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= SESSION II: 11:45-12:30 - // Participants Choose One // =

Games to Explain Human Factors: Come, Participate, Learn & Have Fun //**** – ** Ronald Shapiro, Ph.D __ Suggested Audience – Middle, High School __ Human Factors (HF) is a specialization of Engineering and a branch of Applied Psychology in which systems such as computers, medical devices, and airplanes are designed, built, and assessed based upon how safe and easy it is for people to use them. The job market for HF professionals appears very bright long term. This session is a popular, informative and entertaining nontraditional introduction to HF. During the session you will learn how people process information, and how to optimize design of products and systems for human strengths and compensate for weaknesses. You will learn about: memory, learning, sensation, perception, measuring, interfering, thinking, responding, interpretation, assumptions, reinforcement, feedback, medical error, user error, pilot error and product usability. Participating may benefit you at school, at home and on the job. You will be a better teacher and learner. This session promises to be informative and fun!!! You may even win a prize.

__ Suggested Audience – All __ The 1995 National Curriculum Science attainment target 1 (Sc1) addressed Experimental and Investigative Science. Skills of Planning experimental procedures, Obtaining evidence, Analyzing evidence and Evaluating evidence (POAE) were assessed formally at age 14 and 16, across the country. Come along and see how it was done in the (Wonder)land of Alice, sample some of the investigations used and try out the leveling – sorry, grading – rubric. But if you’re looking for a universal panacea, then you’d probably have to ask Humpty Dumpty! //* ////Stephen Lakeland taught middle school and high school science for 29 years in England before emigrating to the United States in 2006. A former Head of Department, consultant for Eskola Education and visiting lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, he teaches Physics and Forensic Science at LaSalle Academy and leads science workshops (and children’s’ science parties!) at POW!Science! in Providence. //
 * // "Curiouser and Curiouser", cried Alice! Scientific Inquiry in the National Curriculm of England & Wales //** Stephen Lakeland*, LaSalle Academy

__ Suggested Audience – All __ NSTA’s Learning Center ([|http://learningcenter.nsta.org]) provides teachers with hundreds of standards-aligned learning resources available 24/7. Over 1,300 of these resources are free. Teachers are able to personalize their portfolio, build their own library of resources and lesson plans, share it with colleagues and use it for years to come. Accountability tools are available for the project director or administrator. This session will introduce participants to the various resources (SciPacks, SciGuides, Science Objects, and more) found in the NSTA Learning Center.
 * // The NSTA Learning Center- Online Content Building Resources to Increase Teacher Knowledge //**** - ** Deborah Tucker, NSTA