2023 NABT Conference Agenda

Committee Meeting

This interactive, inquiry-based workshop will engage participants in practical activities to help students increase their reasoning and science process skills. Workshop participants will be introduced to a newly developed tool, the "LifeSkills Guide", based on Vision and Change. IGELS faculty will share learning outcomes, activities, and assessments for undergraduate non-science students' LifeSkills.

​In the second part of the workshop, participants will use the IGELS Lifeskills Guide to refine or revise their own classroom activity. Participants should bring an activity or draft activity to work on.

Science Practices

Special Workshop. Tickets Required.

Hands on activities from Carolina, HudsonAlpha, and Wisconsin Fast Plants
Stop by for a special open pop-up event! Carolina, HudsonAlpha, and Wisconsin Fast Plants showcase new activities and resources with multiple hands-on stations. Be introduced to Carolina's new Labskills series of free instructional content for teaching essential lab skills such as testing pH, micropipetting, measuring volume, and more. HudsonAlpha’s authentic genetic and biotechnology activities will be available. Wisconsin Fast Plants will demonstrate how rapid growing Brassica plants can be used to teach selection and inheritance.

General Biology

Special Workshop. Tickets Required.

High School

Come join us to see how OpenSciEd’s materials can help you build science learning
experiences anchored in compelling phenomena and in important community and global problems. This session will introduce you to the first unit unit in the OpenSciEd biology course and provide you with a launching point for teaching OpenSciEd Biology in your classroom. To achieve this goal, this session will put teachers in “student hat” so they can feel what it’s like to be a student whose thoughts
and questions help drive learning forward in the unit. We actually do science together
with the facilitator acting as teacher and reflect on coherence in the unit by unpacking
the storyline for the unit. We will open up and explore the structure of units and discuss the routines and resources to promote equitable science learning in high school.

General Biology

Special Workshop. Tickets Required.

High School

Storylines led by engaging phenomena improve student engagement and understanding of the overarching biological concepts. Using phenomena to anchor instruction and lead instruction are modeled in the workshop hosted by the team at All Species Animal Consulting.

Nature of Science

Special Workshop. Tickets Required.

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has developed free place-based NGSS-aligned lessons to help overcome student misconceptions about climate change. Come preview these activities, then learn how to create relevant lessons based on local climate issues.

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Special Workshop. Tickets Required.

The NABT Board of Directors and Executive Director will lead this interactive discussion focused on the current state of the association. They will also share updates on current and future strategic initiatives. Everyone is invited to learn more about our operations, provide feedback on the programs we support, and get more involved with NABT.

Committee Meeting

Lauren Feldman studies media effects in political and science contexts, and her recent research emphasizes three primary areas of interest: climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, and comedy and social change. She teaches courses on entertainment and politics, media effects, media and climate change, and quantitative research methods.

Instructional Strategies

Special Speaker

General Audience

Learn about the versatile techniques of PCR (qPCR, ddPCR etc.) and real-world applications in life science research, clinical and molecular diagnostics like gene expression, disease outbreaks, mutation detection and more.

Biotechnology

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

The new Bandit™ STEM Electrophoresis Kit allows students to assemble and use a high-quality electrophoresis system with well thought out labs, all at a price you didn’t think was possible!

General Biology

Special Event

This is your chance to get more involved with the NABT Community. Learn more about different opportunities from NABT committee chairs, section chairs, and regional coordinators.

