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Date
1/28
1/30
AP Environmental Science Spring 2015 Calendar
Mr. Bodas
Brian.Bodas@sduhsd.net
http://teachers.sduhsd.net/bbodas
(858)755-0125 x2210
Start of Second Semester
Intro to Ch. 15 Geologic Forces & Mineral Resources
Virtual Earthquake activity
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0rewrite%202010.pdf
Video clip: Earth revealed “earthquake” or “Ring of fire”
Ch. 15 Mining and mineral resources, environmental impacts of mineral resources
Mining techniques on line video clips (education portal)
Cookie Mining Lab
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Mining Practices Discussion->surface, subsurface, pit, strip mines, acid mine drainage
Video: Rock Cycle
Rock classification lab igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic rocks
MR.BODAS
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Homework
Begin Reading and outlining
Ch 15
Thinking critically #2&4
Finish reading and outlining
Ch 15
Read supplement 19 pg. S54
in back of text.
Thinking critically # 1
Project Q #2
Review questions Ch. 15
2/3
2/5
Finish rock classification lab as needed
Video: Ring of Fire
 Ch. 15 vocab review activity
Environmental Impacts of mining ( heavy metal contamination, acid drainage, mining
reclamation and remediation)
Video Clip: California’s natural mineral resources
Read Supplement #11 in
back of text pgs43-s45
and outline it!
Test Chapter 15 Mining and mineral resources
Chapter 15 Outline, and
Virtual Earthquake activity
should all be completed and
ready to hand in.
Intro. To non-renewable resources
Video: End of Suburbia & Collapse of the American Dream
Eco Column Announcements/ EcoColumn Lab write up guidelines
2/9
Chapter 16 Non-renewable energy resources
Cartoon Guide to EnvironChapter 10
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nergy%20doc.pdf
 Environmental Science: “Soft Energy Paths” pg. 119
Discussion Coal, Oil, Natural Gas resources and extraction techniques
 (Review Q’s 17.1-17.4)
Handout Molar CO2 emissions form fossil fuel (handout pg167-170) or CO2
emissions graphing activity
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ity%20(acrobat)2009.pdf
Your Cookie Mining Labs
are due.
Begin reading Ch. 16
Thinking critically #1-4
Work on Ch. 16 outline
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Nuclear Power & Nuclear waste-Fission and Fusion energy production
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2/11
E2 what is coal/nuclear power
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Review Q’s 16
Nuclear power articles/questions/position response
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g%20Response.pdf
Chapter 17Renewable energy resources
2/17
Holidays
2/13&
2/16
Energy Calculations Intro worksheet, common units, dimensional analysis
Molnar Solar absorption Lab pg. 175-178 (Handout)
MR.BODAS
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Finish reading and outlining
Ch. 16
Thinking critically #5-8
Molar CO2 emissions form
fossil fuel (handout pg167170). due
Begin Reading and outlining
ch. 17 Energy calculation
practice sheet
Thinking critically #1-3
Review questions ch. 17
Photovoltaic cells energy production article
Renewable energy sources discussionhydroelectric, wind, biomass energy, etc.
2/19
Energy Use Inventories (using your bills and virtual energy inventory)
Video: NOVA “Who killed the electric car”
Thinking critically #4-8
Bring a copy of gas and
electric bill!!!
Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology & demo
Finish Ch. 17 outline
Review questions Ch. 17
Home energy saver virtual
activity: http://hes.lbl.gov/
Biodiesel article Bring a copy of gas and electric bill!!!
2/23
Work on Ch. 17 outline
Discussion hydrogen production, geothermal energy, decentralization of power
supplies and living “off” the power grid
Video: Hydrogen Fuel cells or Solar Energy “Saved by the Sun”
Miller Lab Energy Conservation pg. 93-98 (Handout)
Test Ch. 16 & 17 Non-renewable and renewable energy resouces
2/25
Intro. To Chapter 18 Toxicology, risk assessment, infectious diseases
Toxicology intro. Activity
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0and%20Qs.pdf
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Finish and turn in energy
conservation lab from last
class as necessary.
Bring all your outlines and
text question to turn in.
Study for test!!!!
