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.
Help coach your students to greater grasp of DNA through activities and analogies that draw on your student's knowledge of English. Start with how DNA is a lot like an alphabet, but with 4 letters rather than English's 26. Explore how chaining letters together can lead to words & sentences in English, and to genes in DNA. Draw on examples of variants in spelling (centre, center; color, colour) have parallels in DNA. Build on the historical use of terms linguistics such as transcription & translation to explore how DNA scientists have long used language-based metaphors to imagine and test ideas about ways DNA might work. Compare & contrast a range of metaphors about DNA (blueprint, videotape, code) to parse the strengths & weaknesses of each. Build and take home a model of single-stranded DNA using 1.5 ml microcentrifuge tubes that gives students hands-on experience in sequence, directionality, combination, recombination and mutation. Connects with MS-LS3-1 Heredity: Inheritance & Variation of Traits
Thursday March 19, 2020 11:00am - 11:50am CDT
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