AP Environmental Science Syllabus
Friends Meeting School
“To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem.”
– Douglas P. Wheeler, EPA Journal. September-October 1990
Instructor: Peggy Mallette
Email: pmallette@friendsmeetingschool.org
Schedule: Monday – Friday 8:10 – 9:00 am
Course Overview:
AP Environmental Science (APES) is a rigorous class designed to be the equivalent of an
introductory environmental science course offered at the college level. The course material
draws upon a diversity of scientific disciplines such as biology, geology, environmental studies,
geography, physics and chemistry. FMS students enrolled in APES will be challenged to apply
scientific concepts and principles to the understanding of important environmental issues while
developing the necessary methodologies to collect and analyze environmental data, to assess the
ecological and human health risks associated with environmental problems, and to critically
examine alternative solutions for resolving or preventing them. The topics of study in APES
focus on water, energy, air and chemical cycles, soil and biome processes, population and land
development dynamics, human history and influences to our biome, community and ecosystem
processes, natural resource exploitation and impacts and environmental economics and policy.
While this course aims to adequately prepare students for the academic demands of a successful
collegiate science student, the material and methods presented in this course should also prepare
students to pass the APES exam in the spring.
Schedule:
This course meets for five fifty minutes periods a week. Students should expect one period per
week to focus on analyzing primary source documents including, but not limited to our textbook.
Typically, students should expect two periods a week of formal lectures conducted by means of
PowerPoint presentations punctuated with opportunities for class discussion, demonstrations,
participating in small-scale labs, viewing video clips, observing student presentations, etc. While
class notes and PowerPoint presentations will be posted on my Weebly site, students will be
expected to take notes, a practice that will no doubt aid college-bound students for whom
detailed note taking skills will become essential for academic success in the future.
Prerequisites:
Students must have successfully completed at least two years of a lab science and be enrolled in
Algebra II or above.
Textbook:
Miller, G. Tyler and Spoolman, Scott E. Living in the Environment. 14th ed. Glendale, CA:
Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning, 2007.
Required Materials:
Students need to keep their materials in an APES specific 3 ring binder. Students also need to
purchase a field notebook for their field observations. Please be prepared for class by bringing
appropriate materials needed for taking notes, making calculations and graphing data! A laptop
is not needed for this course.
Internet Resources:
Internet resources for APES include, but are not limited to the following sites.
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US Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
US Geological Service - http://www.usgs.org
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association - http://www.noaa.gov/
Global Issues - http://www.globalissues.org
World Resource Institute - http://www.wri.org/
APA - http://www.apa.org
The AP EXAM
Students are expected to take the AP Exam. All Students will be required to complete a final
exam for the course prior to the AP Exam. This may assist in preparation for the AP Exam as
well as determine the overall understanding and retention of course materials. The exam will
count as a final Unit Test Grade and will be calculated as part of the Final Term Grade. Students
will be given the opportunity to attend review and practice test-taking sessions during the Spring
Trimester. The AP Exam will consist of 100 MC questions and 4 Free Response Essay questions
in two 90-minute sessions. The test will cost approximately $85.00. Sign-ups for the test occur
in March.
Recommended Review Guide
The Princeton Review- Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam is available for purchase
through most bookstores as well as online for approximately $18.00. It is recommended for
students taking the AP TEST. There are several Study Guides in my classroom that will be
available first-come first-serve for checkout
Course Policies:
Ethics – All assignments submitted in fulfillment of the course requirements must be the
student’s own work. All assignments except those designated as “team projects” are meant to be
individual efforts. Project Team efforts are meant to be equal efforts of all team members.
Attendance - Students are expected to be in class for all regularly scheduled class periods. It is
the responsibility of the student to arrange with the instructor all matters related to student
absences in advance, whenever possible.
Homework - All work should be handed into the instructor at the beginning of the class on the
date on which it is due. Any group assignments should have the name of each team member, as
well as a table of contents.
Make-up Work – Students may email the instructor on or before the class period on days they are
absent to prevent their work being considered late. To allow for unexpected illnesses, students
have one day for every day they are absent to make up work. Allowances will be made on a case
by cases basis for long term illnesses.
