Class Description Pre-AP Honors Biology

Pre-AP Honors Biology

2026 Summer (Online)

Class Description: In Pre-AP Biology, students engage in real-world data analysis and problem solving that sparks critical thinking about our living world. As students engage in grade-level content, they utilize the kind of scientific reasoning skills needed to analyze the natural world—and to succeed in future science and social science courses in high school and college.

Recommended Grades: 8-10 (students who have not taken the first year Biology)

Prerequisite: Completion of Middle School Science

Note: Lectures Only (no lab)

Suggested Course Materials

• A laptop, a Chromebook or a tablet
• Notebook

Recommended Textbook:

Campbell Biology: Concepts & Connections 9th Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0134653402

Neha Mathur

Mrs. Neha Mathur is an energetic and enthusiastic individual with eighteen years of teaching experience. She is skilled in designing science curricula targeted at meeting the needs of students with different abilities and backgrounds. After completing her Masters in biochemistry, she taught biotechnology at the graduate level for two years. After that she spend three years teaching students at the high school level and worked as a Research Associate at a Biotech firm.

Later she received her second master’s degree in education and has been teaching pre-AP biology, pre-AP chemistry, and AP Biology at private and public high schools in Texas and Louisiana. Currently, she is teaching pre-AP biology and SRD (Scientific Research and Development) at St. Johns School, Houston. She is also one of the moderators for the Science Olympiad team at the school.