Here's the information regarding requesting the final. I'm not certain exactly what you'll need, so I'll include everything I have.
Testing Center Coordinator: Jana Walker
Email: jana.walker@usu.edu
Address: 987 E Lagoon Street
Roosevelt, Utah 84066
Phone: 435-722-1777
In order to take the test you will need a photo id. Your school id will work, as will a passport.
Please either call me or email me to let me know you have requested the final.
Good luck with your studying!
Shannon
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
AP Biology Section Twelve
Lesson 9-Natural Selection
Read chapter 20 in textbook
Complete lesson 9 reading assignment
Watch lesson 9 video lecture
Watch "Phylogenetics"
Watch"Speciation and Extinction"
Watch "Speciation"
Watch "Evolution Continues"
Sunday, November 2, 2014
AP Biology Section Eleven
Lesson 8-Genetic Basis of Evolution
Read chapter 19 in textbook
Complete lesson 8 reading assignment
Watch lesson 8 video lecture
Watch "Population Variation," take Cornell Notes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlHZGLzc6k
Watch "Population Variation," take Cornell Notes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlHZGLzc6k
Watch “Natural Selection,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Examples of Natural Selection,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Hardy-Weinberg Equation,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Solving Hardy-Weinberg Problems,” take Cornell Notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkOAnK20kwWatch "Genetic Drift," take Cornell Notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQ_yN5znyk
Friday, October 24, 2014
AP Biology Section Ten
Lesson 21-Ecosystems and Biospheres
Read chapters 45 and 46 in textbook
Complete lesson 21 reading assignment
Watch lesson 21 video lecture
Watch “Ecosystems,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Ecosystem Changes,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Ecological Succession,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Environmental Matter Exchange,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Biochemical Cycling,” take Cornell Notes
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
AP Biology Section Nine
Lesson 20-Interactions in Communities
Read chapter 44 in textbook
Complete lesson 20 reading assignment
Watch lesson 20 video lecture
Watch “Populations,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Biodiversity,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Population Variation,” take Cornell Notes
AP Biology Section Eight
Lesson 19-Population Dynamics
Read chapter 43 in textbook
Complete lesson 19 reading assignment
Watch lesson 19 video lecture
Watch “Communities,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Exponential Growth,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Logistic Growth,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “R and K Selection,” take Cornell Notes
Sunday, October 5, 2014
AP Biology Section Seven
Lesson 23-Photosynthesis
Read chapter 9 in textbook
Complete lesson 23 reading assignment
Watch lesson 23 video lecture
Do lab assignment: Photosynthesis
Watch “Photosynthesis,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Photosynthesis Animation,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Photosynthesis and Respiration,” take Cornell Notes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJMRsTcwcg&feature=plcp
Complete Essay 5 Writing Assignment:
“Explain how the metabolic processes of cellular respiration and photosynthesis recycle carbon dioxide.”
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
AP Biology Section Six
Lesson 22-Cellular Respiration
Read chapter 8 in textbook
Complete lesson 22 reading assignment
Watch lesson 22 video lecture
Do lab assignment: Cellular Respiration
Watch “Cellular Respiration,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Cellular Respiration Song”
Watch “Khan Academy Cellular Respiration,” take Cornell Notes
Friday, September 5, 2014
AP Biology Section Five
Lesson 6-Energy Flow
Read chapter 7 in textbook
Complete lesson 6 reading assignment
Watch lesson 6 video lecture
Do Enzyme Rate lab assignment
Watch “Gibbs Free Energy,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Life Requires Free Energy,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “ATP: Adenosine Triphosphate,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Enzymes,” take Cornell Notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9esggzN18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9esggzN18
Monday, August 25, 2014
AP Biology Section Four
Remember I will not be there on Wednesday. Please use this day to get caught up. Get your portfolio for Unit One all prepared to submit. Instructions for submitting the portfolio are included under Lesson Three and in the syllabus. I'd be happy to look over your essay again if you had a lot of changes to make. Please email it to me. If you want me to check your portfolio before you submit it, please bring it to our next class.
