AP Environmental Science Assignments

Introduction to Environmental Science

8/29-9/15

 

 

In-Class

Homework

Reading Concepts

Online Video

Online Text

8/29

Discuss Syllabus, Summer assignment, expectations

 

Discuss Science, Facts, Theories

Discuss Projects and UN Project

Read article , write up. Review sheet

DUE  9/2

Read pp. 464-472 in text

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Climate change, greenhouse, ice core, CO2, methane, NOx, IPCC, Sea level, GCC, feedback loop, permafrost,

 

Climate Systems

Greenhouse Effects

Global Warming

Discovery Signs and Sources

The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s Climate System,

 

 

 

Climate change – Oxford Press

Earth’s Changing Climate

Tipping Earth’s Energy Balance

Past Climate Change

Past Warming

Past Cooling

 

8/30

Lab: Tragedy of the Commons

Make up Lab

zShow 7 Billion

Person in that world

 

 

 

 

 

Read 472-75

Continue Climate Change Article

 

melting ice, rising sea level, saltwater intrusion, conveyor belt, acidic water, carbonate, weather extremes, lower biodiversity, fisheries, sequestration, Kyoto, Environmental Defense, GCC economics

 

Heat (Frontline) LOOK

Too Hot Not to Handle”

Ocean Acidification

Earth the Operators Manual

Global Warming & Env Law

National Geographic

1 degree change

 

CO2 and GW

Impacts of GW

Potential Impacts

Laws & Treaties

Tragedy of the Commons (original article).

 

8/31

Discuss Economics

 

Distribute Nations for United Nations Project (I)

 

 

Read  472-485

 

Start questions on country-Due in NB on Sept. 6th

 

Turn in forms Lab Donation

Medical Form,

and Permission slip

 

 

 

Eco and Sustainability: Free Market and Capitalistic, Eco Services - Monitoring Environmental Progress, Cost- Benefit Analysis,  Discount Rate, Real Cost

 

Scientific Method

Cost-benefit Analyses

Unsustainable Frontier Ethics

Economic Forces

9/1

 

Carbon footprint

Water Footprint

Ongoing project

 

569-583

My Footprint

My Water Footprint

 

Answer questions and put into notebook

 

Economic Tools, Subsidies, Green Economic

Project Chariot

 

Measuring (and Reducing) the Human Footprint

9/2

Branches of Government PowerPoint

Economics PowerPoint

 

 

Cap and Trade

 

 

Read pp. 583-590

 

Review

Cultural Factors

UCLA Co-Generation Facility

Cultural and Aesthetic Considerations

9/6

EPA scenario

Read pp. 591-602

 

 

Chapter 25

Chapter 24

Environmental Policy, Democracy, Legislation, Public Lands, Regulatory Agencies

Land Ethics

Petition Congress

Mine Restoration

GW & Environmental Law

The Fight to Preserve...

Environmental Ethics

9/7

 

Law Quiz

Start on Timeline Project

Read pp. 602-612

Finish Footprint Activities, UN notes, organize notebook

 

Environmental Law, Environmental Lawsuits, Environmental Groups, Global Environmental Policy

Arsenic

Indigenous People

Environmental Laws & Regulations

Superfund

CITES

Environmental Laws and Regulations

9/8

 

Turn in Notebook (article, UN ?, and Footprint, Lab 1 and Film Notes)

Group Timeline from supplement #5 pg. S16

 Review

Review

Multiple Stresses on Interconnected Systems

Issues and Options

9/9

Quiz

Present info on timeline

 Review

Study for Test

 

 

9/12

 IRC

 

 

 

 

9/15

Test on chapters 1,2,24, and 25

 

 

 

 

9/10

 

 

 

The Natural Setting: Overview