AP classes can be quite the challenge for the teacher who values depth of knowledge and student engagement. On one hand there is the ever present test that you want your students to be absolutely prepared for and on the other you want them to understand the material deeply and have time to develop responsibility...
You’re a deer! You’re a wolf! You’re Water! You’re Food! Thus began AP Biology’s Oh Deer population simulation. This little gem of an activity is an APES classic (Google it, you’ll find it). Basically students are divided into deer and resources. Deer search for resources. If they get a resource they live and reproduce. If...
I wish that I had more opportunity to submit weekly reports from my Disease and Society class. They are doing so many cool things! For me it has been so much fun to come up with interesting questions to let students explore. Toward the end of the semester I will likely do a full autopsy...
My how the time flys. It seems that it was just the other day that I was putting up my first edition of the week in review for APES. Here we are, about 4 weeks to go in the semester, exam just around the corner, and posting one of the last week in reviews that...
Oh, the fruit fly. A much maligned and often hated insect that, nonetheless, has been the subject of intense research for the last 2 centuries. The flies are loved by researchers for the ease with which they are bred, their simple genetic makeup, and their short generation time. AP Bio has gotten to know these...
