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My AP Biology course is designed to offer students a solid foundation in introductory college-level biology (a two college semester class 8-10 credits). By structuring the course around the four big ideas, Enduring understandings, and science practices it assists students in developing an appreciation for the study of life and help them identify and understand unifying principles within a diversified biological world.
What we know today about biology is a result of inquiry. Science is a way of knowing. Therefore, the process of inquiry in science and developing critical thinking skills is the most important part of this course.
Book and Workbook:
Campbell, Reece, et al., AP Edition Biology, 8th edition, 2008, Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
Holtzclaw. F, Holtzclaw. T., AP Biology – To accompany Biology 8th edition, 2008, Pearson, Benjamin Cummings
Equity statement:
The College Board strongly encourages educators to make equitable access a guiding principle for their AP programs by giving all willing and academically prepared students the opportunity to participate in AP. We encourage educators to:
•Eliminate barriers that restrict access to AP for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally under served.
•Make every effort to ensure their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population.
•Provide all students with access to academically challenging course work before they enroll in AP classes
•Only through a commitment to equitable preparation and access can true equity and excellence be achieved.
AP Biology Big Ideas:
Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes.
Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions posses complex properties.
Science Practices:
1. The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problem.
2. The students can use mathematics properly.
3. The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course.
4. The student can plan and implement data collection strategies appropriate to a particular scientific question.
5. The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence
6. The students can work with scientific explanations and theories
7. The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts and representatives in and across domains.
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