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Welcome to AP Biology! Please take out your summer work and pick up calendars. Agenda:

Welcome to AP Biology! Please take out your summer work and pick up calendars. Agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Course Info Sheet 3. Wikispace 4. Procedures 5. Determining Rules Objective: set the tone of the class for the year HW: Study for Unit 1 Test Read "Test Scores" .

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Welcome to AP Biology! Please take out your summer work and pick up calendars. Agenda:

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  1. Welcome to AP Biology! Please take out your summer work and pick up calendars. Agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Course Info Sheet 3. Wikispace 4. Procedures 5. Determining Rules Objective: set the tone of the class for the year HW: Study for Unit 1 Test Read "Test Scores"

  2. Summer Work: I am collecting the objectives for a completion grade today. They will be returned to you tomorrow so you can study with it. Then I will collect them again the day of the test to grade it thoroughly. I am collecting the Cook assignment today for a thorough grade.

  3. About Mrs. Nash Victor High School Syracuse University University of Rochester Mom to Kaely who will be 2 on 9.11 Wife to Dan (married on 7.7.07 in Vegas!) Teacher Taught at Mercy since Feb '07 Love pizza, boy bands (*NSYNC and BSB), Twilight, SYTYCD

  4. Course Info Sheets: Go over important points now. Read these over again tonight with a parent/guardian. No Final Exam. We will do a final project instead.

  5. Welcome! Be ready to go when the bell rings. Agenda: 1. Wikispace 2. Ch. 1 - 3 3. Functional Group Chart 4. Practice Biochem Test Objective: get ready for test Monday HW: Study for Unit 1 Test on Monday Read "Test Scores"

  6. Forget Facebook, Tata Twitter... Our Wikispace... It will be your best friend this year.

  7. Procedures: 1. Enter the room and look at the Smart Board 2. Follow the directions on the Smart Board and write any homework in your agenda 3. Be ready to go when the bell rings 4. "Good Morning/Afternoon Ladies"... followed by our inspirational message. 5. Go over agenda, objective(s) and homework 6. Start class :) 7. Exit Tickets - maybe Things in the room: you may use anything in the room as long as it is not on the front lab table. Never touch the Smart Board or my laptop unless I tell you to. Birthday Calendar* Lab Notebooks Supplies Lab Stations Plants Supply Table Homework: Always due when class starts! If not, it is late! It always goes in the bin with your class number on it. Absent?: Right now, find a homework/note buddy to be responsible for your work when you are absent. If you know you'll be out, see me first. See me as soon as you get back in school too. Lost papers: I always bring a cart with past handouts. If can't find something, ask me BEFORE class starts

  8. Unifying Themes 1. The cell 2. Heritable Information 3. Hierarchical order - systems 4. Regulation 5. Interaction with environment 6. Energy and life 7. Unity and diversity 8. Evolution 9. Structure and Function 10. Scientific Inquiry 11. Science, technology and society

  9. "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

  10. Energy conversion Materials cycling

  11. Eukaryotic Prokaryotic

  12. Structure & Function of DNA

  13. Reductionism

  14. Systems Biology Goal: model the dynamic behavior of whole biological systems 1. list all parts 2. how parts interact 3. pool data ·High throughput technology ·Bioinformatics ·Interdisciplinary research teams

  15. Positive Feedback

  16. Negative Feedback

  17. "Life's dual nature of unity and diversity"

  18. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection Observations: 1. Individual variation 2. Overproduction and competition Inferences: 1. Unequal reproductive success 2. Evolutionary adaptation

  19. Discovery science - describing natural structures and processes through careful observation and analysis of data Hypothesis - based science - explanations to observations made in discovery science and makes predictions

  20. Quantitative - quantities, measurements Qualitative - recorded descriptions ex: Jane Goodall & chimps

  21. Inductive - deriving generalizations based on a large number of specific observations - reasoning from a set of specific observations to reach a general conclusion Deductive - a general conclusion down to the specific results we should expect if the premises are true

  22. Hypotheses:

  23. Controlled Experiment: 1. 1 Independent variable 2. A control 3. Controlling the experiment Goal: test only one variable

  24. Everyday theory: not tested, just a guess Scientific theory: tested and well supported by research not a hypothesis general enough to generate new hypotheses can be rejected or modified

  25. Social and cultural influences:

  26. Science and Technology:

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