AP Biology Unit 8 Ecology Activities Packet

The AP Biology* exam has been updated for the 2019-2020 school year. You can find the updated course description guide here. Make sure that you and your students are prepared for these changes. Save countless hours of research aligning your content to the new AP Biology* course outline by purchasing this resource. This resource includes activities to go along with the PowerPoint for Unit 8: Ecology, which you can find here.

What's included in this resource?

4 worksheets

Each worksheet includes questions that provoke critical thinking. Students are asked to analyze figures and data to draw conclusions. The questions are structured like AP* questions to help students feel prepared for the exam.

- Population Ecology

- Photoperiodism: a Plant's Response to Light

- Logistic and Exponential Growth Models

- Behavioral Ecology

How does it work?

These documents go along with the PowerPoint for Unit 8.

How much class time will this unit take?

The unit will take approximately eighteen to twenty-one 50-minute class periods. The pace of the unit will depend on the class, the number of activities, and the labs performed.

How can I implement this product into my class?

Each of these resources is designed to be flexible. The worksheets are great as in class practice or as homework assignments. In my AP classes, I will normally have students work with a partner to answer the questions and then we review them as a class.

Why should you purchase this resource from me?

This is a valid question! When I first started teaching AP Biology*, it was tough to say the least. The resources available to me were limited or not beneficial to my students. PowerPoints, especially, were the hardest resource to come by. So, I created this curriculum myself. I aligned it to the AP Biology* course and made it so that my students would actually benefit from the content. The year I started using this curriculum, the pass rate at my school went from an average of 55% to an average of 90%. I received so much positive feedback from my students as well! The best compliment I ever received was when two of my previous students came back to visit me during their freshmen year at college. They came to tell me that my curriculum was the reason they were excelling in their college biology class (and that they were still using my PowerPoints to study)!

Questions?

Please feel free to contact me directly with questions or concerns at gettingdownwithscience@gmail.com. I would love to address your questions or concerns so that you and your students are 100% satisfied with this resource.

Want to keep up with me, my classroom, and my resources?

Follow me on TPT, Instagram, and my newsletter

Please read the terms of use for this product below:

Thank you for purchasing this product and protecting the hard work that went into making it!

Licensing Terms:

This purchase grants you a limited individual license. This license is non-transferable, meaning it cannot be shared with other teachers or passed on to future teachers of the course. If there are staffing changes OR multiple teachers intend to use this resource, please contact me for discounted school or district-wide licensing at gettingdownwithscience@gmail.com

This license allows you to:

• reproduce this resource for your classroom or personal use
• buy additional licenses at a discounted rate for others to use this product
• review this product to recommend it to peers

This single user license does not allow:

• use by organizations, including:
• school districts 
• schools
• multiple teachers within a grade level
• transfers to another teacher

Copyright Terms:

• All rights to this resource are reserved.
• No portion of this product may be uploaded to the internet without prior written consent. This includes personal websites, classroom websites, or network drives, UNLESS access is restricted to students via password protection (l.e., Google Classroom, Blackboard, Canvas).

*AP® is a trademark registered by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.