Toxics in your house scavenger hunt
http://teachers.sduhsd.net/bbodas/Toxics%20in%20your%20house.htm
2/27
Video: NOVA: “Meningitis: Killer Disease on Campus”or DVD clip Rx for
survival
Ch. 18 Risk assessment and management, toxicology
LD50 Graphing activity and questions
Begin infectious disease mini-project in computer lab (handout)
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s.pdf
Discussion dose response curves, biological pathogens, antibiotic resistance, risk
Read and outline Ch. 18
Thinking critically #1-5
Read and outline
supplement 22 &23 pg. s65s67 in back of text
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Progress
reports
Review Questions 18
LD 50 Lab & Toxicology California Black worms
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09.pdf
Environmental Science Article: “ Environmental Carcinogen and Hormone Mimics”
Discussion dose response curves, biological pathogens, antibiotic resistance, risk
assessment / Case studies TB, malaria, HIV
(Take home particulate pollution sampling dish)
Test Ch 18 Risk assessment, toxicology,
3/5
Airborne particulate pollution lab
Ch. 19 Air Pollution (Review Q’s)
3/9
Cartoon Guide to Environment; Chapter 13
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013%20air%20pollution.doc
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Finish reading and outline Ch.
18
Thinking critically #7&8
Turn in infectious disease
mini-project
Turn in Ch. 18 materialstext questions, outlines, etc.
Bring back
particulate pollution
samples
Begin reading and outlining
Ch. 19. list
Thinking critically #1-4
Discussion/notes Atmospheric structure and composition, outdoor air pollution,
chemistry of photochemical smog (COx, NOx, VOC’s)
Discussion indoor air pollutants and physiological effects, reducing indoor
pollutants
Continue Reading and
outlining Ch. 19
3/11
Radon Fact Sheet
Thinking critically #5-7
Late
Start
Acid deposition/Acid precipitation causes and chemistry
3/13
3/17
CAHSSE
3/19
Acid deposition lab (AP)
http://teachers.sduhsd.net/bbodas/APES%20acid%20deposition%20lab.p
df
Ch. 20Earth’s climate history/Greenhouse effect/ greenhouse gases discus
Review questions 20
Begin reading and outlining
Ch. 20 “Climate Change”
Molnar Global warming internet activity pg. 10 (handout)
Thinking Critically #1-4
Video Clip: “NOVA: Global Warming “What’s Up With the Weather” or Global
Warming “ The Science and the Signs”
Finish acid precipitation
lab as needed
Discussion global warming, rising sea levels?, greenhouse gas emission reduction
,etc.
Tropospheric Ozone Lab
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Review chemical reactions regarding stratospheric ozone, protection of ozone, ozone
depletion and cancer incidence correlation
DVD Strange Days on Planer Earth “The One Degree Factor”
Continue reading and
outlining Ch. 20
Thinking critically #5-8
Read article Environmental
Science: “Supporting ozone
diplomacy”
Test Chapters 19 & 20 Air Pollution & Global atmospheric changes
Study for Test Chapters
19 & 20 Hand in
homework questions /
outlinesTurn in ozone lab
Water Pollution Video “We all Live Downstream” or Strange Days on Planet
Earth “ Troubled Waters”
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Grade FRQ essay questions Ch. 19&20
Ch. 21 Water Pollution Discussion types and sources of water pollution
Water quality criteria Ground water contamination simulation Lab
“Fruitvale”
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n%20lab.pdf
Ch. 21 Review Questions
3/25
Discussion / notes ocean pollution and pollution reduction, sewage treatment systems
and Storm drain runoff
Drinking Water quality analysis lab (bring a tap or bottled water sample)
http://teachers.sduhsd.net/bbodas/Fruitvale%20groundwater%20pollution%20la
b.pdf
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Begin Reading and
outlining ch. 21 “Water
Poollution”
Thinking critically #1-4
Finish reading and outlining
ch. 21.
Thinking critically #5
Project Q # 1 &3 (use internet
to research & Max of one page
for #3)
(Bring a drinking water sample one per group
of 4 or 5 people)
(Bring a drinking water sample one per group of 4 or 5 people)
San Diego & California water quality issues
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3/27
3/31
Video: Recycling “Time and Time Again” / Article: buying recycled product
Review Questions 21
Solid waste inventory Lab How much trash do we make?
Discussion 3 R’s reduce, reuse, recycling, waste management
VideoWorld of Chemistry #26 “Waste management”
“YoreTown’s New Landfill” site evaluation activity
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Waste Management & hazardous waste / Case Studies dioxin, mercury, lead
Bioremediation and Phytoremediation
Molar Investigation #31 “Tires in the environment” (handout)
DVD”Trashed”
Read and outline Ch. 22
Thinking Critically #1
{Research local recycling
programs answer project
Q#2 (1 page max)}
Turn in drinking water lab!
