Biology by the Math Mom: guided reading questions for Campbell Biology

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Saturday, February 3, 2018

Guided Reading Questions and Videos for AP Biology

I've been meaning to put this together all year, but life has just been too busy to get it all together. Even though it's my third year teaching the new AP Biology curriculum, I've come to realize that I will never finish tweaking this course, and so will never just breeze through a year of teaching it. On the bright side, I do feel like each year I teach it a little better! Here are my links to guided reading questions and corresponding videos to supplement the reading in AP Biology. All of these links are in old blog posts, but I thought I might be easier to have all of the links in one post. Here is a link to a document that has all of these units in table form, which I like better. It just doesn't copy and paste well into blogger. Right now the chapter numbers correspond to the Campbell Biology 8th Ed., but next year we are switching to the 2nd Edition of Biology in Focus, so next year, I'll be changing the chapter numbers. I may change the questions some, but they should already match fairly well with Biology in Focus since I had chosen them based on what I saw in the Holtzclaw Test Prep review book for Campbell Biology and Biology in Focus. I love that Test Prep review book by the way!

Unit 8: Plants

Plant Form and Function

Chapters 36-39

Plant Control (Bozeman)

Unit 9: Ecology

Animal Behavior

Chapter 51 Questions

Tinbergen's Experiment

Ecology and the Biosphere

Chapter 52 Questions

Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery (Crash Course)

Population Ecology

Chapter 53 Questions

Human Population Growth (Crash Course)

Community Ecology

Chapter 54 Questions

Community Ecology: Feel the Love (Crash Course)

Ecological Succession: Change is Good (Crash Course)

Ecosystems and Energy

Chapter 55 Questions

Ecosystem Ecology (Crash Course)

The Water and Carbon Cycle (Crash Course)

The Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles (Crash Course)

Conservation Ecology and Global Change

Chapter 56 Questions

5 Human Impacts on the Environment (Crash Course)

Conservation and Restoration Ecology (Crash Course)

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Unit 9 Reading Guides--Ecology

We are coming up to our ecology unit soon, so I've been revising our guided reading notes for this next-to-the-last-unit for the year. We actually start this unit with animal behavior and I pull out the termites for us to experiment with. This unit also includes estimating population sizes--with a fun capture/recapture lab with "bean" organisms.

Here are the guided reading notes by chapter.

Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Chapter 52: An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere
Chapter 53: Population Ecology
Chapter 54: Community Ecology
Chapter 55: Ecosystems and Energy
Chapter 56: Conservation Ecology and Global Change

Friday, December 2, 2016

Unit 6 Guided Reading-Molecular Genetics

My AP Biology class will be finishing our Mendelian Genetics unit right before Christmas vacation. So, as soon as we return to school in January, we'll be diving into what I believe is the most intense unit in AP Biology. We also get to do the high-tech labs of bacterial transformation and electrophoresis. Fortunately there are several hands-on activities in addition to the labs to help make molecular genetics more concrete for students.

Here are the guided reading questions by chapter for this unit:

Chapter 16: The Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Chapter 17: Gene Expression-From Gene to Protein

Chapter 18: Regulation of Gene Expression

Chapter 19: Virus

Chapter 20: DNA Tools and Biotechnology

Chapter 21: Genomes and Their Evolution

Friday, November 11, 2016

Unit 5 Reading Guides--Mendelian Genetics

The Mitosis and Meiosis unit will actually get us to Christmas break. I've made some revisions to the guided reading questions for this two-chapter unit. Here are the Holzclaw guided reading questions pared down to fit within the new AP Biology framework.

Chapter 14 Mendel and the Gene Idea

Chapter 15 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance

Monday, October 31, 2016

Unit 4 Reading Guides-Mitosis and Meiosis

We're getting ready to start our Mitosis and Meiosis unit, so I've made some revisions to the guided reading questions for this two-chapter unit. Here are the Holzclaw guided reading questions pared down to fit within the new AP Biology framework.

Chapter 12: The Cell Cycle

Chapter 13: Meiosis and the Sexual Life Cycles

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

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.