ASTA Conference 2025

Calling all elementary school teachers! Join us for an engaging and enlightening workshop that explores the powerful intersection of science education and the Science of Reading initiatives. Discover how teaching science can support and enhance students' reading and writing abilities, creating a comprehensive approach that fosters academic achievement across disciplines.

Raise environmental literacy while creating a 3-D model of land use, engaging in a simulation of carrying capacity in a habitat, and participating in an interactive history of a local river. Presented lessons deepen students’ understanding of “Earth and Human Activities” and “Ecosystems. Receive lesson plans, data sets and more.

Intentional planning and collaborative opportunities open the door to cross-curricular instructional practices including STEM through the engineering design process.

Join our interactive science workshop where literacy meets
exploration! Immerse yourself in a world of discovery as we blend scientific
concepts with the power of language. Through engaging activities, such as
designing a hand pollinator, students will not only see how to unravel the wonders of
science but also enhance their literacy skills. Leave with classroom resources.
Smithsonian Science for the Classroom (K-2) received an All-Green rating from
EdReports.org.

Learn how to use the Save the Baby Penguins curriculum in your elementary STEM classroom. Students build little shelters for color-changing penguins to keep them cool in the hot sun of Boulder's Beach, South Africa. Complete classroom kits will be given to 8 lucky teachers.