1. Advanced Placement Summer Institute for the AP Biology Program
Welcome to your
Advanced Placement Summer Institute for the AP Biology Program
Joy Killough
Austin, Texas

2. AP Biology … College biology May earn college credit
Focuses on Inquiry and Integration of the Curriculum with Science Practices

3. Four 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.
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

4. Seven Science Practices
1. Modeling 2. Mathematics 3. Questioning 4. Data collecting 5. Analysis 6. Explaining 7. Generalizing

5. AP® Biology Curriculum Framework
Big Ideas
Enduring Understandings
Essential Knowledge
Science Practices
Learning Objectives 5

6. This APSI will prepare you.
Curriculum Framework
Inquiry Lab Experience
Equity and Vertical Teams
Planning and Pacing
The Exam
Statistics for Biology
Syllabus Preparation and Audit Information
Resources

7. Resources from the College Board
Biology Course and Exam Description
Curriculum Framework
Exam Information
Sample Questions
AP Biology Investigative Labs
AP Biology Quantitative Skills Guide
AP Biology Community

8. As soon as possible go to AP Central and find these resources
As soon as possible go to AP Central and find these resources. Google AP Central and find the Biology home page.

9. Labs are Integral Complete 2 or more labs per big idea.
Extended, inquiry based, student directed labs allow you to integrate the content (Essential Knowledge), Science Practice, and Learning Objective.

10. Maintain Rigor Set high student expectations.
Use lots of formative assessment.
Make students
responsible for
learning.

11. Housekeeping Vendor Contact List Break and Lunch Restroom Location
Handouts and Agenda:

12. On to our first lab…