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Blatticomposting In The Classroom With Ne Iowa Area School Districts, Alex Holden Mar 2023

Blatticomposting In The Classroom With Ne Iowa Area School Districts, Alex Holden

Science Education Update Conference Documents

Undergraduate science teaching majors will be providing a series of short presentations including the “Effects of Biophilia on Secondary Science Classrooms”, “Blatticomposting in the Classroom with NE Iowa area school districts”, and “Aquaponics Ideas for PK-12 classrooms Building upon Ioponics Lessons”.

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Considering The Crosscutting Concepts, Dana Atwood-Blaine Mar 2023

Considering The Crosscutting Concepts, Dana Atwood-Blaine

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Come further your understanding of the most misunderstood dimension of the NGSS. This presentation will engage participation in collaborative learning activities to take a deep dive into the Crosscutting Concepts.

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Watershed-Based Conservation Case Study Workshop, Elizabeth Ripley, Usda - Natural Resources Conservation Service Mar 2023

Watershed-Based Conservation Case Study Workshop, Elizabeth Ripley, Usda - Natural Resources Conservation Service

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The workshop focuses on new Watershed-Based Case Studies that were developed to be easy and ready to use by educators for grades 8-12. All materials will be provided, including a flash drive containing booklets for educators and students, as well as PowerPoints and agendas. The workshop will be interactive and an opportunity to explore the case studies firsthand.

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Doing It All - Meaningful Integration Of Science With Social Studies, Math, And Ela, Chelsie Byram, Mandie Sanderman Mar 2023

Doing It All - Meaningful Integration Of Science With Social Studies, Math, And Ela, Chelsie Byram, Mandie Sanderman

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Presenters will share two units in which science is integrated with ELA, math, and social studies. This session will share the process of unit creation and how incorporation with other content areas strengthens science instruction. Two units will be shared-one for kindergarten and one for 3rd grade as well as discussion on how integrated units can be created for other grade areas.

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Wild About The Outdoors, Holly Schulte Mar 2023

Wild About The Outdoors, Holly Schulte

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The session will include some quick engaging activities for teaching with outdoor observations and habitats from the national award-winning Project WILD and Aquatic WILD resources. I will also share links to additional online resources including age appropriate books, Iowa’s natural resources, and outdoor observation and investigation

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How Grading For Equity Changed The Way I Teach, Andrew Berns, Ben Schafer Mar 2023

How Grading For Equity Changed The Way I Teach, Andrew Berns, Ben Schafer

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If you are anything like us, you are likely frustrated with the amount of time you spend both grading and then "quibbling" with students about grades - oftentimes in situations that have no real connection with classroom learning. Members of the computer science department at UNI have been discussing teaching and learning together for years and we were thrilled to discover the 2019 book Grading for Equity by author and educator Joe Feldman. In it he writes "There is growing awareness that traditional grading practices have become a barrier to meaningful student learning." From this belief he presents a style …

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Chemistry Unit 1: Rate Your Reactions, Holly Hinkhouse Garcia, Natalie Dirkx Mar 2023

Chemistry Unit 1: Rate Your Reactions, Holly Hinkhouse Garcia, Natalie Dirkx

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Start the school year with an engaging unit all about chemical reactions and their rates! This unit for NGSS PS1-5 uses experiments and modeling to help students naturally learn the language of chemical reactions...even before knowing the parts of the atom!

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Accessibility Online: All Students Means All Students., Jennifer Bliss, Christopher Like Mar 2023

Accessibility Online: All Students Means All Students., Jennifer Bliss, Christopher Like

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Much of the technology around us has been designed for persons with different needs. We can now set an alarm just by asking a device to do so. We can enter stores without touching doors, and read captions for the news on television while listening to music on earbuds. Online curriculum needs to mirror this type of access to give all students the ability to engage with content. Can the visually impaired student in a biology classroom use a microscope? Where are videos with captions for hearing impaired students? Can a student with limited dexterity independently access interactive slides? Deliberate …

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Aquaponics Ideas For Pk-12 Classrooms Building Upon Ioponics Lessons, Rose Larson, Kate Heithoff Mar 2023

Aquaponics Ideas For Pk-12 Classrooms Building Upon Ioponics Lessons, Rose Larson, Kate Heithoff

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Undergraduate science teaching majors will be providing a series of short presentations including the “Effects of Biophilia on Secondary Science Classrooms”, “Blatticomposting in the Classroom with NE Iowa area school districts”, and “Aquaponics Ideas for PK-12 classrooms Building upon Ioponics Lessons”.

