Are you interested in learning more about what it means to be a Nationally Certified STEM Teacher? Earning a STEM Teacher Certificate will refine and demonstrate your understanding of STEM Teacher Actions. But don't take our word for it! Come learn from teachers and STEM leaders who have earned their National Certificate in STEM Teaching and hear their testimony of how these effective, engaging, and evidence-based STEM instructional strategies have transformed their students' outcomes and energized their campuses.
STEMscopes Regional School Success Consultant, STEMscopes Science
With more than 20 years of education experience, Jessica Morse is a frequent presenter at conferences across the country. She is STEM-certified by the National Institute of STEM Education and currently serves as a STEMscopes Regional School Success Consultant based in the Dallas... Read More →
Join us in this fun and interactive workshop to explore how the flatworm "Planaria" commonly found in our Texas lakes can be used to excite your students and immerse them in hands-on, inquiry-based investigations. These wiggly flatworms are not only safe to handle, but are cute to look at and can be easily maintained in a classroom. Furthermore, the Planaria are greatly used in scientific research, giving a real purpose for your learners to explore them. Discover through hands-on activities the value to use the wiggly Planarian to bring alive topics such as organism’s interactions with their environment, sexual and asexual reproduction, cell division; stems cells and regeneration. Classroom ready resources including vendor information for these organisms, care and feeding requirements, links to free teaching resources/interactives, and alignments to TEKS across grade levels will be provided.
Join the discussion and learn from expert STEMscopes teachers and district leaders who are having great success with STEMscopes! We will hold a panel discussion to share their best practices using STEMscopes for planning, blended learning, literacy connections and more! Bring your questions for a great discussion about how STEMscopes can best help your students
STEMscopes Regional School Success Consultant, STEMscopes Science
With more than 20 years of education experience, Jessica Morse is a frequent presenter at conferences across the country. She is STEM-certified by the National Institute of STEM Education and currently serves as a STEMscopes Regional School Success Consultant based in the Dallas... Read More →
Have you wondered how you could realistically integrate engineering into your existing classroom instruction?  Join us in Engineering Solutions to develop a meaningful definition for engineering and explore the role of the EDP to address real-world problems. You will also learn how to realistically integrate the EDP into your classroom instruction.
STEMscopes Regional School Success Consultant, STEMscopes Science
With more than 20 years of education experience, Jessica Morse is a frequent presenter at conferences across the country. She is STEM-certified by the National Institute of STEM Education and currently serves as a STEMscopes Regional School Success Consultant based in the Dallas... Read More →
Did you know the popular glowfish seen in your local pet store is a genetically modified organism? The glowfish are not only fun to look at and are actively used in scientific research giving your students a real purpose to learn with glowfish. Join us in this fun and hands-on interactive workshop to explore how you can use glowfish to bring alive complex concepts in genetics, heredity and biotechnology to excite your students and immerse them in hands-on, inquiry-based investigations. Classroom ready resources including vendor information for these organisms, care and feeding requirements, links to free teaching resources/interactives, and alignments to TEKS across grade levels will be provided.
Teachers - Imagine an affordable, 100% online graduate program designed for you! Built from the ground up by educators for educators using STEMscopes*, Southern New Hampshire University is offering three graduate program options, including a Masters degree with a Focus in STEM Instruction! Join us to learn about higher education programs that truly bring the college to the teacher’s classroom - where the most important learning happens! *STEMscopes provided for educators whose schools do not already use this curriculum.
Learn about the methods and practices that helped schools in a district where 76% of the students are economically disadvantaged improve their Meets Grade Level passing rate by 25% or more on the 5th grade STAAR. We will discuss how to actually calculate the "bang for the buck" of any standard, demonstrate how to effectively align your lessons within your PLC, and give suggestions about where to focus your time during your STAAR review unit. With tips, tricks, and examples to take with you, this session will help you improve student success by working smarter instead of harder!
Are you looking to learn about how you can differentiate, incorporate really great online learning tools such as EduSmart, learn about Breakout Rooms (Escape Rooms), or how to make your own ADI's, then do we have a course for you! We will go briefly over how to incorporate all of these things during the session. We will also go more in depth with EduSmart and how it can make learning and also remediation fun and exciting for students. I will share all of the step by step instructions to a google classroom folder (No need to buy from my TpT account!). We would really love to see you and meet with you. I also offer extended learning. If you have any questions, I encourage you to come and meet me during my session and I will give you my contact information so you can have a friend in the EdTech field.
