Resources to Review for the APES Exam
What you use to review depends on your students and their needs. There is no one best way to review for the AP® Environmental Science Exam. What you choose to do …
Category: AP Exam
Tips for using AP® Classroom
AP® Classroom is a new, powerful tool that the College Board has provided for teachers and students this year. I used many aspects of the program with my students this …
Sample Grading and Points
This is a sample of how I grade in AP® Environmental Science. As a teacher, you must find what works for you and your own students, school and community! It …
Resources for the AP® Environmental Science Exam
Read about the AP® Exam in these various posts. You can also find out the basics of the APES exam on this College Board website. Read to find out various …
Tips and hints for the AP® Environmental Science exam
These are tidbits of important information and some common student errors that many students make on the AP Environmental Science exam. Make sure you are studying your notes, textbook and/or …
FRQ tips for the AP®Environmental Science Exam
These are some basic guidelines for writing FRQs. For help with math, read “What students need to know about the math for the AP Environmental Science Exam” Make sure you …
AP® Environmental Science math for students for the AP® exam.
This is the basic information you need about APES math on the AP® Exam. Read this post for some practice problems.
What Do Students Think is Best for AP Exam Review?
I survey my students every year after the AP Exam, because I want to improve my practice and adjust for needs the following year. For review ideas, read this post. …
Peer Grading FRQs using Google Forms and Spreadsheets by Katy Sturges
Implementing FRQ Peer Grading in the Classroom Guest writer: Katy Sturges, APES teacher from Texas In the summer of 2008, after completing my first year of teaching only Biology, I …
AP® Released Exams, Score Predictions, & the Final Exam “Curve”
One way to prepare students for the AP® exam is to have them take practice exams and released exams as practice or as a final exam before the AP® Exam. …
6 Week Study Plan for the AP® Environmental Science Exam
Reviewing for the AP®Exam is important. My students review content and knowledge at home while we work on skills and practice exams in class. Read about different ways to review …
APES Exam and Bloom’s Taxonomy/Depth of Knowledge
I’ve always told people that the AP® Exam has a lot of higher order thinking questions, but never took to the time to actually count how many were in a …
Using and Teaching FRQs in Science
Students in an AP® Environmental Science class need to know how to write Free Response Questions (FRQs). These are short answer questions, not essays, and have special strategies that are …
FRQs and Peer Grading
Peer Grading FRQS Peer grading free response questions is a great way to 1. Teach kids how the questions are graded by the national readers and how picky and precise …