciting session will inspire educators with hands-on activities (real egg drop), using digital tools, active reading, dynamic discussion, and reflection on their own teaching practices. 

Tom Gantt, Amplify Education

Effective Literacy and Writing Strategies in the Science Classroom

Audience: K-8

Location: TBD

Come learn how to use effective literacy strategies so that students can better understand science content. Student understanding and critical-thinking skills will improve with these techniques. Join our constructivist approach that promotes literacy in the science classroom.

Rebecca Walters, STEMscopes by Accelerate Learning

Everything EVERFI

Audience: Grades 3-8

Location: TBD

Are your students equipped with the critical life skills they need to thrive beyond the classroom? EVERFI's free digital curriculum covers topics from financial literacy to SEL and digital citizenship. This session will focus on EVERFI's STEM career exploration courses designed to help show students the variety of career and college pathways that are available to them in the STEM field.

Jesse Poquette, EVERFI

Multilingual Scientists: MLL support in NGSS

Audience: High School

Location: TBD

All students are learning the language of science. Build a toolbox of language acquisition strategies to support multilingual learners in NGSS 3-dimensional learning. Attend to equity in science learning for MLLs by leveraging elements of NGSS to support student language development through science learning. Geared toward secondary science.

Misha Hann, Savvas Learning

Promoting Productive Discussions using Open Sci Ed

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Classroom communities make sense of what’s being investigated through discussions. They are the key to ensuring all students’ ideas are shared and valued. This session focuses on the types of discussions used to help draw out student ideas, negotiate and refine them, and support communicating in scientific ways.

Tracy Marmoeljo, Activate Learning; Brandi Hageman, Activate Learning

Students as an Atmospheric Scientist

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Students look at data spanning the past 100 years to understand the causes of climate change. Students figure out what the evidence indicates and better understand how human activities relate to this critical issue. Explore this earth science lesson activity from, Issues and Science.

Billee Procknow, Lab-Aids

Resources and Opportunities for Students and Teachers visiting the Oregon Coast

Audience: General

Location: TBD

The Northwest Aquatic and Marine Educators(NAME) and Oregon Shores CoastWatch invite you to learn more about opportunities for you and your students to participate in ongoing data collection on the Oregon Coast. CoastWatch in the Schools' allows students to benefit from outdoor, place-based learning and incorporates many opportunities to meet the Oregon Science Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. CoastWatch in the Schools currently links schools in all Oregon coastal counties to a shoreline mile near their school that they visit, observe, and document over time. Your school can be one as well. NAME is a "family" of educators who believe: *Every human on earth should be water-literate *Using the allure of water enriches and facilitates learning *Sharing our knowledge and experience with others creates a community of informed stewards NAME offers opportunities and resources for educators which include curriculum, PDU's, mini-grants, and conference scholarships.

Fawn Custer and Jesse Jones, Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition/ CoastWatch

BREAK: 9:00-9:30AM

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 GENERAL SESSION (60 MINUTES): 9:40-10:40AM

WELCOME

OSTA Conference Chair, Stephen Scannell

OSTA President, Jennifer Mayo

Keynote Speaker

Justin Schaefer, "Mr. Fascinate"

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SESSION 2 (50 MINUTES): 10:45-11:35AM

Bringing Circuits and Code together with Ardunio and TinkerCAD Circuits

Audience: 6-12

Location: TBD

Bring circuit knowledge and programming knowledge together with Ardunio projects. Be hands-on or virtual, lots of code or a little, lots of circuit detail or plug-n-play. Lots of great options to engage your students!

Cady Geer, Sunset HS, Beaverton SD

Combining Purposeful Play with the 5E's and PBL — the EASEL Approach for Engaging and Inclusive STEM Learning

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Do your STEM students ask “Why learn it? What good is it? Who cares?” We will share the EASEL strategy, which integrates playful authenticity with the 5E’s learning model and PBL’s emphasis on real-world problems, for inclusively engaging students in exploring science and designing engineering solutions to meaningful problems

Mihir Ravel, Portland State University; Cary Sneider, Portland State University

Diack - Equipment Grants for Field-based Research

Audience: General

Location: TBD

The Diack Ecology Education Program promotes student field-based research in Oregon schools through grants for teachers and students. This session will outline the process for applying for a grant and give examples of funded projects from elementary, middle and high school. Grants are for equipment and are available all year.