Grading Policy:
Outlines/Homework
Classwork
Projects/Labs
Chapter Quizzes
Unit Tests
10%
10%
25%
20%
35%
(HW Assignments)
(Classwork, Activities, Video Summaries)
(Individual and Group Projects,)
(At least 1 per Unit- may be FRQ or MC)
(1 per Unit- MC and 2 FRQ, includes Final Exam)
Course Outline:
Unit
1. Introduction to Environmental
Science, The Living World
 Sustainability
 Tragedy of the Commons
 Environmental Worldviews
 Ecological Footprints
 Scientific processes
 Flow of energy
2. Ecosystems and Biodiveristy
 Ecosystems
 Biogeochemical Cycles
 Food Webs
3. Aquatic Biodiversity and Climate
 Climate, currents, and
atmosphere
 Seasons, solar intensity by
latitude
 Climatographs
 Aquatic biomes
4. Community Ecology
 Community structure
 Indicator species
 Keystone species
5. Population
 Species Interaction
 Population control
 Human population sizes and
distribution
 Distribution and fertility rates
 Growth rate and doubling time
 Demographic transitions
 Age structure diagrams
 Global economics
6. Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity,
Sustaining Biodiversity
 Endangered and threatened
species
 Biomagnification
 Conservation
 Formation and compositon of
soil
 Soil types
 Physical and chemical
properties
 Forestry
Lab/Activity
Reading
•Ch. 1
•Ch. 2
•Ch. 3
Duration
3 weeks
•Salinization Lab
•Food Webbing Activity
•Geologic Time Activity
•Biochemical Cycle Activity
•Carbon Cycle Game
• “Biome Project”: In groups of 3,
students research a specific biome and
create a full 10-12 minute multimedia
presentation for the class.
•Optional EcoColumn Project
•Climatograph Lab
•Mini-Plankton Lab
•Coral Reef Internet Activity
•Food Webbing Activity II
•Succession Internet Activity
•Ch. 4
•Ch. 5
3 weeks
•Ch. 6
•Ch. 7
2 weeks
Ch. 8
1 week
•The Power of Doubling Lab
•Human Population Dynamics Lab
• “The People Paradox”: video,
National Geographic
•Ch. 9
•Ch. 10
2 weeks
•Forestry practices internet activity
•Timber Lab
•Endagered Species Project
•Lorax Activity
•Exotic Species Poster
•Cane Toads: Video
•Ch. 11
•Ch. 12
3 weeks
•Tragedy of the Commons Lab
•How to graph your data activity
•“Calculating Your Ecological
Footprint”: use of web-based
program to determine personal and
class’ ecological footprint
•Exponential Growth Lab
•ESP lab: exploration of peudosceince
•Articles on
forestry practices
7. Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity, Food
and Soil Resources
 Endangered and threatened
species
 Biomagnification
 Fishing techniques
 Marine reserves
 Watersheds
 Formation and compositon of
soil
 Soil types
 Sustainable Agriculture
 Integrated Pest Management
8. Water Resources
 Water cycle
 Aquifers
 Water table
9. Geology
 Geologic time scale
 Plate tectonics
 Earthquakes and volcanoes
 Rock cycle
 Minerals
 Nonrenewable resource
10. Energy
 Energy forms, units and
conversions
 History of global energy use
 Fossil fuels (oil, coal)
 Nuclear energy
 Renewable energy
 Energy conservation
 Economic impacts, decisions
11. Introduction to Toxicology
 Risk Assessment
 Infectious diseases
 LD50
•Sea Turtle Lab
• “Troubled Waters”: video
•Soil Analysis Lab
•Soil Salinization Lab
•Pests and IPM internet research
activity
•Apple Orchard IPM Simulation
•Ch. 13
•Ch. 14
2 weeks
•Water use inventory
• “Tapped”: video
•Water quality testing lab
•Ch. 15
1 ½ weeks
•Starburst Rock Cycle Lab
•”Virtual Earthquake Activity”: use of
web read seismograms and locate
epicenters
•”Cookie Mining Lab”: mine a cookie
using specified tools. Budget,
topography, mining and reclamation.