Committee Meeting

Genetic variation mediates much of the phenotypic diversity observed in nature. DNA sequencing and related assays have produced a wealth of data that allow us to test long-standing hypotheses about how evolution shapes genetic variation and ensuing phenotypes. The scale and complexity of these data, in turn, require the development of novel computational and statistical methods tailored for their analysis.
Showcasing these themes, Dr. McCoy will describe recent foci in his
lab that span scales of biological organization. The first regards one
of the most surprising features of human biology, whereby less than half of all conceptions survive to live birth. Using data from in vitro fertilized embryos reveals diverse mechanisms of chromosome mis-segregation and their role in pregnancy loss. Extending from cells to individuals to populations, the McCoy lab is also developing resources and methods for studying abundant and impactful classes of genetic variation that have eluded the field, including contribution to the first gapless assembly of a human genome. This research has uncovered new evidence of historical natural selection, including selection favoring alleles inherited via ancient interbreeding with Neanderthals. Lastly, Dr. McCoy will end the talk by describing recent work generating and analyzing a large gene expression dataset from globally diverse human populations, creating a more complete view of gene expression evolution.
Together, this research helps explain the origins and maintenance of genetic variation underlying the phenotypes that make us all unique.

Evolution

Special Speaker

CRISPR’s most relevant uses require more than just knockouts! In this hands-on workshop, use CRISPR-Cas9 to cut and repair an E. coli chromosomal gene while learning about essential experimental controls.

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Participants will make and use alginate beads containing algae, yeast, and enzymes. They will learn how the beads can be used to teach photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and enzymatic processes.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Attendees will walk through a task that engages students in climate science and inspires them to action. The task centers regional impacts, environmental-actions, and strategies to address climate anxiety.

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Join us as we explore a phenomenon-driven learning sequence that elicits student interest and builds knowledge utilizing BioInteractive resources about inheritance patterns and the control of gene regulation in sticklebacks.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Explore the Nobel Prize winning gene-editing tool CRISPR with your students! In this workshop, we’ll experiment with guide RNA design, curing genetic diseases, and changing bacterial genes!

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Engineering Tomorrow STEM labs is developed and delivered by engineers for free and can work well in your biology classroom! Come learn about the program and receive complimentary Teacher Toolkit!

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

The JEDI Committee helps NABT develop programs and resources that address the needs of a diverse community of biology teachers to ensure full access and opportunities following the guidance articulated by the NABT values statement.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Want to include cutting-edge genetic discoveries in your class? Meet the 2023 HudsonAlpha Guidebook. This free resource is packed with ‘too new for textbooks’ content, phrased in student friendly language.

Biotechnology

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

General Audience

Using QB@CC "Impact of Introduction of American Bullfrogs on Species Diversity Activity" to demonstrate a biological and mathematical approach to teaching species biodiversity concepts in the classroom and beyond.

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Workshop participants will explore activities illustrating components of the new model of scientific literacy for undergraduates developed by the NSF-funded “Liberal Art of Science” (AAAS, 1990) revision project.

Nature of Science

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

This session will explore the AP Biology Science Practices that students should develop. The session will also model how the science practices are assessed in FRQs.

AP Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Learn how to bring the excitement of immunology research to students in the classroom with units presented by teachers from the American Association of Immunologists Summer Research Program for Teachers.

Microbiology & Cell Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

Learn how to adapt open educational resources from the Biologists and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) Project to improve representation of diverse scientists and incorporate data interpretation skills in your courses

Curriculum Development

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Advanced labs often require students to perform unfamiliar procedures, acquire new content, and often end in frustration. Come see how NGSS science practices can clarify learning goals in sophisticated labs.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Use the cell-free BioBits® system to experiment directly with concepts that have previously been inaccessible in many educational settings. Simple to implement, authentic molecular investigations with bright fluorescent readouts!

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Join award-winning author Riley Black as she discusses what made the difference between survival and extinction as the Age of Dinosaurs ended and the Age of Mammals began. Then explore the relationship between extinction, evolution, and biodiversity as part of an NGSS-aligned storyline that utilizes hands-on activities focused on the fossil record.

Evolution

Special Session (120 min)

General Audience

This session will highlight some of NSF's key programs, while also giving participants practical advice on how to improve their chances of impressing Reviewer #2.

Instructional Strategies

Symposium (75 min): Panel of two or more speakers.

