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Panel Discussion on the Next Gen Science Standards hosted by John Olsonand featuring Steve Pruitt, Achieve

John Olson, Science Specialist, Minnesota Department of Education

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Panel Discussion on the Next Gen Science Standards hosted by John Olsonand featuring Steve Pruitt, Achieve

John Olson, Science Specialist, Minnesota Department of Education

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Cell Phone Colorimetry

During the presentation you will be participating in a lab in which an image captured with a cell phone is used to construct a Beer'sLaw plot and identify the concentration of an unknown. The presenter will be discussing his own experiences conducting this lab inscience classes. Hopefully there will be time to also have a group discussion about BYOD (bring your own device) successes.

Eric Kehoe, JWP High School

Room: Chemistry

Chemistry For All - Implementing A Standards Based General ChemistryCourse

How can all students be expected to take General Chemistry? The presenter will share pedagogy, lab activities and methods of"grading for learning" that are being implemented to assist Rochester Public School students in meeting the new high schoolchemistry graduation requirement.

Charles Handlon, Century High School

Room: Chemistry

Chemistry Strand Speaker

Join Mr. Gute in exploring how to prepare students for success in college-level science courses and how to survive that firstgeneral chemistry course.

Brian D. Gute, Instructor of Chemistry, UMD

Room: Chemistry

Distillation: Simple and Fascinating Experiments in the Chemistry of Aromasand Smells

We distill water to purify it, or so we think. So why does the clear distillate from apple cider smell like apples? Join us and find out!Using a clever test tube distillation apparatus, distill the essence of vanilla and the scent of mint and we’ll even show you how tomake brandy from wine! Distillation is a crucial process in chemical engineering and technology, yet few students ever get toexplore the process.This hands-on distillation workshop is not illegal, but it is excellent chemistry and extremely relevant to those of you who want toput a little STEM in your test tube!

Brandon Watters, Lakes Community High School and Lab-aids Consultant

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Darin Christianson

Chemistry

Mastering the Chemical Formula: An Exceptionally Effective Way to TeachSubscripts and Coefficients

What is the difference between subscripts and coefficients? What does ?balancing? a chemical equation mean? Many students havetrouble with these fundamental chemistry concepts. Moles, reactions, and stoichiometry are hopelessly confusing if a student doesnot fully understand the chemical formula. Join us for some elegant, intuitive, and well-differentiated lessons that can helpstudents of all ability levels master the chemical formula and, therefore, move confidently into a deeper understanding ofchemistry.

Brandon Watters, Lakes High School and Lab-aids Consultant

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Darin Christianson

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BSU Summer Science Weather Balloon Project for Grades K - 8

BSU summer science program funded by an ITQP grant that included a weather balloon launch in fall 2012 and spring 2013 thatcarried payloads developed by students who also followed the track in real time.

John Truedson, Bemidji State University

Room: Earth Science

Earth Science Strand Speaker

Investigate the rocks and atmosphere of Mars with Dr. Manning and the rover Curiosity. Search for potential habitats for life, pastand present.

Dr. Heidi Manning, Professor of Physics, Concordia College Moorhead and Curiosity Research

Room: Earth Science

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Explore Minnesota's Changing Climate

Educators will be introduced to and receive copies of the Will Steger Foundation?s Minnesota?s Changing Climate curriculum andonline classroom.

John Smith, Will Steger Foundation

Room: Earth Science

I Get It! Visualization Solutions That Support Secondary Earth & SpaceScience Standards?

Learn how secondary science educators (6-12) are using interactive tools to help student infer knowledge and support mastery ofdifficult Earth and Space science concepts.

Joel Halvorson, Science Communications Consultant, Regional Planetarium Network

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Sally Brummel

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I Get It! Visualization Solutions That Support Secondary Earth andEnvironmental Science Standards?

Learn about a series of NASA funded Earth Science lessons (6-12), which include interactive use of data for use in a planetariumand/or the classroom.

