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  • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • AP Exam Prep
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2024/2025 AP BIOLOGY
  • Home
  • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
  • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
  • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
  • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
  • Unit 5: Heredity
  • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
  • Unit 7: Natural Selection
  • Unit 8: Ecology
  • AP Exam Prep
  • After AP Exam
  • Emergency Sub Plans
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    • Home
    • Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
    • Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
    • Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
    • Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
    • Unit 5: Heredity
    • Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
    • Unit 7: Natural Selection
    • Unit 8: Ecology
    • AP Exam Prep
    • After AP Exam
    • Emergency Sub Plans

Unit 3: Cellular Energetics

Monday October 28th

Essential Understanding- 3.1 Enzyme Structure

1) QUICK INTRO: How Enzymes Work (1 min animation) 

2) Enzymatic BioMan Game - Play the first two games (What are Enzymes and Specificity)

3) WATCH BOZEMAN: Enzymes (video worksheet)  12 minutes 

4) Cut Out Enzyme Activity (each shape page has double the components a group needs) 

Homework: Chapter 8 Book Work- due Thursday 10/31

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Tuesday 10/29th

Essential Understanding- 3.2 Enzyme Catalysis

1) Check Cut Out Enzyme Activity 

2) Read Intro to Enzymes (read about enzyme specificity) 

  • What are the four distinct types of specificity and what they mean (HAVE NOTES ON THAT)

3) HOW do enzymes lower activation energy? (notes)  (13 min) 

4) From Structure to Function Group Annotation

Homework: Section 3.1 Progress Check and Section 3.2 Progress Check

Chapter 8 Book Work due Thursday

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Wednesday 10/30th

1) From Structure to Function Group Annotation

2) Watch this review video 3.1 and 3.2 Lecture Review (13 min) 

3) Section 3.1 and 3.2 Quizzes 

4) Time to work on Chapter 8 Book Work 

Homework: Chapter 8 Book Work due Thursday

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Thursday 10/31 (Half Day)

TURN IN Chapter 8 Book Work 

Essential Understanding- 3.3 Environmental Impacts on Enzyme Function

1) Enzymes and Cellular Regulation POGIL (teacher key) (key)

  • do page 5 verbally (not printed)


2) time to Finish: From Structure to Function Group Annotation (will be submitting them MONDAY)

Homework: BE SAFE!!!! Nothing officially due tomorrow, but if you find yourself bored, annotations are due Monday and there will be no class time tomorrow for them) 

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Friday 11/1

1) Prep for Monday's Lab:  Sinking Feeling Enzyme Catalysis Lab

  • AP Biology Lab 2: Enzyme Catalysis (7 min) 

    • List of Materials (for teacher) 
    • How to make Catalase from Potatoes (for teacher)
  • Remember doing Toothpickase or Pennyase Lab in Honors Biology?

  • you will  be writing a lab report for this! (due Monday 11/11)

2) Remember we have seen Bozeman Acids, Bases and pH (9 min); if you do not remember this, rewatch it on your own time

3) AK Lecture Videos

Video: Factors Affecting Enzyme Activity Video (wkst) (12 min)

Video: Competitive vs Noncompetitive Inhibitor Video (wkst) (16 min) 

Video: Allosteric Regulation of Enzymes (notes) (11 min) 

HMK: Page 3 and Page 7 of Sinking Feeling Enzyme Catalysis Lab as well as finishing any videos from today you didn't get to

ANNOTATIONS due Monday

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Monday 11/4

Turn in Annotations (From Structure to Function)

  • Check Prelab homework questions

Sinking Feeling Enzyme Catalysis Lab Day 1 

... skim this version and pick a variable to test Enzyme Catalysis LAB  for Day 2 (Wednesday) of Lab

HWK: Complete Post Lab Questions

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Tuesday 11/5- NO SCHOOL (Election Day)

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Wednesday 11/6

Sinking Feeling Enzyme Catalysis Lab with YOUR variable

  • Lab Rubric (rough draft due Friday 11/8)

  • Sample General Lab Rubric

  • How do you find a good source?

SDST Library Resource

  1. Search term in EBSCO

  2. check the online full text box

  3. select peer reviewed 

  4. go to all filers and change source type to academic journal 

Optional SOURCES: 

    • Cold Active Enzymes and their Potential Industrial Applications 

    • Regulation of enzyme activity in the cell: effect of enzyme concentration  (too old) 

    • Why do bacteria use so many enzymes to scavenge hydrogen peroxide?