General Audience

The ABT Advisory Committee helps ensure the American Biology Teacher publishes articles and highlights themes relevant to the teaching and learning of biology and life science at all levels.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Put your epidemiologist hat on and determine the transmission mode of a norovirus using molecular data, patient histories, and clues hidden in a restaurant.

Biotechnology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Go hands-on with a serial dilution activity that uses a typical highlighter and unique viewer to examine the relationship between fluorescence intensity and concentration of fluorescent molecules.

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

We will discuss using focus questions at the beginning of lessons and units as a way to improve student engagement, agency, and inclusion as they learn biology.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

This is a presentation on best practices of how to work with university research partners in urban contexts to facilitate teacher research enabling the use of their resources.

Curriculum Development

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Working with the Board of Directors and other NABT leaders, the Long Range Planning Committee develops goals and objectives that align with NABT's Strategic Plan.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Join the NABT Book Club for a discussion of the 2024 selection and timeline. This community read is a great way to talk to other biology teachers about what you’re learning in an informal (and fun) setting.

Special Event

General Audience

Biology texts provide legitimacy and belonging in science. The explorations of National Geographic African American scientist explorers connect socio-emotional learning, and social awareness with biology content in the classroom.

General Biology

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

Come explore how to incorporate math concepts into life science curricula with BioInteractive’s lionfish interactive. We'll discuss how to adapt this resource for active learning in online and in-person settings.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

This session discusses how using various art forms to introduce biology topics engages students, maintains their interest, and provides unique connections to the subject matter.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Come learn about how we started a biotechnology-themed program at a middle school! It is never too early to expose learners to this exciting and fast-growing field.

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

See our suite of CRISPR/Cas activities. We have something for everyone with both in vitro and in vivo CRISPR/Cas labs and free resources like paper modeling activities.

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Grab your lunch and meet other AP Biology teachers in a friendly, informal setting to share insights, ask questions, and build community. You may even get to meet some of your favorite AP colleagues in person. The luncheon includes a special presentation of the Kim Foglia AP Biology Service Award.

AP Biology

Meal Functions

High School

Grab your lunch and meet up with other elementary and middle-level teachers at this informal networking lunch designed to help you connect with colleagues.

General Biology

Meal Functions

Faculty, education researchers, graduate students, and anyone associated with four-year colleges and universities are invited to network with colleagues and learn about section programs and opportunities. There will also be a special presentation of the Four-Year College & University Section Awards. Be sure to grab your lunch before heading to the luncheon!

General Biology

Meal Functions

4-year College/University

If you teach funny Freshmen, serious Seniors, and/or everyone in between, you will want to grab your lunch, grab a seat, and connect with other high school biology teachers in this informal setting.

General Biology

Meal Functions

High School

Join a supportive community of two-year college educators to share your strategies, your struggles, and your successes. The winners of the Two-Year College Biology Teaching Award and the Professor Chan Teaching Award will also be recognized.

General Biology

Meal Functions

2-year College

This committee coordinates the nomination and application process for the NABT Awards program. Committee members evaluate applications, select award recipients, and notify the honorees of their awards.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Taxonomy in action: use visual cues and biotechnology techniques to sort bumblebees into separate species. Experience how PCR, sequencing, and bioinformatics help scientists distinguish bee species.

Biotechnology

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

ChatGPT was released to much fanfare and consternation. Its brief utilization in my Biology classroom, since January 2023, has had a compelling impact on my practice, students, and assessments.

Technology in the Classroom

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

We will share a broadly adaptable, NGSS-aligned curriculum that uses authentic, student-led research to teach genetics, ecosystem dynamics, microbiology, and biotechnology skills within the organizing principle of evolution.

Evolution

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

How can crafts (crocheting, 3D&4D printing, origami), toys, games, and puzzles help us appreciate the beauty and utility of mathematics in engaging biology students? We'll show you!

