ED51D:
K-5 Teachers, Informal Science Educators, Inservice and Preservice Program Providers, and Geoscience Education Researchers Share Effective Resources, Curriculum Materials, and Research-Based Strategies for Implementing NGSS in Earth System Science at the K-5 Level Posters

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Session ID#: 13900

Session Description:
Many K-5 teachers face challenges that make implementation of NGSS in ESS difficult at the K-5 level. Despite these challenges, there are K-5 teachers and many informal science educators that provide NGSS-congruent experiences. Also, there are a lot of geoscience faculty that work with K-5 preservice teachers in their courses, offering programs that promote the three dimensions of learning central to NGSS (Cheek and Petcovic, 2016). Additionally, some professional development inservice providers use research-based strategies to impact K-5 ESS education (Doubler et. al., 2015). Furthermore, within the GER community, there is a growing body of research at the K-5 level that informs our understanding of student learning and that has implications for NGSS implementation (Ault, 1982; Blake, 2005; Libarkin and Schneps, 2012). We invite K-5 teachers, informal science educators, inservice & preservice program providers, and geoscience education researchers to share their K-5 resources, programs, and research in this session.
Primary Convener:  Carla McAuliffe, TERC/NESTA Executive Director, Tempe, AZ, United States
Convener:  Dr. Cheryl L B Manning, Ph.D., Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Carla McAuliffe, TERC/NESTA Executive Director, Tempe, AZ, United States and Dr. Cheryl L B Manning, Ph.D., Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program, Washington, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carla McAuliffe, TERC/NESTA Executive Director, Tempe, AZ, United States
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Leveraging Current Initiatives to Bring Earth and Space Science into Elementary and Early Childhood Classrooms: NGSS in the Context of the Classroom Technology Push (Invited) (127813)
Heather Anne Pacheco-Guffrey, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, United States
NGSS aligned Earth science resources and professional development programs from the Exploratorium. (Invited) (136278)
Eric Muller, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, United States
Creating a Bio-Inspired Solution to Prevent Erosion (198300)
Rebecca Reher, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, CEISMC- GIFT/PRIME, Atlanta, GA, United States, Alejandro Martinez, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, United States, Jamila Cola, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and David Frost, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States

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