Unit 1 Calendar

45 minute periods

1. APES Would You Rather Kahoot (or PP)

2. APES Scenarios (Values and the Environment)

4. Going over the syllabus and Green Community Service 

Homework:

1. Signed Syllabus 

2. APES Getting to Know You

Due: Signed Syllabus and APES Into

In Class (W) 40 minute periods: 

1. Organizing Yourself

2. Warm-up: Graphing (Pass Out Books)

3. Brief History of Life on Earth

4. Questions you have about the 6th mass extinction

5. Ranking Largest Threats 

Homework:

1. Current Event

In Class (Th) 40 minute periods:

1. New Seating Chart

2. Check Graphs

3. Introduction to Ecosystems

4. Activity 1: John Muir Moment with Ecosystems (Biotic and Abiotic Factors)

Homework: 

1. Read Sand City Development Article

No School

Homework: 

Math Remediation During Office Hours

1. Sample CE

2. Ecosystems and Factors with Life

3. Lab: Salinization of Seeds (design)

Homework

Dimensional Analysis Worksheet

1. Lab: Salinization of Seeds (design)

How is nature doing? Environmental Indicators Jigsaw

2. CE: Palm Oil

Finish Palm Oil Case Study (discuss importance of case studies)

Finish Environmental Indicators (human pop and resource depletion)

Homework:  Read Easter Island

Math Remediation During Office Hours

1. Environmental Indicators - Watch Video

2. Class Discussion - Relation to Palm Oil

3.  Sample Current Event (ESA Changes)

4. Lab: Bubble Gum Population

Homework:  Study for Quiz 1

Quiz 1

Energy Focus: Fossil Fuels

Listen to Taking a Rainforest Hostage

Read Amazon on Fire

Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services and Externalities

Finish Salinization Lab

Finish Quiz or EdPuzzle

Finish Lab: Salinization of Seeds 

Homework: 

1.EdPuzzle: Fossil Fuels

2.Finish Lab

Math Warm-up

Pass Back quizzes

Warm-up: Scientific Notation

Warm-up: Footprint Calculator

Tragedy of the Commons Activity

Clarifying Quiz 1 Misconceptions

Clarifying Climate Change with Inc. Truth

Homework 

Ch. 20 Reading Questions

Review with the Plover Case Study

Nature Sketch

Reviewing Case Studies

Percent Change

Practice Test

APES FRQs

 Homework 

Study

Unit 1 Exam

No School

1. Guest Lecture - Watershed Guardians

Field Trip: Watershed Guardians

Feedback Loops

Al Gore: The Case for Optimism

Introduction to the APES FRQ

Homework: Take Home APES FRQ