Search results for: “AP”
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Case Study: Diaper Drama
A case study on the urinary system. Students learn about a baby with recurring urinary tract infections due to a duplicate ureter.
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Pedigree Analysis – AP Bio
Designed for biology students studying genetics. Determine the inheritance pattern for human disorders, like Tay-Sachs or Marfan Syndrome.
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Exploring Enzymes by Analyzing Graphics
Students examine several images related to enzymes and answer questions. Worksheet covers how enzymes act on substrates, how they lower the activation energy of a reaction, how they have optimal temperature and pH, and how they can be inhibited.
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Digestive Concept Map
Students use this concept map to reinforce their understanding of the digestive system and how structures within that system are related. The mouth is where food is chewed and mixed with saliva. Saliva contains enzymes that start to break down food. The esophagus is a muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach. The…
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Cellular Respiration Graphic Organizer
Students complete a graphic organizer that shows the process of cellular respiration.
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Cell Membrane Captions
Students examine images of transport across the cell membrane and identify key features such as the phospholipid bilayer, channel proteins, and receptors. Students then provide a title, such as “osmosis” and create a caption that describes the process being shown.
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Video Lessons Graphic Organizer
This lesson introduces students to the idea of watching videos at home, taking notes, and then coming to class with understanding and knowledge to apply to a classroom activity, like a lab or discussion. Students watch a 4.5 minute TED Ed video and complete a chart on the main ideas and details.
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Create a Concept Map of Biomolecules
This activity asks students to work in groups to create a concept map (graphic organizer) on the biological macromolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, fats, and nucleic acids. Students are given brief instructions and a sample map to get them started, but they are responsible for determining what details are important in each section.
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Penny Lab: Soap and Surface Tension
Most science classes begin the year with an exercise on the scientific method. It can be difficult to plan a short activity that will reinforce the main ideas of developing and testing a hypothesis. This lab is simple and doesn’t require much in the way of materials: pennies, water, and pipettes (and paper towels for…
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Cell Structures: A Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer (concept map) organizes the cell structures around three main parts of the eukaryotic cell: the nucleus, cytoplasm, and cell membrane.
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Graphing Hand Span and Height
This exercise illustrates the difference between bar graphs and scatter plots and walks students through the process of representing data they collect.
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Data Analysis and Interpreting Graphs
Students practice analyzing pie charts, scatter plots, and bar graphs in the basic worksheet that is designed to pair with lessons on the scientific method. Most beginning biology students (in high school) are fairly adept at interpreting basic information from graphs, though scatter plots are sometimes challenging for them. I usually do this type…
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Body Systems Graphic Organizer
Graphic of the body systems where students fill in blanks about structures within the organ system and their functions. This concept map can be used as a review or as a way to organize notes over the body systems.
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What Happened to Virtual Dissections?
Many of us may have used virtual dissection platforms to supplement classroom activities or provide make-up work for students who missed lab days. Unfortunately, many of the platforms for virtual dissections were created using flash animation. Web browsers no longer support flash, mainly because they create security risks. Viruses and malware can be delivered through…
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Concept Map on Blood
Students studying blood and the lymphatic students can get overwhelmed with the terminology used to describe blood and how blood is categorized. This project is designed to help students organize these difficult terms by creating a large concept map which groups related ideas together and connects them to other ideas – a concept map! …