Learn, Connect and Win with Activate Learning’s Ultimate NSTA Denver24 Lineup!💥
QuickTake: Activate Learning is set to energize educators at NSTA Denver 2024 with hands-on, investigation-centered curriculum experiences. Science teachers can participate in fun interactive activities in Booth #426, attend our insightful workshops, and network with fellow educators and our Professional Learning Team at social events.
The Countdown to NSTA Denver 2024 Begins!⏱️
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Are you attending NSTA’s 2024 National Conference on Science Education in Denver, March 20-23? We’re here to help you plan a memorable, exciting experience, from interactive exercises and live demonstrations to professional learning workshops, that will take your classroom and students to the stars with engaging science learning.
Visit Booth #426 and step into The Activate Learning Science Lab to experience our investigation-centered curricula hands-on and discover how Activate Learning brings phenomena-driven science to life for K-12 students.
Activities will feature the Activate Learning PRIME K-5 curriculum and the Activate Learning version of OpenSciEd Middle School (rated “all green” by EdReports!). Members of our all-star Professional Learning Team will be available to answer all your questions on bringing these transformative educational experiences to your classroom.
Our booth will be buzzing with exciting giveaways and prizes. Try your luck at Plinko, win fabulous Activate Learning swag, and enter our raffle for a chance to win one of our coveted book samples. It’s game on!
Continue exploring cutting-edge teaching strategies at our professional learning workshop sessions. Learn how to support science sensemaking, facilitate equitable learning, and discover techniques for enhancing students’ science communication skills. Workshop attendees will have access to demo any program on the Activate Learning Digital Platform at all sessions.
We're facilitating several opportunities for you to connect with other educators. Join us Thursday evening for our special Happy Hour. And on Friday, Activate Learning is sponsoring a reception for NESTA members.
View our full schedule of events and activities below, mark your calendar, and prepare for a phenomenal experience. Whether you’re a veteran educator or just starting your journey, there’s something for everyone with Activate Learning at NSTA Denver 2024! 🚀
Booth Activities
The science of happiness! Research studies have shown that happiness is contagious. Our tee-shirt giveaway "research" at NSTA 2023 supports these findings! These science teachers are all smiles wearing our swag!
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Visit the Activate Learning Science Lab to experience our investigation-centered curriculum hands-on! You will have the opportunity to put on your ‘student hat’ to experience student-centered activities, win prizes in our raffle, and have some fun!
Activate Learning Booth: #426
Exhibit Hall Hours:
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- Thursday, March 21 - 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Friday, March 22 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Saturday, March 23 - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Activate Learning Science Lab Activities:
- Thursday, March 21: PRIME K-5 Elementary Science Curriculum
How a Bird Feeds. Students use different tools as model bird bills to retrieve different types of model bird food. As they figure out which specialized bill works best for a particular food, students experience how different types of bills help birds survive in their particular habitats. They consider how physical traits help animals meet their survival needs in different environments. Join us for some hands-on bird feeding fun!
. - Friday, March 22: OpenSciEd Middle School Science Curriculum
Investigate Dropping and Breaking. Students explore colliding objects and record observations about changes in their motion and shape. We develop a model to represent what we know about energy transfer and forces occurring in collisions when we see changes in motion of objects, shape of objects, or damage to objects. Who's ready to break some stuff?!
Activate Learning Happy Hour
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 5:00PM-8PM
Location: Ruth's Chris Steak House
Join the Activate Learning team Thursday evening for food, drinks, and networking -- the perfect opportunity to network with fellow educators in a relaxed and enjoyable setting.
NESTA Members Reception
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 6:30PM-8:30PM
Location: Appaloosa Grill
Activate Learning is proud to sponsor the National Earth Science Teaching Association (NESTA) reception for members and new members on Friday, March 22.
Workshop Sessions
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 8:00AM-9:00AM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Jen Gutierrez
Supporting Literacy in the Science Classroom – Reading to Learn!
