8:00 - 9:00

Come explore ways to engage your ELL/ESL students with notebooking, manipulatives, vocabulary, scaffolding & more. Use a buffet of ideas & strategies to bring these students into your lessons.

**Please email your home address to ssibastrop@gmail.com by 2-20-22 to receive a free bag of workshop materials to use during this hands-on session.**

Come learn how teachers can demonstrate their proficiency by completing an online STEM Micro Certificate. Each Micro Certificate has two 3-hour online certificates that focus on evidence-based STEM instructional strategies. Check out the array of skills at https://nise.institute/micro-certification.php#stem-essentials.

Come learn how to use the free online tool Genial.ly to create interactive presentations, infographics, Educational games, and more. Your web-based creations will be able to be shared as links or embedded into your LMS. View free templates available through a free sign-up as well as examples of what templates are available with an educational subscription. Attendees will be given access to several Pre-made Genial.ly samples that can be utilized as-is, or duplicated and further customized to meet classroom needs.

How do crosscutting concepts link the ideas and practices of science across different disciplines and over time? We'll show you practical examples to see how crosscutting concepts provide a foundation for student sensemaking of phenomena and recurring themes and concepts. Leave with classroom resources.

During this session, we will discuss ways you can foster a STEM culture in your classrooms by offering choices, engaging students in the design process and promoting the 4Cs. 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!

Energy is present in motion, is stored, transferred, and harnessed to do work. What do forms of energy, as described in the elementary and middle school TEKS, really mean? What happens in energy transformations? How is energy, like money, saved & spent yet never used up? In this session, two UTD scientist/educators will engage with participants in fun energy transformations, discuss conceptual ideas of energy, and more as we explore helping students tackle important energy concepts.

Engage students with carefully crafted questioning techniques. Learn instructional strategies that utilize questioning to expand student knowledge, encourage students to think creatively and hold students accountable. This highly interactive session equips teachers to create an active learning environment that encourages students to ask and answer questions.

Skill building is critical to success in many science classes. Worksheets have often been the go-to for making this happen. Our session will explore how to take those worksheets and re-design them into learning that builds skills, collaboration, and inquiry. Examples and resources will be shared.

Come explore how you can use recyclable materials and a pet store fish to get your students hooked on learning science and practice scientific process skills by engaging in real-world science inquiries. Participants will explore the value of zebrafish to teach multiple topics including organisms' interactions with their environment, cell structure and processes, growth, development, reproduction of organisms, ecology, and genetics.

How to Make In-Person and Remote STEM Instruction Meaningful, Rigorous and Equitable

Presenter: Victor Sampson

Argument Driven Inquiry

Levels: HS

Argument-Driven Inquiry is an instructional model that gives students an opportunity to use the concepts and processes of science to figure out how or why something happens. In this session, you will learn how to use this instructional model, along with some free educational technology, to provide meaningful and authentic science learning experiences to students when teaching online.

This session will provide the opportunity to see the current and newly adopted Biology TEKS side-by-side, followed by a round-table-style discussion of how the changes will impact teaching and learning.