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2025/2026 AP BIOLOGY
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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
  • After AP Exam
  • Emergency Sub Plans
2025/2026 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 8: Ecology

Monday 3/23 

UNIT 7 TEST- Multiple Choice section

** GET PILLBUGS 

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Tuesday 3/24

Essential Understanding- 8.1 Responses to the Environment 

  1. 8.1 Responses to the Environment Presentation

  • watch if you are absent: Pose Knows Biology Section 8.1 Video (19 min)
  1. WATCH : Physiology of Circulatory System (worksheet) 5 min print

  • Check out this old AP Lab: AP Physiology and Circulatory System

  • Daphnia Heartrate

  1. WATCH: Response to External Environments (concept map/ppt) 7 min print

  2.  WATCH: Cooperative Interactions (worksheet) 10 min print

  3. WATCH: Behavior and Natural Selection (worksheet) 9 min print

  4. Skim over 8.1 Examples Partner work

SKIPPING UNTIL PILBUGS ARRIVE: Read next class's Lab Pillbug- Behavior LAB

  1. Take 8.1 Progress Check

HWK: Complete 8.1 Examples Partner work 

also- Start Chapter 51 Book Work  (due 4/6)

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Wednesday 3/25

Physiological Mechanism

2) Bozeman Transpiration Lab Walk Through (Lab 9) 5 min (worksheet)

3) Transpiration Lab (Teacher Data Key) (another set of sample data) 

  • Transpiration Potometer Setup Explained

  • Transpiration Simulation Lab Website 

  • Plant Research Class Report out

3) If there is time remaining, you can work on Chapter 51 Book Work 

Homework: Work on Chapter 51 Book Work (due 4/6)

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Thursday 3/26

  1. Turn in Transpiration Lab

Essential Understanding- 8.2 Energy Flow Through Environment

  1. Section 8.2: Energy Flow Through Environment Presentation

  • watch if you are absent: Pose Knows Biology Section 8.2 Video
  1. Use of Energy Strategies worksheet

  2. POGIL: Energy Transfer in Organisms (scroll and discuss with table mate; not printing) **

  3. project and complete as class: Energy Flow in an Ecosystem Worksheet (key)

  4. project and complete as class: Ecological Pyramids Worksheet 

  5. Section 8.2 Progress Check


SKIP: Food Chains and Energy in Ecosystems Activity
Skip: AP Dissolved Oxygen and Primary Productivity LAB Bozeman: AP Biology Lab 12 (6 min) 

HMK: 8.2 Progress Check (Quiz will be combines 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 after break) 

HMK: Work on Chapter 51 Book Work (due tomorrow) 

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Friday 3/27

fun Friday: Escape Room/Breakout Boxes

RESOURCE #1RESOURCE #2RESOURCE #3

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Monday 4/6

Turn in Chapter 51 Book Work 

Essential Understanding- 8.3 Population Ecology

  1. Section 8.3: Population Ecology Presentation

  • watch if you are absent: Pose Knows Biology Section 8.3 Video (notes)
  1. WATCH BOZEMAN: Populations (video worksheet) (12 min) print

  2.  Mark-Recapture Activity print

  • What are some other ways scientists;/ count/estimate populations

    • Watch: Counting Wild Animals (3.5 min) 

Essential Understanding- 8.4 Effect of Density of Populations

  1. Section 8.4: Effect of Density of Populations Presentation

  • watch if you are absent: Pose Knows Biology Section 8.4 Video (notes)
  1. Create a Organizer to explain the difference between the different growths covered in the  next 3 videos

  • Bozeman: Exponential Growth (worksheet) 10 min print

  • Bozeman: Logistic Growth (worksheet) 11 min print

HOMEWORK: Complete up to and including question #16 on POGIL: Population Growth print

Homework: Start Chapter 53- Population Ecology... also make sure you've completed all progress check 8.1-8.4, quiz tomorrow

Chapter 53 Book Work (due 4/9)