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Help NABT identify initiatives, develop activities, and promote services that highlight how informal and community science programs can support biology and life science instruction.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Simulate the CRISPR/Cas9 process with paper models, make claims about expected outcomes of knock-in or knock-out experiments, obtain evidence using gel electrophoresis, and provide analytical reasoning of outcomes.

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Using vaccines as an example, this session will examine the complex relationship between science and science communication and explore the individual context on both sides of any message: messenger and recipient.

Instructional Strategies

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Reading a scientific paper can seem daunting for students. During this workshop, we’ll explore strategies for navigating primary sources using BioInteractive's suite of CRISPR activities.

Science Practices

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Work with members of the ABT editorial team during this interactive session designed to help get your idea through submission, review, and acceptance.

Use PCR to detect antibiotic resistance genes in soil samples and contribute your data to a national database.

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

NABT is proud to present the 13th Annual Biology Education Research Symposium. Presentations were accepted through a double-blind review process that was open to biology instructors and education researchers at all levels. The format for the symposium is a traditional presentation of papers by individual or co-authors lasting 15 minutes each.

Instructional Strategies

Symposium (75 min): Panel of two or more speakers.

Learn about CAR-T cells and how immunotherapies are produced, how viral vectors deliver gene therapies and how physicians use them to treat inherited genetic disorders.

Biotechnology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Preservice teachers engage in inquiry explorations using the science capital and cultural scripts of Black heritage. Findings using modified Views of the Nature of Science (version C) are presented.

Curriculum Development

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

Through personal narratives and culturally responsive pedagogy, this session will provide participants with the resources needed to support 2SLGBTQIA+ equitable practices in a classroom setting through inclusive language.

Instructional Strategies

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

We share results from an institutional study on adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) and
Inclusive Access (IA) materials in helping address issues regarding access and equity across STEM courses.

Curriculum Development

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

We will demonstrate the capabilities of HHMI BioInteractive’s Assessment Builder, a crowdsourced database of high-quality questions intended to improve learning in AP Biology and undergraduate introductory biology.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

I will share my experience transitioning my 9th grade class to standards-based grading and "making it fit" with the traditional 100-point grading scale. Example assessments and tips and tricks!

General Biology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Infuse data, the science practices, math, and more into your AP courses while being both effective and efficient as you try to cram in the CED before the May exam!

AP Biology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Engage NABT’s active retired members to promote the initiatives of the association and facilitate service as mentors and volunteers.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Join NOAA for a demo of our database of 1,300+ FREE educational resources covering ocean, coasts, Great Lakes, weather, and climate. Tour lesson plans and activities and ask us anything!

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

We will play with algae beads for photosynthesis and respiration; and with Brainy Brinys, a kit to grow algae and feed it to brine shrimp while quantifying everything!

AP Biology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Design a more diverse, inclusive and less bias-driven AP Environmental Science Course. Topics include designing curricular resources, evaluating grading practices, and updating classroom strategies. Participants will model a redesigned lesson.

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Join other student presenters (and their mentors) for an informal practice session to help you prepare for the NABT Biology Education Poster Session.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

If you've ever wanted to bring NABT back to your home state, you may have considered establishing a state affiliate. Meet with colleagues who can help troubleshoot the hurdles of making that dream a reality.

International / Global Education

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

The LUDA project centered around the accurate teaching of human and non-human evolution in Alabama, developing, testing, and now sharing modules to address misconceptions, perceived conflict, and critical content.

Evolution

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

High School

"Vision and Change: A Call to Action" appeared twelve years ago. This session shares one university's journey to bring the Vision and Change Core competencies to fruition for non-majors biology.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Introduce a phenotypic change leading to bright blue colonies and antibiotic resistance. Protocol requires less than 45 minutes of class time and doesn’t require any incubators!

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

It’s last call in the NABT Exhibit Hall. It is also your last chance to visit booths, talk to exhibitors, and get those freebies for the classroom. This special reception will include giveaways and grand prize drawings for the Find the President Contest.