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Ngss And Openscied: Transform Your Instruction To Put Your Students In The Role Of Scientists, Michelle Tindall Mar 2023

Ngss And Openscied: Transform Your Instruction To Put Your Students In The Role Of Scientists, Michelle Tindall

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Participants will learn how OpenSciEd’s instructional model puts students in the active role of doing science. As students move through the five routines of an OpenSciEd unit, they are exposed to all three dimensions of the NGSS, Disciplinary Core Ideas, Science and Engineering Practices, and Crosscutting Concepts. Come learn more about the five routines used in OpenSciEd and how OpenSciEd supports instruction based upon the NGSS through the use of phenomena, storylines, investigations, modeling, and classroom discourse.

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The Science And Stem Of Iowa’S Grape Industry, Cathryn Carney Mar 2023

The Science And Stem Of Iowa’S Grape Industry, Cathryn Carney

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Iowa is full of science phenomena rooted in agriculture. In this session participants will explore earth science as they compare production of an Iowa specialty crop, grapes, to those in California. Participants will learn about integrating agriculture into STEM as they engineer a value-added product (jelly).

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Environmental Issues Instruction: Nourishing Our Water And Soil Through Sustainable Agriculture, Barb Ehlers, Cathryn Carney, Jeff Monteith Mar 2023

Environmental Issues Instruction: Nourishing Our Water And Soil Through Sustainable Agriculture, Barb Ehlers, Cathryn Carney, Jeff Monteith

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We will present a lesson from our Environment Issues Instruction professional development curriculum on properties of soil. This will be an interactive hands-on activity for participants to experience how to teach the properties of soil.

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Openscied: Instructional Routines That Put Your Students At The Center Of The Learning, Michelle Tindall Mar 2023

Openscied: Instructional Routines That Put Your Students At The Center Of The Learning, Michelle Tindall

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Participants will experience how OpenSciEd makes use of phenomenon-driven storylines, driving question boards, investigations, and discourse. Participants will be introduced to the storyline approach, a sequence of lessons that is motivated by students’ questions related to their interactions with phenomena. Participants will also navigate an OpenSciEd unit using five routines - activities that play specific roles in advancing the storyline to help increase students’ understanding of the science content.

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How Structuring Our Physics Courses With Grades Based On Standards Has Transformed Our Pedagogy, Sara Karbeling, Camille Chalkley, Sasha Murphy Mar 2023

How Structuring Our Physics Courses With Grades Based On Standards Has Transformed Our Pedagogy, Sara Karbeling, Camille Chalkley, Sasha Murphy

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In the past 5 years, Liberty High School’s physics team (Iowa City) developed a robust standards-based grading system, informed by research and designed from the ground up. Learn about the effects that mindset shifts have had on our culture and outlook.

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Enhancing Science Notebooks With Scientific Sketching And Nature Journaling, Dana Atwood-Blaine Mar 2023

Enhancing Science Notebooks With Scientific Sketching And Nature Journaling, Dana Atwood-Blaine

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Learn techniques and strategies for incorporating scientific sketching and nature journaling into students’ science notebook routines by engaging in the activities yourself. These exercises are about close observation and focused attention; you do not need any artistic skill to be successful at scientific sketching or nature journaling. Additionally, nature journaling has been shown to be an effective practice to add to a teacher’s Social Emotional Learning toolkit. This workshop is appropriate for all K-12 teachers.

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Iophonics: Iowa Educational Aquaponics, Michael Bechtel Mar 2023

Iophonics: Iowa Educational Aquaponics, Michael Bechtel

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Will explain and share experiences, ideas, and expansion of Ioponics: Iowa Educational Aquaponics. An IKEA-like plan for use by PK-12 teachers to show how to get involved, and explain the growth in interest.

