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School teachers and tutor will coordinate meetup prior to walking to TMEC roomss. (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 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 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 - Information Storage & Transmission | Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes. #bigidea3
  • SYI  - Systems Interactions | Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. #bigidea4
  • Each Tutor team receives a Unit/Big Ideas poster. 
  • Students indicate their comprehension level for each Essential Knowledge (EK) statement using red, yellow or green dots. - 10 minutes
  • Tutor will then ask each student to share one response. It could represent any level of understanding. 
  • Select one area to report out 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.








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