Special Event

General Audience

Join us for a sneak peek of the latest movie from HHMI Tangled Bank Studios. The film will be so new that we don't know what will be presented yet!

Following the screening, join HHMI Vice President of Science Education and Head of Tangled Bank Studios, Sean B. Carroll, and special guests for an interactive discussion.

Special Event

General Audience

The BioClub continues to support students at K-12 schools, community colleges, and informal learning organizations all over North America. Join us to share what your club is doing or learn how to start a BioClub Chapter of your own! Sponsored by Carolin Biological Supply Company.

Special Event. Tickets Required.

The NABT Poster Session features practices, programs, and research
in three distinct categories: general strategies for teaching biology, the scholarship of teaching, and mentored student research. Posters presented by students are eligible for two competitions, and winners will be announced before the closing general session.

General Biology

Special Symposium (120 min)

Participants engage in modeling & visualizing their understanding of transcription and translation, and how they influence the 3D structure of protein. Participants will disrupt their models and predict possible consequences.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Experience how the BSCS Anchored Inquiry Learning instructional model builds on the 5Es to design learning experiences that motivate students to engage with real world phenomena and problems in biology!

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

How can two patients with the same genetic variation have different disease outcomes? We'll explore this phenomenon with an activity focused on the central dogma that extends into genetic medicine.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Catalase is found in most organisms. This hands-on workshop explores the enzyme's evolution and phylogeny, and its unique structural characteristics. We will perform simple experiments to measure catalase activity.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Join NCSE to determine whether environmental DNA (eDNA) belongs to the elusive Bigfoot. This lab simulation highlights the importance of citing evidence in order to justify a claim.

Nature of Science

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

In this interactive workshop, you will engage with a model of how human choices affect the sustainability of a fish population and the potential effects of different human actions.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

Quantitative skills are a necessary component of scientific literacy. But implementing non-textbook resources can be intimidating. Let’s navigate perceived barriers and use evidence-based research to co-create solutions.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Help NABT recognize outstanding biology teachers in your state! This meeting will include updates and on the new procedures for the OBTA.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Active learning is the most effective form of instruction, but it's difficult to implement. Learn how Pivot Interactives can help infuse phenomena and the science practices into your instruction.

Technology in the Classroom

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

What is happening to allergy seasons? How does pollen cause allergies? Come explore a Climate Education Pathways project that uses evidence-based investigations, modeling, and student agency to empower climate action.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

The distribution of genetic mutations within and between human populations is determined by history and natural selection. Studying today’s genetic variation can thus inform our understanding of the past.
This motivates the study of population genetics, and Dr. Ryan Gutenkunst will first introduce key concepts from this scientific field. He will then discuss findings from his research group and others that shed light on our relationships with each other and with other extinct hominids. Disturbingly, genetic research is increasingly being weaponized by racists, and Dr. Gutenkunst will close with ideas of how educators can counter this trend.

Evolution

Special Speaker

Explore modern dilemmas in genetics and biotechnology in a new way! Learn to incorporate bioethics into your curriculum using mock senate hearings and debates.

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

HBCU professors and students provide insights into their experiences in a U.S. Department of Education funded peer-mentoring project. Students explore the impact of representation and mentoring on their education experiences.

General Biology

Symposium (75 min): Panel of two or more speakers.

In this session, we’ll introduce a variety of instructional strategies that can be integrated into lessons on how to interpret, analyze, describe, and explain the different visual representations of biological concepts students encounter in AP Biology. Students will learn the importance of data analysis and model evaluation to facilitate their decision-making in and out of the classroom.

AP Biology

Symposium (75 min): Panel of two or more speakers.

High School

Engaging in scientific modeling improves student engagement and understanding. Participants will learn how to use 3DMD’s Chromosome Connections Kit to model the processes of meiosis that lead to genetic diversity.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Microplastics permeate terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Engage students and your community in citizen science by collecting, analyzing, and reporting microplastics. Your classroom data makes a difference!

