Explore AP Courses with Projects
Learn which AP courses allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of course content and skills through projects and performance tasks.
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The Benefits of AP Courses with Projects
English 10: AP Seminar
Taking AP Seminar in grade 10 sets students up for success in future high school courses, college, and beyond. This interdisciplinary course helps students develop critical thinking, collaboration, and academic research skills on topics of their choosing. Many schools are offering AP Seminar as English 10 because it aligns with their state standards and can be integrated into the framework of their existing curricula. This approach offers a wide range of students an early introduction to AP through access to relevant coursework and project based assessments.
AP Seminar has created a broader context for reading informational texts, but more importantly, the performance tasks have pushed students to explore the world around them for a deeper understanding of how it all works. Doing real-world investigations and offering research-based solutions has produced some critical thinkers.
AP African American Studies
College Board is also offering AP African American Studies, an interdisciplinary course that helps students develop critical source analysis skills, especially historical, literary, visual, and data analysis skills. It’s an ideal way for students to try AP for the first time while examining topics of their interest. It’s designed for every student to gain a strong foundation in facts and evidence about African American history and culture.
The class is so unlike any other AP course in the way that it’s inclusive, educational, and welcoming to students of any educational level.
AP Computer Science Principles
AP Computer Science Principles introduces students to foundational concepts of computer science and challenges them to explore how computing and technology can impact the world. Students learn to design and evaluate solutions and apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs.
AP Computer Science Principles ignites critical thinking and allows for collaboration through projects and group exploration. Students also develop problem-solving skills that will be useful in any job in the future.
AP Art and Design Courses
In AP Art and Design courses, students develop the skills artists and designers use and create a portfolio of work assessed to produce their AP score.
Professional Learning Opportunities
The AP Project Based Learning Series helps teachers adopt and implement a project based instructional approach that anchors their AP course in projects that encompass the content and skills in the AP course framework. Workshops in the AP Project Based Learning Series are designed and delivered by PBLWorks, the premier organization in Project Based Learning (PBL) teaching methodology.
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