Unit 1 Assignments:
Begin your Eco-Journal- Enter information frequently!
Always Check our course website ( http://catalinaphysics.freeservers.com/apes.html for links of interest, and use the textbook website
for more help including tutorial quizzes- note that the chapter don't completely correspond to our text, so use your best judgement!)
Week 1 August 28-30:
• Readings: Chapter 1: Introduction
Skim this chapter
Re-read carefully sections 1.2 and 1.3. Become familiar with the bold-
faced terms in those two sections, especially the Tragedy of the Commons
• When you are comfortable with the material in Chapter one, go to the website that is associated with your textbook (link above), click on the icon for your textbook (note, this may not be active until August 31…in which case, click on the book with the polar bear- Chapter 1 is quite similar in both editions). Explore the resources available- especially the 'Chapter by Chapter' hypercontents for Chapter 1. Be sure to take the 'tutorial quiz'. Note that, because we are at a high school, we do not have
access to 'infotrack'.
• Read: Appendix 2: Good News and Bad News
Read this
• Conclusion Paragraph on Lab 1 : Tragedy of the Commons Simulation will be due Monday September 32d.
Week 2: September 2-8
• Read: Articles: Life on Earth is Getting Better by Julian Simon
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by
Jared Diamond
Chapter 2: History
Skim this Chapter.
Read the timelines
Become familiar with the bold-faced terms and the contributions to the environment of the following people: Theodore Roosevelt, Muir, Pinchot, Hamilton, Carson, Leopold , Ellen Swallow Richards (not in textbook), Wangari Maathai- founder of Kenya's green belt movement see pg 611
• You will be assigned one of the following people, events or important pieces of legislation. Begin research . You are going to be creating a web-page on this topic- more on that later- it doesn't have to be too extensive but it should go beyond what is mentioned in the textbook):
People: John Muir (concentrate on Hetch-Hetchy debate), and Gifford Pinchot (concentrate on Hetch-Hetchy debate), Alice Hamilton, Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold , Ellen Swallow Richards (not in textbook), Paul Ehrlich (the environmentalist, not the Nobel Laureate), Wangari Maathai
Legislation: CITIES, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Montreal Protocol, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liabililty Act (Superfund), Kyoto Accords, Mining Act of 1872
Events (include what happened and the long-term effects): Union Carbide explosion in Bhopal (India)-, Aral Sea water transfer project, Chernobyl explosion, Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill, Love Canal, Dust Bowls-US and current one in China
• When you are comfortable with the material in Chapter 2, go to the website that is associated with your textbook: link above, click on the icon for your textbook Explore the resources available and take the tutorial quiz.
• Create the beginnings of an environmental science web page and email me the URL. We will be discussing how to do this in class; if you need help, contact me or check out the 'how to write a website' on our class website: http://catalinaphysics.freeservers.com/apes.html . You do NOT have to put your site up on the web (though I would prefer that); you can give it to me on disk instead and I will put it up for you..
This page must contain 1) A title 2) Working links to the following sites:
The college board APES site http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,1281,151-162-0-4357,00.html
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/ Environmental Literacy Council Website
http://www.brookscole.com/biology/member/student/ecology.html The website that goes with your textbook
and our course website: http://catalinaphysics.freeservers.com/apes.html
3) A photograph (somehow relate to the environment) with a caption. You may either upload an original picture to your website, or you may simply use one that is already up on the web (unless it specifically gives a copyright notice prohibiting such use) as long as you credit the source!
4) Your website should NOT include your full name, any personal information about you or your email address….this is to protect you from Internet predators.
Weeks 3 and 4: September 9-13 and September 16-20
• If you don't have time to finish 'Believe it' during lab, please turn in by September 13. In general, labs not completed in class are due the double period following the last day it was worked on in class.
• Add to the web page you created last week a page on the topic you began researching above. References are very important! This is due by September 20.
• Read Chapter 26: Environmental Economics: Read carefully and become familiar with the bold- faced terms
• Read these websites: These links are also on our course website.
http://www.wri.org/wr-96-97/ei_txt1.html Basic Economic Indicators
http://www.betterworld.com/BWZ/9610/learn.htm GDP vs GPI
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/economics.html
and its links: http://www.enviroliteracy.org/environmental_economics.html#SUSTAINABLE%20DEVELOPMENT
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/economic_incentives.html
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/environmental_economics.html
• Take this quiz:
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/ecedweek/quiz.htm economics quiz
• When you are comfortable with the material in Chapter 3, go to the website that is associated with your textbook: http://www.brookscole.com/biology/member/student/ecology.html, click on the icon for your textbook Explore the resources available and take the tutorial quiz.
FYI, if you want to look at the sites my lectures are based on, they can be found at:
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~envecon/ancil.htm#mods economics learning modules
Your first Unit test will most likely be the week of September 23-27. If the test is later in the week then we will have begun working on Unit 2 in class, so keep up on those assignments.
A review sheet will be emailed to you on the APES conference.
Your first Ecojournal will be due on Tuesday, October 1st .
See description in Course data sheet.