DATE
CHAPTER
ACTIVITIES/LAB
Week 1August 25th
CH 1- Introduction
To Environmental
Science
Ch. 3 Scientific
principals
Assess previous knowledge &
Introductions
Commons Lab
ASSIGNMENTS (AP
only)
Book Report on
summer reading and
Ch 1(Extra credit)
Intro Quiz (1+3)
Ch 4 (ENERGY:
Trophic Pyramids and
Food webs)
Ch 4 con’t (MATTER:
nutrient cycles)
Introduction to Ecosystem
project
Topic due: Begin
research
Week
Sept.
Week
Sept.
2- of
29th
3- of
6th
Week 4- of
Sept. 12th
Week 5- of
Sept 19th
Week 6- of
Sept 26th
CNN VIDEO clip-intro
♫ Ziggy Marley- Dragonfly
♫ Blackalicious- Chemical Calisthenics
CNN VIDEO: Pfisteria (V2)
♫ Harry Nilson- water
jigsaw
Ch. 5- (EVOLUTION:
niches & adaptations)
Music/ Video
5 bibliography
sources due- MLA
♫ Ani Difranco-Evolve
VIDEO: Cane Toads
Ch. 6 - (CLIMATE and
biomes) GEOLOGY
Ch. 9.1-3 +9.6
Ch 7 (INTERACTIONS
and successions)
Oreo cookie geology
Website lessons
[Harvest Festival]
Half of content rough
draft due
♫ Indea Arie- Nature
(No school Monday)
Ch. 8 Population
First Quarter Ends
Eagle Lab
[BIONEERS CONFERENCE]
Ecology Test
♫ Jack Johnson- Traffic in the Sky
Project presentations MonThursday
Ecosystem project is
due Monday 17th
Ch. 11 Human
Population
Population Debate
Human Demographic pyramids
Demographic Lab
Reflection
VIDEO: The population Bomb
Week 11of Nov. 1st
Ch 10 Toxicology
LD50 calculations
Reflection
Tox+ Pop Quiz
♫ Tracy Chapman- Rape of the World
Week 12of Nov. 7th
Week 13of Nov. 14th
Ch. 9.7  9.9 Soils
Risk assessment
Canoes in Sloughs field tripLas Galinas Creek 9-2: $35.00
Soil Lab
Debate: Foods
Design your own lab: Salinity’s
affect of seed germination
Prepare Debate
materials
Week 7- of
Oct. 3rd
Week 8- of
Oct. 10th
Week 9- of
Oct. 17th
Week 10of Oct. 24th
Ch. 16 Food and
Agriculture
VIDEO: convection currents clip
CNN VID: sprawl America
♫ Ben Harper- With My Own 2 Hands
CNN VID 2: Asbestos
♫ Woody Guthrie- This Land is Your
Land
VIDEO: Land of Plenty Land of Want
Week 14of Nov.21st
Ag. Con’t
Week 15of Nov 28th
Week 16Dec 5th
Dec- 11th
Dec 18th
Catch up?
Week 17of Jan. 3rd
Week 18of Jan. 9th
Ranch/Farm/Aquaculture
FieldTrip $6.00
THANKSGIVING
Garden
Reflection
Review
Review
YBYN on Mon 12th
CHRISTMAS
BREAK
EXAMS
CHRISTMAS BREAK
EXAMS
Ch. 2 Economics,
Politics and
worldviews
Ch. 14 WATER
Ecological footprint
http://www.earthday.net/footprin
t/index.asp
Creek restoration
THANKSGIVING
♫ Joni Mitchell- River
None!
♫ Ani Difranco- Up Up up up up up
VIDEO: Escape from Affluenza
Design your own lab
Water testing
♫ Marlo Thomas- My Pond
CNN VID3- MTBE concerns
VIDEO: Water wars
Week 19of Jan. 17th
WATER
Week 20of Jan. 24th
Week 21of Jan.30th
# 22- of
Feb. 6th
# 23- of
Feb. 14th
Feb 18th26th
# 24- of
Feb. 27th
Field trip to water treatment
plant?
Prepare debate
♫ Tracy Chapman- I’m Ready
Extra credit: EPA
tests in creek
VIDEO: Cadillac Desert
WATER
DEBATE: Hetch-hetchy
Reflection
Quiz
♫ Woody Guthrie- Grand Coulee Dam
CNN VID3 –Lost Beneath the Lake
Ch. 12 AIR Pollution
(Spirit Week)
Particulate plates
Ch. 13 Global climate
change
Ozone indication strips
Air con’t
Global warming audit
Reflection
Quiz
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
Ch 9.4-9.5 Mining &
Ch. 19 nonrenewable
resources
Cookie mining lab
Reflection
♫ Jackopierce- Someday You’ll
Understand
CNN VID1- Mexico Smog Problems
CNN VID2- Diminish Ozone
VIDEO:OzoneTrouble
CNN VID3- China Enviro. Effects
Review animations
♫ Gillian Welch- Miner’s refrain
# 25- of
March 6th
# 26- of
March 13th
# 27- of
March 20th
# 28- of
March 28th
April 3rd- 7th
# 29- of
April 10th
April 14th23rd
# 30- of
April 17th
#31- of
April 24th
Ch. 19 con’t & 20
ENERGY renewable
and non-renewable
Energy con’t
Energy audit
Ch.15 WASTE &
Environmental Justice
Need to save a
PG&E bill to do a
home analysis
Reflection
♫ Coon Creek Girls- L&M Don’t Stop
Here anymore
Recyclable? jigsaw
Research methods
♫ Tracy Chapman- New Beginning
CNN VID3- Yukon River
Waste Con’t
Trip to the recycling center
Reflection
Quiz
Marine Ecology on
the Sea of Cortez?
SPRING DISCOVERY
WEEK
Ch. 18
BIODIVERSITY
Poster child
Tag and recapture lab
Reflection
SPRING BREAK
Studying for AP tests and
relaxing
SPRING BREAK
Ch. 17 MANAGING
resources: Ranching
Lessons of Kaibab Lab
Resources con’t:
forestry and national
parks
EARTH DAY -28th
Reflection
Quiz
Review
Intro to Action Project
Begin Action Projects
YBYN
Review + Study
#32 May 1st
Week 33of May 8th
of May 15th
of May 22nd
of May 30th
June 5th
(AP EXAM 9th)
(MLK DAY)
EXAMS
Energy presentations- power
point?
Action projects
Action projects
Action Project presentations
EXAMS
VIDEO: Energy efficient home
♫ Jack Johnson- The Horizon Has
Been Defeated
Studying for AP tests and relaxing
VIDEO: Seas of Grass
VIDEO: Forest Wars
CNN VID2 Brazil ecotourism
Your final 10th
Reflection
Action project Due
none in APES
VIDEO: Baraka