Biology

Welcome to Albert's Biology course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Biology course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Biology is organized by content themes and further broken down into topics. The content themes represent a unit of study and are shown below:

Each theme contains a range of specific topics. For example, here are some topics within Ecology.

Each topic contains two subtopics that categorize questions into their designated skill level types. The two subtopics used in Biology are below:

In addition to our practice guide, Biology includes diagnostic exams, topic quizzes, and simulations that include questions unique from those on our practice guide. Diagnostic exams are designed as "pre-tests" assessing prior knowledge and skill while topic quizzes are short review assessments over major ideas found within the themes. Simulations are virtual labs that have accompanying auto-graded and short-response questions.

Biology includes free-response questions in the form of classroom sample tasks. Classroom sample tasks are written response assignments that are rooted in real-world scenarios and assess both scientific content and skill.

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter, including the Next Generation Science Standards.

This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.

This course also includes Albert’s own Science Standards, which can also be used to search for content. The standards follow the format Albert BIO 1.A.1.

In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Albert’s Biology course includes three types of tags, content, question type, and skill. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as the content tag history, the question type tag application, or the skills tag graph. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level.

Biology uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.

We know that educators have different philosophies around calculator use in science coursework. We leave it to you to decide when calculator use is appropriate for Albert’s Biology questions.

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