Come learn fun, educational, and teacher-friendly labs geared for 1st-3rd grade students. You'll leave with hands-on experience and worksheets to use on Monday.

Introduce earth science with NASA's Mission Geography program. Compare images from space and satellites to understand volcanic eruptions. Actual data helps graph, evaluate, and predict human impacts of volcanic events.

We will be building igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that you and your students will enjoy making and learning about. Lesson plans and worksheets included—get ready to get building!

Motivate students to become independent inquirers about the natural world through social action projects. Engage in activities that simulate the process, receive project components, and get ideas for integration and correlations with state standards.

Get your students interested in science and cover half of the standards. Solar-cooking allows teachers to explore climate change, energy conduction, convection, electromagnetic-spectrum, and issues facing non-renewable energy resources.

Learn a structured way to use science notebooks to enhance learning in your classroom. Practice using notebooks yourself by delving into a hands-on lesson that focuses on the scientific process. (CAS)

Use polymerase chain reaction to track down the most infectious microbe on the planet. Bring current research using Wolbachia into your classroom. Engage your students in an exciting scientific adventure.

ACE (Alliance for Climate Education) aims to inspire, educate, and empower high school students on climate change through a dynamic, multi-media assembly presentation.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are and will be areas of high demand in California. Panel members will describe STEM programs at their schools. Time provided for discussion. (CEEIN)

Learn how to incorporate the most popular and exciting scientific field into your classroom. Participants will receive hands-on experience solving realistic crime scene scenarios using actual forensic techniques.

In this jam-packed session, you will learn time-tested, research-based strategies and techniques designed to drastically reduce problem behavior, improve student focus, and increase instruction time.

You will collect position vs. time data from the motion of a toy car to derive the relationships between velocity, position, and time. Fun, simple, and cheap.

This is a fun performance-based assessment covering many of the 7th grade cell biology standards. Students create analogies between parts of a cell and a topic of their choosing.

Contour maps of all kinds, but especially weather maps are easier to understand if 3-D representations instead of 2-D are used. This makes the information they convey easier to visualize.

The use of chemicals available in the supermarket enables students to safely explore a variety of chemical reactions in sealed zip-top bags. Appropriate for first grade and above.

6th grade curriculum to teach the fire triangle, heat transfer, and the history of wildfires. Students will create defensible space plans for their homes and measure and predict wildfire danger. (CEEIN)

Participants will learn strategies to address key issues in starting or improving a biotechnology program, including funding, facilities, curriculum, student recruitment, workplace experiences, assessment, etc.

Analyze a suggested scope and sequence of measuring skills for grades K-5 by trying out metric tools and exploring sample hands-on activities for elementary students.

Learn how to create a mini-video that enhances your class discussions/lectures. All programs shown are free on-line or included on your computer. All levels of technology expertise welcome.

Learn how to make an inexpensive near-IR camera and investigate properties of infrared radiation in the classroom. Make IR measurable, visible, and audible, and test the transmission, reflection, and refraction of IR.

Discover what holds our universe together–GRAVITY! Attendees become inquiring scientist as they replicate Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment using everyday objects to discover the effects of gravity.

A well-planned unit on the kelp forest and open ocean environments. A veteran teacher will share personal lessons, student contracts, graphic organizers, student samples, and assessment rubrics.

Learn how online simulations help students develop experimentation skills and conceptual understanding in science. Students manipulate key variables, generate and test hypotheses, and engage in extensive “what-if” experimentation.

Participants will learn how to use a cheese-making activity to teach scientific methodologies and to illustrate how biotechnology has impacted an industry.

Increase achievement in K-12 classrooms by examining how well-designed questions and structured responses explicitly teach students to communicate in a polite and productive way. Get strategies to use Monday morning. (K-12A)

Using dry ice, learn hands-on that science is about wondering why, asking questions, observing, coming up with possible explanations, and then designing investigations to test those explanations.

Assessing inquiry is essential to instruction. Participants will engage in a hands-on performance task and explore the uses and advantages of this form of assessment.

Universities use active learning instruction based on research demonstrating that the model promotes enhanced learning and retention. Active Learning achieves similar goals in secondary schools, better preparing students for university instruction.

This session is designed to provide teachers the tools to work with real oceanographic, climatic, and polar data in the classroom and field. It will provide hands-on and computer-based activities. (COSEE/SWMEA)

Are we taking advantage of our students' 21st century skills to prepare them for careers and learning in the 21st century? Come see how the use of technology resources such as YouTube, podcasting, and wikis can be integrated into your classroom.

An ocean acidification virtual lab involves students in an interactive lab using actual data from current research. Students look into causes, set up the experiment, and compare individual and class data.

