1. AP Biology Class Bonneville High School
Mr. Walker
The goal of the class is to prepare you for a single test in April.
-The score on the test may allow you to get college credits.
-This is a college level class. You are to give a college level effort. The expectations are also on a college level. No late work or retakes on tests.

2. Enduring understanding
Learning
Objective
Essential Knowledge
Science
Practice
The New AP Biology
4 Big Ideas:
The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
Biological systems utilize energy and molecular building blocks to grow, reproduce, and maintain homeostasis.
Living systems retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes.
Biological systems interact, and these interactions possess complex properties.
Big Idea
Science Practices:
The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems.
The student can use mathematics appropriately.
The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course.
Student can plan and implement data collection strategies in relation to a particular scientific question.
The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence.
The student can work with scientific explanations and theories.
The student can connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts, and representations in and across domains.
Essential Knowledge
Science Practice
Enduring understanding
Core Concepts
The new curriculum framework supports Essential Knowledge
with Science Practice
Learning Objective
Testable explanations and predictions: The New AP Biology Exam
13 New Laboratory Investigations
Peggy O’Neill Skinner

3. 4 Big Ideas
BIG IDEA 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.
BIG IDEA 2: Biological systems utilize energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain homeostasis.
BIG IDEA 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes.
BIG IDEA 4: Biological systems interact, and these interactions possess complex properties.

4. Understanding the Exam
Section
Question Type
Number of Questions
Timing 1
Multiple Choice 63
90 Minutes
Grid-Ins 6 2
Long Free Response
Short Free Response
80 Minutes + 10 minute Reading Period

5. What we will do this year:
Discuss the concepts which may be tested.
Conduct labs which will support the main ideas
Create responses to potential short answer and long answer questions on the exam.

6. Ten Topics Unit 1 –Chemistry of Life Unit 2 – The Cell and Viruses
Unit 3 – The Energy of Life
Unit 4 – Plant Form and Function
Unit 5 – Animal Form and Function
Unit 6 - Genetics
Unit 7 – Molecular Genetics
Unit 8 – Evolution
Unit 9 – Evolutionary History of Life
Unit 10 – Ecology

7. What we will do: For Each Topic: Test Formal Quizzes Labs
Short and long answer questions examples