This conference is for teachers in every grade band, K–College, and from every discipline. We recruit the leading experts and expect high performance. Consider some of the sessions we’re offering:

• Featured Presenter, Richard Louv: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
• Award-winning Inquiry Lab Activities for High School Biology—Learn how to conduct three high-interest lab activities that give students experience in hypothesis formation, experimental design, data collection, and interpretation.
• Using Dark Matter to Teach Physics Concepts—Use dark matter to tie together several units in your physics course. Leave with a DVD, teacher's guide, and student handouts.
• Wind Turbine Challenge: How to Hold One in Your State or Region
• Biotechnology and Environmental Risk: Project Learning Tree's New Secondary Program
• Ecological Footprints (Elem–Middle)
• Students Show What They Know—Formative assessment can have a powerful, positive effect on student learning. (General)
• Polydensity Tube: Serious Fun with a Dense Subject—Make and take a bottle with solids floating or sinking in two immiscible liquids. Handouts. (Middle–Informal)
• Field Trip: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory: Hydrology on a Big Scale (Ticketed)
• Field Trip: Great River Energy: Splendor in the Glass (Ticketed)
• Inquiry Instruction in High School Chemistry and Its Effect on Students' Proportional Reasoning Ability (Supervisory)

And there are many more sessions to choose from. Attend this conference to be the best you can be. Register by visiting www.nsta.org/minneapolis.