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 Presentation Materials

Association for Science Education (Birmingham, England - January 9-12, 2019)

  • Investigating Heredity - as part of the Alan Tunnicliffe Memorial Workshop
  • Engaging Students in Science through Reading

TESOL Conference (Chicago, IL - March 2018)

  • Engaging All Students in Science Through Children's Literature

National Science Teachers Association National Conference (Atlanta, GA- March 2018)

  • Understanding Your Local Watershed Through Investiations and Children's Literature

Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference (Lansinng, MI- March 2018)

  • Taking Fight with Children's Literature

Science Teachers Association Regional Conference (New Orleans, LA- December 2017)

  • Children's Literature and the Weather: Integrating the NGSS and Geography
  • Finding Science in the Outdoors and Through a Good Book

National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference (Milwaukee, WI- November 2017)

  • Riding the Wave of Integration: Science and Children's Literature
  • Connecting Content, Critical Thinking, and Creativity Through Trade Books

National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference (Baltimore, MD - October 2017)

  • Understanding the Chesapeake Through Children's Literature and Investigations
  • Connecting Content, Critical Thinking, and Creativity Through Trade Books
  • Finding Science in the Outdoors and Through a Good Book

Shanghai International STEM Forum on Adolescent Literacy (Shanghai, China - September 2017)

  • The Factors at Play, the Challenges Before Us, and the Need and Vision for STEM Education in the United States
  • Actions to Improve STEM

National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference (Portland, OR- November 2016)

  • Inside or Out: A Perfect Place for Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations
  • Base Camp - Where Science and Literacy Meet

National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference (Minneapolis, MN - October 2016)

  • Inside or Out: A Perfect Place for Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations
  • Connecting the Skills of Literacy and Science Through Children's Literature and STEM Topics

Zoo-Nique 2 Regional Science Conference (Kansas City, MO - September 2016)

National Science Teachers Association STEM Forum (Denver, CO - July 2016)

  • Elementary STEM Showcase

North Carolina Science Education Leadership Association Spring Meeting (April 2016)

National Science Teachers Association Annual Conference (Nashville, TN - March 2016)

  • Elementary Extravaganza Activity
  • Teaching Science Through Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations
  • Chapter Books at the Crossroads

MnSTA Saturday Workshop (DuLuth, Mn; February 2016)

Georgia Science Teachers Association Annual Conference (February 2016)

  • A Drop in My Drink: Diving Into Water Activities Through Children's Literature
  • Caution! Merging Literacies Ahead.

Association of Science Education Conference (Birmingham, UK -January 2016)

  • Connecting Science and Literacy

Fall NSTA Regional Conferences (Reno, Philadelphia, Kansas City - 2015)

  • Teaching Science Through Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations
  • Seeing the Invisible: Making the Electromagnetic Spectrum Concrete
  • Chapter Books at the Crossroads

21st Century Nonfiction Children's Literature Conference, Manhattan, NY (June 2015)

  • Teaching Science Through Nonfiction Literature

GYSTC Teaching Science and Literacy Workshop, Universtiy of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA (June 2015)

  • PPT Slide Show
  • Teaching Science Through Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations
  • Patterns Are Observable, Predictable and Explainable
  • Figuring Out Food Chains
  • Design Dilemmas (Boat Building) not yet published

National Science Teachers Association, Chicago, IL (March 2015)

  • Elementary Extravaganza Activity
  • Social Media for Science Teachers Panel Disscusion
  • Meet Me in the Middle: Merging Literacies in the Middle Grades
  • Scale the Universe
  • Teaching Science Through TradeBooks: Exemplars from the Book and Featured Columns
  • Teaching Science Through Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations

Pennsylvania Science Teachers Association, State College, PA (December 2014)

  • A Drop in My Drink: Diving Into Water Activities Through Children's Literature

National Science Teachers Association, Orlando, FL (November 2014)

  • Scale the Universe
  • Teaching Science Through Trade Books - Exemplars from the Book and Column
  • A Drop in My Drink: Diving Into Water Activities Through Children's Literature
  • Teaching Science Through Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations

National Science Teachers Association, Richmond, VA (October 2014)

  • Seeing the Invisible: Making the Electromagnetic Spectrum Concrete
  • Teaching Science Through Trade Books - Exemplars from the Book and Column
  • Elementary Extravaganza Activity
  • A Drop in My Drink: Diving Into Water Activities Through Children's Literature
  • Teaching Science Through Integrating Children's Literature and Outdoor Investigations

National Science Teachers Association, Boston, MA (April 2014)

  • Seeing the Invisible: Making the Electromagnetic Spectrum Concrete
  • Elementary Extravaganza Activity
  • Maximizing Instructional Time: Science in Reading and Reading in Science
  • The "Author's Picks" - Teaching Science Through Trade Books
  • Social Media Panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Presenter for a featured strand in Denver.

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Dr. David A Wiley - teacher, colleague, friend, mentor - and the one who involved me in my first conference presentation.

Availability of Materials

Presentation Materials are available for thirty days following a convention presentation.