Unit/Topic Dates Key concepts Vocabulary Textbook chapters, supplemental material

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1 Advanced Placement Environmental Science (APES) El Modena High School Instructor: Shaun Karpow Class Website: google classroom (mn871a) Course Description: This course is designed to be interdisciplinary and equivalent to an introductory college course of environmental science according to the College Board s AP Environmental Science Course Description. Environmental science focuses on the interaction between the living and non-living facets of the environment. We will learn how humans interact with Earth. The main themes of the course are; Science is a process. Energy conversions underlie all ecological processes. The Earth itself is one interconnected system. Humans alter natural systems. Environmental problems have a cultural and social context. Human survival depends on developing practices that will achieve sustainable systems. Course Goals: The goal of the AP Environmental Science course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them. Required Textbook: G. Tyler Miller, Jr. & Scott E Spoolman - Living in the Environment, Brooks/Cole, Eighteenth Edition, Required Materials: textbook to be brought daily two notebook to be brought daily - notes - lab journal lab notebook required for all lab and field assignments (prelab/lab/postlab) Class Expectations: Come prepared, be respectful, and try your best to complete your work. ALL school rules will be enforced. Grading: 90%-100% A 80%-89% B 70%-79% C 60%-69% D 59% and Below F Assignments 15% Free response practice 10% Class participation (dojo) 8% Labs/Projects 20% Quizzes/Unit Tests 37% Final Exam 10% The teacher reserves the right to change the grading structure and organization of the course at any time. 1. Class Participation (Dojo): students are required and expected to be engaged in discussion, reading, and participating on a daily basis. Students will be awarded points for actively contributing towards the class. 2. Free Response Practice: The College Board exam will include 4 timed and in depth free response questions. We will model these almost daily with a short free response followed by grading and discussion. The topic will be from the previous class assigned reading. 3. Unit Exams: Exams will follow the conclusion of a Unit and cover any topics and text chapter assigned or discussed, and will be similar to what students should expect on the College Board AP Exam. Each unit exam will have multiple choice and free response sections that will be timed.

2 (1 minute per multiple choice question, 22 minutes for each free response) 4. Quizzes: There will be weekly section quizzes that are announced, unannounced, no notes, open note, group, individual, paper/pencil, electronic in class or via Google Classroom, and will include a variety of selected response questions and/or short answer questions. Students who do not complete their quiz for any reason will be responsible to make that assignment up within a reasonable amount of time before or after school. 5. Lab Reports/Write-ups: Most lab reports/write-ups will be completed in students graph composition books. All students are to complete individual reports/write-ups by the due dates, even when working in pairs/groups. Prelab must be completed before the day of the lab or activity. Any student who does not complete the prelab will not participate in the lab or activity. These will be completed in each student s lab journal. Lab lab work will follow the prelab assignment and will include; data, any math, analysis, and conclusion questions or summaries. Colleges often require students to present their laboratory materials from AP science courses before granting college credit for laboratory, so students are encouraged to retain their laboratory notebooks, reports, and other materials. 6. Projects: Examples include, but are not limited to, debates, presentations, news article scrapbook, servicelearning, and other hands-on activities. 7. Assignments: Many assignments will be posted on the Google class website. It is the student s responsibility to obtain whatever handouts or assignments they are missing and complete all assignments by designated due dates. 8. Final Exam: A cumulative final exam will contain up to 100 multiple choice questions as well as 1-4 free response questions and in the theme of the College Board AP exam. This intended to be model of what students should expect if they choose to take the College Board Exam. (1 minute per multiple choice question, 22 minutes for each free response) Consequences: In the event of inappropriate behavior. 1. Warning 2. Location adjustment, possibly detention 3. Phone call home 4. Referral School detention/phone call to parent/ Saturday school 5. Referral Parent Face-to-Face meeting/contract initiate 6. Class suspension Academic Honesty: All school rules will be enforced; No plagiarism or cheating will be tolerated. Students caught breaking these rules will receive an immediate F on the assignment, likely a phone call home, and a note in Aeries. Cell use policy: 1. The use of technology will be encouraged and used throughout the course 2. Inappropriate use of the device will result in escalating consequences and short term confiscation Make-up Work and Late Work Policy: Students who are absent are responsible for obtaining make-up work from Google Classroom (recommended) and/or the teacher during office hours. Students absent on exam/quiz days will be required to take their exams/quizzes as soon as students return to class. Keep in mind that a different format of the exam may be given for make-up exams. It is the student s responsibility to request to take their exam upon their return to avoid a zero on their exam. For Google Classroom and other electronic assignments, students who are absent the day the assignment is due are still required to turn it in on the same day unless it is a medical emergency, in which case a signed note from a doctor/parent is required. For in-class assignments, students who are absent the day the assignment is due will be required to turn in their assignments as soon as they return (during the beginning of class). All late work will be accepted for half credit up until the unit exam. Students who miss class due to school assemblies, sports, attending field trips or other on-campus activities, will be responsible to turn in work the day the assignment is due or before to avoid deductions. Donations: With all the material intensive labs, activities, projects, assignments, and field trips, students are encouraged to donate $25. Please submit donations (cash or check payable to El Modena High School).

