What is Different in the New AP Biology 2025 CED
I have started combing through the new AP Biology CED and comparing it to the old in order to tease out any differences to get ready for teaching AP Biology next year. As I go, I am writing down those differences and I thought it would be helpful to share it with the world of AP Biology teachers!
Make a Heart Model with Recyclables!
Let’s make a heart model out of recyclable materials! As teachers, we’re always looking for fresh ways to help students understand complex ideas. The human heart, with all its chambers, valves, and blood flow, can be one of those tricky topics that’s hard for students to wrap their heads around. What better way to make learning the heart fun, interactive, and memorable?
Setting Up a Successful High School Science Fair
Science Fairs can come in all shapes and sizes – from a single classroom of Biology students, to a gymnasium full of students across multiple grade levels and even multiple schools! Here’s a comprehensive, twelve step guide on how to set up a successful high school science fair at your school.
Seven Ways to Ensure that Lab Clean Up Runs Smoothly
Lab clean up, just like any other task or procedure, must be carefully planned by the teacher and then taught to students. In this blog post, we’ll share seven practical tips and strategies to make lab clean-up not only efficient but also engaging and enjoyable!
Trash to Treasure: Plant Cell Model Made with Recycled Materials!
Build a plant cell model in a way that will stretch your students’ minds and challenge their understanding of cell parts. It is fun, simple, cheap, and it will become one of your favorite projects of the year!
Project Based Learning Challenge: Design and Test Pumpkin Helmets
A super fun project based learning activity where students take on a creative engineering challenge by designing and constructing their own pumpkin helmets using recyclable materials. Each student or group will be provided with a variety of materials such as cardboard, plastic bottles, foam, and tape. They will think critically about the properties of these items and put them together to create a helmet that can effectively protect a pumpkin, which will serve as the “head,” during a drop test.
Halloween Activities for High School Science with Plastic Skeletons
If you’re looking for creative halloween activities for high school science, you’re in for a treat (haha). From sculpting muscle groups on miniature skeletons to investigating forensic science with mock crime scenes, these activities not only make learning fun but also deepen your students’ understanding of human anatomy.
Best Ecology Project for High School: Save Species, Support Communities
Let me tell you about my absolute favorite Ecology project for my High School students. It is an ecology project that gives students choice in what they research, an actual problem to solve, real world issues to consider, and total creativity in how they solve the problem. Project based learning at its best!
Make Digital Lessons with Google Forms
Here is a fast, simple way to make digital lessons with Google Forms! Google Forms provides an easy, organized way to present information and guide students through a lesson. Forms are also perfect for differentiation, meeting the learning needs of individual students.
End of the Year Activity: The Power of a Letter
Looking for a meaningful end of the year activity for your high school students? This one is my favorite! It offers a sneaky way to do some content review before the final test. Plus, I find out a lot about students’ perception of the class, and of me as their teacher!
Letter Writing is my favorite end of the school year activity. During the last week of school, each student writes an anonymous letter to the students that will begin the class next year. Kids and I enjoy the process, and we both get a lot out of it.