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Each tutor will hold up a sign for students. (We will provide the signs.) Group numbers for students are printed on name tags. Tutors will lead students to breakout rooms (TMEC 7 rooms) or public meeting areas.

Session Goals

  • Develop a mentoring relationship with students through personal connection, trust and support
  • Understand how to use the language of science
  • 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

3:35 PM - Improv activity

3:40 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.

3:45 PM - Improv activity

4:05 PM - Big Ideas Activity

  • EVO Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. #bigidea1
  • ENE Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. #bigidea2
  • IST   Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes. #bigidea3
  • SYI   Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. #bigidea4
  • Each student receives a Unit/Big Ideas worksheet. Each group is assigned one of the four.
  • 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 
  • Select one area to report out using large post-it paper. 

5:10 PM - All Groups return to the Armenise with their Big Ideas/Unit Group worksheets.

  • 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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