WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN
SAS and Understanding by Design Template
Name: Mr. Dan Schuller Date: 10/1 – 10/5/12
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Length of Lesson: 4 days Content Area: AP Env. Science – Unit 2
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STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS
LESSON TOPIC:

Environmental History

Environmental Law
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
Students will understand:

Environmental and resource problems: causes and connections.

Is our present course sustainable?

Cultural Changes and the environment

Environmental History of the United States: The Tribal and
Frontier Eras, The Early Conservation Era (1832-1960), and The
Environmental Era (1960 – present day)

Case Study: Aldo Leopold and his Land Ethic

Environmental Law
VOCABULARY:
IPAT, environmental worldviews, environmental ethics, precautionary
approach, hunters-gatherers, nomadic, agricultural revolution, slashand-burn cultivation, shifting cultivation, industrial revolution,
information and globalization revolution, tribal era, frontier era,
frontier environmental worldview, conservation era, environmental era,
environmental movement, sagebrush rebellion, spaceship-earth
environmental worldview, anti-environmental movement, Henry David
Thoreau, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Hamilton, Rachel
Carson, Aldo Leopold, land ethics, Federal Water Pollution Control
Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act,
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act, Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Control Act, Endangered
Species Act, Soil Conservation Act, Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act.
BIG IDEAS:
(Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content) objectives, and
skill focus)
MODULE B—Continuity and Unity of Life
ASSESSMENT ANCHOR BIO.B.4 Ecology
PA Standard 4.8: Humans and their Environment
PA Standard 4.9: Environmental Laws and Regulations
SAI 1: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

What are the root causes of today’s environmental problems and how
are these causes connected?

Is our current course sustainable? How can we live more
sustainably?

What major effects have hunter-gatherer societies, agricultural
societies, and industrialized societies had on the environment?

What might be the environmental impact of the current information
and globalization revolution?

What are the major phases in the history of land an wildlife
conservation, public health , and environmental protection in the
United States?

What is Aldo Leopold’s land ethic?

What types of environmental policies exist, and how might they be
improved?
STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):
Students will be able to:
 Design and write a lab report.
 Use a dichotomous key to identify trees on the WHHS campus.
 Explain the components of environmental problems.
 Explain the major effects of cultural changes of the human society.
 Identify major environmental laws in U.S. History.
 Relate and discuss the major provisions of the laws.
 Explain the impact of Aldo Leopold and his Land Ethic.
STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
PERFORMANCE TASKS:
 Key vocabulary/Spotlights/Review Questions/Critical
Thinking.
 IPAT
 Tree Identification Lab
 Prehistoric Climate Lab Investigation
 Case Study: Aldo Leopold
OTHER EVIDENCE:
 Class participation
 Unit Exam
STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN
INSTRUCTIONAL
PROCEDURES:
 Power Point Notes Class
discussion
 Lab investigations
 Assignments (Class &
Home)
MINI LESSON:
 Tree Identification Lab.
MATERIALS AND
RESOURCES:
 Computer
 Computer projector
 Textbooks
 Folders
 Handouts
 Lab Materials
INTERVENTIONS:
 Redirection during class.
 1-to-1 assistance.
 Moving seat to a more
productive location.
 After class/school tutoring.
 Corrections on
assignment/exam.
 Extension to complete
assignment.
ASSIGNMENTS:
 Chapter Study Packet
 Lab write ups/reports
 Lab investigation
handouts.
 Case Studies
 AP Exam Practice:
Multiple Choice.
 AP Exam Practice: Free
Response.


IPAT
Prehistoric Climate Lab
Investigation
 Case Study: Aldo Leopold
 Dendrology Scavenger
Hunt
DAY
MINI LESSONS
NUMBER/DATE
TOPIC
OBJECTIVE(S) By the
end of the lesson each
student will be able to:
PROCEDURES /
TECHNIQUES
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
Monday
24
10/1
Chapter 1
Test
DAY
Tuesday
Conference with other staff.
(Counselors or
administrators)
Conference with parent.
DAY
Wednesday
DAY

Current events.
Thursday
Friday
25
10/2
Introduction
to Chapter 2.
26
10/3
Chapter 2
Evaluate the
knowledge of the
concepts covered
in Chapter 1.
Explain the major
effects of cultural
changes of the human
society
Explain the major effects
of cultural changes of the
human society
Use leaf margin
analysis to a theory
about global warming.
Use leaf margin
analysis to a theory
about global
warming.
Complete the
Chapter 1 Test.
Make-up tests.
Power point notes on
cultural changes.
Prehistoric Climate
Article “A Basin filled
with Time”
Prehistoric Climate
Article “A Basin
filled with Time”
Power points on Sites A
and B.
Power points on
Sites A and B.
A – Work on the
Prehistoric climate
Study.
B – No Lab
To reach objectives
Power point notes
on cultural changes.
Homework:
Fairchild Challenge
Fairchild Challenge
Fairchild Challenge
Lab
B – No Lab
A – Storybook on a
town through
history.
B – No Lab
27
10/4
Prehistoric
Climate
DAY
28
10/5
Prehistoric
Climate