*Links to be included under the Facebook Group post.

Collaborative APHG Stimulus Bank

This is the brainchild of our creative master, and new teacher mentor Laura K. who gave me permission to help create a shared Google Doc to inspire collaboration from our members. As you know, our students now have 60 minutes to answer 60 MC questions, that’s 15 less questions than our original 75. However, students will now spend that time answering questions that require them to use stimuli. That’s fancy speak for pictures, charts, and graphs. We collaborated on the best way to promote collaboration, and what resulted was this collaborative doc. 🙂

The stimulus bank is meant to collaboratively collect QUALITY images and, if so inspired, contribute potential guiding questions that a teacher can use to draft their own MC or FRQ questions. We want to encourage everyone, even new teachers to contribute. It is the best way to learn the material.

What about an MC, Non-Stimulus Bank?

I’ve attempted a collaborative MC question bank in the past with some “success,” but Laura and I think that people might be put off by sharing their hard work with the end result possibly landing in the hands of students. That collaborative doc WAS only open to people who also wanted to contribute, and it certainly hindered the number of contributions. Check out the Facebook group for a direct link if you wish to still contribute and view. (For obvious reasons, I can’t link that one here).  Remember that between 36-42 questions will still be non-stimulus. I will continue to work on cleaning up this document today and transferring over previously created questions to our new CED.

Courtesy of the College Board’s new CED website: