APES Unit 1 Calendar 2012
SUNDAY
MONDAY
8/27
No School
9/2
9/3
No School
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
8/28
Freshman First Day
8/29
Intro / Seating Charts
Overview of Class topics
Group assignments
Vocab. quiz list
Purpose for taking the class
Determine grading % for
class
Assign photo Journal
8/30
Review SS reading
Env. Sci. Video Clip
Define Env Sci
What are the “lenses” for
E.S.?
Top 10 env. Issues
4 major causes
Goals of APES [pg6]
HW – Read & photo journal
Ch 1,2& 3
Silent Spring [SS]
HW- An environmental
Checklist, Conservation
W/ partner Due 9/6
Read & photo journal
Ch 4&5 SS
9/4
Review SS Reading
Making env
decisions
“lenses”- Activity,
Debrief w/ notes
Sect 1-3
9/5
Review SS Reading
Watch your step case study
Sect 1-4
9/6
Review SS reading
Group work
Rev Ch 1
HW – Complete
activity questions
Read & photo journal
SS Ch 10 & 11
HW – Read & Photo journ
SS Ch 12 & 13
FRIDAY
8/31
Review SS reading
Vocab Quiz
1-2 Ecological footprint
Reading & case study
Calculate yours –
reflect
Tragedy of the
commons Lab
Video interview
HW – Complete
tragegy of the
Commons
Read & photo journ
SS Ch 6 &7
9/7
Review SS reading
Quiz Ch 1
Quiz Friday
HW – Read & Photo journ
SSCh 14 & 15
Study pgs 30A, 30B for
quiz
HW – Read & Photo
journ SS Ch 16 & 17
SS Photo journals Due
Sunday night before
12:01 am
Chapter 7, 14-1, 14-2,
18-1 Vocab terms due
Monday 9/10
SATURD
AY
9/1
9/9
**Committee
assignments
and
preliminary
meetings this
week at lunch
and after
school. Check
the postings
9/10
 Check Ch 1
notes
 Quiz Ch 1
 Conservation
presentations
 Rachel Carson
Clip
9/16
Eco-column
readings this
week.
9/17
 Geological
time line lab
Country
projects
assigned this
week
9/23
Eco-column
readings this
week
HW: Ch 7, 14
vocab due fri 9/12
& current event
due 9/12
HW – read Ch
14-1
9/11
 Global Lense
activity
 Conservation
presentations
HW – current event
due tomorrow &
$100,000 allocation
due 9/13
9/18
 Lecture 14-1
 Rock layer
identification
activity
HW – do preliminary
country research on
geological
characteristics of
country.
9/24
 Seasons, solar
intensity &
latitude
 Solar intensity
LAB
HW – read 3-1,
18-1
9/25
 Atmosphere
composition &
structure
 Briefing, coloring,
questions,
activity, notes
HW -
9/12
 Current events due
today
 Conservation
presentations
 Eco column projects
assigned
9/13
 Conservation
presentations
 Start building eco
columns
9/14
 CH vocab cards
due today

 Finish ecocolumns
9/15
9/20
 Earthquakes
 Briefing, activity, notes

 Current event due
today

HW –
Earthquake activity in your
country
9/21
 Unit 2 vocabulary
Quiz
 Volcanism ring of
fire activity
 Report on your
country geological
characteristics due
today
9/22
9/27
 Current event due
today
 Weather & climate
 Briefing, group work &
notes
9/28
Quiz on 9/17-9/27
lessons
HW- $100,000 allocation
due tomorrow & bring
ecocolumn materials
thursday
9/19
Minimum day – back to
school night
 Plate tectonics
 Brief , lab, notes

