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CREATE Science Seminar Speaker: Dr. Leona Schauble, Vanderbilt University

252, Erickson Hall 620 Farm Ln, East Lansing, MI

Title: Should we teach young students domain general scientific thinking skills? Abstract: It is worthwhile to reconsider the relative advantages of regarding scientific thinking in young children through a domain general perspective or through a domain specific lens, especially with regard to how these differing views influence educational practice in the elementary grades. Domain-general frameworks… Read More »

MSU Science Festival

We are looking To The Future and Back for the 6th annual MSU Science Festival. Presenters are ready to dazzle, delight, educate, and inform, reaching beyond science to include technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) and the important role they play shaping our future and everyday lives. For more information on this campus and statewide… Read More »

Day AFTER Earth Day Environmental Fair

The Rock

Integrated Science Elementary Teachers show how to keep our Earth Day pledges all year long! Exhibits on how our food choices, water use and consumer purchases impact the planet and our health. Reusable market bags, bookmarks, buttons and organic greens are available for a small donation. All proceeds go to Impression 5 Science Museum to… Read More »

CREATE Science Seminar: Dr. Kevin Haudek, MSU

133F, Erickson Hall 620 Farm Ln, East Lansing, MI

Title: Using Automated Analysis to Reveal Student Thinking in STEM Abstract: In the Automated Analysis of Constructed Response (AACR) Research Group, we develop constructed response assessment items and associated predictive machine learning models that allow formative evaluation of student writing. This talk will provide a brief overview of the methodology we employ to develop automated… Read More »

CREATE Science Seminar: Christa Haverly

133F, Erickson Hall 620 Farm Ln, East Lansing, MI

Title: Developing Urban Elementary Teachers’ Responsiveness to Students’ Scientific Sense-Making. Abstract: Traditional elementary science teaching is documented as limited, fact- and activity-based, and disconnected from students’ lived experiences and scientific sense-making. Responsive science teaching has the potential to disrupt this status quo in order to increase science literacy for students who have been historically marginalized… Read More »