Biology

What will you be learning?

This course is divided into five units, designed to enable you to answer questions based on real-world phenomena:

1. Ecosystem Interactions & Dynamics - How do ecosystems work, and how can understanding them help us protect them?
2. Ecosystems: Matter and Energy - What causes fires in ecosystems to burn, and how should we manage them?
3. Inheritance & Variation of Traits - Who gets cancer and why? What can we do about it?
4. Natural Selection & Evolution of  Populations - How does urbanization affect nonhuman populations, and how can we minimize harmful effects?
5. Common Ancestry & Speciation - What will happen to Arctic bear populations as their environment changes?

Daily Agendas

Agendas will be posted for each day of class. Click the date in the calendar to view the full agenda. Parents may use this page to ensure that students are keeping up with their work. Students are expected to check the agenda and complete the assignments whenever they are absent. 

Syllabus