Course: Biology Summer Inquiry Project

Topic outline

Advanced Placement Biology
- Announcements Forum
- Download a copy of this course. File 2.6MB Moodle backup
AP BIO, SIP: Summer Inquiry Project

AP BIO, SIP: Summer Inquiry Project by Susan L. Speirs and Grosse Pointe Public Schools is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Work independently to complete the FIVE lessons in Moodle which will take you through the SIP process. Then, as a member of a team of researchers and for the summative assessment regarding your learning about research, experimental design and behavior, work with your lab partners to design, implement and publish on your very own "Train a Pill Bug" investigation.

Teacher Directions Student Directions
- Lesson One: The Scientist in YOU!
- Draw a Scientist--YOU! Assignment (2.2)
- Your thoughts on Science Methods Forum
- Lesson Two: Animal Behavior
- Behavior Mechanisms Forum
- Guppies RS Assignment (2.2)
- Lesson Three: Sifting through Research Summaries
- Research Summary from Science Daily Assignment (2.2)
- Lesson Four: Time for PILL BUGS!
- Pill Bug Word Document Assignment (2.2)
- Experimental Design Forum
- Final Experiment (One per Pill Bug Explore Team) Assignment (2.2)
- Lesson Five: The Pill Bug Experiment, Abstract, and Poster
- Finally Forum
- Sample Abstract for Students to Use File
- FINAL Abstract Assignment (2.2)
- POSTER Template File
- Final Poster Submission Assignment (2.2)