AP® Biology

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Unleash your students potential with AP Biology

BIOZONE’s AP® Biology is the third edition of this popular resource. Now in full color and one comprehensive volume, it has been completely revised to address the 2020 AP® Biology CED. This title expertly balances breadth of content with depth of understanding, employing a wide variety of activities to develop the student’s skills in key science practices. In keeping with the approach of the new CED, AP® Biology deemphasizes the traditional approach of content coverage to focus on inquiry, critical thinking, and enduring understanding of key concepts. Clear presentation, a highly visual approach, and integration of relevant and engaging illustrative examples readies students for college level courses, developing the essential inquiry and reasoning skills they will need as 21st century scientists.

BIOZONE’s AP® Biology emphasizes the application of knowledge to understanding and analyzing new problems. It follows the CED’s structure, providing an easily-navigable program that comprehensively addresses the two essential components of the course framework: science practices and course content. Its data-driven approach and highly visual format encourage students to engage fully with the principles, ideas, and methodologies required to understand the natural world.

 

Features and benefits:

• A structure based on the Units and Topics outlined in the CED, with proportion of content allocated broadly according to the exam weighting outlined in the CED. The structure is progressive, with earlier foundational chapters providing the basis for understanding the material in later units.
• Learning objectives for each unit are drawn from the CED and aligned to the activities supporting those activities.
• Big ideas and Enduring Understandings spiral across all units, identified by an easy-to-use tab system, color-coded as in the CED and mapped out clearly in the book’s introduction. This tab system also identifies specific skills within each of the six science practices. A color-matched margin bullet helps teachers see where those skills are addressed.
• Specific activities designed to prepare students for the skills, procedures, and analyses required in their 13 mandatory investigations.
• A continued emphasis on the use of data-driven activities, a hallmark of BIOZONE’s earlier editions. These activities provide strong support for the development of the required skills and practices described in the CED.
• Personal Progress Checks, designed and written from first principles to address the specific question format of the AP Biology exam question types (multiple choice and Free Response).
• A dedicated final chapter covering each of the science practices and their associated skills. This provides an important supporting reference for students as they work through the units.
• A comprehensive glossary of common terms and a summary of mathematical formulas are included.
• Chapter introductions provide a summary of required content and skills, encapsulating the essential knowledge statements.
• Key questions provide the focus for each activity.
• Student Support for Investigations: Activities providing support for specific aspects of each of the 13 investigations are integrated in context throughout.Through inquiry and data analysis, students develop enduring understanding of key concepts in biology and an appreciation for the role of science in solving modern-day problems.
• Concept and science practice codes help students make important connections across the whole program.
• Personal progress checks (at the conclusion of each of the 8 units) provide opportunity for formative assessment and prepare students for their AP® exam.
  
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Additional resources available

BIOZONE WORLD: Digital subscriptions to this program are available via our new online platform: BIOZONE WORLD.  Access is available for trial by schools and districts upon request.

Resource Hub:  The BIOZONE Resource Hub is a FREE resource, available to both students and teachers. It offers a curated collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) specifically chosen to support the content of the worktext. Resources include videos, animations, games, 3D models, spreadsheets, and source material

TEACHER SUPPORT PRODUCTS 

BIOZONE offers a number of products designed to help teachers effectively deliver AP Biology. These include:

• • Teacher’s Edition contains:
    • Classroom Guide (see below)
    •  Model answers in place
    • Additional teacher coding

 

The Classroom Guide at the beginning of the Teacher’s Edition provides a guide to using BIOZONE’s resources. It includes strategies for teaching in a differentiated classroom, information about the assessment tools, practical investigations, and extended Teacher’s Notes.

Contents

• Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
• Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
• Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
• Units 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
• Units 5: Heredity
• Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
• Unit 7: Natural Selection
• Unit 8: Ecology
• Science Practices for Biology

BIOZONE’s AP Biology worktext is supported by the Teacher Toolkit, a suite of resources specifically developed to help plan and deliver an engaging program.

Resources available include:

• Teacher’s Edition (print): includes model answers, teacher coding and classroom Guide.
• Teacher access BIOZONE WORLD (digital): includes access to show/hide model answers, inbuilt presentation slides, 3D models, videos, and weblinks.
• Classroom Guide (free download PDF): explains the pedagogy and how to get the most from the features of the worktext. Includes information for differentiated instruction, assessment
• Presentation Slides (available in BIOZONE WORLD)
• Resource Hub (curated resources to support content delivery): access 3D models, videos, weblinks and more.
• Question Library: all activity questions in AP Biology are extracted as fully editable files.

Student support is available online in two ways:

• Digital Platform:  Student access to BIOZONE WORLD (digital) can be purchased – see the DIGITAL tab above.
• Resource Hub is available for print book users and features curated resources to support content delivery, including: 3D models, videos, curated OER weblinks and more.

BIOZONE WORLD

BIOZONE WORLD consolidates all of our digital resources into one powerful platform. Available for institutional purchase only, a minimum purchase of 1 class set is required. Integrations to LMS and rostering services are available. Teachers have everything they need to successfully deliver an engaging science course with access to a digital replica of the student editions, model answers, presentation slides, classroom guides, and all resource hub materials. See full details on BIOZONE WORLD here.

Student Access

Digital replica that displays an interactive version of the book:

• Students can view the entire book (as it appears in the print version).
• Students can enter answers online and submit them to their teacher.
• Digital resources for each activity can be directly accessed: 3D models, Presentation Slides, Curated OER videos, Weblinks

Teacher ONLY Access

All the functions the student has plus:

• Teacher has access to online model answers via display buttons.
• Teacher can assign activities as time-sensitive coursework to be submitted by students.
• Teacher can view, comment and grade student responses to questions.

Digital subscriptions to this program is available via our new online platform: BIOZONE WORLD.  Access is available for trial by schools and districts upon request.

Resource Hub: 

The BIOZONE Resource Hub is a FREE resource, available to both students and teachers. It offers a curated collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) specifically chosen to support the content of the worktext. Resources include videos, animations, games, 3D models, spreadsheets, and source material