•  May 1^st, 2026 

•     Learning Intentions   

•      Tips for AP BIO Free Response

•      FRQ practice

•      Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Review for AP Test :) Take additional practice exams on AP Classroom over the weekend

MU: Review for AP Test :) Take additional practice exams on AP Classroom over the weekend

Day 5: AP Biology Labs and Calculations Review slides, additional review problems with answers AP Biology Penguins Math Review Videos Calculations Review Video (Quick Concept Review by Units #) AP Biology One Pagers Review  Berwick's Day 5 Review Video

Enzymes and Investigation #13

Cellular Respiration and Investigation #6

Photosynthesis and Investigation #5

Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Investigation #7

Meiosis and Investigation #7

Membranes, Osmosis and Diffusion Lab 4 Part 2 Video

•     Learning Intentions

•     Graphing Skills Review Packet   Graphing Skills Video

•     Review Calculations problems posted Friday

•     Review how you can use practice tests to help prepare you for AP test

•     Wrap Up/Launch

Good Luck!

•  May 4^th, 2026

•     Food and beverages to support your mental capabilities

•     AP BIOLOGY EXAM :) 

• May 5^th, 2026   

•     Learning Intentions

•     Continue Evolution and Ecology/Animal Behavior Review (Chapters 22-24, and 51)

•             Review test format, correction requirements and questions

•     Finish missing assignments from the unit

•         Population and Genetics lab

•         Animal Behavior Lab

•         Animal Research Project

•         Other missing assignments

•      Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Study for unit test on Friday

MU: Study for Unit test on Friday

• May 6^th, 2026

•     Learning Intentions

•     Start AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST (starting on pg 11)

•             start pre-lab: write purpose question, read background and summarize most important sentences in each paragraph on front page, copy objectives, and do Getting Started questions #1 and 2

•             to help prepare for the exploration explore "The Evolution of Flight in Birds"  a real-world example of how cladograms are used to understand evolutionary relationships

•             download gene 1, gene 2, gene 3, gene 4 to your computer to use in BLAST (use link here instead of one in lab handout)

•     Wrap Up/Launch

• May 7^th, 2026

•      Learning Intentions

•      Continue AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST

•         check off pre-lab

•         go through procedure (starting pg 14 of linked document), follow each step carefully

•         download gene 1, gene 2, gene 3, gene 4  to your computer to use in BLAST (use link here instead of one in lab handout)

•         answer Analyzing Results questions #1-4 for each gene downloaded and then Evaluating Results questions #1-3 to reflect on all

•      Wrap Up/Launch

• May 8^th, 2026

•    Learning Intentions

•    Review and self- assess AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST

•     Continue Evolution and Ecology/Animal Behavior Review (Chapters 22-24, and 51)

•      Finish missing assignments from the unit

•         Population and Genetics lab

•         BLAST lab

•         Animal Research Project

•         Other missing assignments

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Study for Unit Exam using review above.

MU: Review questions from lab and Review linked above and finish missing assignments. Study for Unit Exam using review above.

• May 11^th, 2026

•     Learning Intentions

•     Watch African Cats or Life Videos

•     Review and self- assess AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST

•     Continue Evolution and Ecology/Animal Behavior Review (Chapters 22-24, and 51)

•      Finish missing assignments from the unit

•         Population and Genetics lab

•         BLAST lab

•         Animal Research Project

•         Other missing assignments

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Study for Unit Exam using review above.

MU: Review questions from lab and Review linked above and finish missing assignments. Study for Unit Exam using review above.

• May 12^th, 2026

•     Learning Intentions

•     Watch African Cats or Life Videos

•     Review and self- assess AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST

•     Continue Evolution and Ecology/Animal Behavior Review (Chapters 22-24, and 51)

•      Finish missing assignments from the unit

•         Population and Genetics lab

•         BLAST lab

•         Animal Research Project

•         Other missing assignments

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Study for Unit Exam using review above.

MU: Review questions from lab and Review linked above and finish missing assignments. Study for Unit Exam using review above.

May 13^th, 2026

•     Learning Intentions

•     Watch African Cats or Life Videos

•     Review and self- assess AP Biology Investigation 3: Comparing DNA Sequences to Understand Evolutionary Relationships with BLAST

•     Answer questions about Evolution and Ecology/Animal Behavior Review (Chapters 22-24, and 51)

•      Finish missing assignments from the unit

•         Population and Genetics lab

•         BLAST lab

•         Animal Research Project

•         Other missing assignments

•     Wrap Up/Launch

• May 14^th, 2026

•     Evolution and Ecology/Animal Behavior Exam

•     Review and all assignments from unit are due today (review before test)

• May 15^th, 2026

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 1

•         Read the two slides for your introduction to our AP Biology Survivor

•         Select your Tribe members and work on your Tribe Flag    

• May 18^th, 2026 

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 1

•         Read the two slides for your introduction to our AP Biology Survivor

•         Select your Tribe members and work on your Tribe Flag

•          Submit final Tribe Flag at end of the period.