Joel Halvorson, Science Communications Consultant, Regional Planetarium Network

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Sally Brummel

Earth Science

School Forest Carbon Sequestration Project

Challenge high school students to explore climate change in a local context as they investigate and determine current carbonsequestration rates of an outdoor space, and develop forest stewardship recommendations to maximize carbon sequestration.

John Geissler, Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center

Room: Earth Science

Agriculture Science from STEM to Plate

Discover the STEM involved in animal, plant and food production! Participants will engage in hands-on, standard-based activitiesthat can be used in classrooms immediately. Free resources focusing on agriculture and STEM will be shared.

Sue Knott, Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom

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Al Withers

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Do it, Read it, Write it! (How Can I Do it All?)

In this workshop you will DO simple science activities, READ related children's books, and WRITE in a book you make. Janedesigned this class for the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and you will LOVE her ideas for integrating science and languagearts.

Jane Copes, Science Outside the Biox

Room: Elementary

Do it, Read it, Write it! (How Can I Do it All?)

In this workshop you will DO simple science activities, READ related children's books, and WRITE in a book you make. Janedesigned this class for the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and you will LOVE her ideas for integrating science and languagearts.

Jane Copes, Science Outside the Biox

Room: Elementary

Ecotime: Integrating Environmental Education

Have fun in this interactive session and leave with 150 quick, easy, environmentally themed, multidisciplinary lessons that arealigned with state academic standards. Learn more about what Jeffers Foundation has to offer.

David Grack, Jeffers Foundation

Room: Elementary

Ecotime: Integrating Environmental Education

Have fun in this interactive session and leave with 150 quick, easy, environmentally themed, multidisciplinary lessons that arealigned with state academic standards. Learn more about what Jeffers Foundation has to offer.

David Grack, Jeffers Foundation

Room: Elementary

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Elementary Strand Speaker

Kathleen will share highlights of TPT’s award winning STEM productions with emphasis on engineering and girls in science includingthe newest season of SciGirls this year. In addition Kathleen will share resources from SciGirls and other PBS resources availablefor teachers to use directly with students.

Kathleen O'Donnell, Director, Family & Education Services, Twin Cities Public Television

Room: Elementary

Engineering Your Engineering Design Challenges

In this session we will use the engineering design process to consider engineering design challenges that you can use in yourclassroom. Innovation, learning objectives, science standards, integrated learning, lessons learned, and engineering curriculumresources will be shared. Come design with us!

Deborah Besser, University of St. Thomas

Room: Elementary

I Get It! Visualization solutions that support Elementary Earth & SpaceScience Standards?

Learn how elementary educators (K-6) are using interactive tools to help student infer knowledge and support mastery of difficultEarth and Space science concepts.

Sally Brummel, Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota

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Joel Halvorson

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Integrating STEM Across the Elementary Curriculum

Experience the power of elementary STEM and learn to implement it with ease. Leave the session energized and ready to engagestudents immediately in STEM-based instruction.

Glory Oljace, STEM is Elementary, LLC and Pillsbury Elementary School

Room: Elementary

It's Not Magic, It's Science!

Join wacky professor Jerry Wenzel as he demonstrates science concepts in a fun and easy to understand way. Designed forelementary and middle level teachers, this will be an unforgettable science learning experience for you.

Jerry Wenzel, N/A

Room: Elementary

Making Science Connections for Student Learning Across the Curriculum

Enhance your teaching and your students ' learning by engaging in journaling. Through the use of a prairie and/or a butterflygarden (or any outdoor ecosystem) as a focal point, you will learn how to integrate the many disciplines that get sidelined in yourclassroom.CD's, folders and prizes to be given.

Laurie Arnason, South Point Elementary

Room: Elementary

Puff Mobiles and Bird Feeders: Engineering for K-6 teachers

In this session you will learn how to integrate engineering design into K-6 classrooms by building a puff mobile and designing birdfeeders. Learn how NSTA?s Science and Children can support you with other engineering ideas.

Michele Koomen, Gustavus Adolphus College

Room: Elementary

Puff Mobiles and Bird Feeders: Engineering for K-6 teachers

In this session you will learn how to integrate engineering design into K-6 classrooms by building a puff mobile and designing birdfeeders. Learn how NSTA?s Science and Children can support you with other engineering ideas.

