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NOAA is excited to be back at NSTA Atlanta 23 offsite link! Find us at Booth #1619 offsite link in the Expo Hall. Explore our presentations and resources below!
Representatives from the NOAA Education community chat with educators at the NOAA exhibit booth at the 2022 National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) conference in Houston, Texas. (Image credit: Marissa Jones/NOAA Education)
Thursday, March 23
Bring the Ocean into Your Classroom with National Marine Sanctuaries
Thursday, March 23, 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B312
Tracy Hajduk (NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program)
Learn about free STEM educational resources including virtual reality, themed resource collections and lesson plans to increase ocean and climate literacy with your students.
Climate in your classroom, climate in your world: Use free NOAA resources and data to teach this integrated topic
Thursday, March 23, 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B404
Frank Niepold (NOAA Climate Program Office)
Want to teach climate literacy but don’t know where to start? NOAA offers lesson plans, videos, data, webinars, and more to inform and inspire students.
Coral reef ecosystems and us: Explore free NOAA resources about these fragile, but threatened, wonders
Thursday, March 23, 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - A407
Denise Harrington (NOAA TASAA Fellow), Bekkah Lampe (NOAA Office of Education)
Incorporate coral reefs into your existing curriculum – biology, chemistry, climate studies, art, and more – using lesson plans, demos, activities, and multimedia from NOAA.
Friday, March 24
CSSS: Accessing professional learning networks to increase your confidence and competence in teaching climate change
Friday, March 24, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM • Georgia World Congress Center - B404
Frank Niepold (NOAA Climate Program Office), Lindsey Kirkland (Climate Change Education Manager)
Connect with a network of professionals and explore key practices of climate change education to get the support you need.
NOAA Workshop 1: NOAA's SOS Explorer: Adding to your Data Visualization Education Toolbox
Friday, March 24, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Juan Pablo Hurtado Padilla (Education Program Coordinator), Eric Hackathorn (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
Learn to leverage freely available global data visualizations using the SOS Explorer mobile application.
Federal STEM Education Resources - Where can I find them?
Friday, March 24, 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM • Georgia World Congress Center - A412
Bekkah Lampe (NOAA Office of Education), Carrie Olsen (NASA Headquarters), Carol O'Donnell (Smithsonian Institution), Melissa Anley-Mills (U.S. EPA), Jorge Valdes, Cindy Hasselbring (NASA Headquarters)
Have you ever wondered where to find Federal STEM education resources that can provide authentic learning experiences for your students? Come join many federal agencies including NASA, NOAA, Dept. of Defense, EPA, Smithsonian, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, to learn more!
NOAA Workshop 2: NOAA in Your Classroom: Making Sense of the Deep-Sea Phenomena of Vents
Friday, March 24, 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Suraida Nanez-James (Education Specialist), Jeremy Peacock (Jackson County School System)
How do hydrothermal vent communities survive without sunlight? Dive into the deep with us and investigate how these ecosystems thrive in the absence of light using a student sensemaking approach and activity. We’ll also share resources that make it easier than ever to connect to ocean exploration.
NOAA Workshop 3: Discover Emmy Award Winning NOAA Videos and How to Jump Start Your Classroom Experience With Them
Friday, March 24, 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Kurt Mann (NOAA National Ocean Service), June Teisan (InnovatED 313)
For over 15 years NOAA Ocean Today videos have engaged students in environmental phenomena. Watch never before seen clips of a new animated series that explores ocean, weather, and climate connections. Wherever you live, Ocean Today’s over 300 videos will be a powerful asset in your teaching toolkit
NOAA Workshop 4: Sea to Sky: Get to know NOAA’s online educational resources
Friday, March 24, 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Bekkah Lampe (NOAA Office of Education)
Join us for a demo of our database of 1,300+ educational resources from NOAA. We host ocean, coast, Great Lakes, weather, and climate resources. Tour our lesson plans and activities and ask us your questions. Learn more at noaa.gov/education/resources. This session is appropriate for K-16 educators.
