School teachers and tutor will coordinate meetup prior to walking to TMEC roomsswhere they would like to meet. (We will provide the signs.) Tutors will lead students to breakout rooms and use in room monitors to display orientation pages.
Session Goals
- 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
3:25 PM - Improv activity
3:35 45 PM - Tutor welcome
- Tell a story about what got you interested in studying science. Students will relate to you better if they understand your passion for learning and interest in discovery.
3:40 :50 PM - Improv/Icebreaker activity
4:00 PM - Improv activity/Icebreaker activity
4:05 PM Open Inquiry Activity
4:10 15 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 paperas a group using the reverse of the poster.
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- All groups pair-share
- Odd & Even Groups pair up - 10 minutes
- Example > Tutor group Group 1 shares with Tutor group with Group 2, Tutor group Group 3 shares Tutor group 4Group 4.
4:45 PM - All Groups return to the Armenise Amphitheater with their Big Ideas/Unit Group posters.