Teach manipulative-based chemistry using a paper “chemistry set.” This inexpensive manipulative tool is highly effective in enabling the student to master fundamentals of 8th grade chemistry standards.

Incorporate new place-based technologies into your classroom to enhance learning. Learn about creating media-rich, interactive, science-based maps using free tools from Google.

The Target Science Investigation Immersions Model for developing better science field investigations through science seminars, field investigations and collaborative design wil be shared along with lesson samples and teacher reflections.

Get a fresh perspective on an important topic: acids and bases. This presentation will show you how to introduce and incorporate acid and bases in a biology and chemistry course.

Where do you fit in the food web? Come and survive the different ecosystems. This workshop will give you ideas to work with English and Spanish Language Learners and gifted students.

Learn about new approaches teachers can use to teach the ocean literacy scope and sequence. Scientists and educators worked together for two years on an ocean sciences curriculum sequence, grades 3-5.

Learn how to plan and run a successful family science event at your school. Receive connections to literally hundreds of activities and other resources. (CSP)

Learn about affordable, engaging, and standards-based ways to teach about forces and motion by studying flight. Use hands-on methods to teach and explore the forces of lift, drag, gravity, and thrust.

Can your students calculate moles given mass and atomic mass? In this workshop you make, use, and learn to teach sliderule to solve science math problems.

Learn about NASA’s Saturn science and language arts program, “Reading, Writing & Rings” and other Saturn educator resources. Teachers will receive free curriculum materials and learn how to use them.

Learn about NASA’s new solar system science and language arts program, Our Solar System Through the Eyes of Scientists. Teachers will receive free curriculum materials and learn to use them.

The author of the Conceptual Physics Laboratory Manual will give a presentation of his favorite physics labs and demonstrations. Attendees will receive a DVD of his favorite physics video clips.

Comprehensive biology course focusing on marine life teaching all required California biology standards. Includes lesson plans, labs, activities, games, and web interactives/web quests. Course components tried, and test scores were phenomenal. (COSEE/SWMEA)

Fun explorations engage young students in physical science through hands-on investigations with magnets. Activities build prior knowledge, preparing students for the magnetic principles covered at the next grade levels.

For teachers who wish to learn more about earthquakes, seismology, plate tectonics, and related earth science, implement exciting hands-on activities. Extensive free materials provided. Continuation of the 3:15-4:15 session.

Lively hands-on activity stations designed to assist students in constructing knowledge about the laws of motion. Hand-outs include:Conceptually linked lessons, as well as book and technology resources. (K-12A)

New to the California Science Education Conference? CSTA board members and experience conference goers will give you a warm welcome and show you the ropes. You’ll get the inside scoop on where to go, what to do, and how to make the most of your conference experience.

Hands-on activities using GEMS, and other materials showing the relationship between Earth and the sun, distance in relationship to other planets and stars, and data collected from several missions of NASA.  Hand-outs provided.

Learn about a program that includes teacher internships, a summer institute on physical science demonstrations, and an ROP science careers course with internships for students. Receive a DVD of some of the demonstrations.

This science safety workshop will provide participants with a general overview of science safety for public schools. A comprehensive set of materials will be provided to each participant.

We will give a demonstration of WordSift (www.wordsift.com), an interactive vocabulary development tool. Researchers from Stanford and teachers from the SFUSD will share applications and experiences using this tool.

This is a hands-on, ready-to-use, student-friendly workshop. These standards-based manipulatives will motivate and engage your students with visual, kinesthetic, and fun activities.

Project Learning Tree has provided free activities relating biotechnology to American forests. Do some of these hands-on activities and get access to free resources.

Try out hands-on activities for teaching about forests and watersheds. Learn how to receive free copies of a new resource, The Conifer Connection.

For teachers who wish to learn more about earthquakes, seismology, plate tectonics, and related earth science, implement exciting hands-on activities. Extensive free materials provided. Continued at 4:35-5:35.

Want to expand and refresh your labs and activities? Learn 48 low-cost, high-interest activities straight from the classroom. All worksheets and instructions included. Expect demonstration, discussion, and example assignment giveaways.

With just a few materials you can make models of Earth’s layers, role play the rock cycle, take a virtual geology field trip, and locate earthquake epicenters by triangulating seismic data. (CAS)

Learn how to use video to enhance your students' comprehension of motion and forces demonstrations. Equipment and software will be shown with demonstrations of motion and forces.

