Both breakfast and registration will take place at:

FSCJ Advanced Technology Center
401 W. State Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Building T, Room T-141

The event Welcome and Orientation will take place at:

FSCJ Advanced Technology Center
401 W. State Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Building T, Room T-141

Roots and Shoots: Gardening strategies for the K-16 classroom

Dianne Fair

As a member of FSCJ's Urban Ag team, I hope you will join us to brainstorm with colleagues in order to add gardening and plant biology to your classroom experiences. We offer seed starting for aquaponics, hydroponics, traditional gardening and microgreens. Our students have explored food production strategies in partnership with FSCJ's Culinary Arts department, as well as community gardeners and entrepreneurs in aquaponics/hydroponics.
PD 1745
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
In-person Demonstration
Room T-234A

Spacegate Station: Free Interactive On-line Video STEM Programming

Peter Carafano and Alisa Barber

Spacegate Station is an instructional STEM educational program website for primary and secondary students provided by Duval County Public schools for FREE. The on-line and You Tube based video programs provide teachers access to engaging Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) based lessons provided by Astronaut/Teachers who are working on a fictional and futuristic "space station" orbiting the moon. All videos include guided notes, instructional resources, and activities. Participants will be introduced to the Spacegate program and participate in one of the engineering based hands-on instructional units.
PD 1746
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
In-person or Online
Room T-241

Project Learning Tree: Engaging Students with Active Learning

Janet Schnauss

For this workshop, we will look at what PLT has to offer PreK-12 educators and strategies for engaging our students through active learning. We will also model an activity on the water cycle. Participants will take away the "Water Wonders" lesson found in our Explore Your Environment activity guided.
PD 1747
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
In-person or Online
Room T-241A

Start with the Concrete before the Abstract (Science in FL)

Chris Baynard and Terence Cavanaugh

One issue that has been noted about modern students is their lack of experience in building or repairing things in STEM fields for themselves. This session presents how a change in STEM geospatial education was done moving from lectures, tutorials and then plotting existing datasets to an active guided play format where students tinkered to create their own STEM tools to collect geospatial data. This kind of project based learned does take more time and resources but also was shown to be beneficial in student engagement, enjoyment, experimentation, interaction, spending additional time and more.
PD 1748
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
In person or Online
Room T-241

Improving Student Engagement with Inquiry-Driven Discussion with Packback

Amanda Wickham and Emily Bonzagni

Join us to discover how Inquiry-Driven Discussion leads to improved student engagement, discussion quality, and course satisfaction, all while saving you time!
PD 1749
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
In-person
Room T241A

Introduction to Arduinos: The Gateway to Microcontrollers and Programming

Arielle O'Neal

An Arduino consists of a programmable circuit board (also known as a micro controller), and programmable software, known as the Arduino IDE. This demonstration will serve as an introduction to how an Arduino works, as well as how to use the IDE software. The final demonstration will be making a simple LED circuit blink.
PD 1750
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
In-person Demonstration
Room T-234A

The Foundation Academy: "How Does my Garden Grow?"

Victor Toribio and Foundation Academy Students

The Foundation Academy is a student led and student driven facility that concentrates on 21st century learning and thinking. Located on a 23-acre campus, TFA has incorporated urban agriculture into its curriculum and is also the creator of the 10+ year non-profit STEAM Festival, The Jacksonville Science Festival.
Annually, TFA selects an essential question that factors into daily decision making and learning objectives for classroom outputs - last year's question was, ""How does my garden grow?"" Students were tasked in finding creative ways to grow produce with the goal of a ""farm to table output.
In this presentation, we will go over the methods and processes used to center the student's curriculum in urban agriculture. Discussing the trials and tribulations, failures, and successes of students achieving the ""I got it"" status."
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
In-Person Demonstration (*not one-percent eligible)
Room T-242

