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Reflecting and Personalizing APB Capstone Project Reflecting and Personalizing

Project Outline (G.R.A.S.P.) Goals: What’s it all about? Role: What tasks will you be doing? Audience: Who will critique you? Strong Verb: What are the core actions? Product: What will you create and how will it be judged?

Goals: What’s it All About? Now that you have experienced the breadth and depth of what AP Biology is about, it is time for you to branch out in a direction of personal interest.

Role: Job to Do Current AP Future Student AP Students

Audience: Who Will Critique You? You will articulate your essential question and your answer to it. As a means of answering it, produce a suitable product that conveys your research with next year’s AP students in mind.

Strong Verbs: What are your core actions? Reflect Inquire Explain

Product: What will you create? You decide! Research Proposal* Identify topic of interest Essential Question Identify Multiple Intelligence menu, product Explain how this is a meaningful area of research and development Rubric Approval by instructor *commensurate to your skill, knowledge

Criteria: How You Will Be Judged Options Specify at least four criteria on which your project will be graded A, B, C, D

Schedule: Bench Marks May 20: Introduce Post-Exam project, details May 23: Proposal approvals due June 6, 2016: Final Product Due* *Presentation of capstone will occur during the Senior “final exam” period on this day. Juniors will still need to submit their work at this time.

Proposal Format Objective/Purpose Project Format Conclusion: At the end of this project, I will have a greater understanding of …

Presentation (5:00) Introduction (~30 seconds) Body (3-3.5 minutes) Personal Introduction Describe your topic of interest and learning style(s) State your Essential Question and explain why you chose it Body (3-3.5 minutes) Conclusion, Q&A (~1 minute) “At the end of this project, I have gained a greater understanding of …

Presentation Details Day #1 (June 6, 2016) Day #2 (June 7, 2016) ~8 presentations First 5 volunteers get 10% bonus Day #2 (June 7, 2016) remaining presentations

Presentation Details Audience Feedback Forms 10 presentations

Day #1 Evaluate 5 presentations Day #2

Last details Bring textbooks, lab manuals by Monday June 6, 2016 Submit AP Capstone project Sign-up for first presenters

First Steps… A word about brainstorming The power of “What If?”