3 Unit/Topic Dates Key concepts Vocabulary Textbook chapters, supplemental material Unit 1 - Earth Systems and Resources (20%) Section 1 Earth Section 2 Atmosphere Geologic timescale, Earth structure, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Seasons, Solar Intensity, Latitude, Soil, Food Web, Erosion, Land/mud slides, Rock Cycle Composition, Structure, Weather, Climate, Atmospheric Circulation, Coriolis Effect, El Nino, La Nina Climate, earthquake, environmentalism, evolution, latitude, lithosphere, mineral, ore, sustainability, tectonic plates Atmosphere, biome, Coriolis Effect, El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, ozone layer, troposphere, weather Bozeman and Section 3 Water Section 4 Soil EXAM 1 Freshwater, Saltwater, Lakes, Wetlands, Aquifers, Oceans, Agriculture/Industrial/ Domestic Use, Surface/Groundwater Issues, Global Problems, Freshwater Conservation Rock cycle, formation, composition, physical and chemical properties, main soil types, erosion and other soil problems, soil conservation Aquifer, eutrophication, groundwater, nonpoint sources, point sources, runoff, salt water, water footprint, water pollution, watershed Compost, desertification, soil, soil conservation, soil erosion, topsoil and Unit 2 The Living World (15%) Section 5 Ecosystem Structure Ecology, Niches, Law of Tolerance and Limiting Factors, Resource Partitioning, Interactions Among Species, Keystone Species, Edge Effects, Biomes, Energy Flow, Ecosystem Productivity, GPP, NPP, Ecosystem Diversity Adaptation, biodiversity hotspots, biomass, biodiversity, cultural eutrophication, decomposer, estuary, eutrophication, habitat, keystone species, limiting factors, mass extinction, native species, natural selection, niche, ocean acidification, pyramid of energy flow, species, wilderness Bozeman and

4 Section 6 Biogeochemical Cycles (energy flow) EXAM 2 Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Phosphorus Cycle, Sulfur Cycle, Water Cycle, Conservation of Matter and Energy Artificial selection, background extinction rate, biological extinction, climate change tipping points, ecological succession, endemic species, extinction, hydrologic cycle, speciation Crash Course Ecology 8, 9 Unit 3 Populations (10%) Section 7 Populations EXAM 3 Population Ecology, Carrying Capacity, Thomas Malthus, Reproductive Strategies, Survivorship, Human Population Dynamics, Population Size, Impacts of Population Growth Bozeman Unit 4 - Land and Water Use (10%) Section 8 Land and Water Use EXAM 4 Feeding a Growing Population, Controlling Pests, Forestry, Rangelands, Urban Land Development, Transportation Infrastructure, Public and Federal Lands, Mining, Fishing, Global Economics Bozeman and and 24.5 Unit 5 - Energy Resources and Use (10%) Section 9 Energy EXAM 5 Energy Concepts, Energy Consumption, Nonrenewable Energy, Nuclear Energy, Hydroelectric Energy, Energy Conservation, Renewable Energy Bozeman and

5 Unit 6 Pollution (25%) Section 10 Pollution Section 11 Impacts of pollution on the Environment and Human Health EXAM 6 Air Pollution, Noise Pollution, Water Pollution, Solid Waste Hazards to Human Health, Hazardous Chemicals in the Environment, Economic Impacts Bozeman Crash Course Ecology Unit 7 Global Change (10%) Section 12 Global Warming and Stratospheric Ozone EXAM 7 Global Warming, Stratospheric Ozone, Loss of Biodiversity Bozeman and and and Final Cumulative Exam College Board AP Environmental Science EXAM 100 multiple choice = 60% of final grade Thought-provoking problems and questions based on fundamental ideas from environmental science are included along with questions based on the recall of basic facts and major concepts 4 Free response essay questions = 40% of final grade Application of principles in greater depth. Students must organize answers to broad questions, thereby demonstrating reasoning and analytical skills, as well as the ability to synthesize material from several sources into cogent and coherent essays. 1 data-set question, 1 document-based question, and 2 synthesis and evaluation questions. Sample Questions can be found on the AP college board website course description for Environmental Science multiple choice pages free response pages 21-24

6 Parent/guardian contact information: Students Name - Parent/Guardian name - - Contact # Parent/Guardian name - - Contact # Any information that I should be made aware of to aid your child s success? (Strengths, areas of concern, etc.) Parents/Guardians: Are you interested in volunteering as a possible chaperone any field trips? During this APES class, we will be viewing videos with various ratings ranging from; (G, PG, PG-13, and R) to demonstrate environmental issues, supplement lessons, and emphasize topics related to the course. Your signature below indicates that you and your son/daughter have read and understand the rules and expectations for this class as well as give permission for your child to view these. You re encouraged to keep the syllabus for your records. There will also be an online version provided. Please include any questions or concerns in the space provided above. Thank you. I agree and accept all details of the AP Environmental science course syllabus. I agree to follow the above expectations towards meeting the standards provided in the syllabus for Mr. Karpow s (APES) course. Student - signature - Parent/Guardian - signature - Parent/Guardian - signature - Date Please complete and return THIS PAGE ONLY