1. Jason Burton Buford High School
AP Biology Overview
Jason Burton
Buford High School

2. AP Expectations College Level Class
No Homework GRADES (See Syllabus for percentages)
Work Hard
Have a passion (or appreciation) for biology.
Mental Toughness – This won’t be easy.
Accountability Partner
Let’s Strive for Five!!!!

3. AP Materials 2 inch binder with 5 dividers
Paper, pencil/pen
Student Lab Notebook (Purchase)
Strive for Five Study Guide (Purchase)
Be Prepared Everyday!

4. AP Standards You will be tested May 13 on the “Four Big Ideas”
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.

5. AP Standards Big Ideas (BI) - Number
Hierarchy of Standards
Big Ideas (BI) - Number
Enduring Understanding (EU) _ Letter
Essential Knowledge (EK) - Number
Learning Objectives (LO) - LO
Science Practices (SP) – SP

6. Example: 2.A.3 Organisms must exchange matter with the environment to grow, reproduce, and maintain organization
BI, EU, EK and LO Document will be on my website.

7. AP Standards We will be using Campbell Reece Biology 7th Edition.
Our textbook is correlated with the standards (Essential Knowledge).
It is posted on my website.

8. Investigative Labs There are 13 AP Investigative Labs
We are required to do 8.
We will do at least 10 of them.
AP Lab Manual (on website)

9. Syllabus
Our Syllabus
Questions?