AP Bio (ID)

I am in AP biology and for the past week we have been learning about cellular respiration. Before we started the chapter we had to read a couple of pages on our own and study some of the key terms for a vocabulary quiz. Also for this chapter and other chapters we answer objectives which are questions based on what we read in the chapter. This prepares us for what we are going to be discussing about in class.

But getting back to cellular respiration we are learning about the three stages that are responsible for the harvesting of energy from glucose. Which are glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation and the citric acid cycle, and electron transport and chemiosmosis. To understand the function and the way the stages work we draw the diagrams that are in the book and we write our own explanations for them. After drawing the diagrams and writing our own explanations for them, we have to read what we wrote out loud. I like doing this because I get a better understanding of what we are learning, but I don’t like the drawing aspect of it since I am not a good drawer. When I draw the diagrams it looks nothing like the diagrams in the book.

We are currently making a book out of constructing paper about cellular respiration and the three stages. We have to include diagrams and explanations of the diagrams in the book. We will use the book to study for an upcoming cellular respiration quiz.