Time

Event

Location

7:00-8:30 PM

Check-in for participants pre-registered for housing on Sunday night

Moore Auditorium

Time

Event

Location

7:30-8:15 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Moore Auditorium

8:15-8:30 AM

Welcome:  Dr, Susan McKay, Director of The Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research and Professor of Physics

Amie Gellen, Assistant Director, Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research

Moore Auditorium

8:30-9:15 AM

Are you really teaching if no one is learning?  Research on how interactive-lecturing can be used to improve student learning

Edward Prather, Associate Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Director of the Center for Astronomy Education, University of Arizona

Moore Auditorium

9:15-10:00 AM

How Learning Through Inquiry Changed Our Teaching Philosophy

Alice Putti, Chemistry Teacher, Jenison High School, Michigan 

Sarah Toman, Chemistry Teacher, Western Michigan Christian High School,

Moore Auditorium

10:00-10:15 AM

Coffee Break

10:15-11:00 AM

Project Lead The Way^® Curricular Programs Promote STEM achievement

Carolyn Malstrom, Director of Curriculum for Biomedical Sciences

Project Lead The Way

Moore Auditorium

11:00-11:45 AM

Inquiry As Argument: Debating Our Way Into Science

Leslie Atkins, Assistant Professor Science Education & Physics

California State University, Chico

Moore Auditorium

11:45 AM-12:30 PM

Breaking the Mold: rethinking professional development in K-16 STEM education

Diane Ebert-May, Professor, Plant Biology, Michigan State University

Moore Auditorium

12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch

Schooner Dining Commons

1:30-3:30 PM

Workshops

See page 3

3:30-3:45 PM

Snack Break

Moore Auditorium

3:30-5:00 PM

free time

4:30-5:00 PM

Poster Session set-up

Moore Auditorium

5:00-6:00 PM

Poster Session & Reception (appetizers)

Moore Auditorium

6:00-7:00 PM

Dinner

Schooner Dining Commons

7:00-7:30 PM

An Astronomer Walks into a Buddhist Temple and Asks.....

Edward Prather, Associate Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Director of the Center for Astronomy Education, University of Arizona

Schooner Dining Commons

Time

Event

Location

7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast Buffet

Schooner Dining Commons

8:30-10:30 AM

Workshops

See page 4

10:30-10:45 AM

Coffee Break

Moore Auditorium

10:45 AM-12:00PM

Open Space:  How can we collaborate to implement the approaches to teaching and learning we have shared at the conference:  in my classroom, in my school, in Maine?

Moore Auditorium

12:00-12:15 PM

Wrap-up, conference evaluation & lunch ticket

Moore Auditorium

12:15-1:15 PM

Lunch

Schooner Dining Commons

1:15-3:15 PM

Reconvene participants of 2008 Summer Academy courses

To-Be-Announced

2:30-2:45 PM

Snack Break

Moore Auditorium

3:15-3:30 PM

Driving questions for moving forward:  feedback from 2008 Summer Academy meetings

Moore Auditorium

Time: 1:30-3:30 PM

Monday Afternoon Workshops

Location

Structuring Scientific Debates

Leslie Atkins, Assistant Professor Science Education & Physics,

California State University, Chico

SEA Middle classroom

Wood Your Students Use Real Data?

Patricia Bernhardt, Life Science Teacher, James F. Doughty Middle School, Bangor,  Elizabeth Haynes, Mathematics Teacher, Troy Howard Middle School, Belfast, Maine Tracy Vassiliev, Applied Science and Accelerated Physical Science Teacher, Bangor

Dorr classroom

Teaching for Understanding in Science: Active Learning and Assessment

Diane Ebert-May, Professor, Plant Biology, Michigan State University

SEA Chapel

Inspiring Girls in the STEM fields: From Research to Practice

Mary Madden, Associate Research Professor, University of Maine

Moore Auditorium &

Break-out rooms TBA

How to Give Your Activities/Labs an Inquiry Make Over

Alice Putti, Chemistry Teacher, Jenison High School, Jenison, Michigan

Sarah Toman, Chemistry Teacher, Western Michigan Christian High School, Muskegon, Michigan

Moore classroom 2

Time: 8:30-10:30 AM

Tuesday Morning Workshops

LOCATION

The Importance of Talk and Argument in the Science Classrooms

Anita Bernhardt, Science & Technology Specialist, Maine Department of Education

SEA Middle classroom

Project Lead The Way^® Biomedical Sciences™ Program—Hands-on Investigative Science

Carolyn Malstrom, Director of Curriculum for Biomedical Sciences,

Project Lead The Way

Dorr classroom

Guiding the discovery of y = mx + b, y = ab^x, and y = x² + b

W. Tad Johnston, Mathematics Teacher, William S. Cohen School, Bangor, Maine  

SEA Chapel

Methods for Maximizing the Effectiveness of Interactive Lecturing

Edward Prather, Associate Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Director of the Center for Astronomy Education

University of Arizona

Moore classroom 1

Mercury in Maine watersheds, biota, and people: The Acadia Learning Project

Bill Zoellick, Program Development Director, Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, Yvonne Davis, Education Program Coordinator, Acadia Partners for Science and Learning & Sarah Nelson, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research

Moore classroom 2

Time: 1:15-3:15 PM

Facilitator

Tuesday Afternoon

 2008 Summer Academy meetings

LOCATION

Molly Schauffler

Susan Klemmer

SCIENCE

Moore classroom 1

Aquaculture Workshop:  Domestication of Aquatic Organisms

Building Inquiry-based, Student-driven Research into Science and Mathematics Programs

IDEAS: Inquiry-based Dynamic Earth Applications of Supercomputing

Understanding Climate Change

Amie Gellen

MATHEMATICS

Moore classroom 2

Using Sliders in Mathematics Instruction 

Mathematics with Technology 

Web Based Resources to Assist in Calculus Instruction 

Explorations in Classical Geometry