AP+Biology

**AP Biology 2012 - 2013**

 * Congratulations on deciding to enter the world of Advanced Placement Biology!**
 * You are fortunate to be the first class studying the new improved AP Biology format.**

The revised AP Biology course shifted from a traditional “content coverage” model of instruction to one that focuses on enduring, conceptual understandings and the content that supports them. This approach will enable you to spend less time on factual recall and more time on inquiry-based learning of essential concepts, and will help you develop the reasoning skills necessary to engage in the science practices used throughout your study of AP Biology.

What this really means is that you will be required to think this year. There will be some memorization but you will not be able to succeed in this class or the AP test by memorization alone - this is going to be a difficult transition for some of you but I promise you will have to understand concepts and apply that understanding to many different situations to be able to be successful here!

The new design of the test breaks the information into four "Big Ideas" which is how we are going to approach the class. The calendar for each section will be found on the following pages. So click on Big Idea One - Evolution and let's get started!



@Big Idea One - Evolution

Big Idea Two - Cell Biology