Be prepared with the following for our next class period on Wednesday, September 3:
Be prepared with the following for our next class period on Wednesday, September 3:
Lesson 5-How Things Get into and out of the Cell
Read chapter 6 in textbook
Complete lesson 5 reading assignment
Watch lesson 5 video
Complete video notes
Do the Diffusion and Osmosis lab assignment
Watch “Water Potential,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Transport across Cell Membranes,” take Cornell Notes
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
AP Biology Section Three
Unit 2
Lesson 4-Cells and How They Are Organized
Read chapters 4 and 5 in textbook
Complete lesson 4 reading assignment
Watch lesson 4 video lecture
Complete video notes
Watch “The Cell Membrane,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Compartmentalization,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Cellular Organelles,” take Cornell Notes
Saturday, August 9, 2014
BYU AP Biology Syllabus
Syllabus
Quick Links
What You Should Already Know
This series is the equivalent of a college introductory biology course and will prepare students to pass the AP Biology exam. Even though these courses present college-level work, there are no prerequisites. Students who are willing to commit time and effort in completing both courses in the series will experience success in the course and in taking the AP Biology exam. The instructor is an award-winning AP-certified teacher.
Course Learning Outcomes
Explain the structure of the atom and describe how atoms are held together to form molecules.
Describe the molecular structure of water and explain the important characteristics of water that are a result of its unique structure.
Compare and contrast the three most important macromolecules (sugars, fats, and proteins). Describe how they are formed, stored, and used by living organisms.
Distinguish the different parts of the cell and describe how the cell is organized.
Explain how things get into and out of a cell.
Describe the structure and function of enzymes. Indicate how enzymes do their job.
Assess Darwin’s theory of evolution by evaluating the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and evaluating the agents that cause change in a population.
Describe natural selection as the most important agent of change in a population.
Compare and contrast the different ways speciation (the creating of a new species) can occur.
Outline the classification system and explain how it was constructed.
Compare prokaryotes and protists with an emphasis on mitochondria and chloroplast history.
Assess the positive and negative effects of fungi.
Distinguish the four different groups of plants, and describe the adaptations of each group to a dry terrestrial environment.
Name the parts of the plant and describe their functions.
Describe the processes used to transport food and water in a plant.
Compare and contrast the actions of five plant hormones.
Evaluate the characteristics of a population.
Evaluate the characteristics of a community.
Assess ecosystem interactions and biospheres.
Describe the mechanisms involved in cellular respiration (the burning of sugars by the body to produce energy in mitochondria).
Describe the mechanisms involved in photosynthesis (the making of sugars in chloroplasts).
Course Materials
Textbooks
There is no standard textbook for preparing for the AP exam. Throughout the nation there are about a dozen different textbooks that tend to be the most popular among AP Biology teachers. However, it is up to each teacher’s discretion as to which text he or she feels will prepare students the best for taking the AP exam.
The book that I have selected for this course is the fifth edition of Introduction to Biology by Curtis and Barnes (Helena Curtis and N. Sue Barnes). It is published by Worth Publishers, Inc. It has a 1994 copyright. The ISBN number is 0-8791-679-5. It is commonly called the “owl book” because its cover shows the large face of a baby owl.
This is a very, very, very good book. I want to tell you a little bit about the book since you will be spending so much time with it over the next few months (you will come to love it, and to hold it, till only death will make you part).
This book is about 300 pages smaller than many AP Biology texts, which you will like because you will read the entire book a few times before taking the test. But don’t let the thought of all that reading overwhelm you. Just stay with me, and I will lead you along gently.
This book is very good at sticking to the information that you need to know in order to pass that AP Biology exam. Many textbooks go on tangents or contain additional information that is interesting but not important. The beauty of this textbook is that if you need to know it to pass the exam, it is in the book. If you don’t need to know it to pass the exam, it isn’t in the book.
But most of all, the number one reason that I selected this book was for its illustrations! You may have heard the statement “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Well, that statement has never been truer than in this book. Many biology textbooks have lots of cute pictures of animals or plants that really have no purpose other than to look nice. Not in this book. In this book, there is an illustration for every key concept that the chapter is trying to teach. Study the pictures carefully. Read the captions by the pictures often. You will be amazed at how much easier the reading is if you focus on the pictures. When you go to take the AP Biology exam, you will read a question, and immediately a picture from the book will pop into your mind reminding you of the important concepts you have learned.
Be sure to read the How to Read Your Textbook section on page 10 before beginning this course.
How to Read Your Textbook
A textbook should not be read as if it were a novel. Let me tell you the best way to read a textbook. As I explain it, you may feel that this will take you more time than if you just read the chapter from beginning to end, but I promise you that both your reading speed and comprehension will increase if you follow these steps.
