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PHYSICAL SCIENCE Transformations, Molecular Genetics, Evolution, and
Ecology
(Full year, 1 credit, Grade 9)
Lab Fees: Students are expected to purchase safety
This course is designed to provide all students a goggles ($8). Students must pay a lab fee of $30.
laboratory experience in basic physics, chemistry, and
earth and space science and to offer insight into the AP BIOLOGY
methods by which scientific knowledge is acquired. The
course is designed to serve as a solid foundation for (Full year, 1 AP credit, Grades 10, 11, 12)
students taking later courses in Biology, Chemistry, and
Physics. This course is not open to any student who has Prerequisite Recommendation: Students should have
received credit in Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, Physics
or Honors Physics. successfully completed Honors Biology
and Chemistry/Honors Chemistry. Chemistry/Honors
Chemistry can be taken concurrently with this course.
Lab Fees: Students are required to purchase an Advanced Placement Biology is a college-level
approved laboratory apron and safety goggles introduction to the Biological Sciences. It is intended as
(approximately $15). Students are charged a a survey of the many fields of study that comprise
replacement fee for incurring lab breakage. “biology.” At the end of the course, students take the
AP Biology exam administered by the College Board. By
BIOLOGY qualifying on the AP test, students may be permitted to
enter advanced courses in college and also earn college
(Full year, 1 credit, Grade 9) credit. The curriculum standards set forth by the
College Board are available in the AP Biology Course
This course investigates the composition, diversity, Description online.
complexity and interconnectedness of life on Earth.
Fundamental concepts of heredity and evolution This class spans all levels of biological organization from
provide a framework through inquiry-based instruction atoms and molecules, through cells and organs and into
to explore the living world, the physical environment interactions among and between organisms based on
and the interactions within and between them. four areas/ideas:
Students engage in investigations to understand and
explain the behavior of living things in a variety of Big Idea 1 (EVOLUTION): The process of evolution drives
scenarios that incorporate scientific reasoning, analysis, the diversity and unity of life.
communication skills and real-world applications. Big Idea 2 (METABOLISM: cell respiration &
photosynthesis): Biological systems utilize free
Lab Fees: Students are expected to purchase safety energy &molecular building blocks to grow, to
goggles (approximately $8). reproduce & to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
Big Idea 3 (GENETICS & INFO TRANSMISSION): Living
HONORS BIOLOGY systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to
information essential to life processes.
(Full year, 1 Honors credit, Grade 9) Big Idea 4 (ECOLOGY INTERACTIONS): Biological systems
Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation interact and these systems and their interactions
possess complex properties.
Honors Biology is the required course for students
wishing to take AP Biology. The course will investigate Students enrolled in this class are required to take the
the composition, diversity, complexity and AP exam in May.
interconnectedness of life on Earth. Advanced concepts
of heredity and evolution provide a framework through Lab Fees: $30.00
labs and instruction to explore the living world, the Additional Fees: Students are required to pay the
physical environment and the interactions within and standard AP exam fee and purchase AP Barron's Test
between them. This course will also explore Prep Book (approximately $15).
Biochemistry, Cells and Cell Functions, Energy
AP Exam: $92.00
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