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