Mike Weddle, Diack Ecology Education Program

Grade Less to Learn More

Audience: General

Location: TBD

You made the learning three dimensional in your classroom; now it's time to do the same for your grading.

Johanna Brown, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Immersive Agricultural Experiences: Engaging Youth with Virtual Reality Apps

Audience: 6-12

Location: TBD

DIVE4Ag stands for Distant Immersive Virtual Education for Agriculture Literacy. Five agricultural Virtual and Augmented Reality Apps were created focusing on agroecology, aquaculture, dairy farming, rangeland management, and horses. Now anyone, anywhere can experience what these agricultural systems look like, and how they use science and technology on modern farms.

Emily Nicholson, Kristen Moore, PhD., Susan Rowe, PhD, Oregon State University DIVE4Ag

 

Oregon K-12 Science Updates

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Please join us for a conversation with Mariela Salas Bao , Science Assessment Specialist, and Jamie Rumage, Science Education Specialist, from the Oregon Department of Education on updates pertaining to K-12 Science Education. This session will provide educators and school leaders with an overview of the review of the Oregon K12 Science Standards, instructional materials review, and updates on the Oregon Statewide Assessment System (OSAS) science assessments, interim assessment bank, and other resources. It will also be a time to share what additional supports would be helpful to ensure students have access to high-quality science education.

Jamie Rumage, Oregon Department of Education; Mariela Salas Bao

 

STEP UP: Physics Together

Audience: High School

Location: TBD

Young women are more likely to pursue advanced physics work if they have direct encouragement from a teacher. Learn how to incorporate these research-based lessons from APS into your classes in order to increase female enrollment in upper-level physics.

Kathrine Kraft, Beaverton School District

Cultural Responsiveness in the Patterns Biology Classroom

In this session, we will examine practical ways to encourage cultural responsiveness in the Patterns Biology classroom. Students will not only enhance their scientific skills and address real-world phenomena, but also develop the essential capacity to work across cultural boundaries, preparing them for a more diverse and interconnected future in the scientific community. Lesson and unit plans, as well as examples of student projects will be provided.

Charlotte Denis, Avery Martin, Beaverton School District/Portland Metro STEM Partnership

Teaching through Stewardship

Audience: 6-12

Location: TBD

Teaching ecology with hands-on experience in forest ecosystems.  Students will focus on conservation practices, environmental stewardship and recreational use of forest.

Amy Tregoning, Siuslaw High School

Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER): Are you CERtain Your Students Understand the Data?

Audience: Grades 3-12

Location: TBD

CER is a way for students to explain phenomena in a scientific way. Participate in an inquiry-based investigation demonstrating how to use data collection to drive data-based conclusions using CER. Learn how to manage groups of students and guide them in how to think deeper, write scientifically, and incorporate vocabulary that strengthens their understanding of a phenomenon.

Rebecca Walters, STEMscopes by Accelerate Learning

Developing Little Engineers! Engineering Design in the K-5 Classroom

Audience: Grades k-5

Location: TBD

Robots that mimic cockroaches, working pinball machines, and more!  Engineering Design in elementary classrooms comes alive when teachers focus on the Science and Engineering Practices with lesson design.  This exciting session will inspire educators with hands-on activities, digital tools, active reading, dynamic discussion, and reflection on their own teaching practices.

Tom Gantt, Amplify Education

More than a Score: Three Practical Strategies for Maximizing Assessment

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Join us on an assessment adventure as we explore innovative ways to measure scientific knowledge and skills. Unleash the power of authentic assessments that captivate students, making evaluation an exciting part of the learning journey.

Kat Gentry, Stile

Exploring OpenSciEd from Carolina

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Come experience a model lesson from OpenSciEd for Middle School and see how the new Carolina Certified Edition makes these high-quality instructional materials even better! Leave with classroom resources.

Jeff  Frates , Carolina Biological Supply

From Circuits to Molecules: Biotech basics for middle school and general bio

Audience: Middle and High School

Location: TBD

Link physical science concepts like circuits and charged particles to the essential biotech method gel electrophoresis. Build a reusable gel electrophoresis system, and use it to separate colorful dyes. Also add the A to STEAM with creative pipetting art!  

