CESI Events at NSTA Indianapolis
Friday, March 30, 2012
| 8:00-9:30 | Elementary Extravaganza, Over 80 Presenters, 500 Ballroom, Convention Center (CC) |
| 9:30-10:30 | CESI Session: Helping Children Imagine and Invent Alan McCormick and Hans Persson, #359, Room 211, Indiana CC |
| 9:30-10:30 | CESI Session: Creating the Dynamic Triangle of Science, Literacy, and Technology in the Elementary Classroom, Jeanelle Day, Room 210, Indiana CC |
| 11:00-12:00 | CESI Session: Science on Board, #688, Hans Persson and Swedish Teachers, Room 211, Indiana CC |
| 11:00-12:00 | CESI Session: Where to Go and What to Do at the Crossroads Between Trade Books, Emerging Web Technologies, and STEM Learning, Jeff Thomas, Joyce Gulley, Tammi Davis, Room 210, Indiana CC |
| 12:00-2:00 | CESI/NSTA Elementary Science Luncheon (by ticket only-M6) Indiana Ballroom E – Marriott |
| 2:00-3:00 | CESI Session: Inquiry, Creativity, and Learning Variation—That's How to Teach the Lunar Cycle! K.T. Willhite, Room 210, Indiana CC |
| 2:00-3:00 | CESI Session: Who Wants to Be an Engineer? Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, Room 211, Indiana CC |
| 3:30-4:30 | CESI Session: Simple Toys Link the Physics of Sound and STEM, Julie Thomas, Room 211, Indiana CC |
| 3:30-4:30 | CESI Session: What Could the Matter Be? Melissa Sleeper, Room 210 CC |
Saturday, March 31, 2012
| 9:30-10:30 | CESI Session: "Leaf" It to Me: Leaf Adaptations, Cheryl Sundberg, Room 210, CC |
| 11:00-12:00 | CESI Science: Think Like a Engineer, a Chemist, an Astronaut or Marine Scientists, Michael Vu, Dee Mock and Barbara Tharp, Session # 1002, Room 210, CC |
Engineering: It's Elementary
Marriott Ballroom 1, Indianapolis Marriott Downtown
Pre-Conference Session
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM
Are you looking for ways to add enthusiasm and motivation to your science classes? This CESI session will help you get hands-on with two NEW elementary engineering programs. Join us in a day filled with exciting engineering investigations you can take right back to your classroom. Come learn about the latest in STEM initiatives:
- Engineering is Elementary (EiE) is a project from the Boston Museum of Science. EiE lessons not only promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning but also connects with literacy and social studies. Unit storybooks feature characters from around the world and encourage children to delve into an engineering design challenge.
- Family Engineering is an after-school program modeled after the successful Family Math and Family Science programs. These innovative, hands-on lessons help teachers facilitate informal events where families can explore engineering skills while they engage in inquiry, creativity, and problem-solving activities together.
Our goal is to send you home ready to teach an EiE lesson and to lead an evening of informal engineering experiences for your students and their families. You will leave with free instructional materials – to include a sample EiE literature book and the complete Family Engineering activity guide ($45 value). Registration includes lunch. Cost: $75
Register Online (pay by credit card)
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Registration Form (pay by check or Purchase Order) - See Attachment
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2011 NSTA Regional Conference - Seattle, WA
“There are no books, written collaboratively by science and languare experts, which provides background and practical strategies to educators who teach science to English learners. This book is desperately needed to fill a void in science education and content-area language teaching.”
Editors Ann Fathman and David Crowther
Thursday, December 8
- 12:30-1:00 PM - CESI Shareathon, Washington State Convention Center, Ballroom 6E
- 3:00-6:00 - CESI Board Meeting, Greenwood, Sheraton Seattle Hotel
Friday, December 9
- 8:00-10:00am - CESI Breakfast
David Crowther: Developing Vocabulary for English Language Learners Through Inquiry Science, Issaquah, Sheraton Seattle (40) - 3:30-4:30 - CESI Session: Opportunities Galore, CC 211 (40)
Elementary Extravaganza
Friday, March 30, 2012 - 8:00-9:30 AM
500 Ballroom, Indiana Convention Center
This Extravaganza is not to be missed! Join elementary groups of professionals for an exceptional opportunity. Gather resources for use in your classroom immediately. Engaging hands-on activities, strategies to excite and encourage your students, a preview of the best trade books available, information about award opportunities, contacts with elementary science organizations, sharing with colleagues, door prizes, and much more will be available to participants.
Walk away with a head full of ideas and arms filled with materials.
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2011 NSTA National Conference - Indianapolis
Council for Elementary Science International Luncheon Speaker: Michael DiSpezio
3D Illusion Madness! The History, Science, and Everyday Application of Perceiving 3D!
3D movies, TVs, cell phones, and classrooms! What's the scoop and science underlying this eye-popping technology and how is it most effectively ported into the science classroom? In this fun, engaging and hands-on/minds-on session, you'll experience 3D magic as you learn how to take your own 3D photographs using an ordinary digital camera! Appropriate for all grade levels, learn tips, techniques and inexpensive ways to add depth to your teaching - plus get a heads-up on what to expect in the 3D consumer market.
Michael DiSpezio Bio
Michael is a renaissance educator, speaker, television host and author. A former marine biologist, Michael completed his graduate studies at the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole and worked as a research assistant to a Nobel prize winner. Leaving the laboratory, he celebrated his passion in education as a K-12 classroom teacher for nearly ten years. Towards the end of that tenure, he began writing textbooks and was awarded his first authorship on a high school chemistry series. Extensive travel has taken him from the Emmys with an award nominated show on HIV to the Bahamas where he developed the Discovery Channel Camp at Atlantis. He has hosted numerous broadcasts and worked on a range of shows and products for clients that include NSTA, National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, PBS, MTV, Exxon, DuPont, and the Weather Channel. To date, he is the author of over 30 trade books and has co-authorship on nearly 4 dozen science textbooks including the newly released Science Fusion, a K-8 science series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.