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2. Reflecting and Personalizing
APB Capstone Project
Reflecting and Personalizing

3. 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?

4. 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.

5. Role: Job to Do
Current AP Future
Student AP Students

6. 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.

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

8. 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

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

10. 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.

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

12. 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 …

13. 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

14. Presentation Details
Audience Feedback Forms
10 presentations

15. Day #1
Evaluate 5 presentations
Day #2

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

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