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AP Biology Tutoring Series

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6 sessions

+16

This series ended on October 6, 2022. All 1:1 and group chats related to this series are disabled 7 days after the last session.

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We will cover one semester--i.e., the first four units--of AP Biology. (I will most likely create another series for the second semester at the start of the second semester of the academic year, but I will decide that for sure later on.) The series is aimed at students who are studying AP Biology (in school or alone at home / self-studying) and are planning on taking the AP Biology exam. PREREQUISISTES & COREQUISTIES There are no prerequisites for this series. (You may want to kindly note that the CollegeBoard mentions “high school courses in biology and chemistry” as a prerequisite for AP Biology.) For corequisites, it is preferable for student to be taking AP Biology at school or self-studying it. MATERIAL COVERED As previously mentioned, this series will cover the first four units of AP Biology: Chemistry of Life, Cell Structure and Function, Cellular Energetics, and Cell Communication and Cell Cycle. Below is a link to a document with the Course At a Glance provided by CollegeBoard for the first four units attached. It details the lesson titles in each unit. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LDWzzLGmKCex1k722AvOShM53HmOyLnWdVRxwIt70K0/edit?usp=sharing TEACHING METHOD / FORMAT & RESOURCES Each unit will be divided into two sessions. During each session, I will start with a general, somewhat detailed review of almost everything in half of the unit. I will focus on the topics in the unit that the students in the class mention they find difficult and tailor the session for the students based on their feedback. Also, I will be focusing on topics and ideas that the recent Chief Reader Reports state that many students seem to have difficulty with and do mistakes in questions relating to them. Next, we will solve some practice questions during the class itself. I will constantly try to include both MCQ and FRQ questions. I will give some homework that I encourage students to do, but it will be completely optional. I will assign / suggest readings from Campbell Biology in Focus (The 'in Focus' edition was written with AP Biology students in mind). I will try to attach a pdf of the assigned readings, depending on the students' needs (i.e., if they request it because they want to do the reading but do not have the book). I will also provide other resources that I personally used and found helpful. These may include questions, summaries, etc., and I may assign some of them as suggested HW. The resources may include certain pages of CliffsNotes AP Biology, Princeton Review AP Biology, Preparing for the Biology AP Exam: To Accompany Pearson's Campbell Biology Programs, and, again, I will try to provide the needed resources as pdfs. Lastly, I will likely scan the notes I have taken on Campbell throughout the whole course and attach them to students if they request them. I will have an Office Hour between each unit and the other. This session will be unstructured and solely for answering students' questions and repeating the explanation of certain topics if students need that, for example, because they missed a session or did not understand. The last session will be a Review session where we will briefly go over all of the first four units and solve some randomly ordered practice questions relating to the units covered. NUMBER AND TIMING OF SESSIONS This series will only be for one semester of AP Biology, so it will run from the 8th of September, 2022 to the 3rd of November, 2022 and will consist of 13 sessions (including Office Hours). There will be two ninety-minute sessions for each unit followed by a sixty-minute Office Hour for that unit. The first two sessions of each unit will be on Thursday at 3 PM EDT / 7 PM GMT, a week apart (i.e., one session a week). The third session of the unit, which will be an office hour, will be on Tuesday of the following week at the same time. (If you would rather have the sessions on a different day or at a different time, please mention that in the public discussion, and, though improbable, changes may be made if many students want them.) The last session of the series is a two-hour Review session. (For my qualifications, please refer to the bio in my profile. My most important qualification is that I took the AP Biology course and got a 5 on its exam.)