Allison Nishitani, miniPCR bio

Shifting Gears in Science Education

Audience: Grades K-5

Location: TBD

Great Minds®, the public benefit corporation behind Eureka Math®, presents PhD Science® to support high-quality science instruction. In this session, participants uncover a different approach to teaching through the exploration of the instructional shifts as defined by the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards.

Madeline Cronk, Laura Krebs, Great Minds

Understanding Natural Selection and Adaption Though the Lens of Antibiotic Resistance

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Connect students on a topic relevant today. In this life science activity from Issues and Science, students use a model to explore the cause-and-effect relationship between the inappropriate use of antibiotics and the phenomenon of the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

Billee Procknow, Lab-Aids

LUNCH: 11:45AM – 1:00PM

Presentation of Awards

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 SESSION 3 (50 MINUTES): 1:10 - 2:00PM

STEM Shark Tank, w/Justin Shaifer

Audience: General

Location: TBA (classroom with ~30 seats)

STEM Shark Tank is an interactive workshop where educators are grouped together to brainstorm and pitch innovative STEM solutions for pressing global issues. From battling pollution to addressing space debris, this collaborative workshop melds science, technology, and entrepreneurship, empowering teachers to guide students in thinking creatively and solving real-world challenges.
Justin Shaifer, Fascinate Media Inc.

Bringing Inclusive Computer Science Programming to your Community

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Girls Who Code will share their FREE programs for 3rd-12th graders, educational philosophy, and impact. We’ll discuss the ways that we can directly support communities in growing clubs, building their networks, and engaging with students at all levels of coding.

Meaghan Flaherty, Girls Who Code

Clean Energy Fellows -- Working with Bonneville Education Foundation to create curricula on energy and climate

Audience: 6-12

Location: TBD

The Bonneville Education Foundation's Clean Energy Fellows program gave us the opportunity and support to develop curricula to teach middle and high school students about the physics of renewable energy, the science of climate change and key concepts regarding energy justice and environmental advocacy.  The Clean Energy Fellows program provided us with great resources for laboratory activities and helped us to develop engaging lessons with community partners. 

Anne-Marie Eklund, Cascades Academy; Syver Pearson, Cascades Academy; Rosemary Lopez, Bonneville Education Foundation

 

Forms of Energy & Energy Transformations - Interactive Lessons!

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Participants will conduct energy transformation experiments using items encountered in everyday life. Motion, sound, thermal, radiant, electrical, and chemical energy transformations are studied using glow sticks, handwarmers, batteries, etc.  Teachers will be able to confidently teach energy forms & transformations!

Kimberly Swan, National Energy Education Development Project

Fostering Equitable Student Talk in Patterns Physics.

Audience: High School

Location: TBD

We'll explore strategies for engaging students from diverse linguistic backgrounds, integrating the latest language supports in the Patterns Physics curriculum. The first half will cover new resources, followed by a collaborative forum where educators discuss and share resources. We'll collaborate to connect our shared work with varied language proficiencies to help each student succeed.

Bradford  Hill, PMSP/Beaverton School District; Matt McCollum

TinkerCad Meets Physics

Audience: General

Location: TBD

TinkerCad has recently added a dynamic physics option.  F=ma has never been more exciting.  Here we will discuss how to make it work, and what kinds of challenges your students can do with it,

Mike Bailey, Oregon State University

Join the Stile Party! Free science curriculum for the whole school year!

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

By the end of this session, you'll have a comprehensive, standards-aligned middle school science curriculum at your fingertips. Complete with beautiful phenomena-based units, interactive lessons, labs, simulations, and more; Stile received a near-perfect score in the recent instructional materials review by the Oregon Department of Education. Even better, to honor our home state of Oregon, it's free for local science educators until July 2024.

Shawna Jensen, Stile

Space biology: Make genetics fun!

Audience: Middle and High School

Location: TBD

Engage students with a gel electrophoresis experiment analyzing microbe DNA  from the International Space Station! This session will also feature Genes in Space, a free experimental design competition that launches student experiments to the International Space Station. Learn about free educational resources and biotechnology equipment loans.

Allison Nishitani, miniPCR bio

Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists Enhances English Language Learning

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Participants in this interactive session will engage in active learning strategies as they experience a model multi-modal science lesson applying the Six Strategies for Teaching ELLs Across the Content Areas. This session offers strategies, resources, and guidance for helping English learners language succeed in science.

Tom Gantt, Amplify Education

What is the Cost to Oregon?

