AP BIO Summer Assignment

ORH AP BIO Summer Assignment 2012 - 2013

Instructors: Angela Burks [email protected] Jorgina Hall [email protected]

You have signed up to take AP Biology next year. Successful AP Biology students will tell you that this course requires dedication, commitment, and a passion for learning about biological organisms in depth. This is an appropriate course for students who have successfully completed Biology or Accelerated Biology with a good grade (A or B+). Chemistry is recommended but not required. The summer assignment below is a course requirement and will count as part of your 1st semester grade. Please e-mail me at the address given above if you have any questions. Here is your assignment checklist:

□ Check out a text book from the library before you go on summer break. BIOLOGY AP Edition, Campbell.

□ Assignment #1 - Read Chapter 1 in your text. Do #11, page 27. Sketch, label, and add written descriptions. Do this assignment on a sheet of paper that will fit onto a notebook page.

□ Assignment #2 – Biology Collection Project – see attached instructions.

□ Assignment #3 – Read Chapter 52 in your text. In complete sentences, answer the concept check questions at the end of each section 52.1, 52.2, 52.3, 52.4. Embed the question in your answer.

□ Purchase school supplies (11 x 9” spiral with at least 100 pages, pens, pencils, colored pencils, glue sticks, calculator).

Due dates: Assignments # 1 – first day of school July 25, 2012 Assignments #2, #3 and school supplies – Monday, July 30, 2012 AP BIO Summer Assignment 2012 - 2013 Assignment #2 Biology Collection Due: July 30, 2012

For this part of the summer assignment you will be familiarizing yourself with biology terms we will be using at different points throughout the year. On the next page is the list of terms.

1. Select 30 terms from the list.  Define 10 of the terms.  “Collect” 20 other items from this list of terms. When I say “collect”, I mean you should “collect that item by finding it and taking a photograph (digital or film). Your project will contain your photos and corresponding explanations. You do not need to find the exact item on the list, for example, if it is an internal part of an organism, but you must apply the term to the specimen and explain in words how this specimen represents the term. *if you do not have access to a camera please inform me immediately- inexpensive one time use film cameras are available in most grocery stores.

2. Example: If you choose the word “phloem”, you could submit a photograph you have taken of a plant leaf or stem and then explain in words what phloem is and specifically where phloem is in your specimen.

3. Original Photos Only: You cannot use an image from any publication or the Web. You must have taken the photograph yourself. The best way to prove that is to place an item in all of your photographs that only you could have added each time; something you might usually have on you like a pen, a coin, your cell phone or some other trinket. (It is the same idea as the traveling garden gnome or “flat Stanley”). Your photographs must also include a “date stamp”.

4. Natural Items Only: All of your items must be from something you have found in nature. Take a walk around your yard, neighborhood, and town. DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY! Research what the term means and in what organisms it can be found … and then go out and find it.

5. Team Work: You may work with other students in the class to complete this project, but each student must turn in his or her own original photographs with a unique set of terms chosen.

*Collection Project Grading Rubric on back.

AP Biology Collection Project Scoring Rubric Name: Due Date: ______Period: ______

Exceptional Satisfactory Needs Unsatisfactory Improvement Section Point Section Points Value Total 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point Project contains all of the required material.  10 terms are accurately defined.  20 “collected” Project contains items are Project contains Project contains most of the accurately some of the little of the Content required (x 2) described and required material. required material. identified and material. labeled within the photograph. Photographs include original personal object and is date stamped. Completely and neatly organized. Little or no Reader has no Mostly Somewhat attempt at difficulty finding organized. organized. Reader Organizatio organization. things. Reader has little may have a little Reader has (x 1) n Photograph of difficulty finding difficulty finding difficulty finding “collected” item things. things. things. is located alongside its explanation. Contains work that is of Contains work Contains work that Contains work that exceptional that is of is of somewhat is of limited quality. It goes acceptable acceptable quality. It meets Quality above and quality. It meets quality. It meets (x 1) few of the beyond, most of the some of the requirements. meeting all the requirements. requirements. requirements.

Subtotal

Point (x 4) Value Comments: Total Points 64 points possible