Unit 10 Reading Guides-Human Form and Function

The last set of guided reading questions has been updated and is ready to go. The end of the year is in sight. I'm excited, since this year we'll actually finish the AP Bio curriculum by the exam. This means we get to do a fun (in a morbid way) Ebola unit for the last three weeks of the year. Anyway, for the human unit we focus on the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems and embryonic development. I'm going to try the Pom-Pom Potential activity from Learn Genetics Utah and possibly Jumpin The Gap. Then we'll look at the Nerve Cell Communication activity from the Life Sciences Learning Center of the University of Rochester. We also do a fun lab looking at circulation in goldfish tails and the effect of epinephrine on the circulation. Still looking for a good immune system lab or activity.

Chapter 40 Guided Reading-Animal Form and Function
Chapter 43 Guided Reading-The Immune System
Chapter 45 Guided Reading-The Endocrine System
Chapter 46 Guided Reading-Reproduction
Chapter 47 Guided Reading-Embryonic Development
Chapter 48 Guided Reading-Neurons, Synapses, and Signaling
Chapter 49 Guided Reading-Nervous System

Now that I've finished updating these reading guides, I'm hoping to make a page that includes all of these guides...soon.

Guided Reading Questions

I like for my students to have guided reading questions to help focus their attention on the most important parts of the chapters as they read them.  The Holtzclaws have written guided reading questions for the 8th edition of Campbell's Biology that are readily available online, but the questions cover the whole chapter.  They are extensive, and for all the work that needs to be done in AP Biology, they can be overwhelming.  Biology Junction is one place that has them all.

I wanted those questions, but only the ones that directly pertained to the new AP Biology curriculum framework.  In class, we used the Pearson Education Test Prep Series for AP Biology (also by the Holtzclaws), which was written for the 10th Edition Campbell Biology and the 1st Edition Biology in Focus as a secondary text.  I personally used it as a guide to know which guided reading questions to keep and which to eliminate.  These guided reading questions should work for any editions of Campbell Biology and even Biology in Focus (although the chapter numbers will be different).

Below are links to the chapters in my first unit of instruction on Biochemistry.

Chapter 2: The Chemical Context of Life
Chapter 3: Water
Chapter 4: Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
Chapter 5: Macromolecules
Chapter 8: Enzymes (partial)

I'm still working on tweaking the other units, but I'll post them as they are finalized.