AP Environmental Science
Winter Break Extra Credit Assignments
NOTE: You make pick ONE of the following assignments to earn up to 10 points of extra credit.
Option 1
Pick a movie to watch from the list below and prepare a foldable brochure (3 panels see below) that
will highlight the movie’s point(s) about the environment. Assume you are a Hollywood Producer and
you want to “sell” this movie to AP Environmental Science class teachers to show to their classes. Your
brochure should be interesting, creative and informative.
Movie List:
 Surviving the Dust Bowl
 Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring
 Influenza 1918
 Never Cry Wolf
 My Father’s Garden
 Fierce Creatures
 Gorillas in the Mist
 A Civil Action
 Toxic
 Super Size Me
 Fire Down Below
 Silkwood
 Silver City
● Outbreak
● Erin Brockovich
● Winged Migration
● March of the Penguins
● Cane Toads
● Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
● Syriana
● On Deadly Ground
● The Day After Tomorrow
● Sahara
● China Syndrome
● The Candidate
● 2012
Movie Summary:
Movie Title
Staring…
Movie sequel:
(What was this movie about? Be (Describe how the sequel to this
specific on the environmental
movie might look.)
issues brought out in the movie.)
Date of Movie…
1 sentence advertisement about
the movie
(example below)
“A movie about justice and the
horrors of Nuclear Energy”
Movie Questions:
Movie Rating:
(list 3-5 questions about the
environment that one could
answer by watching the movie)
(5 stars the best ever, 1 star skip
it. Justify your reasoning
please.)
Option 2
APES Reading Log Assignment Guidelines:
Write down the title, author, publisher and date of the book.
As you read, you are going to keep a journal of what you read; including the dates and page
numbers, take notes of the facts, information and situations that you are reading about. Write
down the vocabulary and/or the information that you do not understand. Write any questions
you may develop as a result of your reading.
3. I encourage you to write any kind of response, positive, negative or otherwise, to the work you
are reading at the time. As you read, indicate the dates and page numbers or chapter that you
are responding to. Include new information that you have learned and what it means to you.
4. One-page summary- As you read, try to relate or connect the information to your life
personally. How did you feel about the book, was it a good read? Would you recommend it to
others? What information affected you the most? How do you think it will relate to this course?
How do you plan to follow up on what you have read?
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A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A Green History of the World by Clive Pointing
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
A Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
A Sand Country Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Atmosphere, Climate, and Change by Thomas Graedal and Paul Crutzen
Beyond Malthus by Lester Brown
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Death in the Marsh by Tom Harris
Deep Ecology by Bill Devall
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Earth in Mind by David Orr
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
Earth Under Siege by Richard P. Turco
Ecology, Economics, and Ethics: The Broken Circle by F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert
Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
Eco Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement by Rik Scarce
Encounter With the Archdruid by John McPhee
Green Delusions by Martin Lewis
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by Davis Brower and Steve Chapple
Life in Balance: Humanity and Biodiversity by Niles Eldredge
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Williams Rees
Our Stolen Future, by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
Road Ecology by Richard T. T. Forman (Editor), Daniel Sperling (Editor)
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Silent Springs by Rachel Carson
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
Sustainable Planet, a collection of essays on changing our ways
The Burning Season by Andrew Revkin
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson
The Hydrogen Economy* by Jeremy Rifkin
The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson
The Limits to Growth 2nd Edition by Donnella Meadows
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Plan B by Lester Brown
The Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrich
The Sixth Extinction : Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin
The Stork and The Plow by Paul Ehrich
Tinkering With Eden by Kim Todd
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs by Kathryn Phillips
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Wilderness Bill of Rights by William O. Douglas
Wolves of Isle Royale by Rolk Peterson