Receive an introduction to the California Coastal Commission’s science activity guide, Waves, Wetlands, and Watersheds, and find out about other free resources available from the commission. (CEEIN)

Take the Hiller Aviation Museum’s most popular hands-on program home today! Build, fly, and control simple airplanes, gliders, and helicopters as your students soar with the science of flight.

Science Olympiad is a competition for elementary, middle, and high school students that is fun and engaging for students. Find out how you can get involved. Hands-on.

Learn basic properties and principles of air and air pollution. Build a simple particulate air sampler while teaching science and math. Free materials and videos. Drawing for electric vehicle kits. (CEEIN)

Learn how to use medical scenarios as an inquiry-based approach for teaching human anatomy and physiology. Participants will take part in scenarios and receive lesson plans.

Forest ecosystems provide resources humans depend upon: water, carbon, and soil. Learn about forest sustainability and take home Project Learning Tree's module and map, "Global Connections—Forests of the World". (CEEIN)

Discover timely, interdisciplinary, hands-on activities to help students understand the connections between human population growth and a host of environmental challenges. Receive curriculum on CD-ROM.

This session will explore simple modifications to SIOP in vocabulary instruction, background building, standards, and scaffolding inquiry to meet the needs of ELs while teaching inquiry science.

Join us to explore photosynthesis and cellular respiration through hands-on investigation, active role-playing, and discussion. Leave the workshop with classroom-ready activities and a clearer understanding of these essential processes. (CAS)

This hands-on workshop shows how a simple greenhouse gases lab activity can be used to show how gases behave, balance equations, predict CO2 amounts, and explain thermodynamics and climate change.

Research shows that time spent planning "smarter" translates into improved student achievement. Explore elements of a standards-based instructional unit, using the backwards mapping model. Receive printed materials and interactive CD.

Engage your students with hands-on science and technology by using national marine sanctuaries as living classrooms. Find out how to get involved and pick up free goodies. (COSEE/SWMEA)

Stoichiometry problems without a calculator? What's a student to do? Help your students do mole conversions using proportional relationships between moles, grams and particles.

This workshop will provide teachers with strategies to assess students’ scientific reasoning by discussing an assessment that incorporates an authentic situation, its accompanying scoring rubric, and student work.

There’s No New Water! is a water conservation and water quality curriculum for high school students. Participants will engage in hands-on, inquiry-based experiences that investigate local watersheds and societal issues.

Discover hands-on activities designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of energy efficiency and renewable energy. This step-by-step program utilizes activities to engage and inspire students in these emerging technologies.

Coloring maps and writing about their observations helps students learn California geology. Topics include geologic provinces, rainfall, population, and natural hazards. Handouts include maps, questions, and sample writing prompts.

Fun hands-on triangulation activity, then a web-based activity that teaches students how to read real P-S wave data in order to determine the magnitude of an earthquake. Web based homework your students will love, five-word poster, and gallery walk.

Learn how to tap into the students’ naturally inquisitive nature and how to leverage the many collaborative resources that are available to you.

Interactive whiteboards allow science teachers to teach multi-sensory lessons that seamlessly integrate text, sound, video, and graphics. This session will focus on activities and lessons that encourage student participation.

Make spaceship Earth real-we are all astronauts. Unique, simple kinesthetic lesson teaches students the direction the Earth spins, orbits around the sun, amazing speeds. Accessible organizers, mnemonic learning techniques.

Yes you are! Learn to bring biology field methods into your classroom by working with curriculum developers to design your own field journals and program adapted to your learning environment. (CAS)

Invisible gases revealed! With simple hands-on activities, students can investigate carbon emission and measure greenhouse heating. Receive an activity plan and classroom media. Discussion and background include implications for Californians. (CEEIN)

Demonstrate effective science teaching strategies for all learners, particularly ELs. Instructional practices: collaborative inquiry, science talk, language and literacy in science, and contextualizing science will be modeled using animal skulls.

Actions speak louder than words as participants perform different motion scenarios, collect position and time data, and interpret the resulting graphs. High levels of student engagement; great for EL students. (CSP)

Learn how to supervise and grade science PowerPoint projects. The student chooses a topic, determines a thesis, conducts research, creates slides, and presents to the class. Scoring guides provided.

Come explore three interactive, hands-on activities that will make the concepts of DNA structure, replication, transcription, and translation come alive for your students. Includes a "super simple" DNA extraction that you can use Monday in your classroom. (CSP)

This session will focus on color and perception, properties of light, and the physiology of the eye. Hands-on activities are from the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. All materials are designed to be effective, cheap, and easily obtainable.

Learn the science behind the food we eat. Explore trends in food safety and discover ways to encourage curiosity in investigating what happens from farm to fork. Free resources.

