Dixon's AP Biology

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If

(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on the teacher;

If you can trust the teacher’s faith in you, When you are doubting yourself;

If you can work and not be too tired by working,

And do the work because it helps you learn,

And not because it will be graded.

Or because it is required;

If you can dream of success on the test- and not make those dreams your master;

If you can think-and not give up because you don’t know something;

If you can meet hard tests and independent projects with triumph and disaster

And treat those two results just the same;

If you can hear that biology truths are messy and not always true,

That thinking biology is merely facts and terms is a trap for fools,

And the teacher’s job is not to supply truths

But to challenge your mind and help you develop tools;

If you can make a judgment based on all your understandings

And risk it on one answer to an unfamiliar question,

And get it wrong but learn from that

And feel satisfied that you did;

If you can force yourself to take ownership of your learning

To truly learn long after you’ve been accepted into college,

And so not give up when there is nothing in it for you

Except the Will to develop more sophisticated understanding;

If you can talk to your class and help everyone learn,

Or ask questions of wonder or confusion or ‘possiblies’;

If you can recall your learning from last year or last week

And apply it to new situations and grow new synapses;

If you can believe that deeply understanding 70% of the concepts

Is better than knowing 100% of the terms;

If can believe that you own your learning in class and out

And tutors or looking up answers will not help on tests;

Yours is deeper understanding of biology and all that’s in it,

And-which is more-you’ll be an AP Scholar my student!

What we're up to...
Welcome to the new AP Bio web site. This site is new this year and I'll be creating it as we go. I'll use this page for announcements and thoughts. You can use the links on the side to check out course related materials and some interesting web sites we'll be using throughout the year. Below are links to some assignments and rubrics as well as unit objectives. There are links to many biology resources on the Bio Web page.

I'm very much looking forward to this year. I spent the summer working on developing synthetic biology materials for our use this year. Check out the BioBuilding link to learn more about how I spent my summer.

Unit Links
Lab Bench with the AP required labs

[[Media:AP_organic_biochem.ppt‎| Biochemistry (c. 4-5) Power Point]]

[[Media:Respiration_and_Photosynthesis.ppt‎| Unit 6 Respiration and Photosynthesis (c. 9-10) Power Point]]

[[Media:Metabolism_Powerpoint.ppt‎| Unit 6 Metabolism (c. 6) Power Point]]

[http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olc/dl/120060/ravenanimation.html A list of animations. Scroll down to find two replication animations as well as ones for protein synthesis etc.]

[[Media:Molecular_genetics.ppt‎| Unit 5 Molecular Genetics (c. 16-21) Power Point]]

[[Media:AP_Bio_Heredity_PPT.ppt‎| Unit 5: Heredity (c. 14 & 15) Power Point]]

[[Media:AP_bio_cell_reproduction_ppt.pptx| Unit 5: Cell Reproduction (c. 12 & 13) Power Point]]

[[Media:AP_Bio_Nervous_system_ppt.ppt‎| Unit 4: Nervous system (c. 48) Power Point]]

[[Media:Endocrine_and_signaling_ppt.ppt‎| Unit 4: Endocrine system and cell signaling (chap 45 & 11) Power Point]]

[[Media:AP_Bio_Immune_system_ppt.ppt‎| Unit 4: Immune system (c. 43) Power Point]]

[[Media:Environmental_Physiology.ppt‎| Unit 3.5: Environmental physiology (c. 44) Power Point]]

[[Media:Circulation_and_respiration.ppt‎| Unit 3.5: Animal Circulation and Respiration (c. 42) Power Point]]

[[Media:Plant_structure_and_transport_ppt.pptx| Unit 3: Plant structure and transport (c. 35-38) Power Point]]

[[Media:AP_cell_structure_PPT.ppt‎| Unit 3: Cell Structure (c.7&8) Power Point]]

Bioinformatics activity

[[Media:AP_Bio_Evolution_PPT.ppt‎| Unit 2: Evolution Power Point]]

[[Media:AP_Bio_evo_unit_obj.pdf| Unit 2: Evolution Objectives PDF]]

[[Media:AP_Bio_Unit_1--Ecology.pdf‎| Unit 1: Ecology Objectives PDF]]

[[Media:Ecology_ppt.ppt| Unit 1: Ecology slides]]

Assignments and Rubric Links
Summer Assignment

Taxonomy Project

[[Media:Ap_bio_taxa_wiki_rubric.pdf| Taxonomy Project Rubric PDF]]

Species Case Study

[[Media:Lab_Report_Rubric_PDF.pdf‎| Lab Report Rubric PDF]]

[[Media:Essay_rubric_PDF.pdf| Essay Rubric PDF]]

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