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Every time one million cell phones are recycled, they yield 35,274 pounds of copper. Students investigate reactions to reclaim copper from a used copper etching solution. Students use data from their investigation and evidence-based argument for which metal is the best choice for recovering copper.

Billee Procknow, Lab-Aids

Explore OpenSciEd High School Biology from the lens of the field

Audience: High School

Location: TBD

OpenSciEd is more than a new curriculum; it’s a paradigm shift that reimagines the science education experience to ensure that all students can excel in and outside the classroom. Adopting a new curriculum alone is a big undertaking, even more so when switching to a new science teaching method. Come listen and learn from Washington’s own Brandi Hageman, a field-testing teacher in OSE Biology, as she shares firsthand insights into the journey and experiences with OSE. Dig deeper into how OSE supports a more integrated STEM learning experience for students as they work to make sense of the world around them. Additionally, Brandi will share information about teacher resources, professional learning opportunities, and how to access numerous webinars and information to help support you as you begin your own OSE teaching and learning journey.

Brandi Hageman, Activate Learning

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Double SESSION 3 & 4 (110 MINUTES): 1:10 – 3:10PM

All You Need to Teach Evolution !

Audience: 6-12

Location: TBD

Teach evolution with confidence! The presenter will model an entire free unit of instruction, focusing on evolution content, hands-on activities, and engaging online resources. Our website features free monthly webinars and dozens of resources organized by content standard.

Sarah Ruggiero, The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science

Catching Mega-Earthquakes in the Act with the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System: Free and Hands-on Activities for your Classroom

Audience: General

Location: TBD

The ShakeAlert® Earthquake Early Warning System rapidly detects significant earthquakes and delivers alerts to people and automated systems. Join us to learn about hands-on educational activities to use in your form and informal settings about plate deformation, earthquakes, and the ShakeAlert System. These resources are freely available at the ShakeAlert Education and Training Materials website: https://iris.edu/ShakeAlert.

Shelley Olds, EarthScope Consortium; Roger Groom, Portland Public Schools; Robert de Groot, USGS

Clean Water Power - Methods of Generation and Modeling

Audience: 6-12

Location: TBD

Participats will be given an overview of a highschool level unit looking at the ways water can be used to generate renewable energy.  The focus will be on building cheap, functioning models students can build and test in a classroom.

Brian Vollmer-Buhl, Cottage Grove High School

Dear Data,  How can data reasoning be integrated across all subject areas?

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Data is everywhere! It can be used to tell stories, reveal misconceptions, and broaden perspectives. Driving questions such as, “How does our culture, community, and social group affect what we wear?” can be used to launch integrated units that allow students to engage in NGSS aligned disciplinary and practice standards.

Heather Armstrong, Southern Oregon Educational Service District (SOESD)

Environmental Graphiti: Data Reimagined as Art

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Data literacy is a critically important skill across STEM careers, but K-12 students can often become overwhelmed when they try to interpret graphs, scientific figures or data tables. By using artwork to engage students they are able to learn about climate change, research, and data representation in a unique way. Come hear how we have utilized artist expression to help build science literacy in afterschool STEM programing. We will share an activity that asks students to interpret figures created by Oregon State University scientists and reimagine them as abstract art pieces. This activity culminates with a flier campaign in which students post artwork around their community to raise awareness.

AJ Mallozzi, Precollege Programs, Oregon State University; Renee O'Neill, OSU Precollege Programs

 

Make Learning Exciting: Hands-On Maker Activities and Place-Based Teaching Methods for Elementary Students

Audience: Elementary

Location: TBD

Discover the benefits of integrating STEAM in elementary! Part 1 showcases how maker activities can provide interactive and curriculum-aligned learning experiences for elementary students. Part 2 explores place-based and problem-based teaching methods, showcasing how STEAM can make literacy and math more relevant and exciting for students through two model lessons.

Eliana Belle, Gervais School District; Karla Hale

BREAK: 2:45 - 3:00PM

Please Visit our Exhibitors

 

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SESSION 4 (50 MINUTES): 2:20 – 3:10PM

Become a Nationally Recognized Teacher!

Audience: General

Location: TBD

So many of us feel like imposters but elevating teachers and being recognized for your hard work is personally meaningful and inspiring to others. Learn about both NSTA awards and the PAEMST program.