Three-dimensional learning fundamentally shifts science education. No longer will science be seen as fact driven, rote memorization. Instead students must be afforded the opportunity to create, analyze, and evaluate to understand scientific concepts, solve problems, and recognize how those concepts connect to other concepts in other fields. Explore how a phenomena-driven approach to science teaching that incorporates science and engineering practices along with cross-cutting concepts brings these experiences to the forefront and enables students to develop their ADI or CER skills!
The global leader in K-12 digital content, Discovery Education provides compelling high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, unique collaboration tools, and professional learning resources to give your educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a... Read More →
Administrators - Boost achievement and instructional capacity in your district through Southern New Hampshire University's STEM graduate programs and our District Cohort Model which offers many benefits to your district and its educators. These SNHU graduate programs have been developed collaboratively with STEMscopes and the National Institute for STEM Education and we are honored to offer three affordable, 100% online, graduate programs focused on deep, meaningful implementation of STEM and 5E instruction using STEMscopes as the core tool. Join us to explore how our district cohort model benefits your district’s teachers and students.
In many schools across the country, finding ways to help English Language Learners (ELLs) has been presented as an either-or option at the expense or detriment of other programs. Too often we are given the impression that money and technology will be the silver bullet to solve the achievement gap. In this presentation, participants will have the ability to see that rather than a decision of where to split limited resources, strategies in ELL classrooms or with ELL students can be used to support and lift ALL student achievement. Participants will engage in TEK-aligned, low-tech methods of allowing students to work at a reasonable pace and differentiate large groups of students with ease. Participants will walk through various low-tech solutions, such as six-station tutorial sessions, hallway video safaris using QR codes and YouTube videos, and GIF makers for more complex concepts. Participants can expect to learn how to win student's attention and dedication using readily available resources to create a winning combination of visuals, individual accountability, and technology to increase learning regardless of linguistic or socioeconomic background.
Starting and maintaining a school garden and compost pile, while not easy, opens a door to scientific inquiry and discovery in the living world. A school garden and compost pile requires a child's intellectual, emotional and social engagement with things that must be measured, counted, weighed, arranged, planned and cared for. During this workshop, educators will learn practical gardening skills - including square foot gardening.
Legends of Learning employs original research to drive student performance using TEKS-aligned games. Our Netflix-style game-based learning platform delivers a wide range of lessons and drives content proficiency for stronger subject mastery and classroom engagement. In our study with Vanderbilt University, students had higher levels of engagement, increased test scores and faster comprehension of content. Use Legends of Learning to integrate an exciting game-based learning platform into your curriculum to give your students the superpower of knowledge!_x000D_ _x000D_ The session includes a preview of our platform, a collaborative discussion of how games align with TEKS standards and improve student achievement, and a variety of suggestions on how to implement game-based learning within a larger TEKS curriculum. And, of course, all participants will have a chance to play some fun TEKS-aligned educational video games. Come ready to collaborate, compete, learn some science and have a whole lot of fun!
Senior Director of District Partnerships, Legends of Learning
Aryah recruits and develops a network of teacher ambassadors to pilot and give feedback on newly built standards based games. He ensures the growth of the ambassador program into a teacher community where teachers across the country can share their experiences and best practices with... Read More →
Come explore how you can use low-budget pet store supplies and zebrafish (Danio rerio) to spark your students’ curiosity and drive cutting-edge, real-world inquiries in your classroom. The zebrafish are freshwater fish that are at the forefront of biomedical research and are easily maintained in a classroom aquarium. In this hands-on interactive session, 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. Discover how real-life experiences with zebrafish inspire students to ask meaningful questions, design experiments, work a microscope to make observations, and analyze data. Discussions about the scalability of zebrafish inquiries to meet the learning needs of diverse students at multiple grade levels including Pre-AP, AP Biology, Aquatic science and Environmental science will be conducted. Classroom ready resources including vendor information for these organisms, care and feeding requirements, links to free teaching resources/interactives, and alignments to TEKS across grade levels will be provided.
There is something magical about walking into a science classroom where genuine teaching and learning is occurring. Unfortunately, research shows that only about 1/3 of teachers feel well prepared to teach science.  Join us for an unforgettable hands-on experience as we dive into the HOW of teaching science and share information on our customized campus and district professional learning partnership plans.
