Honors Biology
At High Tech High, we don't have many options to take different level classes. Once we get to Junior year, all students take the same classes but there are options to take on more work and it is considered as an honors course. The option I chose was to read the entire SAT Biology subject test throughout the whole year. Along with reading it, we had to take notes on every single page. At the end of each semester we had to come up with a 45 minute presentation that would be presented in front of the entire class. Fifteen minute of the presentation consists of a presentation, where all the students take notes on the topic. Then another ten to fifteen minutes is spent doing an in class activity that will help the students to remember the info they had just learned. Lastly, ten minutes is spent taking a test written by myself.
First Semester
First semester I did my entire presentation on the nervous system and then did a bingo game for the activity.
Second Semester
Second semester my presentation was on plant and animal behavior and my activity was a competition between two teams where two people go up to the board and race to see who can answer it first. I would ask for definitions, words, and drawing examples of some of the terms.