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Celebrating the Joy of Science: Imagine and Create
Join us in the "City by the Bay" for NSTA's 2011 national conference. The conference headquarters hotels are the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Marriott San Francisco Marquis. Conference registration and exhibits will be at the Moscone Center. Most sessions and events have been scheduled at the Moscone Center and the Hilton and Marriott.
The conference will begin with concurrent sessions on Thursday, March 10, at 8:00 AM and end on Sunday, March 13, at 12 Noon. Check back in October to browse a preliminary schedule of events.
Session proposals are no longer being accepted for the San Francisco conference.
Register now and take advantage of special earlybird rates.
Instructions on making housing reservations will be available by September 15. Please check back.
Program Strands
- Embracing Technology in the 21st-Century Classroom
- Accessing Language Through Science and Mathematics Content
- Exploring Earth, Wind, and Fire
- Building Scientific Minds: Inspiring Teaching and Effective Learning
Further information is available at http://www.nsta.org/conferences/2011san/?lid=tnavhp
View a searchable and sortable document to find colleagues presenting at NSTA
Look for these DR K-12 grantees who are presenting:
- Session Title: Claim, Evidence and Reasoning: Supporting Middle School Students in Evidence-based Scientific Explanations (03/12/2011)
Presenters: Katherine McNeill (project: Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Writing Scientific Explanations), Joseph Krajcik - Session Title: Light-ups & Sound-offs: Controlling Light and Sound with Hidden Switches (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Gary Benenson (project: Physical Science Comes Alive: Exploring Things that Go), Cherubim Cannon - Session Title: Cyber-enabled Earth Exploration Science Curriculum Project (03/12/2011)
Presenters: Lisa Blank (project: Cyber-enabled Earth Exploration: Development of Materials for Middle School Earth Science Instruction) - Session Title: The Virutal Populations Genetics (VPG) Simulation System: An Example of Learning ‘With’ Cyber-enabled Technologies in Science Classrooms (03/12/2011)
Presenters: Todd Campbell (project: Cyber-enabled Learning: Digital Natives in Integrated Scientific Inquiry Classrooms (Collaborative Research: Campbell)), Aaron Duffy, Paul Wolf - Session Title: Looking for PCK in All the Wrong Places? (03/10/2011)
Presenters: Janet Carlson (project: Project PRIME (Promoting Reform through Instructional Materials that Educate)), April Gardner - Session Title: Teachers Voices: How Educative Curriculum Materials Help Teach for Understanding (03/10/2011)
Presenters: Janet Carlson (project: Project PRIME (Promoting Reform through Instructional Materials that Educate)), April Gardner - Session Title: Student Thinking About the Model of the Atom and Changes in Matter from the DIAGNOSER Formative Assessment System (03/13/2011)
Presenters: Angela DeBarger (project: Chemistry Facets: Formative Assessment to Improve Student Understanding in Chemistry), Ami M. Katz, Carlos C. Ayala, Angela DeBarger - Session Title: Featured Presentation: Deeply Digital Science Teaching: Looking into the Future of Educational Technology (03/10/2011)
Presenters: Chad Dorsey (project: Geniverse: A Student Collaboratory for Biology Cyberlearning) - Session Title: Creating Virtual Fieldwork Experiences as Professional Development (03/10/2011)
Presenters: Don Duggan-Haas (project: Enhanced Earth System Teaching Through Regional and Local (ReaL) Earth Inquiry) - Session Title: NESTA Session: National Earth Science Teachers Association Geology Share-a-Thon (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Don Duggan-Haas (project: Enhanced Earth System Teaching Through Regional and Local (ReaL) Earth Inquiry) - Session Title: Active Chemistry (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Arthur Eisenkraft (project: Boston Science Partnership) - Session Title: Active Physics, Newly Revised 3rd Edition (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Arthur Eisenkraft (project: Boston Science Partnership) - Session Title: PDI-8: One-Day Work Session on Learning Progressions: Moving Up in the World of Educational Effectiveness (03/09/2011)
Presenters: Arthur Eisenkraft (project: Boston Science Partnership), Pamela Pelletier, Jennifer Dorsen, Allison Scheff, Suzanne Gill, Jonathan McLaughlin, Beverly Nadeau, Erin Hashimoto-Martell, Haven Ripley Daniels, Fiona Bennie, Michael, Hannah - Session Title: Robert H. Carleton Lecture: Four Essential Questions (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Arthur Eisenkraft (project: Boston Science Partnership) - Session Title: From Florida to Oregon: A Collaborative Effort to Teach Students about Social Networking, Birds, and the Scientific Method via the BirdSleuth Program and Free Online Wikispaces (04/12/2011)
Presenters: Jennifer Fee (project: Scaffolding Teacher Learning in Support of Student Inquiry), Elizabeth Eubanks, Phil Kahler - Session Title: Pulling Students into Science Through Citizen Science and Investigations Focusing On Birds (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Jennifer Fee (project: Scaffolding Teacher Learning in Support of Student Inquiry), Nancy Trautmann, Kathy Bradshaw - Session Title: Teaching Causal Complexity in Science: A PD Website for Teachers (03/12/2011)
Presenters: Tina Grotzer (project: CAREER: Learning About Complex Causality in the Classroom), Therese Arsenault; Megan Powell - Session Title: Supporting Elementary Students in Science Writing using Claims, Evidence and Reasoning (03/12/2011)
Presenters: Katherine McNeill (project: Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Writing Scientific Explanations), Dean Martin - Session Title: Improve Your Ride! Redesigning Home-made Cars to Include Lights and Horns (03/10/2011)
Presenters: James Neujahr (project: Physical Science Comes Alive: Exploring Things that Go), Janice Porter, Cindi VanPetten, Al Camacho - Session Title: Assessing and Advancing Students' Understanding of Core Earth Systems Science Concepts with Classroom Network Technologies (04/11/2011)
Presenters: William Penuel (project: Developing Contingent Pedagogies: Integrating Technology-Enhanced Feedback into a Middle School Science Curriculum to Improve Conceptual Teaching and Learning), Angela Haydel DeBarger, Jim Minstrell, Yves Beauvineau - Session Title: Unleashing the Potential of Clickers: Strategies for Fostering Productive Classroom Science Discussions (04/10/2011)
Presenters: William Penuel (project: Developing Contingent Pedagogies: Integrating Technology-Enhanced Feedback into a Middle School Science Curriculum to Improve Conceptual Teaching and Learning), Angela Haydel DeBarger, Yves Beauvineau - Session Title: The Energy Circus: Exploring Gravity in K-1 (03/12/2011)
Presenters: Travis Sloane (project: Physical Science Comes Alive: Exploring Things that Go), Donna Johnson - Session Title: Smart Graphs (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Carolyn Staudt (project: Developing, Researching, and Scaling Up SmartGraphs), Dewi Win - Session Title: ASTE Session: Link Middle and High School Students to Ecology with Digital Media About Published Scientific Research (03/11/2011)
Presenters: Yael Wyner (project: Ecology Disrupted: Using Real Scientific Data about Daily Life to Link Environmental Issues to Ecological Processes in Secondary School Science Classrooms (Collaborative Research: Wyner)), Janice Koch
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