WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN
SAS and Understanding by Design Template
Name: Mr. Dan Schuller Date: 10/7 – 10/11/13
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Length of Lesson: 5 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, slash-and-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.
 IPAT
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.

Prehistoric Climate Lab
Investigation
 Case Study: Aldo Leopold
 Dendrology Scavenger Hunt
DAY
MINI LESSONS
NUMBER/DATE

Monday
DAY
Conference with other staff. 
(Counselors or
administrators)
 Conference with parent.
Tuesday DAY Wednesday DAY
Friday
Practice for the AP
Exam.
Review the major
Env. Laws passed
in the U.S.
Review the concepts
covered in Chapter 2.
Evaluate the
knowledge of the
concepts covered in
Chapter 2.
Create a low
impact meal.
Multiple Choice
Monday.
Review Major Env.
Laws.
Review for the test.
Chapter 2 Test.
Bring in sample
dishes for taste
testing.
Review Major Env.
Laws
Review for the
test.
Homework:
Test on Thursday.
Test on Thursday.
Lab
A – Fairchild
Challenge #1.
B – No Lab
PROCEDURES /
TECHNIQUES
To reach objectives
Review the major
Env. Laws passed
in the U.S.
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10/10
Chapter 2
Test
DAY
30
10/8
Chapter 2
OBJECTIVE(S) By the end of
the lesson each student will be
able to:
10/9
Fairchild
Challenge/
Chapter 2
Thursday
29
10/7
Chapter 2
TOPIC
31
Current events.
Work on the Fairchild
Challenge.
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Fairchild
Challenge
Turn in finished
challenge.
A – Fairchild Challenge
#1.
B – No Lab
A – Fairchild
Challenge #1.