 Graham cracker lab
HW – finish lab questions
and conclusions
9/26
 Layers of the
atmosphere lab / activity
HW – read ch 7-2
Current event due
tomorrow
HW – study for quiz Friday
on 9/17-9/27 lessons
HW – read ch 7-1
HW – Reading on
Atmosphere and
coriolis effect
9/29
9/30
Eco-column
readings this
week
10/1
Lab data graphing
& conclusions
Presentations
Seasons video clip &
notes
HW – Current event,
country research,
study for quiz &
Supplement notes
10/7
Eco-column
readings this
week
10/2
Finish Climate notes
HW – Country research:
Climate and Seasons
(when), specific
atmospheric conditions
unique to country
Supplement notes
10/8
10/9
No School
Atmosphere ocean
interactions ENSO
Online animation &
worksheet
HW
Complete worksheet
10/3
Current Event due today
Finish Presentations
Atmosphere notes
10/4
Food Day!!
HW – Review and
complete notes, Study
for quiz Thursday
Eco columns
readings
Construct a
climatogram for your
country (will need
10-30 years climate
data for your
country)
10/10
Notes
Current Event due today
10/11
Global waters & Salt
water
[Ch 13]
Notes, video clip,
Altering oceans
video clips, nonpoint
ocean pollut.
HW- ocean pollution
activity 23
10/12
Quiz 15 m/c questions
10/18
Campus Trash Audit
Guest Speaker
10/19
Conclusion of Lab
Testing rocks for
composition
HW
Happy Bday Ms. Mo!!
10/14
Eco-column
readings this
week
10/15
Overview :
Freshwater [ch 13]
Notes
Worksheet
HW
10/16
Ocean circulation
[ch 7]
Video clip
Notes,
lab
10/17
Soil & rock cycle
[ch 20 & s7]
Notes, Group work
Rock cycle lab
10/5
Coriolis Effect
10/6
Quiz on Unit
Supplement notes due
today
10/13
Ocean pollution link
video
Water and Water
Pollution
HW- fish kill case study
Soil [ch 12]
Physical & chemical
properties of soil
lab
Lunch Time Test
Review Today
Lunchtime review
session for Exam next
Wed.
10/20
10/21
Eco-column
readings this
week
10/22
Soil Reading &
Questions
(supplemental
wksht), read book
pg 82
Chemical &
Mechanical
Weathering of
Rock Lab
10/23
Review Unit
overview in prep for
exam Fri
Rock cycle acitivity –
Sugar cube lab
10/24
Video clips, Notes on
Erosion [ch 12]
10/25
10/25
Unit 2 50mc Exam
10/26
10/28
Eco-column
readings this
week
10/29
Living World Unit
begins
10/30
Ecocolumn readings
Notes
10/31
11/1
11/2
11/3
1,3,4,7,8,10,11 – biodiversity video
notes
Endangered Species Process
Project
Ecosystem services & 4, 10 –
species diversity
4,5 – Ecological niches,
interactions among species,
keystone species , edge effects
7 – biomes
3 Food webs and trophic
levels, ecological
pyramids. – Ecosystem
structure, biological
populations and
communities
10,11 – Ecosystem
Services
ecological selection
11/4
Eco-column
readings this
week
HW – Vocab Ch 3,4,5
11/5
due fri & Vocab quiz fri
Guest speaker – More
about Trash Audit
FRQ outline due today
HW -
HW –
Bring in article on Hurricane
Sandy. & pre read it.
HW – Endangered species pkt
Video commercial due 11/13
Current event due today
Hurricane Sandy
Calculating species diversity
Collect species diversity data in
parking lot
Measuring biodiversity Lab
HW 11/6
11/7
11/8
1,3 – Photosynthesis and
Cellular Respiration
4 – Natural Selection, Evolution &
species movement,
3 – Biogeochemical cycles
Activity: Energy Transfer
in Living Organisms
1. Primary productivity
lab
2. Dissolved oxygen
lab – probeware
HW -
Activity: Evolution and Selection
Evidence for evolution
HW – FRQ outlines for Exam Fri
Eutrophication lab
effect of nitrogen on plant
growth
Nitrogen fixation in Action
(WARDS)
HW -
Biomes of North
America[POGIL]
4,19 – climate shifts
Succession [POGIL]
Vocab Ch 3, 4,5 due today
Vocab quiz today
endangered species pkt due
HW - FRQ outline due
monday
11/9
Unit 3 Exam Tuesday
The Living World Unit 3
Test
30 m/c + 1 FRQ
11/10
11/11
Eco-column
readings this
week
POPULATION
Unit 4
Eco-column
readings this
week
POPULATION
Unit 4
11/12
No School
Veterans day
11/13
The Living World
Unit 3 Test
30 m/c + 1 FRQ
Video Ads due today
11/14
Population Unit starts today
11/15
11/16
Guest Speaker
11/17
1/6
Eco-column readings
this week
1/7
Water Lecture p1 &
video
Water
Unit 5
HW – Dead zone
case study read &
answer questions
Ch 20 vocab cards
due fri 1/11 (8 pts)
HW – personal water
budget & inventory of
water use
1/13
Eco-column readings
this week
1/14
1/15
Water
Unit 5
Water Reclamation
Program
HW – Sewer science
reading & questions
HW – Sewer science
1/20
Eco-column readings
this week
1/8
Case study
discussion
Water lecture p2
1/10
Water pollution
Lecture & video
1/11
Water pollution
cause & effect
HW – Complete lab
questions. Lab books
due Friday 1/11.
HW – Water pollution
questions
1/16
Eco column lab write
up due today
1/17
Clicker Quiz 20
questions [10 vocab,
10 content]
Ch 20 vocab due
today
HW – Water FRQ
due Mon.
Eco column lab write
up due Wed. 1/16
1/18
Water unit
Conclusion
Water test after
school (1pm) 1/22
HW – Sewer Science
After school rev :
3-4:30 Earth
system & resources
1/21
No School
1/9
Aquarium Field Trip
Lab
After school t rev:
3-4:30 Living world
1/22
Water unit
Conclusion
Water Test 1pm
HW – sewer science
& Water FRQ due fri
1/18
After school rev.
3-4:30 Population
1/12
Saturday School 10
points for every hr of
attendance. FINALS
REVIEW
1/19
After school rev:
3-4:30 Water
Per 1,3,5
1/23
Finals Per 1,3,5
1/24
Finals Per 2,4,6
1/25
1/26
FINALS
1/27
1/28
Per 2,4,6
1/29
1/30
1/31
2/1
2/2
2/4
2/5
2/6
2/7
2/8
2/9
2/11
2/12
2/13
2/14
2/15
2/16
Land Unit 6
2/3
Land Unit 6
2/10
Land Unit 6