No Question Left Behind: Bringing Guided-Inquiry Curricula into Science and Mathematics Classrooms - NQLB 2011 Schedule
No Question Left Behind: Bringing Guided-Inquiry Curricula into Science and Mathematics Classrooms
Thursday, June 23 – Friday, June 24, 2011
University of Maine, Orono, ME
4th Biennial one-and-a-half-day Conference for Middle- and High School
Science and Mathematics Teachers
Hosted by The Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) and the Jackson Laboratory, with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation, and Bank of America, N.A., Trustee.
Wednesday, June 22
| Time | Event | Location |
| 4:00-8:00 PM | Check-in for participants pre-registered for housing on Wednesday night | DTAV Community Center |
Thursday, June 23
| Time | Event | Presenter | Location |
| 8:00-8:45 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast | Buchanan Alumni House | |
| 8:45 AM | Welcome | Susan McKay | Buchanan Alumni House |
| 9:00-9:45 AM | Washington Academy Sustainable LIFE CurriculumThe Sustainable LIFE Curriculum-Portrait | Don Sprangers | Buchanan Alumni House |
| 9:45-10:30 AM | The Problem with Acceleration | James Vesenka | Buchanan Alumni House |
| 10:30-10:45 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:45-11:30 AM | Promising Practices in Improving Student Learning | Gail Burrill | Buchanan Alumni House |
| 11:45AM-1:00PM | Lunch | Marketplace, Memorial Union | |
| 1:00-3:00 PM | Workshops | See Below | |
| 3:15-4:00 PM | Evaluating High School Students’ Understanding of Kinematics and Mechanics Concepts | Micheal O’Brien | Bangor Room, Memorial Union |
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Poster Session set-up, Room Check in (if yet to do so) 4:00-10:00 PM, Break out discussion groups | Bangor Room, Memorial Union | |
| 5:00-6:00 PM | Poster Session and Reception | Buchanan Alumni House | |
| 6:00-7:30 PM | Dinner | Buchanan Alumni House | |
| 7:30-8:30 PM | Supporting Students in Constructing Evidence Based Scientific Explanation | Joe Krajcik | Buchanan Alumni House |
Friday, June 24
| Time | Event | Presenter | Location |
| 7:30-8:45 AM | Continental Breakfast | Buchanan Alumni House | |
| 8:45-10:45 AM | Workshops | See Below | |
| 11:00-12:00 PM | Open Space: How Can We collaborate to Implement the Approaches to Teaching and Learning We Have Shared at the Conference: in My Classroom, in My School, in Maine? | Susan McKay | Bangor Room, Memorial Union |
| 12:00-12:15 PM | Wrap-up & conference evaluation | Bangor Room, Memorial Union | |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch – Thank you for coming! | Buchanan Alumni House |
Workshops
| Thursday Afternoon Workshops: 1:00-3:00 PM | Facilitator | Location |
| Using the Power of Analogies in Lab to Focus on the Chemistry You Can’t “See” | Mitchell Bruce and Francois Amar | 227 Aubert Hall |
| Seeing Students Talk Science: Eighth Graders Discuss the Rock Cycle | Brian Frank | Bangor Room, Memorial Union |
| Reasoning and Sense Making in Data Anaylsis and Probability | Gail Burrill | FFA Room, Memorial Union |
| Science and Literacy (Part 1) | Anita Bernhardt | Totman Room, Memorial Union |
| Friday Morning Workshops: 9:15-11:30 AM | Facilitator | Location |
| Science and Literacy (Part 2) | Anita Bernhardt | Totman Room, Memorial Union |
| Lab-Batching Biodiesel in the Classroom/ Developing your own LIFE CurriculumBiodiesel MSDS | Don Sprangers | 227 Aubert Hall |
| Faster and Faster, Back to Galileo | James Vesenka | 315 Bennett Hall |
| Using Low-Tech Interactive Methods to Teach Newton’s Laws | Michael O’Brien | FFA Room, Memorial Union |
| Designing and Assessing Evidence-based Scientific ExplanationsHandout with examples | Joe Krajcik | Bangor Room, Memorial Union |