June 18, 2008
Explore “Charlotte’s Science Web” this October at NSTA’s first fall conference.
Join NSTA this fall in Charlotte, North Carolina for the most comprehensive conference on science education, Charlotte's Web of Science. This is your chance to refresh your teaching skills, become inspired, and choose your personal professional development through presentations, workshops, and seminars on a range of topics. Register by September 19 at the most affordable rates!
Listen to keynote speaker Kathy Reichs, the New York Times best selling author, forensic anthropologist and inspiration for the hit show Bones. Learn how to introduce and polish inquiry-based lessons by attending workshops, Inquiry Done Well: What Are the Essential Elements?, Climate Change: Using Inquiry to Investigate Impacts on the Natural World, and Eureka! Inquiry? What Is It and How Do I Do It? Take advantage of hands-on activities developed by experts, designed for duplication at Science in a Container, Connect Reading and the Environment, and Are You Smarter Than an Elementary School Student? Attend Enhancing Instruction and Assessment with Questioning, Aligning Content with Standards and Assessment and Assessment? You're Kidding Me! to build skills for evaluating student performance.
You'll gain content knowledge and get new ideas by attending day long programs in your discipline filled with multiple sessions, workshops, demonstrations, and make 'n take classroom activities. Programs include Physics Day, Chemistry Day, Physical Science and Earth Science Day. Meet your colleagues for some early Halloween fun with social events and field trips! Visit Carowinds, North Carolina's biggest, most unique theme park or the historic Reed Gold Mine to explore underground tunnels, hike the trails, and pan for gold.
Visit http://www.nsta.org/charlotte for more information on the wide variety of activities and career-building events for science educators.
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