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Converting mixed majors biology courses into majors and nonmajors sequences has led to increased student performance and closure of equity gaps by integrating molecular metabolism with system function and application.

Curriculum Development

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

The "Crickets for Lunch?" unit encourages high school Biology students to reflect on community, culture and personal experiences as they learn how to communicate their knowledge of life science concepts.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

Explore BiteScis evolution lesson plans, which integrate current research and standards-aligned content to help you target and overturn misconceptions and preview data from a pilot study on their effectiveness.

Evolution

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

We will discuss how bacteriophages, model viruses that infect bacteria, are used for student-driven research on evolution and antibiotic resistance regardless of student expertise and available funding.

Evolution

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

Join us as we share an exciting new BioInteractive feature — the Educator Resource Library! We’ll discuss using and contributing to this repository of educator-generated materials connected to BioInteractive resources.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Review resources, services, and program recommendations to better support both NABT members and the biology teacher community.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Lab It Up! from National Geographic Learning is a chance for Biology teachers to get hands-on by doing one of the Minilab lessons from the new National Geographic Biology, program.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

Introduce students to high-tech STEM careers through the lens of agriculture! Learn about teacher leadership opportunities and explore free resources from nourishthefuture.org that connect your curriculum to a real-world context.

General Biology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Scientific literacy plays an important role in the education of all undergraduate students. This talk explores how a community engagement tool was utilized to address socio-scientific topics of interest to enhance scientific literacy for non-STEM majors.

Instructional Strategies

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Use social media outlets such as Facebook and X to broaden the NABT Community and promote programs that support biology and life science teachers.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Wolbachia manipulates insect reproduction and reduces the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. Join a global effort to determine the frequency and distribution of this microbial symbiont. This session is a special presentation by the 2023 Huxley Award Winner.

Evolution

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Gene expression is a key concept that is difficult for students to investigate. In this lesson, students are introduced to RNA sequencing and analyze NASA data to explore the topic.

AP Biology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

The number of Hispanic students in STEM majors is much lower than other populations. This presentation will introduce using Noches Bilingües to recruit and retain Hispanic students in STEM majors.

Science Practices

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

This hands-on session introduces physical models to explore the mechanisms of cell communication in the brain at the molecular level, including the specific application to teaching the pathways of addiction.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

BIOZONE's innovative interactive worktext approach is a departure from traditional textbook learning - providing flexible, engaging, student-centred resources. Print and digital formats deliver powerful NGSS, IB, Texas, and AP programs.

General Biology

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

High School

How can a single DNA sequence unveil the evolution and identity of an organism? Join Discover the Microbes Within: The Wolbachia Project (https://wolbachiaproject.org) for hands-on training using free bioinformatics software.

Evolution

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Biology Magnets are educational tools for magnetic whiteboards that allow you and your students to easily model complex biological processes. A free module will be given to all who attend!

General Biology

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

General Audience

The NIH is building the largest biomedical database of its kind and making it broadly accessible for research purposes. Learn how to access it to conduct your own authentic studies.

Science Practices

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

By exploring the human microbiome, educators will design an inquiry-based, NGSS-aligned project, illustrating the importance of student choice and voice. They will also analyze data, formulate questions, and conduct research.

AP Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

This workshop will explore narrative mini cases alongside the HHMI Biointeractive Immune System learning module. The activity introduces the cells of the immune system and walks through the timeline of a typical immune response while comparing it to several real-life immune reactions. Participants will identify and explain the role of memory cells when the body responds to various common antigens by interpreting graphs and images.

Anatomy & Physiology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Discover conservation efforts at biodiversity hotspots across five continents, and generate new ideas to increase cultural responsiveness, address biodiversity loss, and motivate your students to solve ecological issues.

International / Global Education

Symposium (75 min): Panel of two or more speakers.