•”Ring of Fire”: video
•Energy Alternatives Lab
•Energy Use Inventory
•”Revenge of the Electric Car”: video
•Home energy saver virtual activity
•Energy Conservation Lab
•Ch. 16
1 ½ weeks
•Ch. 17
•Ch. 18
3 weeks
•Toxics in your house scavenger hunt
• “Rx for survival”: video
•Infectious Disease Project
•LD50 Graphing Activity
•Black Worm Toxicology Lab
•Ch. 19
2 weeks
12. Air, Global Change
 Air pollution
 Smog
 Acid deposition
 Indoor air pollutants
 Clean Air Act and other laws
 Human health risks
 Stratospheric ozone and ozone
depletion
 Global warming
 Economic impacts
13. Water
 Water pollution
•“Air Pollution Lab”: test local air for
pollutants that are harmful to humans
and lead to global warming
•Acid Rain Seed Lab
•Global Warming Internet Activity
• “What’s Up with the Weather”:
video
•Ozone Lab
• “The One Degree Factor”: video
•Ch. 20
•Ch. 21
3 weeks
•Ground water contamination
simulation lab
•Drinking water quality lab
•Ch. 22
2 weeks
•Ch. 24
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Sources causes and effects
Surface and groundwater issues
Cultural eutrophication
Water purification
Sewage treatment
Human health risks
Clean Water Act and other laws
Solid waste disposal and
reduction
 Hazardous chemicals and
wastes
14. Sustainability
 Sustainable cities
 Urbanization and transportation
 Economics
 Value of natural capital
 Politics/Government
 Law
 Worldviews
 Education
•Solid waste inventory lab: How much
trash do we make?
•Solid Waste Prevention and
Management Lab
•Potential field trip to sewage
treatment plant
•Transportation Survey
•Design a mass transit upgrade for
Baltimore
• “A convenient truth”: Curibata Brasil
case study
• “The High Cost of Environmental
Growth”: video
Ch. 25
Ch. 26
Ch. 27
3 weeks
Contacting the College Board:
Additional information is available on-line at http://www.collegeboard.com/ap/students/envsci/index.html and
www.collegeboard.com . Please bookmark these sites and take advantage of this resource regularly
AP Environmental Science Parent Acknowledgement Sheet
Please read, sign and return this page only.
PARENT NOTICE
Please be aware that this course is an Advanced Placement Course. Students will take this
course with the intentions of taking an AP Exam in May to perhaps gain college credit upon
receipt of a passing grade of 3 or better out of 5. It is a very challenging course and your child
should expect daily reading and homework along with rigorous testing and expectations.
Regular attendance is necessary in order to remain current on the material presented. It is
important that you understand some field study activities will occur outside of the classroom.
Students are expected to participate in these laboratories. Please feel free to contact me regularly
in regard to their grades or with any questions you may have. Your email address will allow me
to contact you as well. I am available daily for after school assistance by appointment. The AP
Test date will occur between May 6 - 17th.
We have read the course syllabus. We understand the expectations of this coursework. If
questions arise, we will contact Peggy Mallette as soon as possible by email.
(pmallette@friendsmeetingschool.org).
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Comments:
Daily Schedule – Subject to change depending on weather and student progress
Date
Unit 1
9/2
9/3
9/4
9/5
Class guidelines, grading policy, syllabus.
Discussion on summer work – Due 9/5
exchange email
Show website for textbook and for class – show the web
quizzes they can take to review
Go over how to do outlines
Tragedy of the Commons LAB DUE – 9/8
Go over lab write-up
Pass out Textbooks
Selected readings from environmental science authors.
Work in pairs, class discussion on questions
“Out of Eden” – Guns, Germs and Steel video and
questions
Homework
Finish the
summer binder
Summer binder
Read Ch. 2 and
Begin Outline
Summer binder
SUMMER
PACKET DUE
Finish outline for
Ch. 2
Critical Thinking
#1-5
9/8
Go over how the APES exam is scored.
