Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Students practice recognizing relationships using worksheets.

Objective: To confirm the students' ability to identify degree of relationships among living things and to check that they can properly place organisms in the kingdom to which they belong based on their characteristics.

Activity: For this octant, students 1) complete a worksheet where they fill-in appropriate levels of organization to establish closeness of relationships among four different organisms, and 2) work on a small group activity which involves them placing a number of different organisms in the appropriate kingdoms based on structural features and characteristics.

Assessment: Quality of students' involvement in the activities: their success in completing the chart; their active participation in completing the activity.