3 trimester course
Instructor:  Mrs. Collins     Grade Level: 10-12    
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Biology, Chemistry strongly encouraged, AND science teacher recommendation.

This course is the equivalent of a college introductory biology course. It will enrich the student's knowledge of biology and help develop laboratory skills. It is based on the national AP Program and will prepare students to take the AP test in May. This course has four big ideas:
     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 process.
     4. Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties.
All laboratory work will focus on science as a process and will be student-directed, inquiry-based. SUMMER ASSIGNMENT HANDED OUT THE LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL IS REQUIRED.
 
Students are accepted into AP Biology based on:
    1.  A student's desire to be challenged
    2.  Teacher recommendation
    3.  Academic performance in previous science class