Practice peer grading of a free response
Graphing Activity
Chapter 2 powerpoint if there is time
9/9
Quiz chapter 2
Chapter 1 Discussion and powerpoint
9/10
Ecological Footprint Activity
9/11
Rule of 70 Worksheet
Exponential Growth Lab – Miller Companion lab book
QUIZ – CHAPTER 1
Jarred Diamond: Environmental Lessons from Past
Civilizations (1 page summary from page 8)
Cartoon Guide – Easter Island
9/12
Finish lab writeup
LAB DUE
Study for Quiz
on ch. 2
(review
questions)
Begin Reading
Chapter 1
Begin Outline of
Ch. 1
Do critical
thinking Q’s #1-5
Finish Chapter 1
outline
Critical Thinking
#6-8
Review
Questions Ch. 1
Begin Reading
and outlining Ch.
3
Do critical
9/15
Pseudoscience Discussion – ESP lab
9/16
Finish activities if needed
Chapter 3 Discussion/Notes
9/17
QUIZ – CHAPTER 3
Radioactive decay activity – “ionizing radiation pennium
sheet”
TEST Chapters 1 & 3
Peer grade FRQ essay question
9/18
Unit 2
9/19
Salinization Lab – Will take days to finish, due date for lab
write-up depending on when students obtain data
9/22
Ch. 4 Discussion and powerpoint
9/23
QUIZ – CHAPTER 4
FoodWebbing Activity
9/24
9/26
Geologic Time Activity
Biochemical Cycle activity computer lab
10/2
Cartoon Guide – Cycles
Chapter 5 Discussion and powerpoint
QUIZ – CHAPTER 5
I will be gone to field trip
Students play carbon cycle game
10/3
10/6
10/7
TEST Chapter 4/5 – peer grade FRQ essay question
Thinking Q’s #15
Finish Reading
and outlining Ch.
3
Project Question
#1
Chapter 3
Review
Questions (new
chapter 2)
Study for test
Salinization Lab
Questions #1-3
Begin Reading
and outlining
CH. 4
Critical Thinking
#1-5
Finish outlining
Ch. 4
Critical Thinking
#6-9
Review
Questions
Begin reading
and outlining ch.
5
Critical thinking
#1-3
Finish reading
and outlining Ch.
5
Critical Thinking
#4-7
Project Q #2
Review
Questions
STUDY – turn in
all questions and
both outlines
tomorrow
Read over
EcoColumn Lab
and bring 2 liter
soda bottles
Unit 3
10/8
10/9
HALF DAY
Assign Biome Project – Due 10/21
Video – What’s up with the weather
parts 1-3
Global Patterns related to climate worksheet
10/10
Set up EcoColumn Lab – DURING FLEX/LUNCH,
EXTRA CREDIT?
Computer modeling of climate and weather webquest
El Nino and La Nina article and questions
10/13
Climatograph lab
10/14
QUIZ – CHAPTER 6
10/15
Video – Blue Planet Coral Reefs
NO HS – PSATs
10/16
Mini-Plankton lab (Miller lab book)
10/21
Biomes DUE
10/22
Coral reef internet activity
collect ecocolumn data
QUIZ – CHAPTER 7
Video – Blue Planet Open Ocean
collect ecocolumn data
TEST CH. 6/7 – Peer grade FRQ essay question
Ch. 8 Community Ecology
Power Point Ch. 8 – community structure, indicator species,
keystone species
collect ecocolumn data
Food Webbing Activity II
10/23
10/24
Unit 4
10/27
10/28
Begin Reading
and Outlining
Ch. 6
Critical Thinking
#1-4
Project #1
Finish reading
and outlining Ch.
6
Critical Thinking
#5-6
Project #2
Chapter 6 review
Questions
Work on biome
project
Work on biome
project
Begin Reading
and outlining Ch.
7
Critical Thinking
#1-3
Finish Reading
and outlining
Chapter 7
Critical Thinking
#4-6
Review
Questions
Study
Begin Reading
and Outlining
Ch. 8 Critical
Thinking #1-4
10/29
Succession Internet Activity
10/30
Finish Succession Activity
collect ecocolumn data
QUIZ CH. 8
Review
Chapter 8 Test – Grade FRQ
collect ecocolumn data
10/31
week2
11/3
Unit 5
11/4
11/5
The power of doubling lab
11/6
Human Population Dynamics Activity
11/7
Age structure Activity
11/10
11/11
QUIZ Ch. 10
Video NOVA: World in Balance: The people paradox
Chapter 9 & 10 TEST
11/12
Unit 6
11/13
11/14
HALF DAY
Chapter 11 – Terrestrial Biodiversity Powerpoint
Assign endangered species project
Julia Butterfly Story
11/17
Forestry practices internet activity
11/18
Quiz – Chapter 11
QUIZ CH. 9
Cartoon guide – limiting factors
Finish Reading
and outlining ch.