First, read the chapter summary at the back of the chapter. It is just a few paragraphs long. (Yes, it will feel like it’s a completely different language and going right over your head.)
Starting at the beginning of the chapter, quickly go through the whole chapter and read the headings for each section. This will give you a feel for what is going to be covered in the chapter.
This is the most important step. Starting at the beginning of the chapter, go through, look at all of the pictures, and read the captions that go with each picture. Really concentrate on this and try to understand what concept each picture is trying to teach you.
Now go back to the beginning and read as you answer your reading assignment questions. You will be surprised how much easier the book is to read after having concentrated on all of the illustrations previously.
Finally, read the chapter summary at the back of the chapter again. What was once a dark pool of words will now be so clear to you!
Other Materials
Course Syllabus. Naturally, you will need the materials that are contained in the course syllabus. This syllabus contains course information, grading information, objectives, worksheets, reading assignments, essay questions, lecture outlines, lab assignments, and Speedback assignments.
DVD packet. In addition to the course syllabus, you should have received a DVD, which will contain all of the lectures for this course. When a lesson directs you to a specific video lecture, you will find it on this DVD. If you did not receive this DVD, notify Independent Study immediately.
Course Organization
This course has five units. Since this is a new course for you, the first two parts are smaller so that I can give you feedback as soon as possible. Hopefully, this way I can correct any misunderstanding about what is expected from you before you get too far along in the course. After the first two units, the remaining three units are longer.
Each unit is broken down into lessons. Most lessons will consist of a video lecture, a Speedback assignment, and a required reading section with a reading assignment. Five of the lessons contain an additional lab assignment.
After you have watched the video lecture and finished the reading assignment, complete the Speedback assignments for each lesson. (If the lesson contains a lab assignment, then complete the lab assignment before taking the Speedback assignment. Do not submit the lab assignments to Independent Study.)
At the end of each unit there is one essay writing assignment.
Once each unit is completed, submit all of your work for that unit to be graded as a portfolio assignment (this will consist of the reading assignment in each lesson of the unit and one essay writing assignment).
After completing all five units, there will be a final exam. Keep track of your progress. Best wishes!
Formatting Your Written Work
You will submit your completed reading and essay assignments to Independent Study electronically through your course (even though they will be completed by hand). To make sure that I can open and read your papers, please save them as an Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) file. Here’s how to do it:
Once you have printed and filled out an entire assignment, scan in each page to a computer and save them. For example, if the Lesson 1 Reading Assignment has 3 pages, all 3 pages should be in the same .PDF file. If needed, adjust the scanner’s settings so that the assignment is clear and legible.
Save as a PDF (*.pdf) file.
Use the course number, your first and last name, and the assignment name for the filename. For example, APBIO059_KimSmith_Lesson1ReadingAssignment.pdf.
Save the file.
Submitting Your Portfolio Assignments
It’s very important that you submit all of the assignments for a portfolio at the same time. Here’s how to submit your completed portfolio assignments:
Click the appropriate Portfolio Submission link in your course.
Click Open.
Attach all of the relevant assignments by clicking the Choose File button, then locating the file you wish to submit.
To attach additional files, click Add Attachment and use the Choose File button to locate and upload the next file. Make sure you attach every file you need to include in the portfolio assignment.
When you are finished, click Submit.
You will be asked if you are sure you want to submit this assignment. Click Yes.
You will receive a message that tells you that you have successfully submitted your assignment. Click OK.
Remember: Do not submit any assignment until you have completed all of the assignments for the portfolio!
Assignments
Summary: 19 computer-graded assignments and five writing exercise portfolio assignments, may be resubmitted once for a fee.
Reading Assignments
Reading assignments are the lifeblood of this class! In order to be prepared for the AP Biology exam you will simply have to put forth tremendous effort on your own time. This will mainly consist of reading the required textbook and completing the designated reading assignment. There will be roughly two hours of reading and writing per lesson.
For each lesson there is a reading requirement from the textbook (generally only one chapter, but sometimes two) and a reading assignment that goes with it. I can only think of one other AP exam that requires you to learn as much information as the AP Biology exam does. The only way you are going to learn everything you need to know in order to pass that exam is to read the book. You will have my video lectures, but in my lectures I will be picking out just the more challenging concepts from each chapter and giving you additional explanations on them. Mostly, you will be learning from your reading.
