NSTA 2013 National Conference on Science Education

Saturday, 8:00–9:30 AM
Teaching Science with Toys and Treats (Gen)
(Grades 3–11)
205, Convention Center
Sponsor: McGraw-Hill Education
Ralph Feather, Jr., Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg,
Pa.
Learn fun, practical, and engaging hands-on teaching ideas
using simple toys and treats. Take home a wealth of ideas for
teaching difficult concepts in novel ways.
GEMS® Sequences: Scientific Argumentation and
the Common Core
(Gen)
(Grades K–3)
206B, Convention Center
Sponsor: Carolina Biological Supply
Carolina Teaching Partner
Learn how to teach your students the language of “scientific
argumentation” of the Common Core and the NRC Framework
by stating claims and evidence throughout the investigation
process. Then discover how the ocean plays a role in your
present and future, no matter where you live.
Genetics with Drosophila
(Bio)
(Grades 9–12)
207B, Convention Center
Sponsor: Carolina Biological Supply
Carolina Teaching Partner
This workshop covers the basics of working with Drosophila
through hands-on activities. Gain experience in anesthetizing
fruit flies, identifying male and female flies, recognizing
commonly used mutants and comparing them to wild-type
flies, setting up new cultures of flies, and making crosses
using Carolina Easy Fly Drosophila.
The Dirty Job of Teaching Just Got Easier with Discovery
High School Science Techbook (Gen)
(Grades 9–12)
209, Convention Center
Sponsor: Discovery Education
Michael Bryant, Discovery Education, Chicago, Ill.
Maybe you don’t have to suit up and do gross stuff, but some
days it feels like your job is just as hard. Learn how the new
Discovery Education Science Techbook for biology, chemistry,
physics, and Earth/space science makes it easier with
engaging, interactive digital resources.
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The remaining land-birds form a
most singular group of finches, related to
each other in the structure of their beaks,
short tails, form of body and plumage:
there are thirteen species, which Mr.
Gould has divided into four subgroups.
All these species are peculiar to this
archipelago; and so is the whole group,
with the exception of one species of the
sub-group Cactornis, lately brought from
Bow Island, in the Low Archipelago.
Of Cactornis, the two species may be
often seen climbing about the flowers
of the great cactus-trees; but all the
other species of this group of finches,
mingled together in flocks, feed on the
dry and sterile ground of the lower
districts. The males of all, or certainly of
the greater number, are jet black; and
the females (with perhaps one or two
exceptions) are brown. Fig. 2, there are
no less than six species with insensibly
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