8
Critical Thinking
#5-8
Project #1 & #4
Chapter 8
Review questions
Study
Begin reading
and outlining ch.
9
Critical thinking
#1-7
Lab
Begin reading
and outlining ch.
10
project Q #1
Finish Reading
and outlining Ch.
10
Critical Thinking
#1-6
Review
Questions
Study
Begin reading
and outlining ch.
11
Critical Thinking
#1-5
start project
Finish Reading
Ch. 11
Critical Thinking
#6-9
Project Question
#4
Read Forestry
articles
Begin Reading
Questions on selected readings
11/19
Timber lab
11/20
DUE – Endangered Species Project
Lorax Activity
Lorax & Exotic Species Poster
Quiz – Chapter 12
Work on Posters
CLIP: Cane Toads or Extinction Earth at Risk or Strange
Days on Planet Earth “Invaders”
TEST 11/12
11/21
11/24
11/25
11/2612/1
Unit 7
12/2
BREAK – END OF TI
12/3
Sea Turtle lab
12/4
QUIZ CH. 13
DVD – Strange days on planet earth “Troubled Waters”
12/5
Chapter 14 – use chapter 13 in new edition (includes
pesticides)
Soil analysis lab
Sustainable Agriculture Discussion and reading with
questions
12/8
12/9
Discussion/Notes on Marine and freshwater biodiversity
Orchard Floor Management reading and questions
and outlining Ch.
12
Critical Thinking
#1-5
Finish ch. 12
Critical Thinking
#6-8
project #2
Start Exotic
Species Poster
Poster
Study
Begin Reading
ch. 13
Critical Thinking
#1-5
Finish Reading
ch. 13
Critical Thinking
#6-8
Review
Questions
Begin Reading
15 ed. chapter 13
Critical Thinking
#1-5
Project #2
If you can’t visit
farms just
research them on
the internet
Ch. 13 new ed.
Critical Thinking
#8
Ch. 13 new ed.
Critical Thinking
#6, 7
Research one
major pest
species in MD
(insect, rodent,
etc) List
traditional
management
styles – mini
project
12/10
HALF DAY
12/11
12/12
Soil Salinization Lab
Integrated Pest Management Notes
Cartoon Guide
12/15
12/16
Pests and IPM internet research activity
Apple Orchard IPM simulation
12/17
QUIZ Chap. 13 new ed.
Dress Rehersal
1:30 Holiday Program and Dinner
TEST CHAPTERS 13/14
BREAK
12/18
12/19
Unit 8
1/5
1/6
Properties of water lab
1/7
Water Use inventory
1/8
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/tapped/
Questions to go along
NOTES – water cycle, aquifers, water table
Research one
major pest
species in MD
(insect, rodent,
etc) List
traditional
management
styles
Review
Questions
Study
SOMETHING
COULD BE
ADDED
DURING
BREAK
Finish lab
Begin Reading
and outlining ch.
15
Critical Thinking
#1-3
Bring copy of
water bill
Continue
Outlining
Chapter 15
Critical Thinking
#4-6
project #1
Finish outlining
chapter 15
Project Question
#2 – develop a
one page plan
1/9
1/12
1/13
1/14
Unit 9
1/15
Water quality testing lab
Stream quality not drinking quality
QUIZ CH. 15 ?
