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AP COURSE INFORMATION. Below is a list of AP courses offered at PHHS. Students interested in taking AP should review the course information below. AP Calculus AB. AP Calculus BC. AP Statistics. AP Computer Science A. AP Computer Science Principles. AP Biology.
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The College Board strongly encourages educators to make equitable access a guiding principle for their AP programs by giving all willing and academically prepared students the opportunity to participate in AP. We encourage the elimination of barriers that restrict access to AP for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have bee...
This guide is one of four Course Planning and Pacing Guides designed for AP® Biology teachers. Each provides an example of how to design instruction for the AP course based on the author’s teaching context (e.g., demographics, schedule, school type, setting). These Course Planning and Pacing Guides highlight how the components of the AP Biology Cur...
AP Biology is the equivalent of a one-year college or university course in biology, taught within the parameters of high school. Students explore the question, How do we know what we know? by investigating six topic areas: the chemistry of life, cells, cell processes (energy and cell communication), genetics, evolution, and biodiversity and ecology...
are biological molecules necessary for organisms to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain organization? ▼ How do the subcomponents of biological molecules determine the properties of that molecule? Learning Objectives Materials
Students create visual representations with annotations (e.g., diagrams or models) to explain how water’s molecular structure results in unique properties and how these properties are vital to life processes.
Using molecular model kits, students justify the claim that organisms need the SPONCH elements to build complex molecules and recycle elements necessary for life by constructing models of key biomolecules from their monomers. This activity is student directed and teacher facilitated.
Students explain either through narrative or visual representations (e.g., diagram with annotation) how the SPONCH elements move from the environment to synthesize complex biomolecules (e.g., carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, ATP) necessary for cellular processes.
Here is an opportunity to apply chemistry to a contemporary ecological issue. While students are constructing their diagrams, I circulate among them, ask probing questions, and adjust instructional activities accordingly. This tactic is applicable to most formative assessments. Students can justify claims and ideas in a variety of ways (differentia...
are biological molecules necessary for organisms to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain organization? ▼ How do the subcomponents of biological molecules determine the properties of that molecule? Learning Objectives Materials
“Picture Perfect.” An inquiry-based case study built on concepts relating to enzymatic activity. Students design an experiment to examine factors affecting the action of amylase on starch to identify a stain on an antique dress. This activity is student directed and requires limited teacher facilitation. Instructional Activity: AP Biology Investiga...
How are biological molecules necessary for organisms to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain organization? How do the subcomponents of biological molecules determine the properties of that molecule?
do shared conserved cellular processes support the idea that all organisms are linked by lines of descent ▼ from common ancestry? How do cells create and maintain internal environments that are different from their external environments? ▼ How do structure and function of subcellular components and their interactions provide essential cellular ...
Using inexpensive and common household items, students create a model of specific cell (e.g., neuron, white blood cell, plant leaf cell, Paramecium, a Students struggle with geometric relationships between surface area and volume: the smaller the cell, the higher surface area-to-volume ratio to facilitate movement of molecules into and out of the c...
Students create a visual representation, such as a diagram with annotation or a PowerPoint slide, to explain how four organelles work together to perform a specific function in a cell of your choice. Students should predict how a defect in the function of one of the organelles can affect the overall function of the cell. Students present their visu...
do shared conserved cellular processes support the idea that all organisms are linked by lines of descent ▼ from common ancestry? How do cells create and maintain internal environments that are different from their external environments? ▼ How do structure and function of subcellular components and their interactions provide essential cellular ...
Provided with a simple diagram of the fluid mosaic model of cell membrane structure, students revise and/or refine the diagram to illustrate the arrangement of the membrane’s molecular components. This activity is student directed. Instructional Activity: AP Biology Investigation 4: Diffusion and Osmosis. Students explore the phenomenon of water po...
Mystery Cell ID. Using a microscope, students identify the general type of cell (e.g., prokaryote/eukaryote, plant/animal) and support their observations by describing two distinctive features of each mystery cell. This activity is student directed and teacher facilitated. Instructional Activity: Ten-Minute Debate. Working in small teams, students ...
Students construct a diagram to explain the relationships that exist between the three domains of life (Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya) based on molecular processes and cellular features. Students present their diagrams to the class for review and revision.
One-hour exam consisting of 20 multiple-choice questions, two short-response questions, and one lab-based free-response question with data analysis based on the relationship between cell membrane structure and the processes of osmosis, diffusion, and active transport. This activity asks students to apply a skill (microscopy) to content (identificat...
How do shared conserved cellular processes support the idea that all organisms are linked by lines of descent from common ancestry? How do cells create and maintain internal environments that are different from their external environments? How do structure and function of subcellular components and their interactions provide essential cellular proc...
do biological systems utilize free energy to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain homeostasis? ▼ How do organisms capture, use, and store free energy? ▼ How are external signals converted into cellular responses? Learning Objectives Materials
Students engage in “Bean Brew,” an inquiry-based investigative case study on the fermentation process used to develop soy sauce. The activity is student directed and requires minimum teacher facilitation. Instructional Activity: Lab: Respiration of Sugars by Yeast. Students design and conduct experiments to investigate whether yeasts are able to me...
In teams, students create a visual representation (e.g., diagram with annotation) to explain the interdependent relationships of cellular respiration and photosynthesis and how the processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis support life on Earth. Visual representations are displayed in the classroom for peer review and revision and to gen...
Cellular respiration and photosynthesis are typically challenging topics for students to grasp, because they cannot make connections between the processes and their relevance to higher levels of biological organization, such as plant and animal physiology or energy flow in ecosystems. Formative assessments that allow students to engage with one ano...
do biological systems utilize free energy to grow, to reproduce, and to maintain homeostasis? ▼ How do organisms capture, use, and store free energy? ▼ How are external signals converted into cellular responses? Learning Objectives Materials
Online investigation: Students explain and justify the mechanism by which a specific disease is caused by a defective signaling pathway and investigate one drug that works by blocking a signaling pathway.
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
How do interactions among living systems and with their environment result in the movement of matter and energy? How do interactions between and within populations infl uence patterns of species distribution and abundance? How does human activity affect the biodiversity of ecosystems? the producer level. Students then present and explain their desc...
This guide is one of four Course Planning and Pacing Guides designed for AP® Biology teachers. Each provides an example of how to design instruction for the AP course based on the author’s teaching context (e.g., demographics, schedule, school type, setting).
AP Biology: Sample Syllabus 1. 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.
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