• May 19^th, 2026  (State Testing half days-schedule)

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 2

• May 20^th, 2026 (State Testing half days-schedule)

•     Vote on AP Biology Survivor Challenge 2 Period 3 and Period 5

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 3  

• May 21^st, 2026  (State Testing half days-schedule)

•     Discuss class t-shirts and team scores

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 4

• May 22^nd, 2026  (State Testing half days-schedule) 

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 5

•     Order class t-shirts

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• May 26^th, 2026

•     Tally points for AP Biology Survivor Challenge 5

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 6

•     Order class t-shirts

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• May 27^th, 2026

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 7 

•  May 28^th, 2026 

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 8

•     Discuss class shirt

•  May 29^th, 2026

•     AP Biology Survivor Challenge 9

•     Bring textbook tomorrow to turn in

•  Review AP Classroom/Taking FRQ tips and Designing Investigations Video

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•  Reviewing Strategies for taking FRQs and posted questions this week Video

Evolution Lesson PowerPoint

Evolution Continue PowerPoint

Previous Years Curriculum:

•       Learning Intentions  

•       Share Earthworm Behavior experiments and results with class (what was your question, hypothesis, and results)

•       Continue Animal Behavior Notes (pages 9-31)

•                Brainstorm ways animals communicate with each other

•                Responses to communication is important to survival: Partner share one example of how natural selection favors innate or learned behaviors that increase survival

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Review for AP Test ;)  Communities Video, Populations Video, r and k selection Video, Exponential Growth, Logistic Growth, Ecological Succession Video and review Ecology section of review books.

MU: Review end of PowerPoint above, come in and watch Life Video and take notes

•     Learning Intentions

•     Discuss ecosystems, communities, populations and factors that affect them

•     Review cycles within an ecosystem : Carbon, Nitrogen and Water

•         share examples of symbiotic relationships you have observed in nature-mutualism, commensalisms, parasitism

•      Finish Animal Behavior Notes (pages 32-58)   

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Review for AP Test :) Communities Video, Populations Video, r and k selection Video, Exponential Growth, Logistic Growth, Ecological Succession Video
Start studying for Genetics, Evolution and Animal Behavior Review (Chapters 14, 22-24, and 51) 

MU: Watch videos linked and review AP Review book.

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•     Learning Intentions

•     Answer questions from last nights videos

•     Roles in a community food chain: producers, consumers, decomposers    

•         how nutrients are transferred

•     Population Growth

•         how to calculate   

•         exponential and logistic growth

•             carrying capacity-what factors affect

•         r-strategists and k-strategists

•      Ecological succession (interactive activity to explore)

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Review for AP Test :) and watch Homeostatic Evolution, Positive and Negative Feedback Loops, Response to External Environments,  Homeostasis Disruptions, Evolutionary Significance of Cell Communication, Cell Communication, Signal Transduction Pathways, Changes in Signal Transduction Pathways

MU: Review videos linked in last night homework and be sure to take notes. Get notes form someone in class about food webs/chains.

Day 2: Big Idea #2 #5-10 (Concept Review by Units)

•     Learning Intentions

•     Answer questions from last nights videos

•     Homeostasis-what is it and brain storm examples of how our body maintains it...

•     Disruptions to systems affect homeostasis

•     Feedback loops- Negative: up and down to get to a specific target, Positive: amplification to get rapid effect

•     Cell Communication and Signal Transduction Pathways

•      Wrap Up/Launch  

HW: Watch Digestion Video, Osmoregulation Video, Endocrine Video  Nervous System Video and study these systems in your review book.

MU: Watch Videos linked above, review AP FRQs linked, and study these systems in your review book using the question in the agenda above.

 Day 3: Big Idea #2 and 3 #11-15 (Concept Review by Units)

•      Learning Intentions

•      Body Systems that affect Homeostasis: Digestion, Excretory,  Endocrine, Circulatory, Respiratory, Nervous, Immune, Reproductive, Muscular/Skeletal

•         Digestion: what nutrients needed? how they are obtained? what is done with the wastes? what are the important organs in humans? (2011 Form A #2 scoring guide)

•        Excretory: how are nitrogenous wastes gotten rid of and water regulated? what are the important organs in humans?

•         Endocrine: what are the types and functions of hormones in the body? what are the important organs in humans? (2010 Form A #1 scoring guide

•         Nervous: what is purpose? how do different organisms complete? what is a neuron? what are the types of neurons? how do they work? what are the parts of the human nervous system? what are the functions of those parts?