Threats to the World’s Water article and questions
Cartoon Guide pg. 184-188
Chapter 15 Test
HALF DAY
Notes on geological processes
Starburst Rock Cycle Lab
1/16
1/20
SKI TRIP
Virtual earthquake activity
1/21
1/22
1/23
1/26
MLK MFW 8:30
Cookie mining lab
Video: ring of fire
QUIZ Ch. 16?
video – mining natural resources
TEST Chapter 16
EcoColumn Write – up guidelines
1/27
Unit
10
1/28
Review questions
Begin Reading
Ch. 16
Critical Thinking
#2, 4
Finish Reading
Ch. 16
Critical Thinking
#1
Project #2
Finish Lab
Review questions
Study
Begin Reading
ch. 17
Critical Thinking
#1-4
Cartoon Guide Ch. 10
1/30
Discussion: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas resources and extraction
techniques
Molar CO2 emissions form fossil fuel (handout pg167-170)
or CO2 emissions graphing activity
What is coal/nuclear power handout & discussion
2/2
Nuclear power articles/questions/position response
2/3
2/4
QUIZ Ch. 17
Energy Calculations Intro Sheet
Energy Alternatives Lab (Miller Lab book)
2/5
Energy Alternatives Lab
1/29
Finish lab
Finish Molar
form
Finish Reading
and outlining Ch.
17
Critical Thinking
#5-8
Review
Questions
Finish
Calculations
Begin Reading
Ch. 18
Critical Thinking
#1-3
Finish Lab
2/6
Energy Use Inventory
2/9
2/10
Video: Revenge of the electric car
Home energy saver virtual activity
2/11
2/12
HALF DAY – Parent teacher conferences
11 am dress rehearsal
QUIZ Ch. 18
Energy Conservation Lab (Miller Book)
MEXICO!!!
Energy Conservation Lab (Miller Book)
M
TEST Ch. 17/18
M
QYLC
2/13
2/17
2/18
2/19
2/20
Unit
11
2/23
2/24
2/25
DEPENDING ON WHO IS AT SCHOOL,
ASSIGNMENTS MAY BE MOVED UP TO BE
COMPLETED WHILE I AM IN MEXICO
M
Intro to Toxicology, risk assessment, infectious diseases.
Toxics in your house scavenger hunt
http://teachers.sduhsd.net/bbodas/Toxics%20in%
20your%20house.htm
Video: Rx for survival
Begin Infection Disease Project
LD50 Graphing Activity
2/26
LD50 Graphing Activity
2/27
Project DUE
BRING
UTILITY BILL
Work on Ch. 18
outline
Critical Thinking
#4-8
Finish outline
Review
Questions
Begin Toxics In
Your House Hunt
Read and outline
Ch. 19
Thinking
critically #1-5
Read and outline:
supplement 22
&23 pg. s65-s67
in back of text
(in new edition)
Disease Project
Finish reading
and outline Ch.
19
Thinking
critically #7&8
Finish graphing
activity
3/2
3/3
3/4
3/5
Unit
12
3/9
3/10
3/11
3/12
3/13
3/16
3/17
3/18
Black Worm Toxicology LAB
Black Worm Toxicology LAB
Black Worm Toxicology LAB
SCIENCE FAIR
LAB DUE
TEST CH. 19
END OF T2
Air Pollution Lab
Air Pollution Lab
HALF DAY
Ch. 20 Air Pollution
Cartoon Guide to Environment; Chapter 13
Discussion/notes Atmospheric structure and composition,
outdoor air pollution, chemistry of photochemical smog
(COx, NOx, VOC’s)
Community Play
Acid Rain Seed Lab (May begin on 3/13 and continue
through 3/17, write up due 3/18)
Quiz Ch. 20
Ch. 21: Earth’s climate history/Greenhouse effect/
greenhouse gases discus
Global warming internet activity
3/19
Video Clip: “NOVA: Global Warming “What’s Up With
the Weather” parts 4 and 5
OZONE LAB
Ch. 19 Review
Questions
Give Particulate
Collectors to
students
Begin reading
and outlining
Ch. 20
Thinking
critically #1-4
Finish Lab
Continue
Reading and
outlining Ch. 20
Thinking
critically #5-7
Review questions
Begin reading
and outlining
Ch. 21 “Climate
Change”
Thinking
Critically #1-4
Continue reading
and outlining Ch.
21
Thinking
critically #5-8
3/20
OZONE LAB
Read article
Environmental
Science:
“Supporting
ozone
diplomacy”
Review
3/24
3/25
QUIZ CH. 21
DVD Strange Days on Planet Earth “The One Degree
Factor”
Test Chapters 20 & 21 Air Pollution & Global
atmospheric changes
Questions
Study
Begin Reading
and outlining ch.