Damn the TINKERING full STEM ahead

Terence Cavanaugh and Chris Baynard

Concrete examples support student science learning, but often the science textbook in Florida, may not provide examples of the science as it is found in Florida. A concrete example is an example that can be touched or sensed or have already experienced as opposed to an abstract example, and for our students often the science presented might have only examples that are abstract to most of our students (such as mountains, snow, road cuts). The session presents an open-source text, Florida Science, that science teachers and students can freely download and use in their classes as a resource.
PD 1752
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
In-person or Online
Room T-241

Labster's 3D Virtual Lab Simulations and Additional Science Resources

Paul Sheppard

Engage your students with 300+ virtual science simulations, immersing them in an interactive learning environment where they practice lab skills and visualize theory. Labster integrates with all major Learning Management Systems so that educators can use their gradebooks to track students' performance data and students can keep a record of their work. Labster is compatible with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Google Classroom, Schoology, Sakai, and Brightspace / D2L. It's also possible to use Labster without an LMS.
PD 1753
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
In-person or Online
Room T-241A

STEM Success through Scholarships, Support and Service (S-5)

Jametoria Burton and Christopher Lee

The STEM Success through Scholarships, Support and Service (S-5) program at FSCJ awards scholarships to at least 30 academically talented full-time or part-time students with significant financial need. Student must be pursuing associate’s or bachelor’s degrees in specific STEM fields. The program provides a system of student curricular and co-curricular supports that include faculty mentoring, student cohorts, opportunities to participate in service-learning activities, supplemental instruction, rigorous guidance from faculty and staff, undergraduate research and industry internship opportunities, networking with professionals, career development, support for transfer from a 2-year program to a 4-year program in STEM, and post-graduation support.
PD 1754
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
In-person
Room T-234A

Jacksonville Science Festival

Victor Toribio and Tia Unthank

Jacksonville Science Festival (JSF) was established in 2013 to inspire K-12 graders with STEAM interactives and to promote equity for all learners, traditional & non- traditional, with an intense focus on those without continual opportunity or exposure in the fields of STEM/ STEAM- Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics. Following a project inquiry-based model, questions lead to student led projects with teacher and counselor mentorship and local community expert collaboration.
Equity and justice to JSF means bringing to the same table gifted, challenged, and differently- abled learners, and providing an environment for them to equally shine and equally discover how STEM/ STEAM careers are within their reach.
JSF is part of the Science Festival Alliance that is funded by the National Science Foundation. Annually, JSF has an attendance of 10,000+ and is made up of 100% hands on, interactive, engaging educational booths. The next science festival is planned for Spring 2023.
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
In-person Demonstration (*not one-percent eligible)
Room T-242

OER and Biology

Sharon Uskokovich

This presentation is for beginning users and non-users of open education resources (OER) to learn more about free and (mostly) open licensed biology materials available online, including textbooks, lab manuals, images, and learning objects.
PD 1755
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
In-person or Online
Room T-241

Engaging Students with a Holistic Lab Activity

Indrani Sindhuvalli

When I created this STEM related activity, I did not anticipate that it would generate a surprisingly robust classroom engagement, information sharing among my students. The activity is an 8-10 week plant growth lab that allows students the opportunity to learn the stages of plant growth first hand. Students were also engaged in learning soil chemistry, plant nutrition, composting, integrated pest management techniques and the importance of sustainable conservation practices.

In addition to acquiring and implementing knowledge about the scientific aspects of plant growth, students learned a valuable life skill of growing their own food. This is a much-needed skill as Jacksonville has a number of food deserts. Students also reported the feeling of excitement about this project as well as the confidence to take this further on their own.
PD 1757
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
In-person
Room T-234A

Using Lab Quest for Simple Data Collection

Nancy Mullins

Using modular sensors, the lab quest allows many types of data to be collected. With four input channels, up to four sets of data may be collected simultaneously. Additionally, the data may be collected as discrete data points, at timed intervals, or manually paired with external input. Data storage is via USB drive, Bluetooth transfer or data transfer cable. In this demo, three experiments will be shown: pH titration of a polyprotic acid, potentiometric titration, and measurement of the time constant for an RC circuit. Experimental data will be presented in addition to the theoretical values for comparison.
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
In-Person Demonstration (*not one-percent eligible)
Room T-242

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