Michele Koomen, Gustavus Adolphus College

Room: Elementary

Wild About Animals: Taking a STEM Approach in a Primary Classroom

Want to expand your understanding of STEM and learn how to integrate science and literacy in a meaningful way? Leave thissession with resource ideas and teaching tips for creative ways to an integrated STEM curriculum unit in an elementary classroom.

Carole Velasquez, Cedar Park STEM Elementary School

Room: Elementary

A Sense of Wonder: Creating Interest in STEM

Looking for simple ways to integrate wonder and inquiry into every lesson? Learn how infusing informational texts, habits of mindthinking, and questioning strategies into your classroom can inspire curiosity, risk taking, and persistence through confusion.Leave this workshop will practical tips for creating a STEM classroom of thinking, questioning, and discovery.

Cathy Kindem, District 196

Room: General

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Discussion & Demonstration of Research Resources

Building student’s environmental literacy and ability to find and analyze research is required by state standards. Participate inresource discussion and a demonstration of a new tool created for improving access to water research relevant to Minnesota.

Christine Yaeger, Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Room: General

Flipping Out! Exploring the Flipped Classroom Model

What if your students used their class time for experiments, collaboration and assistance instead of taking notes? Hear about oneschool’s experience implementing Flipped Classrooms.

Sara Peloquin, Spectrum High School

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Autumn Mollet

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Fun Physics for All with the Marble Launcher

Perform engaging projectile motion investigations with a fun and unique marble launcher. Predict the path of a projectile bycollecting data, graphing results, and drawing conclusions. Free raffle for a Marble Launcher!

Jessie Herman, CPO Science

Room: General

Greening STEM with Something Fishy: ‘Fish Surveys’ - A MN DNR FisheriesManagement Lesson

Fisheries biologists need to solve problems such as "how to count the number of fish in a lake". They develop unique tools toaccomplish this. We will explore the STEM components of surveying fish populations, and everyone receives free access toMinnAqua's national award-winning curriculum and image collection.

Nadine Meyer, MN DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife MinnAqua Program

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Deborah Groebner

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Hands-on Nanotechnology: Resources and Opportunities for Teachers

This talk describes some of the opportunities for teachers to get involved with summer research projects at the UofM’sNanofabrication Center. It will also present a catalog of activities on nanoscience and technology ready for use in the classroom.

James Marti, University of Minnesota--Nanofabrication Center

Room: General

Making a Flipping Difference

How do we engage students when they’re ready to learn and provide them with "rewindable" opportunities? Learn how to "FLIP"your style and transform you classroom into an interactive environment that extends beyond the traditional school day to enhancelearning for all of your students.

Carolyn Fruin, Eastview High School

Room: General

Minnesota Project Lead The Way working for teachers and students.

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) began in Minnesota in 2002 with six schools. Today in Minnesota we have over 270 schoolsdelivering PLTW curriculum to students. PLTW is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics (STEM) education curricular programs used in middle and high schools across the U.S.This session will give you an overview of the what, where, why and how of PLTW.

James Mecklenburg, MN PLTW

Room: General

NAEP (Science) Questions Tool - How to Use in Your Classroom

This presentation will demonstrate how to use the NAEP Questions Tool which are publicly released questions from previous NAEPassessments from grades 4, 8 and 12

Kate Beattie, MN Dept of Education

Room: General

Science Con-Artists

Prepare students to be savvy consumers of science by learning how others effectively imitate scientific expertise and authority.Douglas Allchin, Univ. of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Room: General

Strategies for Reasoning Ability Growth in Pre-service Teacher Preparation:Cognitive Acceleration, Science Clubs, and STEM Elementary Schools

The talk will present a useful and specific model of reasoning ability, describe the state of this ability among students over the last30 or so years, and will discuss remediation strategies. The specific strategy implemented, "Cognitive Acceleration," seems to havegreat effect, both in pre-service teaching majors at Winona State and elementary and middle school children.