22 “Water
Pollution”
Thinking
critically #1-4
Unit
13
3/26
3/27
Grade FRQ essay questions Ch. 20&21
Ch. 21 Water Pollution Discussion types and sources of
water pollution
Water quality criteria Ground water contamination
simulation Lab “Fruitvale”
Finish reading
and outlining ch.
22.
Thinking
critically #5
Project Q # 1 &3
(use internet to
research & Max
of one page for
#3)
Bring a Water
sample
4/7
BREAK
Visit a recycling center or something maybe
Water Quality Lab
4/8
4/9
HALF DAY
QUIZ CH. 22
Review
Questions
Read and outline
Ch. 24
Solid waste inventory Lab: How much trash do we make?
Thinking
Critically #1
{Research local
recycling
programs: answer
project
Q#2 (1 page
max)}
4/10
“YoreTown’s New Landfill” site evaluation activity
FIELD TRIP?
4/13
4/14
4/15
Unit
14
4/16
Miller Solid Waste Prevention and Management
FIELD TRIP?
QUIZ Ch. 23
VIDEO: TRASHED
TEST CH. 22/24
Hand out transportation study
Ch. 25 Discussion: Transportation and mass transit
Finish reading
and outlining Ch.
24 solid waste
management
Thinking
Critically #6 &
#7
Project Q #5
Review
Questions
STUDY
Work on
transportation
survey
Begin reading
and outlining
Ch. 25
Design e2 video & questions
EcoColumn Due Date Announcement
4/17
AP EXAM Review & Practice tests and practice FRQ’s
“A convenient truth” Curibata Brasil case study
AP EXAM Review & Practice tests and practice FRQ’s
10:30 am – pre-k – 4 plays
4/20
4/21
Transportation Surveys Due
? FIELD TRIP to Baltimore Harbor? MOVE TO AFTER
AP TEST?
Enviro. Science Article: Towards Sustainable
Development” (340-349)
Sustainable cities, urban redevelopment, smart gowth vs.
urban sprawl
Thinking
critically
#1-5
Finish reading
and outlining ch.
25 Sustainable
cities & smart
growth
Begin reading
and outlining ch.
26
Environmental
economics
Thinking
Critically #1-3
4/22
?ECO COLUMN DUE DATE?
All School MFW
Finish Reading
and Outlining
Ch. 26
Critically
#4&5
Project question
#2
Environmentally
sustainable
business flyer,
brochure [Design
and develop one]
4/23
4/24
Celebrate Science
Intro. to Ch. 26 Economics and Environment
Video: Endangered Planet “The High Cost of
Environmental Growth”
Grade FRQ’s 21&22
AP EXAM Practice Questions
4/27
Ch. 26 Economics and environment: full cost pricing &
external costs
Begin Reading
and outlining Ch.
27 Politics,
environment,
environmental
legislation
Thinking
Critically #2&3
Project Q #2
Finish reading
and outlining Ch.
25
Environmental taxes and fees / Pollution permit trading /
Sustainable economies
Enviro. Science Article ”Our Lady Fatima: Why political
questions are not all economic”
4/28
Optimization / Cost benefit analysis/ Economists views of
pollution control
Steady State economics article
Review
Questions
Ch. 27 Environmental Politics and Environmental Law
Environmental legislation & Environmental Policy
Video: Race to Save the Planet “ It Needs Political
Decisions”
Environmental Impact Reports
4/29
Review
APES REVIEW
STUDY
4/30
5/1
Unit
15
TEST CH. 25/26/27
APES REVIEW
AFTER EXAM BELOW
APES AP EXAM Reflections
Video: Monumental: “David Brower’s Fight For Wild
America”
or
National Geographic “Human Footprint”
Video Reflection essay
Aritcle Enviro. Science”In a time of crisis”
Inconvenient Truth DVD clip-->Ethics analysis of Global
Environmental Issues
Read chapter 28
Thinking
critically
questions #2, 4, 5
Aritcle Enviro.
Science
Ambssadors from
another time”
1 page summary
Ethical dilemma and the environment activity (Ethics card
situation analysis)
Go over Field Trip stuff. maybe a field study or something
neat. Merrill Center?
* The instructor reserves the right to alter the above schedule and assignments due to school restrictions
and/or new developments in environmental science.