Curriculum: PRIME | Grades: K-2
Learn fun strategies for using informational texts to support your young learners’ sensemaking. Investigate supports with these texts that help gather more information, use new vocabulary, and experience students new ways of talking about their ideas about the world of science around them.
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Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 10:50AM-11:50AM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Gary Curts
EarthComm – A System Approach to Teaching Earth Science
Curriculum: EarthComm | Grades: 9-12
Get a close look at the pedagogical strategies of a highly acclaimed Earth Science book. Developed by the American Geoscience Institute, this book relies on student-centered activities, students doing science! Take part in several activities and connect with other earth science teachers.
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Brian Klaft
Supporting Students’ Communication Using Differentiated Strategies
Curriculum: IQWST | Grades: 6-8
Learn how to enhance students’ overall communication in and out of the science classroom throughout their learning. Delve deeper into topics that include listening using classroom norms, strategies that help students with short responses, and how to enhance students’ use of CER!
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 2:20PM-3:20PM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Tracy Marmolejo
Using Informational Texts to Support the Sensemaking Journey
Curriculum: PRIME | Grades: 3-5
Investigate strategies and ideas for using informational texts in science. As students obtain, evaluate, construct explanations, and communicate information about the world around them, engaging with informational texts is critical for building this background knowledge and supporting sensemaking.
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 3:40PM-4:40PM
Location: Room 101
Presenters: Gary Curts and Arthur Eisenkraft
The Marriage of Project-based Learning and Phenomenon for an Engaging Physics/Chemistry Course
Curriculum: Active Physics, Active Chemistry | Grades: 9-12
Come investigate how phenomenon-based science can be articulated in the scheme of project-based learning. We’ll use both physics and chemistry to make the case that the context of a project makes the learning, explanation, and application of phenomena much richer and more relevant for all learners.
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 8:00AM-9:00AM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Brian Klaft
Creating a Driving Question Board that Supports Students’ Ongoing Sensemaking
Curriculum: OpenSciEd MS | Grades: 6-8
The DQB is an essential tool used throughout OSE units to generate, keep track of, and revisit student questions around the anchoring and related phenomena. Join the collaborative fun finding ideas for developing, maintaining, and re visiting this exciting representation of students’ learning.
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 9:20AM-10:20AM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Tracy Marmolejo, Jen Gutierrez
Shifting to a 3D Elementary Science Learning Environment
Grades: K-5
Come join us to look at helping elementary students shift from learning about to figuring out. Meaningful conversations and ideas about what that might look like with 3-dimensional teaching and learning.
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 1:20PM-2:20PM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Jodi Bahr
An Engaging Introduction into OpenSciEd for High School
Curriculum: OpenSciEd HS | Grades: 9-12
Learn about transitioning high school science courses to phenomenon-based instruction, putting students at the center of the learning process. See how students develop explanations for phenomena by doing the science! Experience how OSE can be used to achieve the goal of moving to 3-dimensional instruction.
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 2:40PM-3:40PM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Brian Klaft, Jen Gutierrez
Enhancing Equitable Discussions Using Scientists' Circles
Curriculum: OpenSciEd MS | Grades: 6-8
Learn how Scientists Circles supports equitable and meaningful classroom discussions. Create opportunities in your lessons in which all students’ thinking, experiences, and ideas for further exploration can be leveraged to build a culture where students are positioned as knowers and thinkers.
Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 4PM-5PM
Location: Room 101
Presenter: Jodi Bahr
Encouraging Equitable Participation During a Discussion in the OpenSciEd HS Classroom
Curriculum: OpenSciEd HS | Grades: 9-12
Classroom communities make sense of what’s being investigated through discussions; it’s key to ensuring all students’ ideas are shared and valued. This session focuses on discussion types used to help draw out student ideas, negotiate and refine them, and support communicating in scientific ways.
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