NEW Educators' Summit at the 36th annual
Building Energy Conference and Trade Show.
CONNECT. GET INVOLVED. BE PART OF THE DIALOGUE.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
Hands-on STEM workshops with a focus on teaching energy efficiency and renewable energy in the classroom. (For a complete description of each workshop with learning objectives, please click HERE for a pdf file.)
Schedule
8:00 - 9:00am: Registration
8:45 - 10:30am: Keynote with David Orr, Oberlin College
10:40 am - 12:40pm: Morning Workshops
12:45 - 1:45pm: Lunch and networking
1:50 - 3:50pm: Afternoon Workshops
4:00 - 5:30pm: BE Track Sessions
5:30 - 6:30 pm: Trade Show
6:30 - 9:30pm: NESEA Night with networking opportunities and Hors d'oeuvres.
How to Register for the Educators' Summit
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED! Hope to see you next year.
On-site registration is no longer available.
Online Registration Instructions:
- Fill out your registrant information and click submit.
- You will be taken to our fee page where you can select the Educators' Summit as a registration option. Also, take the opportunity to select other Conference items.
- When you have completed your selection(s), click submit and you will be taken to the payment screen (if you are paying by check or PO you must register by mail).
- Proceed through checkout. Once your payment has been made, you will receive a confirmation with a 1D barcode. Print your confirmation and bring it with you to expedite your on-site registration experience.
- Call or email NESEA's Registration Coordinator to select your AM and PM workshop (space is limited so don't wait to reserve your seat). Call 413-774-6051 x 20 or beregistration@nesea.org.
- Note: You do not need to register for BE Track sessions; only the Educators' Summit workshops.
| Educators'
Summit - Wednesday March 9, 2011 | |
| Morning 10:40am - 12:40pm | Afternoon 1:50pm - 3:50pm |
| Systems Thinking - Linking People & Nature Through Design: Green Architecture & Design Activities for Grades 3-8 | Building as a Teaching Tool |
| Green School Solutions for the Northeast | Building in Nature's Image |
| Solar Sense | |
| Imagining Our Future: Mainstreaming Sustainable Energy Education for STEM Students | Energy Intelligence: How Do We Get It? How Do We Teach It? |
Morning Workshops: 10:40 am - 12:40 pm
AM 1: Systems Thinking - Linking People & Nature through Design: Green Architecture & Design Activities for Grades 3-8
Presenter: Polly Carpenter, Learning By Design
This workshop will look at sustainability through the "lens" of
architecture, considering the inter-connectivity between buildings,
nature, energy resources and people. Participate in hands-on design
activities that help students explore connections between
energy-efficient buildings [e.g. green homes and schools] and their
natural environments; take home resource lists and sample activities.
AM 2:Green School Solutions for the Northeast
Presenters: Susy Jones & Carolyn Sarno, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership
Discover the benefits of safe, healthy, energy-efficient facilities that
provide the amenities for a quality education. Join the Collaborative
for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and Northeast Energy Efficiency
Partnerships (NEEP) for a presentation that details high performance
school technology and resources to new and existing schools throughout
the northeast.
AM 3: Wind Wise
Presenter: Mike Arquin, KidWind Project
This workshop will introduce teachers to the science and engineering
behind wind energy - sharing ideas and lesson plans on how to teach
about wind energy concepts in K-12 classrooms. Attendees will experiment
with classroom wind turbines and measure power output.
AM 4: Imagining Our Future: Mainstreaming Sustainable Energy Education for STEM Students
Presenter: Ken Wells, St. Marks School
This session will present ways to successfully incorporate energy and
environmental themes into traditional physical science curricula,
through the laboratory curriculum or teacher demonstrations. Several
student-centered STEM activities will be presented, many of which can be
adapted as demonstrations to general science, home school or
elementary/middle school classrooms.
Afternoon Workshops: 1:50 pm - 3:50 pm
PM 1: Building as a Teaching Tool
Presenter: Indigo Raffel, Conservation Consultants, Inc.
"Building As A Teaching Tool" (BATT) is a program that uses the built
environment as an educational tool to teach science and environmental
education. Lessons are coordinated with existing Middle School Science
curriculum focusing on resource conservation, renewable energy and
energy conservation.
PM 2: Building in Nature's Image
Presenter: Kevin Stack, Biomimicry Institute
Biomimicry studies Nature's best designs, then imitates them to solve
human challenges. This session introduces the Biomimicry methodology
and discusses Biomimicry case studies in the human-built environment,
focusing on the presenter's experience as a Biomimicry Institute trained
Biologist at the Design Table and a biomimetic builder.
PM 3: Solar Sense
Presenter: Steve Kurkoski, Stephen M. Kurkoski Electric
Give your students the tools they need to understand solar technologies
and related science concepts. Try out hands-on activities both to build
your own knowledge and to give you an idea of activities you can do with
students. Activities are suited to different grade levels among grades
3 through 12.
Presenter: Craig Stead, Stead Consulting
What is energy and why is it important to understand? How can we become
energy intelligent; maximizing benefits while minimizing use? Delve
into the principles of energy efficiency and conservation through simple
classroom demonstrations. An energy audit of a school will show where
energy savings are found using energy monitoring instruments.