The most important thing you can do to prepare for the AP exam is to read the book. To ensure that you read the book, each reading section is accompanied by a reading assignment. The reading assignments are lengthy, but they are easy. No one has ever complained that they couldn’t do the assignments. The biggest challenge that most students have with the reading assignments is setting aside enough time to do them. The reading assignments are a list of questions to be answered as you read the book. The questions should be in the same order as the information in the chapter. They don’t require any independent thought to answer them. You just read along and, as you come to the answers to the questions, you simply write them down on the worksheets provided after each lesson.
Each question in the reading assignments must meet the following requirements:
Questions must be handwritten.
Questions must be answerwed as complete thought statements!
For example: The question asks, "How many legs do insects have?"
Wrong way to write the answer: "six legs"
Right way to write answer: "An insect has six legs." (Notice that the answer is a complete, independent thought.)
Another example: The question asks, "Who discovered the structure of DNA."
Wrong way to write the answer: "Watson and Crick discovered it"
Right way to write answer: "Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA."
NOTE: When you are finished with all of your reading assignments, you will have complete outlines of the most important ideas in each chapter.
Don’t spend a lot of time searching for the answer to a question; if you cannot find it right where you are reading, move on. Don’t spend time going to other resources to try and find the answer. Your time is precious and you need to keep moving. Just leave that question blank on your answer sheet. I am a reasonable grader and I can tell if you are making the effort you need to by looking at your overall reading assignment. Your grade will not drop because of a few missed items.
In the Grading section, you will see that the majority of your grade comes from these reading assignments.
Notice that some of the reading assignments contain statements rather than questions (i.e., chapter 1, #8). I do this to make sure that you are getting a specific point from that part of the chapter. In these cases, rather than answering a question, just simply copy the statement I have written in your reading assignment.
For example, if the statement says, “There are four major ways the frequency of alleles can change in a population, which are as follows: mutations, gene flow, genetic drift, and nonrandom mating,” the wrong way to write the answer is to leave it blank. The correct way is to write, “There are four major ways the frequency of alleles can change in a population, which are as follows: mutations, gene flow, genetic drift, and nonrandom mating.” Please simply copy the statement.
Video Lectures
Each lesson in this unit will be accompanied by one of my lectures on the video lectures DVD that you received with this course. In my lectures I will be picking out only the more challenging concepts from each chapter and giving you additional explanations on them. Be sure to have your book with you as you watch these lectures, as I will refer to the illustrations often. Many concepts in biology will be much easier for you to understand when you hear my explanation of them to you. Each lesson has a lecture that is generally about one hour long.
Essay Assignments
When you take the AP exam, there will be four essay questions that you write answers for. These four questions are worth 40 percent of your final AP score (the other 60 percent is multiple choice).
To prepare you for this portion of the AP exam, you need to be comfortable with writing essays by hand. This will be accomplished at the completion of each unit in this course where there will be one essay question for you to answer.
These essay questions have been very carefully selected and are very representative of the types of questions that are frequently asked on the AP exam. You may use your notes and book to answer the essay questions. Essays must be handwritten. There is no required length for your essay as long as it is answered completely. Generally, this should be at least one full handwritten page, but it usually ends up closer to two.
Lab Assignments
There are a number of labs that are highly recommended by the AP board in preparing a student for the AP exam. A general knowledge of the set-up for these experiments, as well as the information learned from them, will be important for your preparation to take the test. Some of the lessons in this unit have an additional section called the Lab Assignment. Be sure to complete the lab assignment for that lesson before beginning the Speedback assignment. There will be questions about the labs on the final exam also.
Each of the labs in this course is accompanied by a lab assignment worksheet that is found with the rest of the materials that you received for this course. These lab assignments are designed to help you better understand the information you will be required to know in order to pass the AP exam. These lab assignment worksheets will not be turned in or graded. However, you should understand that, generally speaking, 17 percent of the multiple-choice questions and one of the four essay questions found on the AP exam are questions based on labs very similar to the ones found in this course. A lot of time and effort went into designing these labs so that you would have an additional resource to help you pass the AP exam.
Speedback Assignment
After completing each lesson, there are ten multiple-choice questions that you will answer for a Speedback assignment.