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I am a Jordanian senior working toward the American Diploma. I live in Saudi Arabia, where I attend an international school, but I plan to continue my higher education in the US. I value education, and I am especially interested in biology, as well as chemistry and math. I enjoy playing the piano, something I have done since I was a child. I have been the top student in my grade at my school (which includes over 200 students in each grade) for many years. In my sophomore year of high school, I self-studied AP Biology and got a 5 on the exam. In my junior year, I also took the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth AP Chemistry course and received a grade of 96% (A) on it and a 5 on the AP exam. I have taken the ACT twice and, on my second try, scored a composite of 35 (Math: 35, Science: 34, English 36, Reading: 36). I have also taken UCSD's Intro to Epidemiology credit course in the summer of 2021 and completed it with a GPA of 4.00 (A+). Moreover, I participated in the International competition Conrad Challenge: Health & Nutrition category (2021-2022). My team and I wrote a 7000+ word paper, on Neurodot, a product we innovated that uses quantum dots to communicate with patients in a vegetative state, and we received the 2022 Conrad Challenge Innovator Certificate. At the moment, I am working with my twin sister on a literature review on ways to improve the efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homology-directed repair in basal cells of patients with cystic fibrosis. We are completing the paper under the guidance of a research mentor at the International Research Institute of North Carolina. I have been working with The Phoenix School in Salem, Massachusetts, for about three years and counting. In addition to staying connected to the school by participating in various events and projects, my sister and I host weekly one-hour sessions with the school over Zoom. When I was a freshman in high school, we successfully designed and taught a beginner's Arabic course to its students. We gave a year-long course on Medieval Islamic Medicine the following year. We used a number of different books, research papers, and articles to prepare the course and incorporated a hands-on activity in almost every session. In the past year and for this year too, we host sessions on various biological and cultural topics, from forensic science to Islamic art. The school's innovative teaching methods, which include an emphasis on project-based learning as well as placement of students from K-8 in one room, push me to experiment with and incorporate different learning methods in the sessions I host. They also help me develop my skills in teaching and communication. I have been tutoring at Schoolhouse.world for over a year now, and I believe that Schoolhouse is an impactful and extremely valuable platform. I am here because I wish to continue to help others by tutoring.

Schedule

✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY

You are free to attend/skip whichever sessions you want. I recommend you do not miss any sessions, but if you need help in only a certain unit, you are welcome to attend only the sessions relating to it.

SESSION 1

8

Sep

SESSION 1

AP Biology

AP Biology

Thu 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTCSep 8, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTC

During this session, we will cover the first part of Unit 1: Chemistry of Life, which will include the following topics: Structure of Water and Hydrogen Bonding and Elements of Life. The session will include both an explanation / review of the aforementioned topics and practice questions on them.
SESSION 2

15

Sep

SESSION 2

AP Biology

AP Biology

Thu 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTCSep 15, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTC

During this session, we will cover the second part of Unit 1: Chemistry of Life, which will include the following topics: Introduction to Biological Macromolecules, Properties of Biological Molecules, Structure and Function of Biological Molecules, and Nucleic Acids. The session will include both an explanation / review of the aforementioned topics and practice questions on them.
SESSION 3

20

Sep

SESSION 3

Office Hours

Office Hours

Tue 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM UTCSep 20, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM UTC

This session is unstructured and solely for answering students' questions relating to topics covered in Unit 1 and repeating the explanation of certain topics if students need that, for example, because they missed a session or did not understand.
SESSION 4

22

Sep

SESSION 4

AP Biology

AP Biology

Thu 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTCSep 22, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTC

During this session, we will cover the first part of Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function, which will include the following topics: Cell Structure: Subcellular Components, Cell Structure and Function, Cell Size, Plasma Membranes, and Membrane Permeability. The session will include both an explanation / review of the aforementioned topics and practice questions on them.
SESSION 5

29

Sep

SESSION 5

AP Biology

AP Biology

Thu 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTCSep 29, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UTC

During this session, we will cover the second part of Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function, which will include the following topics: Membrane Transport, Facilitated Diffusion, Tonicity and Osmoregulation, Mechanisms of Transport, Cell Compartmentalization, and Origins of Cell Compartmentalization. The session will include both an explanation / review of the aforementioned topics and practice questions on them.
SESSION 6

4

Oct

SESSION 6

Office Hours

Office Hours

Tue 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM UTCOct 4, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM UTC

This session is unstructured and solely for answering students' questions relating to topics covered in Unit 2 and repeating the explanation of certain topics if students need that, for example, because they missed a session or did not understand.

Public Discussion

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Sep 8 - Oct 4

4 weeks

60 - 90 mins

/ session

SCHEDULE

Thursdays

7:00PM