AP Big Ideas
Everything we learn in AP Biology will be centered around the following Big Ideas.
Big Idea 1:
The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. |
Big Idea 2:
Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to reproduce and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. |
Big Idea 3:
Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life processes. |
Big Idea 4:
Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess complex properties. |
AP Biology Science Practices
Science Practice 1
The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems.
Science Practice 2
The student can use mathematics appropriately.
Science Practice 3
The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course.
Science Practice 4
The student can plan and implement data collection strategies in relation to a particular scientific question. (Note: Data can be collected from many different sources, e.g., investigations, scientific observations, the findings of others, historic reconstruction and/or archived data.)
Science Practice 5
The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence.
Science Practice 6
The student can work with scientific explanations and theories.
Science Practice 7
The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts and representations in and across domains.
Science Practice 1
The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems.
Science Practice 2
The student can use mathematics appropriately.
Science Practice 3
The student can engage in scientific questioning to extend thinking or to guide investigations within the context of the AP course.
Science Practice 4
The student can plan and implement data collection strategies in relation to a particular scientific question. (Note: Data can be collected from many different sources, e.g., investigations, scientific observations, the findings of others, historic reconstruction and/or archived data.)
Science Practice 5
The student can perform data analysis and evaluation of evidence.
Science Practice 6
The student can work with scientific explanations and theories.
Science Practice 7
The student is able to connect and relate knowledge across various scales, concepts and representations in and across domains.