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Can I Pick Your Brain? Exploratory Brain Dissection, Nicole Ross, Jessica Amacher, Desiree Klimek Mar 2024

Can I Pick Your Brain? Exploratory Brain Dissection, Nicole Ross, Jessica Amacher, Desiree Klimek

Professional Learning Day

No abstract provided.


Sphero Heros: Exploring Robotic Programming With Sphero Bots, Elaine Wu Mar 2024

Sphero Heros: Exploring Robotic Programming With Sphero Bots, Elaine Wu

Professional Learning Day

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Little Changes, Big Impact: Integrating Evolution In Science And Ela, Nicole Ross, Lassandra Walker Mar 2024

Little Changes, Big Impact: Integrating Evolution In Science And Ela, Nicole Ross, Lassandra Walker

Professional Learning Day

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Legendary Lessons: How To Enhance Your Instruction Through Storytelling, Elaine Wu Mar 2024

Legendary Lessons: How To Enhance Your Instruction Through Storytelling, Elaine Wu

Professional Learning Day

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Arthroscopy Using Stem: Biomedical Engineering, David Hernandez Mar 2024

Arthroscopy Using Stem: Biomedical Engineering, David Hernandez

Professional Learning Day

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First Order Kinetics Activity, Joe Golab Mar 2024

First Order Kinetics Activity, Joe Golab

Professional Learning Day

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Probability With K-Pop Idols: Bts! An Introduction To Probability Using The Traditional Korean Game 윷놀이 (Yut Nori), Brian Trainor Mar 2024

Probability With K-Pop Idols: Bts! An Introduction To Probability Using The Traditional Korean Game 윷놀이 (Yut Nori), Brian Trainor

Professional Learning Day

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The Science Within Art, Joyce Symoniak Mar 2024

The Science Within Art, Joyce Symoniak

Professional Learning Day

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Latex > Equation Editor, Evan Brummet, Lingyi Meng Mar 2024

Latex > Equation Editor, Evan Brummet, Lingyi Meng

Professional Learning Day

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Labs That Work Both In And Out Of The Classroom, Nicole Ross Mar 2024

Labs That Work Both In And Out Of The Classroom, Nicole Ross

Professional Learning Day

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What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Best Teaching Practices, Elaine Wu Mar 2024

What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Best Teaching Practices, Elaine Wu

Professional Learning Day

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Curve Ahead: Civil Engineering, David Hernandez Mar 2024

Curve Ahead: Civil Engineering, David Hernandez

Professional Learning Day

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Common Mistakes In Pre-Algebra And Algebra, Paul Rummelhoff Mar 2024

Common Mistakes In Pre-Algebra And Algebra, Paul Rummelhoff

Professional Learning Day

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An Axiomatic Approach To Integration, Dr. Anderson Trimm Mar 2024

An Axiomatic Approach To Integration, Dr. Anderson Trimm

Professional Learning Day

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The Mom Demo, Joseph T. Golab Mar 2024

The Mom Demo, Joseph T. Golab

Professional Learning Day

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Embracing Ai In Our Classrooms, Namrata Pandya Mar 2024

Embracing Ai In Our Classrooms, Namrata Pandya

Professional Learning Day

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Exploring The Polarity Of Amino Acids With Thin Layer Chromatography, Angela Ahrendt Mar 2024

Exploring The Polarity Of Amino Acids With Thin Layer Chromatography, Angela Ahrendt

Professional Learning Day

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Why Are There Microscopes In The Art Room?, Joyce Symoniak Mar 2023

Why Are There Microscopes In The Art Room?, Joyce Symoniak

Professional Learning Day

During this presentation we will explore how working cross curriculum enhances learning within the visual arts, science and mathematics. We will discuss how the visual arts curriculum can be created in order to bond with STEM courses for student success. Through exploration we will discuss how collaboration within these courses can be used to solidify cross curriculum understanding and learning. Attendees are asked to bring a sample project or lesson.


E2: Equity And Excellence Framework, Adrienne Coleman Mar 2023

E2: Equity And Excellence Framework, Adrienne Coleman

Professional Learning Day

Considering there is a national and global equity focused call to action, IMSA engaged in a process to institutionalize and operationalize Equity and Excellence to address educational inequities. This included policy development, capacity building to engage in equity work, an inclusive and comprehensive data collection methodology, data meaning making, as well as an equity and excellence plan and scorecard development. This presentation will provide participants with an understanding of educational equity, share tools to assist in drafting datainformed policy/plans, and provide a framework to score and measure progress in advancing equity. It will share how to approach equity and excellence …


Functional Design + Steam, David Hernandez Mar 2023

Functional Design + Steam, David Hernandez

Professional Learning Day

Electronic kiosks are everywhere...ordering your food at a restaurant, checking your luggage at the airport, or getting the perfect paint for your living room. Do you know how they work? During this session students will explore the Functional Design Specification (FDS) and encourage students to think abstractly, create, engineer, test, redesign, and create a marketing campaign for a new product. STEAM to the next level.


