ASTA Conference 2025

Engage in a transformative learning experience that promotes inquiry, real-world problem-solving, and phenomena-based instruction through hands-on activities. Alabama Inspire Science is your all-in-one solution for meeting state standards, fostering student-led learning, and equipping educators with innovative tools for success. Explore the program's versatile print and digital components and see how they support inquiry-centered teaching and ensure content mastery for students. Don’t miss this opportunity to delve into resources that elevate classroom learning and empower both teachers and students!

Explore Learning Blade, a virtual STEM toolbox to connect STEM education to real-world careers and technologies. Through engaging lessons and projects, students discover diverse professions like engineers, scientists, and healthcare professionals. Accessible to all, it fosters interest-based exploration, equips students with 21st-century skills, and empowers them to envision future career paths. Register at www.LearningBlade.com/AL for your FREE Account.

Our Middle School Science Department strives to get our students excited about science! We coordinate a Mad Scientist Day every year, where our whole middle school rotates through fun hands-on demonstrations. We get our community involved and have the experiments run by a local company, "The Nutty Scientists," and a club from our local University, UAH. We also have an annual STEAM Night where we have over 30 companies come and participate. We hope these engaging events will excite our students so that they can see science not just as a subject but as something fun that they would like to explore more deeply.

Here is a fun way to get your students talking about all those fabulous bacteria and viruses that inhabit our surroundings. During this activity students will research several pathogens and share their findings in a fun creative way with each other in class.

Do you want to win $10,000, get recognized at the national level for your teaching, make professional contacts around the nation and get a free trip to Washington, D.C.? Come to our session and find out how to get a mentor and apply for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching (PAEMST) Award.

Are there things that, year after year, your students just aren't "getting?" Come see a veritable smorgasbord of modeling ideas that I have learned or created in my 20+ years in the biology classroom that may help students "see" the science.

Learn to use a cultural and religious sensitivity resource and three curriculum units focused on teaching evolution using human and non-human case studies in general high school biology classrooms (field tested in Alabama).

In this session, educators will dive into fun, hands-on experiences with EdTech tools to bring their STEM spaces to life. Plus, we’ll explore how to weave in SEL strategies, creating a well-rounded, engaging learning environment for students of all ages!