Johanna Brown, NSTA/WA OSPI

Coding Science Simulations using Processing and p5

Audience: General

Location: TBD

At Sunset High School, our Computer Science students have created multiple simulations for use in our science classes. These include predator-prey models, gravity simulations, and circuit visualizers. Attendees will see live demonstrations, as well as seeing how they can be incorporated in classes.

Jason Galbraith, Sunset High School (I am a member of OCSTA)

Educators Saving Lives

Audience: High School

Location: TBD

DLNW ensures that students, families, and teachers have diverse, factual resources regarding anatomical donation and the Donor Registry. We are dedicated to raising awareness and providing education on donation, being the critical link between medical professionals and educators, providing free presentations and resources designed to dispel misconceptions around organ donation.

Sandy Jewell, Donate Life NW

Genes, Traits and Change Over Time

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

Explore a free middle-school unit integrating core ideas in genetics, heredity, and natural selection. The unit focuses on the mechanisms that drive genetic variation and how natural selection makes certain trait variations more common in a group. Features paper-based activities, multimedia pieces, and games!

Molly Malone, Genetic Science Learning Center- University of Utah

Chromosomes in Action: New Ways to Model Mitosis and Meiosis

Audience: Middle and High School

Location: TBD

Explore how physical models foster an understanding of the importance of mitosis and meiosis to the growth and development of living things.

Ruth Hutson, 3D Molecular Designs

Join the Stile Party! Free science curriculum for the whole school year!

Audience: Middle School

Location: TBD

By the end of this session, you'll have a comprehensive, standards-aligned middle school science curriculum at your fingertips. Complete with beautiful phenomena-based units, interactive lessons, labs, simulations, and more; Stile received a near-perfect score in the recent instructional materials review by the Oregon Department of Education. Even better, to honor our home state of Oregon, it's free for local science educators until July 2024.

Shawna Jensen and Julianna Jimenez, Stile

Oregon Fisheries in Crisis

Audience: High School

Location: TBD

Oregon fisheries are an example of resource use critical to global sustainability. In this interactive workshop Science and Global Issues: Biology, you will model how human choices affect the sustainability of a particular resource. This is an excellent opportunity to make Oregon place-based connections with students.

Billee Procknow, Lab-Aids

Using Interactive and Digital Student Notebooks

Audience: General

Location: TBD

Come learn several strategies to help students organize their learning. Transform the old composition notebooks into a useful and engaging tool that incorporates technology and multimedia. Interactive student notebooks use various modalities, left/right side format, and offer students an electronic portfolio of learning. Join us!

Rebecca Walters, STEMscopes by Accelerate Learning

What's In Your Air: Air Quality Curriculum for Outdoor School

Audience: General. K-5, 6-8

Location: TBD

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and United States Forest Service, in collaboration with Lichens CitiSci has developed air quality curriculum for grades 5 and 6. Initial curriculum, called “What is in your air?” was developed in collaboration with Sunny Wolf Charter School. This was a multifaceted case study project that included monitoring and hands on field collection that tied in with students’ outdoor school experience. This curriculum also provides supporting information on career opportunities and the many ways to preserve natural resources by connecting students with air quality experts and professionals. This curriculum has the potential to work in any community, it can be scaled to work for K-12 learning objectives. This curriculum emphasized student and community empowerment through investigating current events and personal reflections. Connecting youth with outdoor spaces through environmental topics is critical as they are the future leaders and stewards of natural resources. The case study at Sunny Wolf Charter School will lay the groundwork for continued curriculum development on air quality in STEM curriculum, which is often missing from environmentally focused coursework.

Morgan Schafer, Hillarie Sales, DEQ

You're and effective teacher. Pivot Interactives will make you better.

Audience: Physical Science, 6-8 and 9-12

Location: TBD

Make everyday an active learning day in your science classroom with Pivot Interactives. New technology allows you to teach and assess science thinking effortlessly. Deep randomization and instant feedback keep students engaged and focused, so both teacher and students can tell what they've learned.

Peter Bohacek, Pivot Interactives

Join Us for Give-A-Ways

and Raffle Drawing in the Exhibitor Area

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Happy Hour: 5:00 – 6:00PM

                                  TBD, Downtown Gresham

6:00-8:00

Please join the OSTA Awardees, board, volunteers and participants at the Post-Conference Banquet. Tickets sold separately ($60), seating is limited.
Link to Register

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