AP Biology

  • AP courses
  • Science
  • Tín Chỉ 1.0
  • G11
  • G12

Prerequisites

It is recommended that you have already completed high school courses in basic Principles of Biology or Integrated Science and Chemistry with a grade of B or above.

Grade Level

Grade 11-12

Giáo Viên

Mr. Allan Bowers
Mr. Allan Bowers is the Dean at St. Mary’s - Pinghu Campus in China and has been teaching for 14 years. After he received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry he worked in the Chemical pharmaceutical industry before returning to complete a Bachelor of Education. Mr. Bowers started his career teaching high school science for the Near North School Board in Ontario Canada coaching award winning science fair teams at regional/provincial and international levels before making the leap into international education. He first taught in the United Kingdom before moving to China where he has been teaching since 2012. Allan has a wide variety of interests and unique skill sets including: playing music on Trumpet, Bagpipes (As a piper in the 49th RCA field Support Unit) and saxophone, French horn, Euphonium, sailing, astronomy, archery, and rocketry.

Course Outcomes

Students are able to understand and conceptualized Life as discussed in the course.

Students are able to appreciate on the formation of living organisms and how every living organisms contribute to its development through evolution.

Students have tested theories through different experiments in the Science Laboratory seeing minute organisms using specific tools.

Course Overview and Design

This course is aligned to the College Board AP Biology Curriculum Framework and is based on four Big Ideas, which encompass core scientific principles, theories, and processes that cut across traditional boundaries and provide a broad way of thinking about living organisms and biological systems. Investigations require students to ask questions, make observations and predictions, design experiments, analyze data, and construct arguments in a collaborative setting, where they direct and monitor their progress.

THE BIG IDEAS: BIG IDEA

1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life.

2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis.

3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes.

4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties