Students will be expected to bring the best version of themselves to class everyday. This course is designed to enrich students' understanding of all aspects of life. Students will be expected to perform labs, complete assignments, master assessments, as well as, evolve into independent learners and thinkers. This class will teach them not only about the living but how to analyze data and life choices to promote a successful student. Students will finish this class with an understanding of  biology basics, cells, flow of energy, genetics, inheritance, and evolution. 

AP Biology Expectations

Given the speed with which scientific discoveries and research continuously expand scientific knowledge, many educators are faced with the challenge of balancing breadth of content coverage with depth of understanding. The AP Biology course outlined in this framework embraces this challenge by deemphasizing a traditional “content coverage” model of instruction in favor of one that focuses on enduring, conceptual understandings and the content that supports them. This approach enables students to spend less time on factual recall and more time on inquiry-based learning of essential concepts, helping them develop the reasoning skills necessary to engage in the science practices used throughout their study of AP Biology. To foster this deeper level of learning, the breadth of content coverage in AP Biology is defined in a way that distinguishes content essential to support the enduring understandings from the many examples or applications that can overburden the course. Illustrative examples are provided that offer you a variety of optional instructional contexts to help your students achieve deeper understanding. Content that is outside the scope of the course and exam is also identified. This framework encourages student development of inquiry and reasoning skills, such as designing a plan for collecting data, analyzing data, applying mathematical routines, and justifying arguments using evidence. The result will be readiness for the study of advanced topics in subsequent college courses—a goal of every AP course