UNIT	SKILLS	TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED	
Unit I  

Unity and Diversity Among Living Things	•	Identify life functions
•	Place living things in an organized manner
•	Explain the specific functions of cell organelles
•	Analyze organic compounds
•	Structural formula of organic compounds
•	Hydrolysis/synthesis	•	Written lab reports
•	Tests:
- multiple choice
- short answers	
Unit II  

Maintenance in Living
Things	•	Process of photosynthesis
•	Process of heterotrophic nutrition
•	Adaptations for nutrition in organisms
•	Explain the flow of nutrients through organisms
•	Process of respiration
•	Flow of gases
•	Removal of metabolic waste
•	Regulation - nerve control/endocrine system
•	Locomotion - advantages/adaptations	•	Written lab reports
•	Tests:
- multiple choice
- short answers	
Unit III  

Human Physiology	•	Trace food through the gastrointestinal tract
•	Explain what happens at each organ of the GI series
		to the food
•	Circulatory system - maintains homeostasis,
		disorders
•	The process of gas exchange
•	Excretory organs and their function, disorders
•	Nervous system - parts of, function disorders
•	Role of hormones	•	Written lab reports
•	Tests:
- multiple choice
- short answers
•	Computer programs	

UNIT	SKILLS	TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED     	
Unit IV  

Reproduction and Development	•	Comparison of mitotic division in plants and animals
•	Explain asexual reproduction
•	Stages of meiosis
•	Compare and contrast meiosis and mitosis
•	Interpret the germ layers 
•	Compare and contrast external and internal
      development
•	Male and female reproductive system
•	Menstrual cycle
•	Reproduction in flowing plants
•	Production of a seed	•	Written lab reports
•	Tests:
- multiple choice
•	Computer programs

	
Unit V  

Transmission of Traits
From Generation to
Generation	•	Major concepts - dominance/recessive,
		segregation/recombination
•	Genetic diagrams - cross between traits
•	Principles of heredity
•	Gene linkage and crossing-over
•	Sex determination
•	Mutations
•	Structure of DNA - Double Helix	•	Written lab reports
•	Tests:
- multiple choice
- short answers
	
Unit VI  

Evolution	•	Evidence for evolution
- theory - Lamark/Darwin
- comparative studies
•	Natural selection
•	Geographic isolation
•	Heterotrophic hypothesis	•	Written lab reports
•	Tests:
- multiple choice
- short answers

UNIT	SKILLS	TYPE OF ASSESSMENT USED     	
Unit VII  

Ecology	•	Ecosystems - factors (biotic, abiotic)
•	Nutritional relationships
•	Energy flow
•	Material cycles
•	Pyramid of biomass
•	Ecological succession of organisms
•	Biomes of the earth
•	Humans and the biosphere	•	Written lab reports
•	Tests:
- multiple choice