Finish reading and outlining
Ch. 22 solid waste
management
Thinking Critically #6 & #7
Project Q #5
Miller solid Waste Prevention & Management Activity (handout)
Test ch 21 & 22 Water Pollution & Solid Waste management & hazardous waste
4/2
End of
Quarter
Intro. to Ch. 23 “Sustainable Cities” urbanization, sprawl, urban planning
 “Smart Growth” Internet Activity
 Assign Driving Survey & Transportations Roa 28.1 & 28.2 (handout) pg.
275
Bring all your questions and
outlines to turn in from Ch.
21 & 22
EcoColumn Due Date Announcement
Spring
Break
4/4-4/12
Spring Break
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Work on Driving Survey & Transportations Roa 28.1 & 28.2 (handout) pg.
275
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Work on transportation
survey
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Spring
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4/15
4/17
Ch. 23 Discussion Transportation and mass transit
 Design a mass transit upgrade for San Diego
 Review questions 23
 Design e2 video & questions
AP EXAM Review & Practice test s and practice FRQ’s
MR.BODAS
Room 29
Begin reading and outlining
Ch. 23
Thinking critically
#1-5
Finish driving
transportation survey
“A convenient truth” Curibata Brasil case study
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Driving Transportation Survey Results due!!!!
Enviro. Science Article Towards Sustainable Development” (340-349)
Sustainable cities, urban redevelopment, smart gowth vs. urban sprawl
 AP EXAM Review & Practice test s and practice FRQ’s
Finish reading and
outlining ch. 23 Sustainable
cities & smart growth
Intro. to Ch. 24 Economics and Environment
Video: Endangered Planet “The High Cost of Environmental Growth”
Begin reading and outlining
ch. 24 Environmental
economics
Review questions Ch 24
Thinking Critically #1-3
Driving Transportation
Survey Results due!!!!
Steady State Economic Article and questions
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AP EXAM Practice Questions
Ch. 24 Economics an d environment full cost pricing & external costs
4/21
CST
TESTING
Environmental taxes and fees / Pollution permit trading / Sustainable economies
Enviro. Science Article ”Our Lady Fatima: Why political questions are not all
economic”
Optimization / Cost benefit analysis/ Economists views of pollution control
Make sure to do your best on the STAR exams, as it figures into TPHS’s API
score, which colleges consider in terms of academic achievement, and college
acceptance. STAR scores also influence school funding! Leave a good legacy!!!!!!
4/23
CST
TESTING
Steady State economics article
Ch. 25 Environmental Politics and Environmental Law
Environmental legislation & Environmental Policy
Video Race to Save the Planet “ It Needs Political Decisions”
Environmental Impact Reports
Review Questions 25
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4/27
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AP EXAM Review & Practice tests and practice FRQ’s
Begin Environmental Legislation project
Environmental Legislation Project
AP EXAM Review & Practice test s and practice FRQ’s
Finish Reading and Outlining
Ch. 24
 Thinking Critically
#4&5
Project question #2
Environmentally sustainable
business flyer, brochure [Design
and develop one]
Begin Reading and outlining
Ch. 25 Politics, environment,
environmental legislation
Thinking Critically #2&3
Project Q #2
Turn in eco-friendly business
brochures
Finish reading and
outlining Ch. 25
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5/1
Test Ch. 23, 24,25
Sustainable cities and growth, Environmental
economics, and Politics and the environment (Environmental Legislation)
MR.BODAS
Room 29
Turn in packet materials for
Ch. 23, 24, 25
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AP EXAM Review
Practice tests and practice FRQ’s
Strategies and scoring of the exam / Doing problems without calculators.
Study for test Ch.
23,24,25
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AP EXAM Review
Practice tests and practice FRQ’s
Strategies and scoring of the exam
Work on practice FRQ’s
and practice tests
***Eco Column Time
5/4
Monday
2,4,6
day
5/5
APES AP EXAM Good Luck and Do Your Best!!! (8:00 am)
Get a good night’s sleep!
APES AP EXAM Reflections
Video Monumental: “David Bower’s Fight For Wild America” or
National Geographic “Human Footprint”
Video Reflection essay
***Eco Column Time
AP Exam recovery, eat well,
go to sleep, and congratulate
yourself for a job well done!!!
Field Studies Permission slip forms and discussion of
alternative assignments!!!
5/7
Ch. 26 Environmental Ethics
Read chapter 26
Video Environmental Ethics and personal case studies (take notes)
Thinking critically questions #
2, 4, 5
Video Reflection Essay (choose three individuals from the video and write
an essay addressing their personal sacrifice, motivation, environmental
views, etc.)
