Textbook

=As you have discovered, there is NO TEXTBOOK for Biology for the 2010-2011 school year. This decision has been made for a number of reasons:=

4) Most textbooks are organized into very small discrete topics, whereas the biology curriculum at ARHS is organized into over-arching Essential Themes and Questions.
===5) Most textbooks put the primary focus on understanding content, whereas at ARHS we believe that the focus in biology education should be on developing skills and critical thinking ability about the content===

In order to supplement the fact that we will be using no textbook, you will be provided with a variety of additional sources of content.
Your teacher and your class notes should be your primary source of the most important content and skills for biology. You will receive many important handouts in class and on this website that you will need to save and use for review. Additionally, we are providing you below with a link to a free biology textbook that is available to you online. It is published with a Creative Commons license, which means that it can be shared and viewed online as long is it is attributed to its creator which is the [|CK-12 Foundation].

Online Biology Book
If you are interested, you may also download the entire book as a PDF. It is about 78 MB in size. Once you have clicked on the link above, you will see a download button in the upper right corner. You can download the PDF and print pages from it if you chose. Be careful not to print the entire book, it is around 800 pages!!