You may have already noted that these Speedback assignments do not weigh very heavily on your grade (most of your grade comes from the reading assignments). However, they are very important for three reasons:
Sixty percent of the AP Biology exam is multiple choice. These Speedback assignments will give you practice answering multiple-choice questions.
This will help you see if you are really learning the material. You may think you are getting it, but after taking the Speedback assignment, you may realize that you really are not. Or the opposite may be true. Perhaps you feel like you are not getting it, but after taking the Speedback assignment, you realize you really are getting it.
Each Speedback assignment is topic specific. By taking them, you will be able to identify your strengths and your weaknesses by topic, and then you will be able to see where to spend more time studying.
NOTE: Some Speedback assignments include five additional questions that come from the lab assignments of this course. Those five questions from the lab are worth twice as many points. It is important that you do the lab assignments in each lesson before taking the Speedback assignment.
Exams
Summary: 1 proctored, computer-graded exam, may retake once for a fee, must pass in order to pass the course
There will be a final exam with this course. It will consist of sixty multiple-choice questions very similar to those found in the Speedback assignments. The only difference will be that these questions will combine information from all of the lessons in the unit. This final will also give you practice for the multiple-choice portion of the AP Biology exam. You will be able to use a basic five-function calculator on the exam. Programmable calculators are not allowed. Remember that you must pass this final exam in order to pass the class. Getting at least a 60 percent on the final exam will give you a passing grade.
Course Outline and Assignment Schedule
Unit 1
Lesson 1—Atoms, Molecules, and Water
Read chapters 1 and 2 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 1 reading assignment.
View lesson 1 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 1 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 2—Organic Molecules
Read chapter 3 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 2 reading assignment.
View lesson 2 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 2 Speedback assignment.
Complete Essay 1 writing assignment.
Lesson 3—Portfolio Assignment
Submit unit 1 work to Independent Study.
Unit 2
Lesson 4—Cells and How They are Organized
Read chapters 4 and 5 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 4 reading assignment.
View lesson 4 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 4 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 5—How Things Get Into and Out of the Cell
Read chapter 6 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 5 reading assignment.
View lesson 5 video lecture.
Do the Diffusion and Osmosis lab assignment.
Take and submit lesson 5 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 6—Energy Flow
Read chapter 7 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 6 reading assignment.
View lesson 6 video lecture.
Do the Enzyme Rate lab assignment.
Take and submit lesson 6 Speedback assignment.
Complete Essay 2 writing assignment.
Lesson 7—Portfolio Assignment
Submit unit 2 work to Independent Study.
Unit 3
Lesson 8—Genetic Basis of Evolution
Read chapter 19 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 8 reading assignment.
View lesson 8 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 8 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 9—Natural Selection
Read chapter 20 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 9 reading assignment.
View lesson 9 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 9 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 10—The Origin of Species and Evolution of Behavior
Read chapter 21 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 10 reading assignment.
View lesson 10 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 10 Speedback assignment.
Complete Essay 3 writing assignment.
Lesson 11—Portfolio Assignment
Submit unit 3 work to Independent Study.
Course Outline and Assignment Schedule
Unit 4
Lesson 12—Classification: Prokaryotes and Protists
Read chapters 23 and 24 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 12 reading assignment.
View lesson 12 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 12 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 13—Fungi and Plants
Read chapter 25 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 13 readin assignment.
View lesson 13 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 13 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 14—Flowering Plants
Read chapter 39 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 14 reading assignment.
View lesson 14 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 14 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 15—Plant Body and Development
Read chapter 40 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 15 reading assignment.
View lesson 15 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 15 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 16—Plant Transport
Read chapter 41 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 16 reading assignment.
View lesson 16 video lecture.
Do the Transpiration lab assignment.
Take and submit lesson 16 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 17—Plant Stimuli and Regulation
Read chapter 42 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 17 reading assignment.
View lesson 17 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 17 Speedback assignment.
Complete unit 4 essay writing assignment.
Lesson 18—Portfolio Assignment
Submit unit 4 work to Independent Study.
Unit 5
Lesson 19—Population Dynamics
Read chapter 43 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 19 reading assignment.
View lesson 19 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 19 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 20—Interactions in Communities
Read chapter 44 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 20 reading assignment.
View lesson 20 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 20 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 21—Ecosystems and Biosphere
Read chapters 45 and 46 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 21 reading assignment.
