WSST Conference 2020 Canceled! The COVID-19 has created an unusual and life-threatening situation. The Executive Committee of the WSST Board unanimously decided to cancel our 2020 WSST conference because of the myriad cancellations and policies implemented for individuals regarding travel restrictions. All these restrictions are based upon sound recommendations from the Governor’s office, the CDC, and the WHO. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm recommended Thursday (March 12, 2020) to cancel any events of more than 250 people to help contain the spread of the virus. We will commence with refunding registration and associated conference fees in a short while. This will take time as I have never done something of this magnitude before. Please be patient. Thank you for understanding.
Three-dimensional learning that incorporates the disciplinary core ideas, the science practices and the cross-cutting concepts is the driving force of the Next Generation Science Standards. In order to better integrate the different topics typically taught in the high school biology classroom, storyline units that are coherent and phenomenon-driven have been created so that students can make sense of how science works in real world situations. For example, units have been written to address the phenomena of albinism, for the teaching of genotype to phenotype, group hunting in lions to address social behavior and genetic relatedness, and tusklessness in elephants to introduce keystone species and natural selection. These units, written as part of an inter-district collaborative, have proven to be great models of how three-dimensional learning can be applied in today's biology instruction and lead to students becoming self-directed learners and thinkers.