Nathan Moore, Physics, Winona State University

Room: General

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Supporting and Delivering Standards With PLTW Curriculum

Minnesota Project Lead The Way (PLTW) followed the lead of Sci Math MN and developed the PLTW Frameworks. This session willgive an overview of the MN PLTW Frameworks and how educators can use these power tools to identify where the PLTW curriculumsupport and delivers the MN Academic Standards to students in the middle and high school programs.

James Mecklenburg, MN PLTW

Room: General

Using Models to Promote Scientific Thinking

Learn to use models authentically in science classes to promote higher order thinking, formulate hypotheses, etc. instead of just to‘see’ big and small objects.

Richard Lahti, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Room: General

Welcome to Your First Science Education Conference!

Come join us to learn more about the Minnesota Science Teacher Association, how to navigate your first conference and get themost out of your first Minnesota Conference in Science Education.

Michele Koomen, Gustavus Adolphus College

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Melanie Reap

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Dragonfly Curriculum Guide: Emerged!

A tour of the newly completed Dragonfly Curriculum Guide including hands-on activities, tips for raising Odonata nymphs in theclassroom, and connections to the K-12 Science Framework practices and crosscutting concepts. Reviewed as "the BEST training,related to science, that I have ever received"

Ami Thompson, Dragonfly Environmental Education

Room: Life Science

Environmental Science in a World of 7 Billion

Discover timely, interdisciplinary, hands-on activities to help students understand the connections between human populationgrowth and a host of environmental challenges. Receive curriculum on CD-ROM matched to state and Common Core standards.

Clayton Russell, Northland College

Room: Life Science

Environmental Science in a World of 7 Billion

Discover timely, interdisciplinary, hands-on activities to help students understand the connections between human populationgrowth and a host of environmental challenges. Receive curriculum on CD-ROM matched to state and Common Core standards.

Clayton Russell, Northland College

Room: Life Science

Genetic Discoveries: a Baker’s Dozen for 2013

Want to use cool new science to engage your students? Concerned you can’t keep up with all the latest advances in geneticresearch? Ever wonder where all of this new science fits into your curriculum? Come and hear about thirteen of the topbiotechnology discoveries from the past year. The current pace of discovery in genetics is so rapid, that it is difficult to keep up.This discussion is designed to make recent findings in biotechnology understandable, applicable, and aligned to science standards.You’ll receive the most recent version of the Biotechnology Guidebook, which contains current research findings and theirunderlying basic concepts. These topics are seamless additions into your content area course or can be used for a personal updateon your genetics and biotechnology content. This free resource will also be available for download on the HudsonAlpha website:www.hudsonalpha.org

Dr. Neil Lamb Director for Educational Outreach, HudsonAlpha Institue for Biotechnology

Room: Life Science

How to Make Your Genome Walk

Using web-based resources from HudsonAlpha, your school can create a genome walk - a physical representation of the HumanGenome that includes more than 150 genes of interest. Use your hallways, nature trails or practice fields to allow students to strollthrough their chromosomes. As part of the experience, let students team up for a genomic scavenger hunt using GenomeCache - afree app developed by HudsonAlpha for an iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. Students use genome coordinates and clues to find aspecific gene and are awarded points when they correctly identify the gene and answer a basic biology question. All the toolsneeded to set up your own genome walk and download GenomeCache can be freely accessed online.

Dr. Neil Lamb, Director of Educational Outreach, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Room: Life Science

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Kitchen DNA with a Twist of Inquiry

Tired of cookbook DNA extraction protocols? We present an inquiry based DNA extraction procedure that will have studentsthinking about cell type, structures and DNA. Dive into a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables and create your own solution, from avariety of common household products, with which to extract DNA. This lesson will provide participants with the opportunity tolearn how to teach about the composition and structure of cells and DNA in an inquiry based interactive way. Participants will workwith a variety of plant and animal samples from which to choose to extract DNA. They will then consider the challenges ofextracting DNA from their chosen material and design a lysis buffer from everyday household materials to utilize in the extractionprocess. After completing the extraction process, participants will compare and contrast their results.

