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Instructor: Lisa Carnes
Contact: Lisa_Carnes@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
MVHS Web Page: http://gcps-lisacarnes.onmycalendar.com/
The AP Biology course is designed to enable you to develop advanced inquiry and reasoning skills, such as designing a plan for collecting data, analyzing data, applying mathematical routines, and connecting concepts in and across domains. The result will be readiness for the study of advanced topics in subsequent college courses—a goal of every AP course. This AP Biology course is equivalent to a two-semester college introductory biology course and has been endorsed enthusiastically by higher education officials.
A practice is a way to coordinate knowledge and skills in order to accomplish a goal or task. The science practices enable you to establish lines of evidence and use them to develop and refine testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena. Because content, inquiry, and reasoning are equally important in AP Biology, each learning objective combines content with inquiry and reasoning skills described in the science practices. The science practices capture important aspects of the work that scientists engage in, at the level of competence expected of you, an AP Biology student.
Science Practice 1
The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems.
Science Practice 2
The student can use mathematics appropriately.
Science Practice 3
The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course.
Science Practice 4
The student can plan and implement data collection strategies in relation to a particular scientific question. (Note: Data can be collected from many different sources, e.g., investigations, scientific observations, the findings of others, historic reconstruction and/or archived data.)
Science Practice 5
The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence.
Science Practice 6
The student can work with scientific explanations and theories.
Science Practice 7
The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts and representations in and across domains.
The key concepts and related content that define the revised AP Biology course and exam are organized around a few underlying principles called the big ideas, which encompass the core scientific principles, theories and processes governing living organisms and biological systems.
Big Idea 1: Evolution
The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
Big Idea 2: Cellular Processes: Energy and Communication
Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
Big Idea 3: Genetics and Information Transfer
Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes.
Big Idea 4: Interactions
Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.
DUE TO THE LEVEL OF RIGOR REQUIRED OF THIS COURSE, STUDENTS SHOULD PLAN ON DEVOTING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME DAILY TO THEIR AP BIOLOGY STUDIES. Extended time before and after school may also be required periodically – this time will be used to complete lab assignments, participate in study sessions, etc. Students will be provided with advance notice of after-school session dates.
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