View lesson 21 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 21 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 22—Cellular Respiration
Read chapter 8 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 22 reading assignment.
View lesson 22 video lecture.
Do the Cellular Respiration lab assignment.
Take and submit lesson 22 Speedback assignment.
Lesson 23—Photosynthesis
Read chapter 9 in the textbook.
Complete lesson 23 reading assignment.
Do the Lab Photosynthesis lab assignment.
View lesson 23 video lecture.
Take and submit lesson 23 Speedback assignment.
Complete Essay 5 writing assignment.
Lesson 24—Portfolio Assignment
Submit unit 5 work to Independent Study
Take the Final Exam
Grading
There are four parts to your grade: the reading assignments for each lesson, the Speedback assignments for each lesson, the end-of-unit essays, and the final exam.
Each reading assignment is worth 2 percent of your final grade. It is very important that you pace yourself throughout this course. Don’t let lessons pile up near the end of your allotted time for this course, or you will not be able to learn the information well enough to pass the test.
All reading assignments must receive a “C” or better in order to receive a passing grade in this class. This means that even if you are missing one reading assignment and you have 90 percent of the total points possible, you will receive a failing grade. Therefore, plan to turn everything in! Any assignments that are not completed enough to receive a “C” grade will be returned to you and must be redone to receive credit for this class.
The good news is that about 60 percent of your grade is within your complete control! It should be easy for you to pass this course with a very good grade!
The Speedback assignments that contain ten multiple-choice questions are each worth 1 percent of your grade. Five of the lessons in this unit contain a lab assignment. The Speedback assignments for those five lessons will contain an additional five questions that are worth double. Thus, Speedback assignments for each of these five lessons will be worth 2 percent of your final grade.
The end-of-unit essay assignments are each worth 3 percent of your final grade.
The final exam is worth 23 percent of your final grade. You must pass the final exam to pass the class.
The breakdown is as follows:
19 reading assignments 38%
19 Speedback assignments 24%
5 essay assignments 15%
1 final exam 23%
Total Points 100%
Grading Scale
A 100–95% C 76–74%
A− 94–90% C− 73–70%
B+ 89–87% D+ 69–67%
B 86–84% D 66–64%
B− 83–80% D− 63–60%
C+ 79–77% E (fail) 59% or below
Course Duration
You have 1 year to complete this course, but if you need more than a year, you may purchase one 3-month extension.
Getting Help
To help you succeed in this course, Independent Study has a science tutor available, free of charge. If you think you could use a tutor’s help to give you further explanation or help with content-related issues as you go through this course, feel free to use the information below to contact your tutor.
Email: isbioltutor@byu.edu
Phone: 1-800-914-8931
Phone: 1-800-914-8931
Inappropriate Use of Course Content
All course materials (e.g., outlines, handouts, syllabi, exams, quizzes, media, lecture content, audio and video recordings, etc.) are proprietary. Students are prohibited from posting or selling any such course materials without the express written permission of BYU Independent Study. To do so is a violation of the Brigham Young University Honor Code.
Monday, July 28, 2014
AP Biology Section Two
Unit 1
Lesson 1-Atoms, Molecules, and Water
Read chapters 1 and 2 in textbook
Complete lesson 1 reading assignment
Watch lesson 1 video lecture
Complete video notes
Watch “Chemical Bonds: Covalent vs. Ionic,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Acid, Bases, and pH,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “Water-A Polar Molecule,” take Cornell Notes
Lesson 2-Organic Molecules
Read chapter 3 in textbook
Complete lesson 2 reading assignment
Watch lesson 2 video lecture
Complete video notes
Watch “The Molecules of Life,” take Cornell Notes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWf2jcznLsY&list=UUEik-U3T6u6JA0XiHLbNbOw&index=66&feature=plpp_video
Watch “Crash Course Macromolecules,” take Cornell Notes
Complete Essay 1 writing assignment but don’t submit, bring it to meeting 2
Unit 2
Lesson 4-Cells and How They Are Organized
Read chapters 4 and 5 in textbook
Complete lesson 4 reading assignment
Watch lesson 4 video lecture
Complete video notes
Watch “The Cell Membrane,” take Cornell Notes
Watch “A Tour of the Cell,” take Cornell Notes
Meeting 2-Monday, August 18 at 9:00 am
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