This Pre-AP course integrates the major concepts and process skills of life sciences. It is grounded in the process of the scientific method, and related inquiry skills through a variety of hands-on laboratories. Content areas include ecology, biochemistry, cellular biology, genetics, evolution, and organismal biology. This course culminates in understandings of human anatomy and physiology, and real-world applications of biology to health and well-being. The approach to biology is one of guided reasoning based on observation and experimentation. An array of hands-on activities and laboratories that develop inquiry skills and conceptual understanding are incorporated into the class.