Saving Skee-Ball: Applying Engineering & Science With A Fun Storyline, Christine L. Moskalik Mar 2023

Saving Skee-Ball: Applying Engineering & Science With A Fun Storyline, Christine L. Moskalik

Professional Learning Day

How do engineering and science apply to a simple game of skee-ball? In this session, participants will be introduced to various STEM concepts that can be incorporated into a simple, inexpensive, and fun activity that is coupled with a fun storyline (saving the game of Skee-ball). Educators will work as teams to modify, design aspects of, and play the game. Along the way, they will discover ways to do this with their own students.


Can I Pick Your Brain? Exploratory Brain Dissection, Nicole Ross, Jessica Amacher, Desirae Klimek Mar 2023

Can I Pick Your Brain? Exploratory Brain Dissection, Nicole Ross, Jessica Amacher, Desirae Klimek

Professional Learning Day

Science labs, particularly dissections, are often confirmatory in nature, conducted at the end of learning to solidify and assess concept knowledge. What if we flipped the script on these labs and began with an exploratory version, instead? Participants will engage in an inquirybased brain dissection, and explore ways to flip one of their current labs to encourage active exploration of concepts in their classroom. This session includes an active dissection of a sheep brain.


Statistics With The Amazing Web-Slinging Spiderman!!!, Brian Trainor Mar 2023

Statistics With The Amazing Web-Slinging Spiderman!!!, Brian Trainor

Professional Learning Day

An introduction to linear regression, prediction, and linear transformations featuring the Amazing Spider-Man!!! Students will collect data and create a linear model with the goal of predicting how much "web" Spider-Man will need to use in order to land safely on the ground. Attendees must bring a computer.


Visualization Tools And Analogies To Model Strong Vs. Weak Acids, Angela Ahrendt, Laura Kopff Mar 2023

Visualization Tools And Analogies To Model Strong Vs. Weak Acids, Angela Ahrendt, Laura Kopff

Professional Learning Day

We will present two different ways to introduce the difference between a strong acid and a weak acid. The first one uses a Phet simulation where the students can change different parameters in an inquiry based approach. The second one is a hands-on activity using a guided packet and manipulatives to model the differences between strong and weak acids. Attendees must bring a computer.


The Art Of Currency!, David Hernandez, Joyce Symoniak Mar 2023

The Art Of Currency!, David Hernandez, Joyce Symoniak

Professional Learning Day

While some artists dream about making tons of money, other artists dream about designing money. STEM plus art (STEAM) is the perfect mix for the creation and innovation of currency. First, the students will explore the paper making process to find out the best currency paper. Then, students will create their own currency in an engaging, hands-on, and 3-dimensional learning activity. Join us to take STEAM to the next level and let’s create money!


I'M Tired Of Punnett Squares, But Genetics Is Still My Jam, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll Mar 2023

I'M Tired Of Punnett Squares, But Genetics Is Still My Jam, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll

Professional Learning Day

As STEM educators, it can be hard to keep up with what’s happening in our fields outside of the classroom because we have to prioritize the content and skills we share with the students in front of us. But we teach what we do, hopefully, because we love it, and part of our professional development should be to keep that love alive. In this session, we will share ideas for how to stay current, excited and engaged in your own field and in STEM as a whole, when your classroom content only covers the basics that repeat every year. Bring …


Stem Strategies That Engage And Excite Curious Students, Christine L. Moskalik, Elaine Wu Mar 2023

Stem Strategies That Engage And Excite Curious Students, Christine L. Moskalik, Elaine Wu

Professional Learning Day

STEM League programs are designed around a hot topic in STEM and are for self-motivated, independent middle and high-school students. Come learn how we foster a deeper understanding of and appreciation for STEM and simultaneously address relevant ethical considerations. STEM Leagues are different from the typical, competitive science extracurriculars because we focus on the collaborative and constructivist side of STEM. Leave inspired to try some of our strategies to engage and inspire your own students!


Snowflakes And Chaos, Patrick Young Mar 2023

Snowflakes And Chaos, Patrick Young

Professional Learning Day

One day, you may find yourself with a class that can think of nothing but the approaching snowfall. What will you do? Learn an activity about the formation of snowflakes that addresses the idea that no two snowflakes are identical. This fun activity may be engaged with on several levels, from crystal growth to mathematical probability to the science of chaos theory. Keep it handy for the right teachable moment.


The Bisection Method: A Single Technique Yielding Simple Proofs Of The Four "Hard" Theorems Of Calculus, Anderson Trimm Mar 2023

The Bisection Method: A Single Technique Yielding Simple Proofs Of The Four "Hard" Theorems Of Calculus, Anderson Trimm

Professional Learning Day

The Intermediate Value Theorem, Boundedness Theorem, Extreme Value Theorem, and Integrability Theorem are all vital theorems of Calculus, yet are almost never proved in calculus textbooks. I will give simple proofs of these theorems using the Bisection Method, explain how I incorporated these into inquiry-style lessons at IMSA, and discuss the benefits to students. As a connection to Computer Science, the Bisection Method can be viewed as a Binary Search Algorithm.


Terminal Velocity Project: Parachute, Brooke Schmidt, Anastasia Perry Mar 2023

Terminal Velocity Project: Parachute, Brooke Schmidt, Anastasia Perry

Professional Learning Day

This project is meant for a high school physics course where the students have studied Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation, Newton's Second law, and free fall motion. The students construct their own parachute, record a video in LoggerPro of the parachute in motion, and analyze the data to calculate the drag coefficient of their parachute.