Round up 4/23-5/7

With the AP Exam soon approaching material is coming to an end!  Before spring break we were placed into our CSI NDB groups.  During CSI NDB students got the chance to create their own murder mystery and were given a body system to which had to be the source of death.  Even though this project might sound gory and depressing the students all did amazing jobs in making the material engaging and humorous at the same time.  Students used any type of media platform that they wanted.  The most common media platform was a combination between a PowerPoint for the educational portion and videos, which walked you through the murder mystery like a movie.  The three body systems that were addressed were the endocrine system, nervous system, and immune system.                

Team AP Bio cracking some unsolved murder mysteries!

Lindsay having fun reviewing for AP Exam :)

            We also had our last practical of the year, which was our Animalia practical.  The practical started off with a short answer and station portion.  Students went from station to station observing the fetal pigs from our fetal pig experiment.  Parts of the pig were labeled with numbers and students had to determine the body system and answer some follow-up questions.  Other stations consisted of labeling diagrams or writing short answers.  The next class we did the multiple-choice section of the test.  After the multiple-choice section was over we began our review for the AP exam.  The next class we played a review game.  Mrs. Girard would hand you a sheet of paper with AP questions and the goal was to answer the all the questions correctly and then try to throw your game figurine into a bin for extra credit.  The goal of the game was to collect as many sheets of papers in a short amount of time.  This game helped with staying calm in pressure situations and working at a fast pace but being able to get the correct answers at the same time.  For our final review day, we did a class review session where we picked out major topics and created a web of information.  Good effort to all my teammates taking the exam tomorrow, you will all do amazing! :)