Advanced Placement Biology

 

Advanced Placement Biology:  Level 4  1 credit

Room: C 190               Instructor: Jim Krall                 

Prerequisite:  Satisfactory completion of Accelerated Biology.

 

     Advanced Placement is a COLLEGE LEVEL BIOLOGY COURSE that is designed to prepare students to take an advanced placement test and earn up to 8 college credits in biology.  Each college or university individually determines the acceptable score.  A 3 is usually the lowest score accepted, and a 5 is the highest score possible.  Students are required to perform 12 recommended laboratory exercises.

     This course is offered second term to continue studying organisms and populations, including diversity of organisms, structure and function of plants and animals, and ecology.

 

Text:  Raven & Johnson (2005), Biology, 4th & 7th Edition.  McGraw/Hill, Boston, MA

Lab:  AP Biology Laboratory Manual for Students, Edition D, 1997.  The College Board.

Review:  Berthelsen, B. (1997), Multiple Choice Questions in Preparation for the AP Biology Examination, 3rd Edition.  D&S Marketing Systems, Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Other materials students must purchase for class: none

 

Expectations:  Students will be expected to keep up with text readings and lecture notes.  It is strongly suggested that students read over text assignments several times and keep up with lecture notes.  The lab component of this course is extremely important and attendance for all 12 is required.

 

Attendance:  Attendance policies will follow the school’s rules on attendance, however, it is highly recommended that AP students DO NOT schedule doctors appointments, college visits, and vacations during the time this class meets.  Attendance is crucial to the student’s success on the National Final. 

 

Academic Integrity:  Plagiarism on papers from Internet, as well as other media resources, cheating on exams and quizzes, or engaging in acts generally considered unethical will result in a zero for the assignment for all parties involved and an office referral.

 

Materials Needed:  college-ruled spiral notebook for lecture.  1 inch, 3-ring binder for laboratory.  Black or blue pen needed for lecture notes and pencils for laboratories. 

 

Grading:  Exams – 100 points                         2 Special Assignments/Research:  200 points

                   Lab reports – 100 points                                        *  Science Fair Project will be mandatory

                   Homework – 10 –15 points                                   *  Second project will be discussed later.   

                   Quizzes – 10 – 15 points

                   Essays – 10 – 50 points