Three Area of Focus
 
The AP Science areas of focus are vertically aligned to the science practices embedded in the high school and college courses, including AP.  This gives students multiple opportunities to think and work like scientists as they develop and strengthen these disciplinary reasoning skills throughout their education in the sciences.
 
Analytical Reading & Writing: Students engage in Analytical reading & writing to gain, retain, and apply scientific knowledge and to carry out scientific argumentation.
Strategic use of Mathematics: Students use mathematics strategically in order to understand and express quantitative aspects of biology, to record and interpret experimental data, and to solve problems.
Attention to Modeling: Students go beyond labeling diagrams to creating, revising, and using models to explain key patterns, interactions, and relationships in biological systems.
 
Unit Foundations
 
Unit 1: Ecological Systems (approx. five weeks)
Biological Systems ,occurring at various scales, respond and adapt to stimuli in order to maintain dynamic homeostasis.
 
Unit 2: Evolution (approx. four weeks)
The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity life.
 
Unit 3: Cellular Systems (approx. ten weeks)
Growth and reproduction in biological systems are dependent upon the cycling of matter and the transformation of energy.
 
Unit 4: Genetics (approx. nine weeks)
Genetic mechanisms are essential to maintaining biological systems.
 
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief: Francis S. Collins (Head of the Human Genome Project)
Unit I: The Chasm Between Science & Faith
 
Unit II: The Great Question of Human Existence
Origin of the Universe
Life: Of Microbe & Man
Deciphering God’s Instruction Book: The Human Genome Project
 
Unit III: Faith In Science & Faith in God
Genesis, Galileo, & Darwin
Atheism/Agnosticism
Creationism
Intelligent Design
Biologos: Harmony
Truth Seekers