No Question Left Behind: Bringing Guided-Inquiry Curricula
into Science and Mathematics Classrooms
Monday, June 22 – Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Schoodic Education and Research Center
3rd Biennial one-and-a-half-day conference for middle- and high-school
science and mathematics teachers
Hosted by the University of Maine Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research (Center) and the Jackson Laboratory, with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Bank of America Company, trustee of the Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation, and Maine EPSCoR at the University of Maine, which is funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EPS-0554545
Sunday, June 21
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Time |
Event |
Location |
| 7:00-8:30 PM | Check-in for participants pre-registered for housing on Sunday night | Moore Auditorium |
Monday, June 22
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Time |
Event |
Location |
| 7:30-8:15 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast | Moore Auditorium |
| 8:15-8:30 AM | Welcome: Dr, Susan McKay, Director of The Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research and Professor of Physics
Amie Gellen, Assistant Director, Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research |
Moore Auditorium |
| 8:30-9:15 AM | Are you really teaching if no one is learning? Research on how interactive-lecturing can be used to improve student learning
Edward Prather, Associate Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Director of the Center for Astronomy Education, University of Arizona |
Moore Auditorium |
| 9:15-10:00 AM | How Learning Through Inquiry Changed Our Teaching Philosophy
Alice Putti, Chemistry Teacher, Jenison High School, Michigan |
Moore Auditorium |
| 10:00-10:15 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15-11:00 AM | Project Lead The Way® Curricular Programs Promote STEM achievement
Carolyn Malstrom, Director of Curriculum for Biomedical Sciences |
Moore Auditorium |
| 11:00-11:45 AM | Inquiry As Argument: Debating Our Way Into Science
Leslie Atkins, Assistant Professor Science Education & Physics |
Moore Auditorium |
| 11:45 AM-12:30 PM |
Breaking the Mold: rethinking professional development in K-16 STEM education |
Moore Auditorium |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch | Schooner Dining Commons |
| 1:30-3:30 PM | Workshops | See page 3 |
| 3:30-3:45 PM | Snack Break | Moore Auditorium |
| 3:30-5:00 PM | free time | |
| 4:30-5:00 PM | Poster Session set-up | Moore Auditorium |
| 5:00-6:00 PM | Poster Session & Reception (appetizers) | Moore Auditorium |
| 6:00-7:00 PM | Dinner | Schooner Dining Commons |
| 7:00-7:30 PM | An Astronomer Walks into a Buddhist Temple and Asks…..
Edward Prather, Associate Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Director of the Center for Astronomy Education, University of Arizona |
Schooner Dining Commons |
Tuesday, June 23
|
Time |
Event |
Location |
| 7:30-8:30 AM | Breakfast Buffet | Schooner Dining Commons |
| 8:30-10:30 AM | Workshops | See page 4 |
| 10:30-10:45 AM | Coffee Break | Moore Auditorium |
| 10:45 AM-12:00PM | 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? | Moore Auditorium |
| 12:00-12:15 PM | Wrap-up, conference evaluation & lunch ticket | Moore Auditorium |
| 12:15-1:15 PM | Lunch | Schooner Dining Commons |
| 1:15-3:15 PM | Reconvene participants of 2008 Summer Academy courses | To-Be-Announced |
| 2:30-2:45 PM | Snack Break | Moore Auditorium |
| 3:15-3:30 PM | Driving questions for moving forward: feedback from 2008 Summer Academy meetings | Moore Auditorium |
| Time: 1:30-3:30 PM |
Monday Afternoon Workshops |
Location |
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Structuring Scientific Debates Leslie Atkins, Assistant Professor Science Education & Physics, |
SEA Middle classroom | |
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Wood Your Students Use Real Data? Patricia Bernhardt, Life Science Teacher, James F. Doughty Middle School, Bangor, Elizabeth Haynes, Mathematics Teacher, Troy Howard Middle School, Belfast, Maine Tracy Vassiliev, Applied Science and Accelerated Physical Science Teacher, Bangor |
Dorr classroom | |
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Teaching for Understanding in Science: Active Learning and Assessment Diane Ebert-May, Professor, Plant Biology, Michigan State University |
SEA Chapel | |
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Inspiring Girls in the STEM fields: From Research to Practice
Mary Madden, Associate Research Professor, University of Maine |
Moore Auditorium &
Break-out rooms TBA |
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How to Give Your Activities/Labs an Inquiry Make Over
Alice Putti, Chemistry Teacher, Jenison High School, Jenison, Michigan |
Moore classroom 2 |
| Time: 8:30-10:30 AM |
Tuesday Morning Workshops |
LOCATION |
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The Importance of Talk and Argument in the Science Classrooms Anita Bernhardt, Science & Technology Specialist, Maine Department of Education |
SEA Middle classroom | |
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Project Lead The Way® Biomedical Sciences™ Program—Hands-on Investigative Science
Carolyn Malstrom, Director of Curriculum for Biomedical Sciences, |
Dorr classroom | |
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Guiding the discovery of y = mx + b, y = abx, and y = x2 + b W. Tad Johnston, Mathematics Teacher, William S. Cohen School, Bangor, Maine |
SEA Chapel | |
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Methods for Maximizing the Effectiveness of Interactive Lecturing
Edward Prather, Associate Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer, |
Moore classroom 1 | |
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Mercury in Maine watersheds, biota, and people: The Acadia Learning Project Bill Zoellick, Program Development Director, Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, Yvonne Davis, Education Program Coordinator, Acadia Partners for Science and Learning & Sarah Nelson, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research |
Moore classroom 2 |
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Time: 1:15-3:15 PM |
Tuesday Afternoon |
LOCATION |
| Molly Schauffler Susan Klemmer |
SCIENCE |
Moore classroom 1 |
| Aquaculture Workshop: Domestication of Aquatic Organisms | ||
| Building Inquiry-based, Student-driven Research into Science and Mathematics Programs | ||
| IDEAS: Inquiry-based Dynamic Earth Applications of Supercomputing | ||
| Understanding Climate Change | ||
| Amie Gellen |
MATHEMATICS |
Moore classroom 2 |
| Using Sliders in Mathematics Instruction | ||
| Mathematics with Technology | ||
| Web Based Resources to Assist in Calculus Instruction | ||
| Explorations in Classical Geometry |