Barb Magee

APES & Earth/Environmental Science teacher at Green Hope High School

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

Dedicated Eco-Warriors spend Valentine’s Day making our world a better place! ❤️🌎 #apeslife @sciencerush @Green_Hope_High

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

The Great Wetland Race Day is always a great way to end a semester! SO thankful for this group of phenomenal students! #apesrocks

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

@sciencerush

[Green Hope High @Green_Hope_High]

Something Fishy going on in Marine Bio today!??

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

First ever APES Dig-a-palooza! 40 kids working hard to remove sand from our wetland. ❤️APESlife!!

[Keung Hui @nckhui]

Wake County student artwork in Kerr Scott Building at NC State Fair from Green Hope High School, Green Level High School, Holly Springs High School and Middle Creek High School.
#wcpss #nced #ncstatefair

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

Sounds like Thursday’s lab. 🎣 https://t.co/ESRxPwGFrY

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

An alien invasion or incoming thunderstorm? 🛸⛈️

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

Looks like @AaronDinin isn’t active on here anymore, but check him out on Instagram. In the meantime, this is the advice all students need to hear and heed! https://t.co/EG2j9u7UCG
#slowdownsummer

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

You guys CRUSHED the APES exam! The scores are in and GHHS (94.2% scored a 3 or higher) exceeded the state (75.3%) and global results (69.2%). Your best FRQ was the 1st one on “Design an Investigation” #EcoStudiesmatter! Congratulations on all your hard work paying off!👏👏👏

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

The 2025 AP Environmental Science Exam scores:
5: 12%; 4: 28%; 3: 29%; 2: 15%; 1: 16%

Multiple-Choice Questions

Students earned the highest average scores across questions about Energy Resources and Consumption (Unit 6); 44% of students answered all or all but one of these questions right.

As in prior years, the first unit of the course, Ecosystems, was most challenging for students, suggesting that further focus and practice on this content would continue to improve scores in this subject.

Free-Response Questions

These comments will focus on the Set 1 FRQs, since this was the exam version taken by most students. https://t.co/vvcCFLUPQV

The varying difficulty levels of the 10 different points on Q1 make it the best question overall for determining which of the five AP scores each exam will receive; students able to earn 5–6 of these points are generally receiving AP 3s; students able to earn 7–8 of these points are generally receiving AP 4s; and students able to earn 9–10 of these points are generally receiving AP 5s.

The most challenging question on this year’s exam was Q2 (the effects of sea surface conditions and the polar jet stream); 1% of students answered all 10 parts of this question right.

Students performed best on the math portion of FRQ 3, which comprises 6 of the question’s 10 total points. Point-by-point data indicates scores were strongest for both the setup of mathematical operations and for reporting the correct answer. Given some concerns about students’ ability to enter mathematical operations digitally, the strong performance on the math components of this question suggests that students adapted well to the Bluebook digital testing app.

AP Environmental Science had an Evidence-Based Standard Setting this year, utilizing more data from more college professors than ever before to identify the performance levels most fair and appropriate for receiving college credit and placement.

An overview detailing this process, with specific information about the findings for this year’s students, will be available at around 4 pm ET today at https://t.co/4Bp9YALA9V

All subjects’ AP score distributions for 2025 will be posted here when available: https://t.co/OrkaQhPZYO

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

Great job by this crew cleaning up the road in front of our school on this drizzling morning! @sciencerush @Green_Hope_High #apesrocks ❤️🌎&♻️

[AP for Students @APforStudents]

The 2025 AP Environmental Science free-response questions are now available.

Set 1: https://t.co/tsGcJCm8HM
Set 2: https://t.co/05wntSvwh9

#APExams

[C Rush @sciencerush]

We appreciate being recognized by @caryncgov and the Spruce program for our decades of collaboration. Thanks to our amazing student leaders and their commitment to a sustainable future.

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

Thank you to the @townofcary and the amazing students that Mr Rush and I are privileged to work with each day. We deeply value our 20+ year partnership with the town to promote our sustainable city!

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

What a beautiful day to celebrate Arbor Day with the Town of Cary. Kudos to these APES students for helping make it a successful event!❤️🌎♻️@sciencerush @Green_Hope_High

[NWS Raleigh @NWSRaleigh]

Attached are our latest storm total snow and ice forecasts along with the approximate time we reach 60% chance of precipitation. DO NOT FOCUS ON THE SPECIFIC TOTALS, nearly all locations will have a mix of snow and ice. Roads will be treacherous Friday night.

[Wake County Public School System @WCPSS]

ALERT: All WCPSS schools will dismiss three hours early on Fri. Jan. 10

All schools will dismiss three hours early Friday, Jan. 10, due to impending inclement weather.

Learn more: https://t.co/yyOGcv5tNd

[Green Hope Athletics @GHHSSports]

Congratulations to Rachael Baldyga for being named Flag Football SWAC Player of the Year!

[NWS Raleigh @NWSRaleigh]

We're doing our yearly online winter Skywarn presentation next week.  While we've made some minor tweaks to the presentation, if you've viewed one of these presentations in the last few years, most of the content remains unchanged.  Visit  https://t.co/09pc73X5ff to register.

[Barb Magee @mageescience]

Early voting opened today. Your vote matters!! Don’t waste it by staying home.