    • Effect of pH on the Electrochemical Behavior of Hydrogen Peroxide in the Presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    • Effect of pH Upon the Reaction Kinetics of the Enzyme-Substrate Compounds of Catalase

Homework: Find one peer reviewed source for your background and read/annotate it. Will be checked on Thursday for a grade

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Thursday 11/7

Check Annotated Peer Reviewed Paper

1) Talk about Statistical Analysis of the data from the enzyme lab 

- Write Up/Type Up Statistical Analysis and Background for this lab

  • Statistics for Dummies (not printing) 

      • Complete Statistical Testing for Dummies Table


2) Complete 

  • data table with averages

  • calculate standard error of the mean (SEM) for data points

  • complete your statistical analysis using the appropriate statistical test



2) work on lab report (rough draft due Friday 11/8)
  • Lab Rubric

  • Sample General Lab Rubric


Homework: Work on your lab report (rough draft due PRINTED tomorrow)

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Friday 11/8

1) Peer Review Lab

2) Skim Essential Understanding- 3.3 Environmental Impacts on Enzyme Function

3) 3.3 Progress Check

Homework: Final Edited Lab Report due Monday

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Monday 11/11

Turn in Lab Report

1) Section 3.3 Quiz

Understanding- 3.4 Cellular Energy

2) Video: BOZEMAN: Life Requires Free Energy Video Review Sheet  (video worksheet) (12 min) 

3) ATP POGIL (key)

  • do page 5 on board

4) Start Free Energy POGIL (key)

Homework: Finish ATP POGIL

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Tuesday 11/12

1) Finish: Free Energy POGIL (key)

2) Watch: ATP and Photosynthesis (Google Drive download) 6 min

  • worksheet: ATP Analogy and Diagram

4) Skim Understanding- 3.4 Cellular Energy

5) Section 3.4 Progress Check

6)  Time to work on Chapter 10 Book Work with Ch 10 Lecture Video (39 mi) 

  • Optional Resources:

  • Outline
  • Power Point 
  • Book Power Point
  • Clicker Power Point

HMK: Chapter 10 Book Work due 11/22

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Wednesday 11/13

1) Section 3.4 QUIZ

2) Review Photosynthesis Diagram from Honors Biology 

3) Watch: Bozeman- Photosynthesis (13 min) (not using: video sheet)

4) Watch: Photosynthesis Light Reaction, Calvin Cycle, Electron Transport 3D Animation (7 min)

5) Photosynthesis POGIL packet  (key)

6) REVIEW LAB: Floating Discs Lab 

              • Complete Pre-Lab Questions While you watch the Bozeman Walkthrough

              • VIDEO: Bozeman- Photosynthesis Lab Walkthrough and part 2:30-4:45

              • Practice Sinking Disks

HMK: 

  • Read page 1 and 3 of  Floating Discs Lab and complete the prelab on page 2

  • questions 1-16 on Photosynthesis POGIL packet 

  • Chapter 10 Book Work due 11/22

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Thursday 11/14

Essential Understanding- 3.5 Photosynthesis

1) Day 1 of Floating Discs Lab  

    • Set Up and Start Lab

    • Discuss factors that can be manipulated

2) Start planning for Day 2

    • What is your sample size?

Class Data for First part of Lab

Photosynthesis Lab (Floating Disk) Report Rubric

Homework: Type up Procedure for your Lab and complete Photosynthesis POGIL packet up to the next stop sign (end of page 8, questions 1-24)

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Friday 11/15

Essential Understanding- 3.5 Photosynthesis

1) Floating Discs Lab  

  • What factors are you going to test?

              • The Effect of Light Intensity on Rate of Photosynthesis 

              • The Effect of Light Color on Rate of Photosynthesis

              • The Effect of Temperature on Rate of Photosynthesis

Homework: Finish Photosynthesis POGIL packet and create data tables and graphs for your lab report


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Monday 11/18

1) VIDEO: Bozeman- The Importance of Oxygen (video sheet) (10 min) 

2) Photosynthesis Unleashes Chemical Superweapon: Oxygen (5 min)

3) Write your title, background, materials and method, and start your results section 

4) Time to find peer edited relevant sources to references in your introduction

  • Photosynthesis Lab (Floating Disk) Report Rubric

Homework: Finish writing your Title, Background, Materials and Method (which MUST include two peer reviewed sources that are PRINTED) 

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Tuesday 11/19

Homework check: check annotated source

1) Write your title, background, materials and method, and start your results section 

  • what statistical methods will you use to analyze your data?

Homework: Your printed lab needs to be here in class tomorrow for us to peer edit. One printed lab per person in your group

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Wednesday 11/20 *Musetti's Birthday!


REMIND MUSETTI to germinate peas!!!!

