Meet NOAA Planet Stewards at the
At this year's NSTA National Conference, NOAA Planet Stewards and NOAA National Ocean Service Education is will be offering presentations, workshops, hosting events with partners, working at the NOAA exhibit - and holding a happy hour social. We'd love for you to join us at any or all of these.
Below is a listing of NOAA Planet Stewards and NOS Education events at NSTA as well as presentations and events NOAA Planet Stewards educators are offering at the conference.
We have done our best to make this as complete as possible. Apologies if we've overlooked/omitted any sessions.
See you in St. Louis!
Bruce & Molly
NOAA Planet Stewards and NOAA Ocean Service Education
Sponsored Presentations & Events at NSTA St. Louis
Thursday, April 11
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Annex, America’s Center
National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) Whale of a Share - a- Thon
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik: NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
NMEA invites you to engage in hands-on activities and take home resources for your classroom. Join us to discover how you can become involved in both ocean and freshwater initiatives from local and national organizations to promote ocean and climate literacy.
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5:30 – 7:30 PM
The Over/Under Bar & Grill (https://overunderstl.com/)
911 Washington Avenue. St. Louis, MO 63101
NOAA Planet Stewards Happy Hour
Meet up with old friends and make new ones at the NOAA Planet Stewards Happy Hour! All are welcome - bring your friends & colleagues!
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Friday, April 12
08:00 - 09:00 AM
Annex, America's Center
NOAA’s Every Full Moon Video Series and Data in the Classroom
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik: NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
Hook your students with digital storytelling and three-dimensional learning activities. Jump-start discussions with dramatic videos! Engage students with hands-on, data-based activities designed around three-dimensional learning! Return to school with 300+ free videos and NGSS-focused activities from NOAA!
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Annex, America's Center
NOAA Planet Stewards - Content, Collaboration, and Action
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik: NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
Access free professional development from NOAA scientists, collaborative online tools, and grants to put your knowledge into action. Engage students in hands-on three-dimensional learning activities to increase their science literacy and stewardship so they can respond to real-world challenges and environmental threats. Take home free NOAA resources and giveaways!
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12:30 - 1:30 PM
Annex, America's Center
National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA) Ocean, Weather, and Climate Share-a-thon
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
Amelia Cook, Angela Gospodarek, Ben Graves: NOAA Planet Stewards Educators
Join more than 20+ NESTA members and many other educational specialists as they share their favorite NGSS-congruent classroom activities. Lots of free resources!
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2:00 - 3:00 PM
Ferrara Theatre, America’s Center
The Science Behind Today’s GPS Revolution - AGU/NESTA/NOAA Lecture
Theresa Damiani - Chief, Spatial Reference System, NOAA National Ocean Service
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
Getting from place to place is a daily activity for most people. Now, many of us use the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) through our smartphone, car, or other navigation device to do that. But that capability has only been widely available in the last two decades, before which paper maps and compasses were used for thousands of years. So what sparked this massive technological leap forward? The combination of very precise positions from satellites (GPS) available anywhere on Earth, miniaturized computing, and up-to-date maps. This talk explores the science of GPS and mapping, how it allows us to quickly and easily find our way through the world, and the sometimes unexpected ways in which it is revolutionizing our society. And, as positioning science and technology continues to evolve, how it enables a not-too-distant future of autonomous vehicles and smart cities.
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3:00 - 4:30 PM
Majestic D/E, Marriott St. Louis Grand
National Middle Level Science Teachers Association - Meet Me in the Middle Share-a-thon
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
Engage in a variety of activities, collect information and resources, and network with middle level leaders from NSTA and NMLSTA. Participants will have opportunities to discover resources that inspire them and engage their middle level students in exciting science learning.
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3:30 - 4:30 PM
Annex, America's Center
Game Design and Game Jams for the Science Classroom
Peg Steffen - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinator Emeritus, Education Consultant.
Don’t let the technology teachers have all the fun! Game design can be woven into any science curriculum, providing an engaging way for students to learn science content and to creatively apply what they have learned. Find out how to start using game design and game jams in your classroom.