Turn your classroom computer into a seismograph on the Quake Catcher Network. Learn how to use this new teaching tool that is also being used to detect earthquakes. Handouts included.

The reading apprenticeship model is a well-tested approach to adolescent science literacy instruction. Participants will practice two reading apprenticeship routines with rigorous chemistry and biology texts and discuss implementation issues.

Try these engaging ways to teach graphing and data analysis across the science curriculum to improve STAR scores and scientific literacy.

Putting the puzzle pieces together: Check out how we have incorporated PLC, backwards mapping, ICONS, technology, EL, and other instructional strategies into one fun and engaging academic cell biology unit.

Make a simple and easy-to-build aluminum can steam engine for use with your forces, chemistry, or physics class. Kids love this lab and so will you…I guarantee it!

This interactive workshop will involve science content with classroom practices that promote comprehension and academic language for all students. Handouts and materials will be provided. (CSP)

This workshop explores strategies for making creative use of evidence and data to develop engaging and content-rich inquiry lessons for teaching chemistry that maximize student participation and promote understanding.

UCSB Teacher Education Program faculty and alumni share favorite discrepant events that address K-12 standards. Learn about how these events help students store key science concepts in long term memory.

“Text Study” is a cyclic writing activity that isolates a particular standard and analyzes it through the perspective of the scientific method. Students make connections between their textbooks and labs.

This session will introduce teachers to the science and engineering behind wind energy. Explore ideas and lesson plans on how to teach about wind energy concepts in K-12 classrooms.

Turn basic physics activities into engaging inquiry lessons that will excite your students while discovering the misconceptions students have in learning science. Hands-on workshop and giveaways.

Discussions, questions, tutoring, connecting, group work, inquiry, scheduling assignments, labs and tests, templates and formatting, research, current events, photos and video: ways to extend your classroom through social networking sites.

Finally, project-based learning that brings issues into the traditional middle and high school schedule and relates them to science standards. Join our community of educators implementing this manageable, fun project.

Use thinking routines and fictional case studies to improve your students' understanding of the nature of science, and develop their awareness of socioscientific issues, unethical science, and pseudoscience.

Your students already have no problem talking in class? But do they talk respectfully and productively? Learn strategies to help students enhance their science learning by talking.

Learn how to utilize online lab experiments, blogs, and online testing in your high school science classroom to prepare students for higher education in the 21st century.

Learn how scientists use visible light to study the sun through activities to understand spectroscopy. Experiment with simple cardboard spectroscopes and sign up to receive free spectroscopes for your classroom.

Learn how earthquake scientists create a simulated “big one” on the San Andreas fault using supercomputers. Activities and free materials will make connections to plate tectonics, faults, and earthquake preparedness.

Discover the fascinating life cycle of one of California's most common, yet hidden, animals. Students discover that a soft grub is hiding inside a hard-shelled acorn.

Eat candles, prevent water pouring out of holes, stump your students with the mystery tube. An introductory unit gets students thinking, then students design labs to keep them thinking all year-long.

Participate in activities on water properties, the amount of fresh water on earth, the water cycle, and how water shapes land from A Child’s Place in the Environment’s water unit.

Inquiry-based lessons are a key to developing scientific literacy. Come and learn about the inquiry process by developing criteria to use in designing and testing your own simple parachutes.

This action-packed and hands-on workshop will introduce you to Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) and the role of science in understanding the formation and monitoring of California groundwater supplies. (CEEIN)

A demonstration of experiments to teach gas laws and physical properties using inexpensive and readily available materials. Experiments are safe and suitable for performance by students.

In the Fall of 2007, Loyola High School introduced a Physics First science curriculum grounded in inquiry instruction. Findings from a three year study indicate the effectiveness of a Physics First curriculum.

Join the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Team where your students pair with NASA/JPL scientists and collect real-time data while operating a 34-m radio telescope from your classroom computer.

What are the geologic environmental conditions at a subduction zone? Use actual data from the JOIDES Resolution to explore drilling sites extending across the convergent boundary near Japan.

Participate in a spirited discussion about the signs of life, and then engage in a hands-on experiment where, like Dr. Frankenstein, we bring something dormant to life.

Explore surface tension through hands-on activities that stretch students' understanding of water molecules and properties of liquids. 5Es of inquiry-based science will connect with ideas for performance and written assessments.

Activities introduced will include satellite construction, space bubble, revolving moon, and straw rockets. Connections to math, reading, and Discovery science clips will be implemented. Come ready for an aerospace adventure.

Teach your students with enthusiasm using renewable resource hands-on activities. Learn about the grants available to purchase cool hands-on resources to captivate your students learning about non-polluting renewable resources.