•     Body Systems that require Cell Communication: Lymphatic/Immune and Cardiovascular (Circulatory and Respiratory)

•         Immune: what is it made of? what are the functions? what are the types of immune cells and their functions? (2007 Form B #2)

•         Circulatory: what is purpose? how do different organisms complete? What are the two types? how does it work in humans and what are the important structures?

•         Respiratory: what is purpose? how do different organisms complete? how does it work in humans and what are the important structures?

•         Reproductive: what are the two types of reproduction? what is the purpose of reproductive system? how do male and female reproductive systems compare?

•         Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Watch Immune Video, Respiratory Video, Circulatory Video, Reproductive System Video, and study these systems in your review book.

MU: Review Links above, watch linked videos, and review for AP Test.

Day 4: Big Idea #3 #16-24 (Concept Review by Units)

•     Learning Intentions

•     Revisit

•     Review types of questions-graphing, data analysis, hypothesis testing, mathematical modeling

•     Go over possible Labs Concepts and Calculations

•     Primitive Earth and Mass extinctions

•         Here is Today website

•             inorganic precursors--> organic molecules--> monomers-->polymers

•             in solution (organic soup) or on solid surfaces

•             RNA first genetic material

•             scientific evidence supports various models- geological evidence in fossils and chemical analysis, molecular and genetic evidence show common ancestor (common building blocks and genetic code)

•     Review 4 Big Ideas for Biology and how they might be found on the AP Free Response Questions (1: Evolution drives the diversity and unity of Life 2008 Form A #4c, and 2008 Form B #3, Free energy and molecular building blocks are used to grow, reproduce and maintain homeostasis 2009 Form A #4b, 2008 Form A #3, 2007 Form B #4 and 2006 Form B #4, Living systems store, retrieve, transmit and respond to information essential to life, Biological systems interact and therefore have complex properties 2005 Form B #1, 2009 Form B #4, 2008 Form A #1,  2008 Form B #2 and 2006 Form B #2, and Science as a Process  2009 Form A #1 and 2007 Form B #1,)

HW: Watch Origins of Life Video and Abiogenesis Video and Review for AP Test with practice multiple choice test

MU: Review Links above, watch linked videos, and review for AP Test.

Day 5: Big Idea #4 #25-36 (Concept Review by Units)  

•    (SBAC Testing in morning, only 1st-3rd Period in afternoon) 

•     Discuss t-shirts

•     Introduction to Micropipetting Lab

•             go through each exercise

•             show Berwick your groups data

•             practice filling practice gels

HW: None

MU: None

•  (SBAC Testing in morning, only 4th-6th Period in afternoon) 

•     Hand back tests

•     Continue Introduction to Micropipetting Lab

•         continue through each exercise

•         practice filling practice gels under water        

HW: None

MU:  Come in before or after school to make up Introduction to Micropipetting Lab.

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•       Learning Intentions

•       Discuss textbooks

•       Start Separating Dye with Electrophoresis Gels Lab       

•             Read background, write objectives and answer pre-lab questions

•             Make gels

•                 tape gel box, pour gel, add comb to middle of box, let cool to harden, remove comb, put in zip lock bag with buffer solution

HW: Answer pre-lab questions for Separating Dye with Electrophoresis Gels Lab

MU: Read background, write objectives and answer pre-lab questions for Separating Dye with Electrophoresis Gels Lab (read through procedure so you are familiar for Tuesday)

•     Learning Intentions

•     Separating Dye with Electrophoresis Gels Lab (set up of gels and other info)

•         load dye in well plates and start running electrophoresis

•         review pre-lab questions

•         copy down data table and gel drawings to take observations on

•         collect data (including both before and after drawing as well as quantitative data)

•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Make sure you have data table copied into your lab book and gel drawings to take observations on

MU: Come in before or after school to do Separating Dye Electrophoresis Gels Lab

• May 30^th, 2018  

•     Learning Intentions

•     Separating Dye with Electrophoresis Gels Lab (set up of gels and other info)

•         collect data (including both before and after drawing as well as quantitative data)
•         discuss/answer analysis questions
•     Start AP BIO Lab 6: Molecular Biology Part B: Restriction Enzyme Cleavage of DNA and Gel Electrophoresis (Forensic DNA Fingerprinting)
•         read through background
•         review steps of Restriction Enzyme DNA analysis
•     Wrap Up/Launch

HW: Finish up Separating Dye with Electrophoresis Gels Lab

MU: Finish up Separating Dye with Electrophoresis Gels Lab

•  May 31^st, 2018  (SBAC Testing in morning, only 1st-3rd Period in afternoon)