Look for patterns in species diversity in coral reef ecosystems and other animals to determine cause and effect relationships and understand how ecosystem interactions affect patterns of biological diversity.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

Practice an activity that helps students think quantitatively about pH changes in cellular respiration. Learn how faculty from two-year and four-year institutions collaborated to develop quantitative reasoning modules for biology.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Conduct an interactive activity to learn how biomedical researchers are using bioinformatics and a systems biology approach to investigate the effects of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure on health.

Science Practices

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Participants will be guided to recognize and share approaches in culturally responsive teaching they already use, as well as develop new ways to implement equitable classroom practices.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Explore BioInteractive resources to investigate how cancer affects checkpoints (stop-lights) in the cell cycle. We will provide opportunities for participants to collaborate to discuss implementation in their classroom contexts.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will engage with a genetics curriculum focused on data analysis and quantitative skills framed around ancestry and genomic variation.

Genetics

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

We will present what teachers should know about platforms such as ChatGPT and how the introduction of this platform presents both challenges and opportunities for learning.

Technology in the Classroom

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

NABT is proud to recognize the 2023 NABT Award Recipients during this celebration. We will honor exceptional biology teachers from all levels, and everyone is welcome to help us congratulate these remarkable professionals.

Special Event. Tickets Required.

Explore the incredible versatility of the Flow of Genetic Information Kit by using it to model one type of replication error within the context of a real crime.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Explore literacy and science skill enhancement opportunities for AP® Environmental Science students. Delve into the seven science practices using Environmental Science for AP® Course 4e, presented by Amy Fassler.

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

High School

Data Explorer is a user-friendly tool that enables students to analyze data sets. Participants will use Data Explorer and connected BioInteractive resources to consider its applications in their classroom contexts.

Science Practices

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Through the lens of island biogeography, students explore climate change unfolding on diverse spatio-temporal scales and problem-solve – from across continents and millennia into our ZIP codes and lifetimes.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Participants will choose networking tables led by the NABT JEDI committee. Each table will have a different equity focus for participants to gather resources, discuss applications, and collaborate.

Instructional Strategies

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

General Audience

We will introduce a template guide for implementing DEI concepts in the classroom. Participants will discuss and apply these strategies to an example resource.

Science Practices

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

This lesson puts students in the shoes of the CDC as they investigate the next pandemic by determining the type of pathogen attack and planning a viable treatment plan.

Microbiology & Cell Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Panelists will share their experience and insight on how to support faculty professional development and scholarship at the two-year college level. They will also provide recommendations for those trying to do similar work.

Instructional Strategies

Symposium (75 min): Panel of two or more speakers.

Anti-vaxxers, climate change naysayers, COVID myths, wonder diets & greenwashing by industry -- all challenge our students. Help them develop skills in assessing credibility and expertise, and busting bogus scientific claims in the media.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

General Audience

Participants will engage in a task for teaching evolution through mimicry in velvet ants (Mutillidae). Participants will also begin developing their own phenomenon-based tasks for teaching in their own context.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

Recruit members to NABT leadership positions, including identifying and evaluating candidates for NABT elections based on nominations from members in good standing.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Provide oversight, evaluation, and implementation support for NABT professional development activities including but not limited to the NABT Conference.

Committee Meeting

General Audience

Engage students in evidence-based argumentations using extremophiles of Yellowstone National Park. Back by popular demand, this presentation describes a lesson designed to strengthen students’ understanding of resource availability, even in the harshest of ecosystems.

Ecology / Environmental Science / Sustainability

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Encounter a range of Homo naledi resources that supports your teaching of this amazing discovery from multiple vantage points including primary sources, 3D-printed fossils, and access to upcoming discoveries.

General Biology

Demonstration (75 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Participants will engage in an activity that uses primary scientific literature (PSL) to dispel misconceptions about various science topics and engage in a science communication activity to share their findings.

Science Practices

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

High School

Participants will learn methods to extract DNA from water samples in order to test for the presence of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and salamandivorans.

