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- Develop a mentoring relationship with students through personal connection, trust and support
- Understand how to use the language of science
- Practice asking questions (inquiry)
- Understand the purpose of organizing AP Biology concepts using four Big Ideas & Selected Units
- Self-assess current understanding of AP Biology Essential Knowledge statements
- Reflect on the group's knowledge of AP Biology
- Demonstrate group understanding of AP Biology Essential Knowledge organized under different Enduring Understandings
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3:40 PM - Improv activity
3:50 PM Open Inquiry Activity
4:10 PM - Big Ideas Activity
- EVO - Evolution | Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. #bigidea1
- ENE - Energetics | Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. #bigidea2
- IST Big - Information Storage & Transmission | Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes. #bigidea3
- SYI Big - Systems Interactions | Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. #bigidea4
- Each student Tutor team receives a Unit/Big Ideas worksheet. Each group is assigned one of the four.poster.
- Students indicate their comprehension level for each Essential Knowledge (EK) statement using small red, yellow or green dots. - 10 minutes
- Tutor will then ask each student to use color label dots to share their responses on the group's Big Idea/Unit share one response. It could represent any level of understanding.
- Select one area to report out using large post-it paper.
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- as a group using the reverse of the poster.
- All groups pair-share
- Odd & Even Groups pair up - 10 minutes
- Example > Tutor group 1 shares with Tutor group 2, Tutor group 3 shares Tutor group 4.
5:10 PM - All Groups return to the Walter Amphitheater with their Big Ideas/Unit Group posters.