NOAA Workshop 5: Connecting Students to our Nation’s Changing Coasts (partner workshop with NESTA)
Friday, March 24, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service), Natalie Macke (Pascack Hills High School), Missy Holzer (Great Minds PBC), Kimberley Norris-Jones (Richland Northeast Hs), Matt Haverty (Amphi High School)
Our coasts are changing. Join the National Earth Science Teachers Association to explore creative ways to use NOAA Ocean Today video assets for sense-making of phenomena using cross-cutting concepts. Help your students discover personal connections to our coastal systems.
Saturday, March 25
NOAA Workshop 6: Engage Your Students with Ecosystem Modeling and Virtual Reality
Saturday, March 25, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service), Randy Russell (Dragonfly Games)
Your students will employ the NGSS Practice of developing and using models within VR versions of ocean habitats. Three new lessons from NOAA explore scientific modeling and ocean ecosystems. Lessons include Ocean Food Webs, Observations vs. Models, and Predators and Prey (in a marine setting).
NOAA Workshop 7: Engage Your Students in One of the Most Dangerous Climate Impacts of Our Time: Sea Level Rise
Saturday, March 25, 10:20 AM - 11:20 AM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service), Symone Barkley (Education Specialist)
Why are sea levels rising? Why is it so dangerous for everyone - no matter where they live? How can we address it? Explore these questions and NGSS-aligned online lessons, visualizations, and role-playing activities from NOAA to engage your students on this topic.
NOAA Workshop 8: NOAA Planet Stewards Session I: Affecting change through education, collaboration, and action - and receive up to $5000 to do it!
Saturday, March 25, 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service), Symone Barkley (Education Specialist)
As a NOAA Planet Steward Educator you can become a STEM agent of change in your school and community. Learn how to access professional development opportunities, education resources, and funding, to increase students’ science literacy, and have them respond to real world environmental threats.
How to use NOAA data: A guide for educators
Saturday, March 25, 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM • Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center - Redwood
Denise Harrington (NOAA TASAA Fellow: Garibaldi, OR), Maronda Hasties (Math Teacher Dekalb County School System)
Learn how to access and explore NOAA’s data-rich resources, lesson plans, and visualization tools to build data literacy and proficiency in scientific data analysis.
Pole of Inaccessibility: Bringing Ocean Science to North America’s Great Interior
Saturday, March 25, 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B212
Spencer Cody (Edmunds Central School District)
NOAA Teacher at Sea provides numerous cutting-edge strategies to make ocean science accessible to students such as Google Cardboard and various VR applications to utilizing NOAA Teacher at Sea’s rich ocean science resources.
NOAA Workshop 9: Creating an Inclusive Environmental Science Curriculum
Saturday, March 25, 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service), Symone Barkley (Education Specialist)
Cultivate a sense of belonging in your classroom with conservation, stewardship, and climate science using educational resources from NOAA and other socially conscious organizations. This workshop and resources to be shared is suitable for educators working with students at all grade bands.
NOAA Workshop 10: NOAA Planet Stewards Session II: Affecting change through education, collaboration, and action - and receive up to $5000 to do it!
Saturday, March 25, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM • Georgia World Congress Center - B209
Bruce Moravchik (NOAA National Ocean Service), Symone Barkley (Education Specialist)
As a NOAA Planet Steward Educator you can become a STEM agent of change in your school and community. Learn how to access professional development opportunities, education resources, and funding, to increase students’ science literacy, and have them respond to real world environmental threats.
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Missed out on our NSTA resources or ran out of suitcase space? Find digital versions of nearly all of the items we had at NSTA!
Dive into our searchable database of over 1,300 free educational resources. Search by keywords, audience, topic, resource type, subject, NGSS alignment, and more! We'll even have a session on this resource on Friday!
Education resources are distributed across many websites and program offices at NOAA and partner websites. This portal is designed to help you access these resources from one location. Materials are organized by themes aligned with common teaching topics. Find even more resources beyond what is listed here!