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Saturday, April 13
8:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Room 141, America’s Center
NOAA in Your Classroom Workshop Series
8:00 - 9:30 AM
Session I: GPS Workshop
Peg Steffen - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinator Emeritus, Education Consultant
Theresa Damiani - Chief, Spatial Reference System, NOAA National Ocean Service
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
GPS-STEM is an NGSS curriculum with compelling content about satellites, space clutter, precision agriculture, and weather. It incorporates data analysis, simulations, modeling, and mathematics applications. Lessons include stories, videos, presentations, and careers. We’ll investigate several lessons and discuss how to incorporate these and other remote sensing lessons into your classroom.
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Session II: Remote Sensing & Real-World Data
Kat Hawley, Education Lead & Meteorologist, NOAA Satellite and Information Services
Rafael, DeAmeller, Lead, NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
Explore how global phenomena are monitored with NOAA remote sensing tools and can be brought to your students with Data in the Classroom, an online NGSS-aligned resource for investigating Sea Level Rise, Coral Bleaching, El Niño, and Water Quality using simulations, models, and real-time NOAA data.
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Session III: Stewardship
Molly Harrison, Bruce Moravchik - NOAA Planet Stewards Coordinators
Amelia Cook, Angela Gospodarek, Ben Graves: NOAA Planet Stewards Educators
Join the NOAA Planet Stewards team and get ideas for using data and phenomena in your classroom while engaging your students in stewardship activities that protect and adapt your communities to environmental impacts that NOAA monitors. Data and resources to use in the classroom will be demonstrated and shared.
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6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Crystal Ballroom, Marriott St. Louis Grand,
NESTA Friends of Earth Science Reception
Join NOAA Planet Stewards at the National Earth Science Teachers Association reception to celebrate excellence in Earth science education, honor fellow NOAA Planet Stewards Educators, and enjoy some good food, drink and company.
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NOAA and NOAA Planet Stewards Educator
Presentations & Events at NSTA St. Louis
Thursday, April 11
8:00 - 8:30 AM
Room 151, America’s Center
Citizen Science: Five Innovations of the NGSS
Holly Hereau, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, Bio & Env. Stud. HS Teacher
Find out how to participate in local watershed monitoring projects for an inherently three-dimensional experience that increases student interest and builds students’ identities as scientists.
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8:00 - 8:30 AM
Room 162, America’s Center
Science Curriculum Overhaul: Impressing Your Regional Accreditation Association
Samantha Levine, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, K-8 Instructional Science Coach
Hear how our district evaluated and improved our K–12 science and engineering curriculum to meet the NGSS and engage 21st-century learners.
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8:00 - 9:00 AM
Room 162, America’s Center
Coaching for the Instructional Science Coaches
Samantha Levine, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, K-8 Instructional Science Coach
Come put some tools in your tool box and learn some techniques to help your coaching skills and improve your relationships with teachers.
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1:00 - 1:30 PM
Room 100, America’s Center
School Makerfaire Brings Community Together
Samantha Levine, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, K-8 Instructional Science Coach
Learn how we include students, parents, the PTA, local businesses, and scientists in our districtwide K–12 school Makerfaire.
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2:00 – 2:30 PM
Room 276. America’s Center
NSTA Press Session: What Is the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Laura Tucker, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, Education Consultant
Using a probe from the popular Uncovering Student Misconceptions series, the co-author will share student responses to address this key concept for teaching climate change.
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3:30 – 4:30 PM
Room 225, America’s Center
Community Connections: Early Childhood Learning
Claire Lannoye-Hall, NOAA Planet Stewards Peer Leader, Curator of Education, Detroit Zoological Society
Find out how you can bring early childhood learning to life in your classroom or learning community. Explore tools like visual storytelling and hands-on explorations of natural phenomenon.
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5:00 – 6:00 PM
Grand Ballroom C, Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch
NSTA Press Session: Fact or Phony? Successful Strategies to Promote Media Literacy
Laura Tucker, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, Education Consultant
Learn effective techniques including Claims-Evidence-Reasoning to help students navigate media filled with fictional information promoted as fact and cherry-picked data offered as evidence.
