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October 2019
NJSEC: New Jersey Science Education Convention, Princeton, NJ
Princeton, New Jersey at the Marriott Forrestal Hotel Oct. 22-23, 2019. Join me in the exhibit hall or at a conference workshop. **Title: NGSS/NJSLS-S Instructional Practices: Claim, Evidence, Reasoning--Analyzing Data to Construct Explanations** Description: How do you teach your students to defend the claims they make? Engage them in challenges, competitions, and debates! Date: Oct 22, 2019 Time: 9:30 am - 11 am, Location: Rush Room in the Marriott Forrestal, Princeton, NJ **Title: NGSS/NJSLS-S Instructional Practices: Developing and Using Models…
Find out more »NSTA: National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference, Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City, Utah at the Salt Palace Convention Center Oct. 24-26, 2019. Join me in the exhibit hall or at a conference workshop. Workshop titles, dates and times are as follows: **Title: NGSS Practices: Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Construct Explanations (ID #26126) Description: Using a data-generating simulation for microevolution, learn how to lead students through an analysis of raw data to draw explanations supported by evidence. Date/Time/Location: Oct. 24, 2019 8-9am, Salt Palace Convention Center 355E **Title: NGSS…
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STANYS: Science Teacher Association of New York Conference, Rochester, NY
Rochester, New York at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center Nov. 1-4, 2019. Join me in the exhibit hall or at a conference workshop. Workshop titles, dates and times are as follows: **Title: Teaching Analysis and Reasoning Using Predictive Graphs (ID #029) Description: Using a data-generating simulation for microevolution, learn how to lead students through an analysis of raw data to draw explanations supported by evidence. Date/Time/Location: Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, 8-9am, Rochester Riverside Convention Center Room Highland B **Title: NYS…
Find out more »NABT: National Association of Biology Teachers Conference, Chicago, IL
Chicago, Illinois at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Nov. 14-17, 2019. Join me in the exhibit hall at booth #617 or at a conference workshop: **Title: NGSS Practices: Engaging in Argument from Evidence** Description: How do you teach your students to defend the claims they make? Engage them in challenges, competitions, and debates! Date: Sat, Nov 16, 2019 Time: 11:15 am-12:30 pm, Location: Fountain View room in the Sheraton Grand Chicago, Chicago, IL
Find out more »CAST: Science Teachers Association of Texas Conference, Dallas, TX
Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Anatole Nov. 21-23, 2019. Join me in the exhibit hall booth #449 or at a conference workshop. Workshop titles, dates and times are as follows: **Title: Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning - Mini Debates That Challenge Students to Think on Their Feet, Description: How do you teach your students to defend the claims they make? Engage them in challenges, competitions, and debates! Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, 10:30-11:30 am, Morocco Room at the Hilton Anatole Hotel, Dallas,…
Find out more »December 2019
NSTA: National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference, Seattle, WA
Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention Center Dec. 12-14, 2019. Join me in the exhibit hall at booth #617 or at a conference workshop: **Title: NGSS Practices: Developing and Using Models to Teach Science** Description: Participate in a teacher-directed and a student-designed model to explore the impact of developing and using models to teach depth, detail, and dynamics. Date: Th, Dec 12, 2019 Time: 12:30 pm-1:30 pm, Location: Metropolitan room in the Sheraton Grand Seattle, Seattle, WA **Title: NGSS…
Find out more »July 2020
Student-designed Labs and Statistics for AP/IB Sciences
How do you guide your students to develop research questions that can be explored within the parameters of your course? How do you help them streamline their procedure and collect enough data to address the question? This workshop will give you repeatable teaching structures that can be used to inspire original student-designed experiments, implement the peer review process, and respond to the challenges students face when working independently. In addition to the methods you will learn regarding lab design, we…
Find out more »Advanced Student-designed Labs and Data Analysis
Teachers who are guiding independent research projects typically encounter problems as unique as their students. This workshop is an advanced course to help teachers navigate the most common issues students face when designing their own research questions and methods. This workshop is ideally suited for teachers who guide students in compensatory courses with an independent research project as a major assessment such as IB, AP Capstone or project-based learning high schools--however, anyone who would like to add more data and…
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