Dr. Neil Lamb, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Room: Life Science

Life Science Strand Speaker"Feedback: A (Neuro)Biological and Engineering idea"

"Feedback: A (Neuro)Biological and Engineering idea"Join Dr. Dubinsky as she untangles loopy engineering feedback concepts, make analogies and explore how the nervous systemmaintains bodies functioning within tolerable limits!Appropriate for high school biology, psychology, health and physics teachers.

Dr. Janet Dubinsky, Dept. of Neuroscience, U of MN

Room: Life Science

Making Outdoor Education Possible in a School Forest

Forestview Middle School in Baxter MN is using their school forest for innovative teaching projects for effective outdoor education.Trail camera studies, teaching Foss outdoors, community involvement, and extra curricular activities engage students and staffwith hands-on learning.

Robin Halverson, Forestview Middle School

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Chris Hanson

Life Science

The True Nature of Science: Inquiry

Inquiry based teaching with trial & error: teaching cellular theory, atomic theory, and the structure of DNA through observation,experiment, and data analysis.

Leah Inman, Tri-City United High School

Room: Life Science

Using Engineering to Mimic Neurobiology

Make a working model that illustrates nervous system functioning! Bring your best crafts skills or your itchy computer fingers andjoin us in applying engineering principles to model making and model interpreting in the biological context of the nervous system.For the crafters, we?ll have supplies. For the geeks, please bring your own laptops.

Appropriate for high school biology, psychology, health, computer science and physics teachers.

Janet Dubinsky, Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota

Room: Life Science

Build and Electric Motor

An excellent activity for students is to have them build an electric motor. During this session we’ll look at some options and whatrole engineering can play in the process. We’ll also do some building.

Tom Tomashek, Minnetonka High School

Room: Physics

Build and Electric Motor

An excellent activity for students is to have them build an electric motor. During this session we’ll look at some options and whatrole engineering can play in the process. We’ll also do some building.

Tom Tomashek, Minnetonka High School

Room: Physics

Engineering in the Classroom - Design the Most Efficient Electric Generator!

What is the most efficient way to transform mechanical energy into electrical energy? Design and configure a motor with thegreatest voltage output using electromagnetic induction and a unique rip-cord generator. Raffle to win a Rip-Cord Generator!

Jessie Herman, CPO Science

Room: Physics

Fun LED Projects for Exploring Electrical Concepts

Make colorful LED circuits and learn how they can be used to teach wiring/soldering skills and a variety of electrical concepts.Andrew Tubesing, University of St Thomas, School of Engineering

Room: Physics

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Hot Wheel Physics Challenges

Games can make learning fun. Challenging problems make students think. Combine the two and add in Hot Wheels cars and watchthe excitement in the room! In this session you will explore 4 challenges used in physics.

Paul Anderson Anderson, Buffalo High School

Room: Physics

Making Electrical Studies Accessible in the Classroom

This session will explore why teaching electrical concepts often seems less accessible than mechanical topics, and introducesstrategies for a start-with-the-basics electricity curriculum on a shoestring budget.

Andrew Tubesing, University of St Thomas, School of Engineering

Room: Physics

Physics Inquiry Using Direct Measurement Video

Direct measurement videos have grids, rulers, and frame counters so students can make measurements from the video withoutany additional software. Large banks of direct measurement videos allow students to explore and develop physics concepts andrelationships on their own.

Peter Bohacek, Henry Sibley High School

Room: Physics

Physics Strand Speaker

Mr. KraMer will explore the role of creative thinking and a design-driven mentality in product development.Tom KraMer, President, Kablooe Design

Room: Physics

The New AP Physics Courses: 2014 - 2015

Rebecca Messer and Paul Lulai will discuss what changes are being made and how that is reflected in the new course content andexams. What are the expectations and strategies teachers need to prepare for the changes in sequence and pedagogy?

Rebecca Messer, Northfield High School

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Paul Lulai

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Use of Online and Computer Based Simulations in Chemistry and Physics

How and why to use computer-based simulations in the classroom. Please bring your computer to play with some of thesimulations that will be presented.

Matthew Inman, Shattuck-St. Mary's School

Room: Physics

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