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Friday, April 12
8:00 – 10:00 AM
Hall 2, America's Center
Elementary Extravaganza
NOAA Planet Stewards Educators will be participating in this event
Join elementary groups of professionals for an exceptional opportunity. Gather resources for use in your classroom immediately. Engaging hands-on activities, strategies to excite and encourage your students, a preview of the best trade books available, information about award opportunities, contacts with elementary science organizations, sharing with colleagues, door prizes, and much more will be available to participants. Organizations participating include: Association of Presidential Awardees in Science, Teaching Council for Elementary Science, International NSTA Preschool Elementary Committee, Science & Children authors and reviewers, Society of Elementary Presidential Awardees.
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9:30 – 10:30 AM
Landmark &, Marriott St. Louis Grand
Making Elementary Science Relevant with Place-Based Education
Kate Muir Welsh, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
Hear examples of how place-based approaches have transformed Oregon Trail Elementary School in Casper, Wyoming, as they have integrated place-based science learning across the school.
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12:30 – 1:00 PM
Room 220, America’s Center
Student Drivers: Driving Question Boards Empower Students to Figure Out What They Really Need to Know and How They Will Get There
Holly Hereau, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, Bio & Env. Stud. HS Teacher
We will create a DQB with participants showing how students can and will answer questions that matter to them while authentically engaged in discussions and investigations.
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12:30 – 1:30 PM
Room: Room 242, America's Center
Freshwater Stewardship: Equip Your Student-Scientists with Cutting-Edge Resources from NOAA
Jeannine Montgomery, Education Coordinator, NOAA Office of Education
Drought. Flooding. Water Pollution. Algal Blooms. Freshwater is the lifeblood of our planet, and our future depends on the next generation of environmental stewards to preserve the health of our watersheds. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service have a wealth of online lesson plans, videos, data sets, webinars, and more to help you inform and inspire students to action in research, stewardship, and resource management for our vital freshwater ecosystems.
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12:30 – 2:30 PM
Room: Hall 1, America's Center
Community Connections Share-a-Thon
NOAA Planet Stewards Educators will be participating in this event
Come engage with folks who bring you exciting resources, programs, and opportunities available to you from museums, after-school, media, and other informal science education providers!
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1:00 – 1:30
Room: 241, America's Center
PolarTREC: Arctic Microbiological Adventures
Dieuwertje Kast, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, STEM Programs Manager, USC Joint Educational Project
PolarTREC sends educators and researchers to Polar regions for field research experiences. Content from an Arctic expedition focused on microbial biogeography will be presented.
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3:30 – 4:30
Majestic A, Marriott St. Louis Grand
Resources from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Bekkah Lampe, Education Specialist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers an array of free resources to teach K–5 Earth system and environmental science. Learn about our curricular units and stand-alone lessons, digital storybooks, and inquiry-based activities—resources that enhance literacy skills while encouraging scientific exploration by young minds.
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3:30 – 4:30
Room 242, America's Center
Coral Reefs, Fragile Wonders Under Threat: Bring Vibrant Environmental Stewardship Lessons to Your Students with Free NOAA Resources
Jeannine Montgomery, Education Coordinator, NOAA Office of Education
Coral reefs are a unique global treasure, but these fragile ecosystems are under increasing threat from pollution, harmful fishing practices, and ocean acidification. Even areas far from coasts can impact marine health. Incorporate coral reefs into your existing curriculum, using lesson plans, demos, labs, activities, and multimedia from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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4:00 – 4:30
Room 241, America’s Center
From Students to Stewards: Leading Students to Plan and Enact Stewardship Action Projects
Holly Hereau, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, Bio & Env. Stud. HS Teacher
Hear about a framework that facilitates students through the process of identifying an environmental issue to address, planning how they will address the issue, and enacting their plan.
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Saturday, April 13
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Room 222, America’s Center
A Cancer Education Curriculum for Underserved Elementary School Children
Dieuwertje Kast, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, STEM Programs Manager, USC Joint Educational Project
Created through a partnership between the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the USC Wonderkids Program, hear about cancer education curriculum for underserved elementary schoolchildren.
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11:00 AM – 12:00
Majestic D/E, Marriott St. Louis Grand
Middle School Share-a-Thon Hosted by National Stem Cell Foundation Scholars
Turtle Haste, NOAA Planet Stewards Educator, Middle School Educator
Come join us as we share teaching ideas and projects, make-and-take science tools, and discuss innovative ways to make learning engaging and fun!
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