We are pleased to offer this high school Biology course with lab that starts with Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Biology text and enhances it with additional material and activities to give students a college-preparatory level course that will prepare them for success in upper-level science courses later in high school and beyond. Students will thoroughly study the basics of the five biological kingdoms as in a standard biology course, and then continue beyond this study to address other important topics such as new scientific discoveries, the history behind current scientific theories and the scientists who developed them, major events in the history of biology, the Latin and Greek roots of vocabulary words to help them understand and more easily memorize these important terms, and introductions to pertinent career fields. Classification, definition of life, features of the organisms in each kingdom, an introduction to biochemistry, cell structure and function, cellular reproduction, DNA, protein synthesis, cellular respiration, and genetics are just some of the topics that will be thoroughly explored. This engaging study will be enhanced with hands-on experiments designed to be effectively completed at home, allowing students to engage first-hand with the science they’re studying and giving the student a more effective and well-rounded Biology experience. Students will be required to complete approximately twenty lab activities of varying kind to fulfill the lab requirement for this course. The scope of these lab activities and experiments is broad, ranging from basic experiments using household materials, to online worksheets which use the internet to engage in the modern world of scientific research, to hands-on dissection of four specimens, to intricate microscope experiments (strongly recommended, but not required). This course will require the text
Exploring Creation with Biology, 2nd Edition, by Dr. Jay Wile, in which students will read 20-25 pages per module, enhanced by additional brief reading assignments provided by the instructor from other sources. In addition to this reading, the homework for each module will include completion of a module study guide to help students prepare for the module test, lab reports to be compiled in the student’s lab notebook, and an end-of-module test. Students will show their cumulative knowledge on two semester-end exams. A vital skill in any upper-level science course, students will be instructed in the process of writing, revising, and producing a formal lab report and guided through writing four formal lab reports of their own, for which the instructor will provide feedback and grade and return to the student for use in future portfolios. In some cases, sudents will be asked to "present" one of the approximately twenty labs once per semester through developing a power point presentation or some other creative media. During class, bi-weekly ungraded “quiz bowls” will help students get excited about what they’ve learned and review for the module tests by dividing into two teams for a friendly competition.
Target Grades: 8-10
Prerequisites: None.
Tuition: $466
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