An introduction to Environmental Science
Warm up :
What is environmental science?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW DOES ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
HELP US UNDERSTAND THE NATURAL
WORLD?
HS-ETS1-1.
Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative
criteria and constraints for solutions that
account for societal needs and wants.
Objectives :
- Understand what is environmental science and its importance.
- apply the concept of ecological footprints to determine how resource
use varies over among individuals, countries and over time periods.
Discussion :
Why is Environmental Science important?
Why is it an interdisciplinary science?
Key terms:
• Environment • Environmental Science • Natural Resources • Renewable Natural Resources • Non-renewable natural resource -
Key terms:
• Environment - includes all living and non-living things with which
organisms interact
• Environmental Science - a study how the natural world works, how our
environment affect us, and how we affect our environment
• Natural Resources - materials and energy sources found in nature that
humans need to survive
• Renewable Natural Resources - natural resources that are replenished over
a short period of time
• Non-renewable natural resource - natural resources that are formed more
slowly than we use them.
Canvas : pair work and class discussion
Read the article “Too many people, too little space”
Discuss with your partner and record the importance of
studying Environmental Science to help solve this problem.
Ecological footprint
Warm up : Write 3 things that you did in the last 24 hours
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: WHAT FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS?
HS-ETS1-1.
Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative
criteria and constraints for solutions that
account for societal needs and wants.
Objectives :
-
apply the concept of ecological footprints to determine how resource
use varies over among individuals, countries and over time periods.
Ecological footprint
Ecological footprint
From the video:
What is ecological footprint?
Book page 9.
Discussion : How do we measure ecological
footprint? Is a number of ecological footprint the
same for everyone? If not, why?
Assignment : Canvas (20 minutes)
Global Footprint Network: What is my Ecological Footprint?
Global Footprint Network: What is my Ecological Footprint?
- What is my Ecological Footprint Number?
- Do my friends have smaller or bigger number?
- Why is my number different from my friends?
Canvas : - Using QAR to generate two questions from a
video (Pair Work)
- Students will use generated questions to ask other
students.
Book
P.10
Is USA
“Ecological
Deficit or
Reserve?
(Negative or
Positive
Ecological
Deficit)
What are ways that we can lower our Ecological
Footprint?
Canvas : Exit Ticket