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5/11
“Walkerville” ethics activity
Black day in Bhopal/Environmental decision making
Aritcle Environmental Science ”In a time of crisis”
Inconvenient Truth DVD clip-->Ethics analysis of Global Environmental
Issues
Aritcle Enviro. Science
Ambssadors from another
time”
Ethical dilemma and the environment activity (Ethics card situation analysis)
1 page summary
Make sure you have all your permission slip forms signed
5/13
Progress
reports
Introduction to Chaparral Study (Data collection, group and individual
responsibilities, group hypotheses formation, statistical significance, experimental
design)Read over chaparral and coastal sage scrub community info
Plant Samples and Identification (out in the local canyon, dress appropriately)
Chaparral and coastal sage scrub community info.
Make sure you have all your permission slip forms signed
***Eco Column Group Time
Turn in ch 26 packet
(the outline for 26 is
EC)
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5/15
Time to finish Chaparral plant ID’s
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Complete plant sketches
Finish mounting samples
Plant identification
Plant adaptations
MR.BODAS
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TURN IN YOUR
TEXTBOOKS See online
PDF if you do not have the
handout!!!!
***Eco Column Group time
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5/19
Late
Start
Insects of the coastal sage scrub and chaparral field activity here at TPHS in the
local canyon. Be prepared to be outside, and wear shoes!!!!
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5/21
Eco Column Group lab write up Due …submit
through turnitin.com
Collection, identification, adaptations, fundamental niche, relation of insects
to plant and animal diversity in local ecological systems
Chaparral study/ field work Location TBA (Likely area on west side of I-5 near
Mango Drive or potentially in Encinitas) If you do not show up for this you qualify
for the alternative assignment research paper!!
Make sure I have all your permission slips, and insurance forms, otherwise, you
cannot attend the field study, and will be assigned a research paper in lieu of
participating in inter tidal field studies.
5/26
5/25 is a
holiday
5/28
Work on chaparral field study in class with your group members
Chaparral field study due (no late papers!!!!)
Chaparral field studies in
class work.
TURN IN YOUR
TEXTBOOKS
EcoColumn Due
date…submit
through
turnitin.com
Make sure you have all
your permission slip
forms signed (see APES
website for forms)
Work on chaparral field
study in class with your
group members
Hand in chaparral
plant field study
Begin Intertidal Diversity Lab (in class)
•Review characteristics and major phylogenetic traits of common tide pool organisms
in California.
6/1
Finish Intertidal Diversity Lab (in class)
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Review characteristics and major phylogenetic traits of common tide pool
organisms in California.
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Video Intertidal ecology and marine invertebrates
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Mini Quiz on marine Invertebrate phyla
Bring inter tidal diversity
lab materials from last
class.
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Intertidal Community field Study Meet at Tide Park in
Solana Beach. (periods one and three toghether!!!!!)
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Try to be there early so I can let you out in time to get back to your next
period at TPHS.
Dress appropriately, your feet will get wet!!!!
Quadrat studies in researchteams!
Make sure I have all your permission slips, and insurance forms, otherwise, you
cannot attend the field study, and will be assigned a research paper in lieu of
participating in inter tidal field studies.
MR.BODAS
Room 29
Make sure you read over
the lab and you know
what you are supposed to
do in terms of lab
procedure.
If you don’t have the
handout check the PDF
file on line.
Work on tide pool diversity study with your group members at field site!!!
6/5
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Bring all your tide pool data to work with your group
Work on Intertidal community study/Shannon Diversity Calculations
Turn in Intertidal community field study lab after
working in class!!!!!
6/9
Single
period
day
APES Video and refection (Video of choice- from selected environmental videos)
Last day for seniors/senior check out day (make sure I sign your form)
Goodbye and Good Luck!!!
Have a great summer!!!
6/10 FN
Per 1 & 5
APES Service Learning Day on Campus for Juniors and underclass
Xeriscaping gardening activity
Have a great summer!!!
6/11 FN
Per 3 & 4
APES Service Learning Day on Campus for Juniors and underclass
Xeriscaping gardening activity
Have a great summer!!!
6/12 FN
per 2 & 6
APES Service Learning Day on Campus for Juniors and underclass
Have a great summer!!!
End of Semester
Turn in Intertidal
community field study
lab!!!!!
TURN IN YOUR
TEXTBOOKS if you have
not already!!! Bring your
book to class!!