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Uni Science Education Update Conference [Program] March 31, 2023, University Of Northern Iowa Science Education Program Mar 2023

Uni Science Education Update Conference [Program] March 31, 2023, University Of Northern Iowa Science Education Program

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The program for the Science Education Update Conference held on March 31, 2023 at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Effects Of Biophilia On Secondary Science Classrooms, Annie Dietz, Keli Potter Mar 2023

Effects Of Biophilia On Secondary Science Classrooms, Annie Dietz, Keli Potter

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Undergraduate science teaching majors will be providing a series of short presentations including the “Effects of Biophilia on Secondary Science Classrooms”, “Blatticomposting in the Classroom with NE Iowa area school districts”, and “Aquaponics Ideas for PK-12 classrooms Building upon Ioponics Lessons”.

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The Importance Of Hyper Local Phenomena For Your Classroom, Cody Smith, Tiffany Morgan, Arielle Sexton, Lexi Wiltgen Mar 2023

The Importance Of Hyper Local Phenomena For Your Classroom, Cody Smith, Tiffany Morgan, Arielle Sexton, Lexi Wiltgen

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Iowa Science Phenomena is a website from Iowa PBS which is entirely "User-Generated." Come learn about the importance of utilizing hyper-local phenomena in your classroom, hear about the impact of this from a teacher who has done it, and workshop a phenomena yourself, including an opportunity to design something that is useful for your classroom and that can be contributed to the Iowa Science Phenomena website.

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Building Your Teaching Legacy, Robert G. Good Mar 2023

Building Your Teaching Legacy, Robert G. Good

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Review of techniques to develop the legacy and what that means to the students.

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Science Innovation In 45 Minutes Or Less, Leslie Flynn, Pamela Joslyn, Maria Hasken-Averkamp Mar 2023

Science Innovation In 45 Minutes Or Less, Leslie Flynn, Pamela Joslyn, Maria Hasken-Averkamp

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Join this interactive session to learn how to engage your students in science innovation to solve real-world problems. This takeaway activity illustrates how science progresses from idea generation to solution development. Along the way, see how students engage in the NGSS practices and processes of science and engineering. The innovation process develops students’ workforce and college-ready skills and mindsets. Hear from a Muscatine secondary science educator on how she is implementing innovation in her science classroom.

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The State Of Safety Training, Facilities, And Resources For Chemistry Teachers: A National Survey, Lydia Richardson, Dawn Del Carlo Ph.D. Jul 2022

The State Of Safety Training, Facilities, And Resources For Chemistry Teachers: A National Survey, Lydia Richardson, Dawn Del Carlo Ph.D.

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This study is examining the current state of secondary science teachers' chemical safety training, facilities in the school, and the resources available. A survey is being conducted at the start of August and collection will be concluded at the end of September. Data analysis will begin in October, with four main goals in mind to begin with. Teachers’ variation in training is going to be looked at along with what form of safety training is most common. The timing of training will also be looked at to see how frequently training is occurring. With regard to facilities, reported parts of …

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Attitudes Toward The Chemistry Laboratory Learning Environment Using Different Pedagogies And Assessment Protocols, Lydia Richardson, Dawn Del Carlo Ph.D. Jul 2022

Attitudes Toward The Chemistry Laboratory Learning Environment Using Different Pedagogies And Assessment Protocols, Lydia Richardson, Dawn Del Carlo Ph.D.

