Grade 11 DP ESS
Unit 1: Foundations of ESS
12 Lessons
Lesson
Week
Date
Week 1
Thursday
August 24th
(first class)
Intro to DP ESS
Monday
August 28th
Lesson #1:
Introduction to
Environmental
Value Systems
Week 2
Week 4
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Who am I?
Who are you?
What are our roles & responsibilities?
What will we do this year?
Lab safety contracts
What does success mean to you?
What are your goals for this year?
The 3 Pathways & Group 4 Sciences
Summer work handed in
Science Chat Stations
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Introduce ESS Big Questions (TPS) with rotation, then
ranking of questions by importance, personal, as a
pair, a quartet, octet and then as a class
Music, Culture & the Environment Assignment
Lesson #2: EVS’
in the Real
World
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Friday
September 1st
Lesson #3: Intro
to Systems &
Models
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What are systems?
Open/closed
Systems diagrams, inputs & outputs
Tuesday
September 5th
Lesson #4:
Systems &
Models Part 2
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Systems Models, analyze & make
Model analysis
Thursday
September 7th
Lesson #5: Intro
to Energy &
equilibria
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First & second laws of thermodynamics
Feedback loops
Examples: succession
Monday
September 11th
Lesson #6:
Analyzing
Energy &
Equilibria
QUIZ
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QUIZ
Resiliency in Systems
Human Impacts on resiliency
Wednesday
August 30th
Week 3
Details
Lorax/Truax
Case Studies (Deforestation)
Influences on EVS & history of environmentalism,
timeline etc.
Wednesday
September 13th
Week 5
Release/Extra
Help day
Lesson #7:
What is
Sustainability?
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Sustainability defined
Natural capital vs. natural income
Ecosystem services
Ecological footprints (EFs)
Environmental Indicators of Sustainability
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA)
Monday
September 18th
Lesson #8:
Environmental
Impact
Assessments
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What are EIAs?
Strengths & weaknesses
Examples to analyze
Connect to applications of sustainability
Wednesday
September 20th
Lesson #9:
Humans &
Pollution
Friday
September
22nd
Lesson #10:
Pollution Lab
Day
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What is a pollutant?
Point vs. non-point pollution
The story of DDT
Malaria & DDT case study
Groundwater simulation lab with bread
Clean up the Oil Spill lab (save for water unit)
Week Without Walls September 18th – 22nd (cancelled)
Review Day
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Tuesday
September 26th
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Week 6
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Students who got a 3 or less on the quiz must stay for
help
Others are released
Friday
September 15th
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Week 5
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Thursday September 28th & 29th No School Eid Al Mouloud
Unit Test!
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Monday
October 2nd
Wednesday
October 4th
Start Unit 2!
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