BIO1 AP Biology Session 1

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BIO1

AP

Biology

Session

Course: BIO1 AP Biology Session 1

Teacher: Karen Lindebrekke

M.S. Ed. Curriculum and Instruction in Science and Mathematics
B.A. Zoology major & Mathematics minor

Time and Dates:
Saturdays & Sundays 3:00-4:45 PM 05/30/20–06/28/20

Location:
Virtual Zoom Class Meetings

Course Overview

Advanced Placement Biology provides students with a solid foundation in college-level introductory biology. With our advances in technology, the field of biology is rapidly changing, so students need to have a solid grasp of the knowledge and be able to apply the concept of the big ideas. The College Board has organized the AP Biology course around these four big ideas:

1. the process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life;
2. biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis;
3. living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes; and
4. biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. Students will also develop their science process and analytical skills.

Course Content

The AP Biology work provides guidance on what students must know, be able to do, and understand, with a on the big ideas that encompass core principles, theories, and processes of the discipline. The work also encourages instruction that prepares students for advanced work in STEM majors. The AP Biology work is organized into eight commonly taught units of study.

In Summer Session 1, we will explore Units 1–4.

Unit 1: Chemistry of Life

Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function

Unit 3: Cellular Energetics

Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle

Science Practices

The updated AP Biology work also outlines distinct skills, called science practices, that students should practice throughout the course—skills that will help them learn to think and act like scientists

Skill Overview

1. Concept Explanation: Explain biological concepts, processes, and models presented in written format
2. Visual Representations: Analyze visual representations of biological concepts and processes
3. Question and Method: Determine scientific question and method
4. Representing and Describing Data: Represent and describe data
5. Statistical Tests and Data Analysis: Perform statistical tests and mathematical calculations to analyze and interpret data
6. Argumentation: Develop and justify scientific arguments using evidence

Course Structure

This course es on developing students’ biological knowledge, including terminology used in context and applications of mathematics, and conceptual understandings and scientific thinking and process skills, such as: asking questions and applying scientific methods; representing and describing data; analyzing data and visual representations; and argumentation using evidence.

In addition to lecture and discussions, students will be expected to complete:

• reading and video assignments and provide written responses or summary charts,
• practice test questions,
• laboratory investigations (these will be done independently, using easily obtained and inexpensive materials, or as virtual labs for the online version of this course).