1. Welcome to AP Biology Mr. Levine mlevine@glenridge.org Ext. # 2317

2. QOD What’s the big idea?

3. The Big Ideas Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis

4. The Big Ideas Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties

5. Science Practice 1 The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems. 1.1 The student can create representations and models of natural or manmade phenomena and systems in the domain. 1.2 The student can describe representations and models of natural or man-made phenomena and systems in the domain. 1.3 The student can refine representations and models of natural or manmade phenomena and systems in the domain. 1.4 The student can use representations and models to analyze situations or solve problems qualitatively and quantitatively. 1.5 The student can reexpress key elements of natural phenomena across multiple representations in the domain.

6. Science Practice 2 The student can use mathematics appropriately. 2.1 The student can justify the selection of a mathematical routine to solve problems. 2.2 The student can apply mathematical routines to quantities that describe natural phenomena. 2.3 The student can estimate numerically quantities that describe natural phenomena.

7. Science Practice 3 The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course. 3.1 The student can pose scientific questions. 3.2 The student can refine scientific questions. 3.3 The student can evaluate scientific questions.

8. Science Practice 4 The student can plan and implement data collection strategies appropriate to a particular scientific question. 4.1 The student can justify the selection of the kind of data needed to answer a particular scientific question. 4.2 The student can design a plan for collecting data to answer a particular scientific question. 4.3 The student can collect data to answer a particular scientific question. 4.4 The student can evaluate sources of data to answer a particular scientific question.

9. Science Practice 5 The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence. 5.1 The student can analyze data to identify patterns or relationships. 5.2 The student can refine observations and measurements based on data analysis. 5.3 The student can evaluate the evidence provided by data sets in relation to a particular scientific question.

10. Science Practice 6 The student can work with scientific explanations and theories. 6.1 The student can justify claims with evidence. 6.2 The student can construct explanations of phenomena based on evidence produced through scientific practices. 6.3 The student can articulate the reasons that scientific explanations and theories are refined or replaced. 6.4 The student can make claims and predictions about natural phenomena based on scientific theories and models. 6.5 The student can evaluate alternative scientific explanations.

11. Science Practice 7 The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts and representations in and across domains. 7.1 The student can connect phenomena and models across spatial and temporal scales. 7.2 The student can connect concepts in and across domain(s) to generalize or extrapolate in and/or across enduring understandings and/or big ideas.

12. Goals To develop the students' ability to gather, organize and communicate information through the use of the methods, Instruments and technologies of science. To promote interest and involvement, both lay and professional, in biology and bioethical Issues. To develop a sense of responsibility to the environment through an understanding of the place of humans in the natural environment, and their dependence and impact upon it. To reinforce and refine an understanding of the biochemistry of the cell as the basis of all life and life processes. To develop and refine an understanding of evolutionary mechanisms and theories which explain the interrelatedness of all life torso. To advance the understanding of Mendelian genetic principles and relate these to their modern applications in the science of biotechnology. To develop in the students a sense of respect and responsibility for their own bodies through an understanding of human biology.

13. Expectations Students should come to class on time and prepared. Attendance and preparation is vital to success in class. Students are to participate in class and be respectful of others. Homework is expected to be done every day and turned in on time. Late homework will not be accepted. Students are to produce their own, original work

14. Procedures AbsencesLabsLaptops/iPads

15. Skills Required Organizational Skills Study Skills Lab Skills

16. Grading Procedure Grades are based on a point system. Grades are calculated by taking the points that are earned and dividing by the total points available. Evaluation is based on the following: –Tests: 100-150 points each –Quizzes: 20-60 points each –Lab reports: 10-20 points –Homework checks: 5-10 points –Various projects: Point values to be determined

17. The Test May 12, 2014 – 8:00am Duration: 3 hours Emphasizes big ideas and science practices Multiple choice: 90 minutes –Part A: 63 m.c. questions –Part B: 6 grid-in questions, mathematical Free response: 90 minutes –2 long free response questions –6 short free response questions