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AP Biology Course Curriculum Syllabus Planner Christine Rogers Hendrick Hudson High School Textbook: Biology (AP Edition), Seventh Edition, by Neil A. Campbell and Jane B. Reece. Pearson Publishers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 2005. Course Overview: - Course entry requirements.
While our school district has open enrollment for all courses, we strongly advise that students enter AP Biology after taking Chemistry. - Laboratories.
Most of the students this year and in the past years are also taking the Living Environment Regents and require a minimum of 1200 minutes of practical lab in order to be eligible to the Regents. The New York State Department of Education also requires certain labs to be done for the Regents. We are following the AP Biology guide for laboratories and in addition we have added labs, which are required for the Living Environment Regents, as well as other labs (from various origins), which are pertinent to the topic studied. The AP Biology labs are done using the AP Biology lab kits by Carolina, Inc. and each AP lab will take approximately three to four - 40 minutes - lab periods. On average, approximately 30% of the teaching time is dedicated to practical laboratory training (virtual labs are not counted in this computation). Virtual labs are done in our computer lab, using the following website: www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench - Assessments.
Students are assessed on their learning during each class, as they are required to answer questions in their daily notebook. The students are tested every two weeks with a big test, which questions are coming from the Biology (AP Edition – Campbell) Textbook test database, which is following closely the AP curriculum and level of difficulty. Students are also given small tests/quizzes throughout the week. In addition, the students work weekly on short answer questions and essays. The essays are adapted from the AP essay questions found of the AP Biology College Board website. Students are required to make two projects during the year on an assigned topic. - Resources and References.
- AP® Biology Lab Manual for Students (2001). Published by College Board.
- AP® Biology Lab Manual for Teachers (2001). Published by College Board.
- Campbell and Reece, AP Biology Textbook and related materials (available in the accompanying CD-Rom and on line, such as illustration and activities, self quizzes, exam database, and on-line textbook.
- For practical help with the labs, I find this page very useful: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/homepage/34458.html
- For developing the course and the curriculum map of the course, I find the following pages useful:
- I prepare my lessons using various material available publicly such as:
- I make most of my teaching resources available on my website for students to consult while studying, as well as my PowerPoint presentations and the class assignments.
Semester 1 Week 1 : Introduction to Life Sciences; - Reading: Chapter 1. Homework: Testing your knowledge section at the end of the chapter.
- Chemistry Assessment Test. This test is designed to assess the level of students entering the AP Biology class. They will be asked question on the chemistry curriculum, which they have attended the previous year. The grade will not be counted in the average, but computed for level assessment purpose only.
- Corrections of Chemistry test and review of basic principles of Chemistry
- Characteristics of Life and Scientific Method.
- Lab: Scientific Method lab – A dogged experiment – Teacher generated lab, first author unknown. (Two lab periods)
- Skills: How to write an essay in biology.
- At home. AP essay question: the scientific method.
Week 2 : The origins of Life. - Reading: Chapter 26. Self quiz. Fossil handouts.
- Activity: analogous versus homologous structures.
- Life and its origins.
- Requirements for the apparition of life.
- Lab: Microscopes and scientific measurement (Regents level lab) (Four lab periods)
- At home, AP essay question: Example of controlled experiment.
Week 3: Evolution - Reading: Chapter 22. Self quiz
- Reading: Stephen Jay Gould essay on evolution.
- Activity: comparing and contrasting: Malthus, Wallace, Darwin and Lamarck
- Darwin and lamarck. The origins of the evolution theory, Darwin versus Lamarck. Selection of the fittest.
- Lab: Beaks of Finches. (Living Environment Regents required lab) (Two lab periods)
- Test: characteristics of life, scientific method and evolution.
- At home, AP essay question: Darwin and natural selection.
Week 4 and 5: Evolution of Populations- Review of Ecology- - Reading: Chapter 14 & 15. Self quiz.
- Mendelian genetics - dominant and recessive alleles- Punnett squares-
- Skills: Independent and linked genes. Recognizing the type of inheritance using Punnett squares and test cross.
- Application and Exercises: Linkage between genes. Sex linked genes. Recombination and linkage calculations.
- Differentiated instruction: Multiple linkage.
- Links between evolution of population and ecological principles
- Lab: AP Lab 7, Genetics of Organisms - Computer simulation, virtual lab (Two lab periods).
- Tigers’ Lab - exploring the links between genetics and evolution- (Two lab periods).
- Practice exercises in genetics and linkage calculations.
- Test: Mendelian genetics.
- Reading: Chapter 50. Take home test on Ecology.
- At home, AP essay question: Mendelian Genetics
Week 6 and 7: - Reading: Chapter 23 and 24. Self quiz.
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and Population Genetics.
- Skills: recognize, analyze and solve genetic of populations problems.
- Hardy-Weinberg practice exercises. Series of exercises will be done by the students at various levels of difficulties.
- Chi square probability Tests. Practice exercises
- Lab: AP Lab 8, Population Genetics and Evolution. (Four lab periods)
- Test: population evolution and genetics.
