2022 AK STEAM Conference has ended

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2022 AK STEAM Conference

CHANGES
Moved - Saturday - Featured Speaker: Renee Dinnerstein 10 - 11:30 to Rm. 308
Back on! - Saturday - Teaching Middle School Evolution Virtually or In-Person (10:00 and 1:45)

October 15th
ASTA/ACTM Breakfast for Members - 7:00 am
Soboleff Tour - 10:00
Author’s Meet and Greet - 11:45
Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center - 1:45
Devil’s Club Brewery Tour - 4:00
Pub Crawl Tour -5:30
Marie Drake Planetarium Sessions at 6:00 and 7:00

*Remember - if a session is full, it really is full!

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9:30am AKDT

Developing Place-Based Learning: Foundation Principles and Alaskan Resources at Your Fingertips JDHS Room 224Leigh Lubin How Planetariums Can Be Used for Education Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling Integrating Place-Based Weather Data to Explore Community Energy Solutions JDHS Room 227Tyler Katzmar Brainstorming for Linking Alaska Phenomena to SSAs JDHS Room 230Patty Brown • Andrea Pokrzywinski Watts Up: Energy Literacy in K-12 Classrooms JDHS Room 321Colleen Fisk

10:00am AKDT

Alaska Resource Education: Educating Alaska's Greatest Resource JDHS 118 Computer LabElizabeth Freeman

10:30am AKDT

JSD Science and STEAM kits and resources JDHS Room 220Lauren Louwagie • Susan Moore Science Inquiry: Observing Climate Change in Your Own Backyard with GLOBE JDHS Room 104Christi Buffington • Dr. Elena Sparrow Space Weather UnderGround JDHS Room 307Matthew Blandin • Austin Cohen • Dr. Hyunju Connor • Dr. Dogacan Ozturk

1:15pm AKDT

Virtual Science Fairs JDHS Room 226Michelle Daml Alaska Resource Education: Educating Alaska's Greatest Resource JDHS Room 224Elizabeth Freeman Bringing Seaweed Cultivation into the Classroom: A Case Study in Rural Alaska JDHS Room 104Alicia Bishop Outside, Just an Extension of Your Classroom JDHS Main LibraryMeredith Gutierrez Using the Marie Drake Planetarium with Your Students Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling

6:00pm AKDT

Big Astronomy Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling

7:00pm AKDT

Big Astronomy Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling

9:30am AKDT

Integrating Place-Based Weather Data to Explore Community Energy Solutions JDHS Room 227Tyler Katzmar Alaska Standards Resources: What's New in Math and Science? JDHS Room 100AJoy Abbott Add Some Steam to Your STEM Teaching with Wool Felting! JDHS Room 321Laurel Devaney

10:30am AKDT

Alaska Resource Education: Educating Alaska's Greatest Resource JDHS 118 Computer LabElizabeth Freeman Outside, Just an Extension of Your Classroom Turf FieldMeredith Gutierrez Science Inquiry: Observing Climate Change in Your Own Backyard with GLOBE JDHS Room 104Christi Buffington • Dr. Elena Sparrow • Katie Spellman

11:30am AKDT

How Planetariums Can Be Used for Education Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling

12:15pm AKDT

NOAA Ocean Guardian School Program JDHS Main LibraryBarb Lake

2:15pm AKDT

A Hands-On Approach to Effectively Teaching Anatomy Using Clay on a Skeletal Model JDHS Room 224Clelia McCrory • J.P. Theriault Alaska Resource Education: Educating Alaska's Greatest Resource JDHS 118 Computer LabElizabeth Freeman Brainstorming for Linking Alaska Phenomena to SSAs JDHS Room 219Patty Brown • Andrea Pokrzywinski Bringing Seaweed Cultivation into the Classroom: A Case Study in Rural Alaska JDHS Room 100Alicia Bishop DataVersify: Humanizing and Diversifying Scientist Role Models in Data Literacy Instruction JDHS Room 104Melissa Kjelvik Featured Speaker: Rick Thoman - Fun with climate information: where to find it and cool things to do with it JDHS Main LibraryRick Thoman The Wolves of Pleasant Island: Using Real World Research in Your Classroom JDHS Room 218Brenda Duty • Abby McAllister Watts Up: Energy Literacy in K-12 Classrooms JDHS Room 323Colleen Fisk

3:15pm AKDT

Synthesize Math Practices and Science & Engineering Practices to Enhance Collaborative STEM Instruction JDHS Room 225Brett Merley

10:00am AKDT

Virtual Science Fairs JDHS Room 226Michelle Daml Featured Speaker: Okhee Lee - Integrating Science Learning, Language Learning, and Computational Thinking with All Students, Including English Learners/Multilingual Learners JDHS AuditoriumOkhee Lee Science Inquiry: Observing Climate Change in Your Own Backyard with GLOBE JDHS Room 104Christi Buffington • Dr. Elena Sparrow • Katie Spellman Watts Up: Energy Literacy in K-12 Classrooms JDHS Room 323Colleen Fisk

11:00am AKDT

A Hands-On Approach to Effectively Teaching Anatomy Using Clay on a Skeletal Model JDHS Room 218Clelia McCrory • J.P. Theriault

1:45pm AKDT

Alaska Standards Resources: What's New in Math and Science? JDHS Room 100AJoy Abbott Outside, Just an Extension of Your Classroom Turf FieldMeredith Gutierrez Add Some Steam to Your STEM Teaching with Wool Felting! JDHS Room 308Laurel Devaney

2:45pm AKDT

Using the Marie Drake Planetarium with Your Students Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling

4:00pm AKDT

Devil's Club Brewery Tour: Science of Yeasts Downtown JuneauPeggy Cowan • Evan Wood

4:30pm AKDT

Planetarium Movie Shorts Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling

6:00pm AKDT

Big Astronomy Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling

7:00pm AKDT

Planetarium Movie Shorts Marie Drake PlanetariumRosemary Walling