Biotechnology

Hands-on Workshop (75 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Session 1: Increasing Learner Engagement by Modeling DNA Replication with 3D Printed Models & Interlocking Building Toys

Session 2: Improving Inclusion and Belonging of STEM Undergraduates Through TA Teaching Professional Development

Session 3: Meet Miro: The Collaborative Digital “Whiteboard” of the Future

Instructional Strategies

Special Symposium (120 min)

Explore the wonders of lotus leaves as water droplets bead and flow. Engage with interactive water models to build your understanding of lotus leaves self-cleaning properties.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Explore the transformative potential of the Biology for the AP® Course (BFW Publishers) program, in enhancing pedagogy and student engagement, with a focus on CED alignment, AP Practice, and Skills.

AP Biology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

High School

You’re invited to BioInteractive’s new Online Community! We’ll discuss how this Community connects life science educators so you can share ideas, enhance classroom practice, and learn from each other’s experiences.

General Biology

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Join a workshop on virtual labs on LabXchange, where you will discover the power of online labs to enhance your teaching and learning experience.

Curriculum Development

Hands-on Workshop (30 min): Audience actively participates in experience.

Experience phenomenon based, storyline curriculum in high school biology! Use an agent based model, in the form of a table top game, to generate evidence to answer questions about predator prey interactions.

General Biology

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

High School

Network with other practitioners who are passionate about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This event is open to all levels, and light refreshments are included.

Instructional Strategies

Special Event

General Audience

Struggling to teach students complex biological content like gene regulation, genetic drift, or cell transport? Learn about free NGSS-aligned online simulations that model real-world phenomena and engage students as scientists.

Technology in the Classroom

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Building strong relationships with students is critical for creating an inclusive and welcoming classroom. Learn about the strategies that an early-career educator leveraged to build relationships with his students.

Instructional Strategies

Demonstration (30 min): Shows participates how to use data sets, equipment, online resources, etc.

Examining results from a national study on evolution education from universities around the United States, this session focuses on answering the question "where do we stand" through a unique lens.

Evolution

Paper (30 min): Presentation of research results.

Dr. Lee Berger may be best known for his significant discoveries Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi. But his contributions to exploration sciences have also resulted in advances in the application of technology to explore, excavate, and recover hominid remains in sub-equatorial Africa.

Join Dr. Berger as he talks about his most recent findings, and answers your questions in this interactive session.

NABT is proud to name Dr. Lee Berger the recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Service Award for Enhancing Biology Education.

Evolution

Special Speaker

General Audience

Conclude your 2023 NABT Conference experience with an evening of Baltimore history and haunts. Picture Fell's Point, as it was, a rowdy seaport town, the birthplace of the sleek and dangerous clipper ship. Its streets were full of sailors from foreign lands spilling off ships, immigrants anxious to start a new life, and ladies of the night looking to make ends meet. Given this explosive combination, is it any wonder that many ghosts remained behind?

Join us for a bite and a beverage harborside at the hotel, before our guides lead the groups in a walking tour of Baltimore's most historic waterfront neighborhood, closing out at a popular spot to cheers to a successful conference.

There will be two ticket options:

Shortened Tour - This experience will feature slightly less walking, slightly fewer stories, and slightly fewer spooks. But it will still include access to the pre-tour reception, a shortened 45-minute tour, and a beverage of your choice at the final meet-up location.

Full Tour - This experience will include the pre-tour get reception, a 60 to 75-minute tour, and a beverage of your choice at the final meet-up location.

Disclaimers:

This experience does include a walking tour, primarily outdoors. Fells Point is historic, and sections include cobblestone streets.
We will make adjustments to this tour as weather necessitates, so there will not be refunds due to inclement weather.
We hope to make this experience as accessible as possible. Please contact conference@nabt.org if you need accommodation to participate (mobility scooters, ASL interpreters, etc).

Special Event. Tickets Required.

Committee Meeting

Committee Meeting