Powerpoint: Chapter 53

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Tuesday 4/7

  1. Section 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 Quiz 

  2. Cicadas Side Research

  •  2025 Brood

  • 2026 Update

  1. Complete: Graphing Population Growth and Carrying Capacity (teacher key) print

Essential Understanding- 8.5 Community Ecology

  1. Section 8.5: Community Ecology Presentation  (stopped at slide 7)

  • watch if you are absent: Pose Knows Biology Section 8.5 Video (notes)

Homework on Chapter 53 Book Work (due 4/9)

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Wednesday 4/8

  1. Finish Section 8.5: Community Ecology Presentation 

  2. Quick Group Review (complete digitally) 

  3. Watch: Simpson's Diversity Index Explanation (6 min) - TAKE NOTES!

  4.  Biodiversity Activity - Project to Board and Complete as class 

  • Teacher Key: Google Sheets- Simpson's index Calculations 

  1. SKIPPING: Bead Lab 

  • Google Sheet 

  1. Take Section 8.5 Progress Check and

  2. Complete more of the Biodiversity Activity - Project to Board and Complete as class 

  • Teacher Key: Google Sheets- Simpson's index Calculations 

  1. WATCH: Communities (video worksheet) 14 min print

Behavioral Mechanism

  1. Read and start: Pillbugs- Behavior LAB 

HMK:  Watch Section 8.5 Daily Video and Take the Progress Check and Finish Chapter 53 Book Work  (due tomorrow) 

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Thrusday 4/9

Turn in Chapter 53 Book Work 

  1. Pillbugs- Behavior LAB 

Essential Understanding- 8.6 Biodiversity

  1. Section 8.6: Biodiversity Presentation 

  • watch if you are absent: Pose Knows Biology Section 8.6 Video (notes)

  1. COMPLETE: Biodiversity Worksheet (key) print

HWK: Start Chapter 54 Book Work (due 4/14) and Take section 8.6 progress check  

PowerPoint: Chapter 54

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Friday 4/10 (March Maddness Schedule) 

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Monday 4/13

Section 8.5 and 8.6 Quiz 

Essential Understanding- 8.7  Disruptions to Ecosystems 

  1. Section 8.7: Disruptions to Ecosystems Presentation

  • watch if you are absent: Pose Knows Biology Section 8.7 Video (notes)

  1. WATCH Ecosystem Changes (worksheet) 12 min print

Check out this website. Find a topic, different from your neighbor to explore 

  1. Invasive Species 

  • Quick Invasive Species Assignment

    • Invasive Species Cat's in Boreno (3 min) 

    • Skim this article about GMO Mosquitoes in FL and the update (2025 update) make connection between this article and invasive species 

3. 

HMK: Take the 8.7 Progress Check

Chapter 54 Book Work  (due 4/15)

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Tuesday 4/14

  1. Finish:

  2. Skim- Global Climate Change POGIL -not printing

  3. Section 8.7 Quiz

  4. We did not do Chapter 52 or 55. Both are related to this content. Skim through those chapters

  • Chapter 52- An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere 

Chapter 52- Book Work 
  • Chapter 55- Ecosystems and Restoration Ecology

Chapter 55 Book Work 
  1. Unit 8 Progress Check 

  2. Zero Out Practice Essays

  3. Grade Practice AP Exam Essays

HMK: Chapter 54 Book Work  (due tomorrow) 

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Wednesday 4/15

Turn in Chapter 54 Book Work 

  1. Bear Game

  • Bear Game Instructions

  • Individual Spreadsheet

  • Class Data Round 1

  • Class Data Round 2

  • Analysis Questions (complete digitally on Schoology) 

  1. Look at Unit 8 Practice Essays

  2.  Unit 8: Review Material


SKIPPING:  Invertebrate Biodiversity (Soil Bug Population Lab)
  • Google Sheet
Old Density and Biodiversity Activity  -Google Sheet 

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Thursday 4/16

Unit 8 TEST - Essays  

  • 1A Printout

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Friday 4/17

Unit 8 TEST - Multiple Choice

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AP Biology Updated Curriculum Study Guide

AP Biology cram notes (55 pages) 

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