- At home, AP essay question. Hardy-Weinberg problem with Chi square.
Week 8: Taxonomy and Classification. - Reading: Chapter 25. Self quiz.
- Biodiversity and classification
- Cladograms and relevance of taxonomy to evolution.
- Lab: Making cladograms. (teacher generated lab, three lab periods)
- Test: Taxonomy and classification.
- At home, AP essay question: Phylogeny.
- Reading Chapters 51 and 52. Self quiz.
- Webquest: Animal Behavior, AP Lab 11.
Week 9: Introduction to the cell - Reading, Chapters 3 and 4.
- Biochemistry: Carbon compounds, hydrophobicity, properties of water.
- Skills: Making a concept map of macromolecules.
- The Cell Membrane. Water potential.
- Lab: AP Lab 1 Diffusion and Osmosis (five lab periods).
- Test: Diffusion, Osmosis and cell membrane.
- At home, AP essay questions: Water potential.
Week 10: Enzymes. - Reading: Chapters 5 and 8. Self quiz.
- Enzymes and catalysts. Active sites, inhibition, competition.
- Lab: AP Lab 2, Enzyme Catalysis. (Five lab periods)
- Differentiated instruction: Calculating dissociation constants for enzymatic reactions.
- At home, AP essay questions: effects of temperature and pH on enzymes.
Week 11: The cell and its organelles. - Reading: Chapter 6. Self quiz
- Differences between animal and plant cells.
- Differences between eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
- Skill: Drawing a cell.
- Project: Each team of student will pick one organelle, represent it in three dimension and present the properties of the organelle to the class.
- Organelles of the cell.
- Lab: Identifying cellular organelles. Teacher generated lab. (two lab periods)
- Test: Organelles, proteins and enzymes.
- At home, AP essay question: The properties of water.
Week 12: Mitochondria and Respiration - Reading: Chapter 9. Self quiz.
- Worksheets: Metabolism, cellular respiration, and energy in the cell.
- Cellular respiration and energy in the cell.
- Glycolysis, Krebs Cycle, electron transport
- Aerobic, anaerobic respiration.
- Activity: Making a poster of the cellular respiration chemical reactions.
- Lab: AP Lab 5, Cellular Respiration. (four lab periods)
- At home AP essay question: Enzymes and Respiration.
Week 13: Chloroplasts and Photosynthesis - Reading: Chapter 10. Self quiz
- Chlorophyll and energy transport in plant cells.
- Practice: take home test on cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
- Worksheet: Photosynthesis, Comparisons of photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
- Compare and contrast cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
- C3 and C4 plants.
- Lab: AP Lab 4, Plant pigments and photosynthesis. (four lab periods)
- At home AP essay question. Comparison between photosynthesis and respiraton.
- Test: Mitochondria and Photosynthesis.
Week 14: The Nucleus - Reading: Chapters 12 and 13. Self quiz.
- Nuclear organization and cell cycle.
- Aasexual versus Sexual reproduction.
- Cellular division: Mitosis.
- Cellular division: Meiosis.
- Activity: Step by step comparison of Mitosis and Meiosis.
- Project: Drawing the steps of Mitosis and Meiosis.
- Lab: AP Lab 3, Mitosis and Meiosis. (four lab periods)
- At home, AP essay question: Comparison between mitosis and meiosis. Cell cycles.
Semester 2 Week 15: DNA, structure and replication. - Reading: Chapter 16. Self quiz.
- Structure of DNA. Relationships between structure and function
- DNA replication.
- DNA transcription.
- RNA structures and functions.
- Lab: DNA Replication. Teacher generated lab. (two lab periods)
- At home AP essay question: Relationships between DNA structure and its functions.
Week 16: Protein Synthesis. - Reading: Chapter 17. Self quiz.
- DNA transcription and the genetic code.
- Translation and protein synthesis.
- Lab: DNA transcription and translation. Teacher generated lab. (two lab periods)
- At home AP essay question: Regulation of protein synthesis.
Week 17: Midterms week Week 18: Genetic Engineering. - Reading: Chapters 18 and 20. Self quiz.
- Use of prokaryotes for genetic engineering. Transformation in bacteria.
- Plasmids, restriction enzymes.
- Restriction maps. Cloning and genetic engineering.
- Lab: AP Lab 6, Molecular Biology. Transformation part is a virtual lab and Electrophoresis part of this lab will be done in the classroom. (one –virtual- plus three –actual- lab periods).
- At home AP essay question: Using viruses as vectors for genetic engineering.
Week 19: Bacteria, Viruses and Immune System - Reading: Chapters 19 and 43. Self quiz
- Structure of Bacteria
- Structure of Viruses
- Use of viruses for genetic engineering.
- Immunity and vaccination.
- At home AP essay question.
- Test: Genetic engineering, bacteria, viruses and immunity.
- Over the break: Reading: Chapters 27 and 28.
- AP essay questions: Comparison between viruses and bacteria.
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