Let's explore several intervention strategies to help struggling students in STEM. Come learn several intervention techniques to help students. Learn how to modify our traditional outreach to connect with students so that they gain greater understanding of concepts.

This engaging, interactive session will equip you to provide hands-on practice for digital written responses as required on state tests. Bring lab reports, science assignments, and research to life! Make your life easier with anonymous peer review and teacher video feedback!

Use a fun, free, website to easily design your own real-world app while learning why it's important to provide ALL students with an opportunity to explore coding. Discuss inequities in STEM and strategies for recruiting and supporting girls and minorities.

During this session, we will discuss how to integrate core science ideas of forces and motion to help students retain what they learn by understanding the why behind the science. Perfect for any science coordinator, specialist or teacher who serves students in Grades K-5. There will be awesome door prizes at the end of the session!

We know that students struggle with science vocabulary. Our experiences with COVID taught us that we can use technology to help students in their understanding of science content. Come learn about how you can utilize things like google slides to develop digital anchor charts and word walls, as well as engaging games to play so that your students are interacting with the words in meaningful ways!

This session is an introduction to an approach to instruction called Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI). ADI gives students an opportunity to learn to use science concepts and skills to figure out how or why a natural phenomenon happens. This instructional approach also gives students an opportunity to use disciplinary literacy practices (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) during science because students must obtain information, share and critique potential explanations through talk, and communicate what they figured out through writing.

Hoping to make your lesson better at capturing student engagement and interest? A Driving Question Board is a powerful instructional tool that involves students in processing investigations and other data to work through multiple steps to build an explanation of a scientific phenomenon. Using them can lead to a classroom culture where students are more deeply engaged in science content.

Why do we ask teachers to use hands-on, interactive techniques in the classroom? Because they tap into the natural human instinct to learn through experience. Gaming is a powerful medium that creates excitement, generates engagement, and builds confidence. Our Netflix-style game-based learning platform delivers a wide range of lessons and drives content proficiency for stronger subject mastery and classroom engagement. Come ready to collaborate, compete, learn some science and have a whole lot of fun!

This session will provide the opportunity to see the current and newly adopted middle school (6-8) Science TEKS side-by-side, followed by a round-table-style discussion of how the changes will impact teaching and learning.

Give opportunities for students to share their learning in multiple ways.

The Write a Little a Lot strategy is giving ALL students, especially our EBs, an opportunity to write down their thoughts as part of their thinking and anchoring process.

Explore the power of a new web-based tool for physics classrooms developed with funding from the National Science Foundation! With STEPP (Scaffolded Training Environment for Physics Programming) you and your students will have the power to visualize and explore 1-D motion, 2-D motion, and Newton's Laws. See your word problems come to life! Build conceptual understanding of motion alongside physics vocabulary and multiple mathematical representations while also building students' computational thinking. No programming skill is required!

The past few years have been challenging for teachers, but let's consider our learners. In March of 2020, we asked them to mature and become fully independent, ownership-taking adults in an instant. As many of us transition back to our new normal, this session will focus on the developmental (not academic) gaps that the past few years of learning are likely to have caused and provide multiple strategies to address those inequities. Like Maslow's model shows, we must address the deficiencies before we can expect growth.