New Year, New Site

Welcome back to school 2013!  We made it through the first week in one piece… I will be editing and updating this site to reflect our newest schedule.  Be sure to follow this blog to get the newest updates as they are posted.

Its going to be a great year of diving deep into Biology!

AP Exam Page

I just started an AP Exam Review page.  I will add to it as I find more resources that are high quality.

**If you have resources you would like to share with the class, PLEASE add a comment to the the new page!**

Prezi Notes Posted- Final units

The remaining Prezi’s have been posted.  Added to “New Cells, New Organisms” are the Inheritance Prezi’s and all of the DNA presentations have been added to “Proteins R Us.”  Videos will be added soon.

We are in the home stretch!  Review materials will be posted beginning this week :).

AP Biology Review @ FLVS

Spring Break HW:  Sign up for review class with FLVS:

MyFLVS AP Review

Print verification that you are enrolled & turn in.  Homework in April will be to go through the review course!

New post for Unit 4- Cells

Just Posted:  Cells Prezi notes.

Midterm Guide

Here’s a list of topics on the midterm, divided by unit AND items that will count towards your grade (left side) and items that are bonus if you get them right (things we haven’t covered yet).

AP_MidtermReview2012-13

Statistics Help!

Statistics help us to extract meaning in the data from our investigations.  Applying stats in AP Biology is important to be able to communicate what our findings mean.  I have been adding links to great statistics help material to our Lab page- Statistical Analysis.  If you have other helpful sites, add a comment so I can add it to our page.

Genetically Modified Corn- Stats Blog Post

HW- Due Tues 9/25:  Initial Post;  Due Wed 9/26: Response to 2 classmates.

All blog posts will be on the AP Bio Blog!  Click the link to get to the assignment. 🙂

Thank you & Unit 1 Recap

First, I want to thank you for your hard work and patience this week while my son was in the hospital. It was incredible how fast a microorganism can invade and take over the lungs.  He got very sick in a matter of hours.  He is much better- we are still in the hospital now (10:00 on Friday), but will hopefully be going home in a little bit.

UPDATE: We are home!  We got home about 2:00 on Friday.  So, I will see you Monday!

I appreciate your dedication to your own learning to keep moving forward.  Because of my absence this week, lets recap what we have studied in this first unit:

• Week 1 (8/20-8/24)- The Big Ideas & the Processes of Science Investigation using Checks activity & by designing your experiment on pill bugs/ meal worms and presenting your findings in a mini poster
• Week 2 (8/27-8/31)- After day off for TS Isaac, we did Chemistry basics, Properties of Water & began building Macromolecules (need to do 2 more models- Proteins & Nucleic Acids)
• Week 3 (9/4-9/7)- Macromolecule summary, Connection of Macros to Environmental Cycles, Intro to Metabolism
• Week 4 (9/10-9/14)- Metabolism, Enzymes & Gibbs Free Energy, Enzyme Activity Lab & Unit test; (Wed 9/12 is Early Release)

Unit 2 is Evolution, so if BioChem was “not your favorite,” we are moving on.  Keep in mind, we will refer to the macromolecules and metabolism throughout the course, so don’t completely move on!  But, once you have the foundation, the rest is just adding the details.

Thank you again- because of your hard work, we stayed on track even with my absence :).  Fantastic work, Biofanatics!

Homework

8/24/12

Your homework is posted to the Unit 1 page- All video links are posted.