1) Section 3.5 Progress Check 

2) peer edit your labs (15 minutes)

3) Time to make fixes to lab (final copy will be due tomorrow) (20 minutes)


SKIPPING: Watch AP Bio Investigation 5: Photosynthesis  (45 min) and type steps of photosynthesis as you watch
  • do small steps and have a diagram/picture for each slide

4) Fun Bio time: Minute to Win It Games

homework: Sectioon 3.5 Progress Check, STUDY, and Lab reports due Monday Printed

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Thursday 11/21

PRINTED lab report now due Monday 11/25

1) Section 3.5 Quiz

1)- Teacher Resource 

Essential Understanding- 3.6 Cellular Respiration

2) Watch VIDEO: Bozeman- Photosynthesis and Respiration (video worksheet) 15 min  

3) Board Diagram of Aerobic Respiration (Respiration Diagram with presentation) 

4) VIDEO: Bozeman- Cellular Respiration (video sheet) 15 min 

HWK: Chapter 10 Book Work due tomorrow and STUDY

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Friday 11/22 HALF DAY

Turn in: Chapter 10 Book Work 

1) Watch and Discuss Old Lab... we will be doing a respiration lab on Monday 

  • Cellular Respiration AP Lab *Old Version... Skim

    • VIDEO: Bozeman- Lab 5 - Cellular Respiration (worksheet) 

    • VIDEO: Bozeman- Cellular Respiration Lab Walkthrough

2) Read Lab: Cellular Respiration of Peas (we will be doing this Monday) 

3) Cellular Respiration Worksheet POGIL (key) 

Homework: Start working on: Chapter 9: Cellular Respiration and Fermentation and finish: Cellular Respiration Worksheet POGIL (key)


  • Chapter 9 Book Work  (Due 12/6)

  • Optional Resources:

OutlineLecture PresentationBook Power PointClicker Power Point

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Monday 11/25 HALF DAY

Turn in Cellular Respiration Worksheet POGIL (key)

1) Cellular Respiration of Peas

  • Read Over Lab, Discuss Procedure

  • Do lab

  • during downtime, work on Glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle POGIL (key)  

Homework: finish Cellular Respiration of Peas Lab


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Tuesday 11/26 HALF DAY

1) Watch BOZEMAN: Anaerobic Respiration video- TAKE notes (8 min) 

Introduce: 

2) Yeast Fermentation Lab (of your own design)

  • Yeast Fermentation Lab Structured Fill In

3) If any time remains, finish: Glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle POGIL (key)  

Homework: Glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle POGIL (key)  

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THANKSGIVING BREAK

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Monday 12/2

Turn in: Glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle POGIL (key)  

1) Yeast Fermentation Lab (of your own design)

  • Yeast Fermentation Lab Structured Fill In

During Down time: 

  • 1) ETC Simulation Video (7 min) 

  • 2) PRACTICE: Oxidative Phosphorylation worksheet (print version) (key)

Homework: Section 3.6 Progress Check and Yeast Fermentation Lab (of your own design)

  • Yeast Fermentation Lab Structured Fill In

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Tuesday 12/3

Check and Collect Respiration of Peas Lab

1) Check and meet with your fermentation group (submit copy of your fermentation lab on Google Classroom) 

2) Watch: A Trusted Pill Turned Deadly. How Tylenol Made a Comeback | Retro Report (9 min)  

3) The Mystery of the Seven Deaths (converted to Google Doc) not printing, complete together as a class verbally


Skipping- 2) Exercise and Cellular Respiration Lab

4) PRACTICE: Oxidative Phosphorylation worksheet (print version) (key) due Friday 

5) Practice Essays  (Not printing) 

Homework: Oxidative Phosphorylation worksheet  and Chapter 9 Book Work BOTH due Friday 

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Wednesday 12/4

1) Section 3.6 Quiz

  • After Quiz: Read through Practice Essays 

Essential Understanding- 3.7 Fitness

2)  AP Biology Topic 3.7: Fitness (8 min) 

3) Progress Check 3.7 

4) finish Practice Essays  (Not printing) 

5) Time to work on Homework

Homework: Oxidative Phosphorylation worksheet  and Chapter 9 Book Work BOTH due Friday 

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Thursday 12/5- FIELD TRIP

students not attending trip should work on: Oxidative Phosphorylation worksheet  and Chapter 9 Book Work BOTH due tomorrow 

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Friday 12/6

turn in: Oxidative Phosphorylation worksheet  and Chapter 9 Book Work 

1) Look over Unit 3 Overview as a class 

2) Section 3.7 Quiz

3) Unit 3 Progress Check

4) Answers to Practice Essays (Key)

TEST MONDAY


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Monday 12/9

UNIT 3 TEST- essay

UNIT 3 TEST- multiple choice

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