Unit 1: Environmental Systems
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Homework: C1 Notes
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- How have humans altered their environment?
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- For students to understand what is involved in the study of environmental science.
Homework: C1 Notes
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Homework: EOC1 (All MC, FR & Measuring Impact Questions)
After completing ecological footprint answer the following:
1. What was your ecological footprint?
2. How can you decrease it?
3. How can society change their habits?
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- Should resources be regulated? Who decides?
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- How humans have altered their environment and how to define sustainability.
- To be able to measure sustainability using the ecological footprint.
Homework: EOC1 (All MC, FR & Measuring Impact Questions)
After completing ecological footprint answer the following:
1. What was your ecological footprint?
2. How can you decrease it?
3. How can society change their habits?
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Student Worksheet: River Health and Indicator Species
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Homework: C2 Checkpoint Qs
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- How do scientists evaluate a problem?
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- What constitutes the scientific method and how to understand Scientific Arguments (Claims, Evidence and Reasoning).
Homework: C2 Checkpoint Qs
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Homework: EOC 2
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- How do you approach an AP free response question?
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- For students to learn how to approach and answer an AP free response questions.
Homework: EOC 2
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Homework: Complete take home assessment
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- What defines a system?
- Why is it important to look at the whole system instead of only its parts?
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- To understand systems and system thinking. Students should be able to identify system components, inputs and outputs to understand how components may influence each other (specifically energy and matter)
- Students should be able to evaluate the health of an ecosystem by describing key environmental indicators and how the indicator may be affected
Homework: Complete take home assessment
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http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
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