It’s been about a month since I attended the NSTA Conference in Boston and I think some of it has finally started to sink in.  The whole reason I attended the conference was because a year ago, while I was finishing my Masters degree, my mentor, Barbara (https://websites.umass.edu/bschulze/   here is a link to her blog)  and I wrote up a proposal for the conference as part of our program.  I didn’t really think that our proposal would be accepted, but it was of course!  We both were a little unsure of what to expect going into it.  Our time slot, Sunday (the last day of the conference) at 8am, led us to believe that we wouldn’t have many people attending.  Well, we were wrong.  We had roughly 25-30 other educators attend our presentation which was much more than anticipated.  I get up and teach students every day, but this had a little bit of a different feel to it.  It was interesting fielding questions from other educators and helping guide them through our inquiry style lab.  I think that both of us received great feedback on our activity and also provided some good incite to other teachers about how they could apply the activity in their classroom.  If you would like to look at our activity as well as pictures, please head to Barb’s blog(above) and click on the NSTA tab.  Please provide feedback about what you think should you have any.