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Symposium

The Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) and Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) are evidence-based laboratory approaches that emphasize the process of scientific argumentation (Burke et al., 2006; Rudd et al., 2001; Walker et al., 2011). The University of Northern Iowa utilized the SWH approach for over 10 years until research indicated that the cognitive load associated with the pre-lab, specifically, hindered students’ ability to participate in authentic scientific inquiry for the rest of the laboratory experiment (Bonde & Del Carlo, 2018). In response to this, a hybrid model of instruction integrating elements of both the SWH and ADI laboratory approaches was created …

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Why Do Effective Science Teachers Persist?: A Mixed Methods Approach Exploring Post-Induction Effective Science Teachers' Experiences, Molly Ella Ramker, William Raymond Lange, Jesse Wilcox Ph.D., Dori Clausen Jul 2022

Why Do Effective Science Teachers Persist?: A Mixed Methods Approach Exploring Post-Induction Effective Science Teachers' Experiences, Molly Ella Ramker, William Raymond Lange, Jesse Wilcox Ph.D., Dori Clausen

Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Symposium

Secondary science teachers have been leaving the field at an increasing rate in recent years. While much is known about science teacher attrition, less is known about science teacher persistence. The purpose of this study was to identify effective post-induction science teachers and analyze why they persist. This study was conducted using a mixed-methods approach including the Local Systemic Change Classroom Observation Protocol (LSC-COP) to generate a quantitative measure of science teaching effectiveness, along with using a phenomenological approach to investigate the experiences of effective science teachers who have stayed in the field.The median and mode of the LSC-COP capsule …

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Make Science Concrete!, Deetta Anderson Dr. Apr 2022

Make Science Concrete!, Deetta Anderson Dr.

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Two separate sessions are being presented. You can attend one or both sessions. In the first hands-on session, participants will simulate the transit method of finding exoplanets by looking at star dimming. This activity uses accessible materials and shows students how scientists look for habitable planets outside our solar system. In the second session, participants will learn how students use the scientific method to make concrete samples and test them for strength. Students love doing this while learning about a natural resource important to Iowa. Student-made concrete samples will be shared. Appropriate for both Earth and Physical Sciences.

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Uni Science Education Update Conference [Program] April 1, 2022, University Of Northern Iowa Science Education Program. Apr 2022

Uni Science Education Update Conference [Program] April 1, 2022, University Of Northern Iowa Science Education Program.

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The program for the Science Education Update Conference held on April 1, 2022 at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Standard-Based Grading In Science: Taking Your Next Steps, Matt Townsley Dr., Dawn Posekany Apr 2022

Standard-Based Grading In Science: Taking Your Next Steps, Matt Townsley Dr., Dawn Posekany

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In this session, two seasoned educators will share their experiences implementing standard-based grading. Following a brief introductory presentation, participants will be provided time to ask questions.

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Anchoring Phenomena With Light And Contact Forces, Larry Escalada, Alison Beharka Apr 2022

Anchoring Phenomena With Light And Contact Forces, Larry Escalada, Alison Beharka

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OpenSciEd is a curriculum designed for the NGSS based on science storylines, phenomena-based, coherent from students’ perspective, driven by evidence, collaborative, and equitable. Instructional units for Grades 6-8 are available and will expand to include elementary through high school. Experience anchoring phenomena from Grade 6.1 Light & Matter and Grade 8.1 Contact Forces. UNI Science Education will be supporting the use of OpenSciEd with resources and future professional development.

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Down For The Count - Rumford, That Is, Jeff Morgan Apr 2022

Down For The Count - Rumford, That Is, Jeff Morgan

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Experience a PRISMS Plus activity that builds understanding of the energy transformations from gravitational work to heat using a few simple materials. Participants will build a device for converting mechanical energy into heat, and use temperature probes and appropriate calculations to determine the efficiency of the device. This activity builds foundational knowledge required for several of the Next Generation Physical Science Energy Standards at both the middle and high school levels.

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The Teacher Institute For Evolutionary Science (Ties), Kristine Swartchick Apr 2022

The Teacher Institute For Evolutionary Science (Ties), Kristine Swartchick

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The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) informs interested middle school science teachers about the most up-to-date concepts of natural selection, common ancestry, and diversity for them to confidently cover the topics in their classrooms and fulfill their curriculum requirements. TIES provides science teachers with innovative professional development opportunities, often in collaboration with biology professors and scientists researching current evolutionary trends. TIES also has ready-to-use online resources for the classroom, including presentation slides, labs, guided reading assignments, and an exam. All free! During the presentation, our presenter will model how to use our free slide presentation in the classroom. It …

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