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National Conference on Science and Education in San Francisco in March
January 22, 2011

NSTA Conference in San Franciso

PD for Your Elementary and Middle School Staff

Consider sending your staff to NSTA's National Conference on Science Education, March 10-13 in San Francisco. This topnotch event offers thousands of practical workshops, presentations, content development sessions, and symposia sponsored by NASA, FDA, NSF, and the EPA. For every discipline and for the preservice as well as the experienced teachers, PD enhances a career and promotes performance in the classroom. Register by February 4 and save! Take a look at some of our offerings:

  • Think Scientifically: NASA Solar Science Hidden in a Storybook-Explore a science literature program that integrates children's stories with solid science, math, and literacy content
  • Featured Speaker: Dr. Dennis M. Bartels, executive director of the Exploratorium, The Total STEM Learning Ecology: How to Use All a Child's Waking Hours to Activate the Science Learner in Every Student Before Adolescence
  • TLC Is a PLC: Learn how embedded professional development in classrooms links to school culture, teacher development, and student achievement.
  • The Role of Discourse and Writing in Inquiry Science at the Upper Elementary Level: Ticketed Short Course
  • Teaching Earth Science Content with iPods, Laptops, and Other Portable Accelerometers
  • Tackling the Global Warming Challenge in a Rapidly Changing World
  • Earth as a System: Seasons and the Seas: Exploration of interactions between land, oceans, and atmosphere with lessons from a NOAA-funded project.
  • Hands-On Nanotechnology Laboratory Activities
  • Model-based Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Science
  • Engaging Students in Biology Through Real-World Connections: Topics-stem cell research, medical issues, and diabetes and kidney disease.
  • Engaging ELL Students in Scientific Discourse Using Seven Strategies
  • Effective STEM Challenges for the Classroom
  • An Ocean Sciences Curriculum Sequence for Grades 3-5: Ticketed Short Course: Inquiry-based activities designed to bring ocean sciences to life for elementary classrooms

Visit www.nsta.org/sanfrancisco for more information or to register.

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