AP Environmental Science
Course Prerequisites:
AP Environmental Science is open to any students that have successfully completed Honors Biology, and have taken or are taking Honors Chemistry concurrently. Taking Honors Earth Science is strongly suggested as a prerequisite to AP Environmental Science.
Course Description:
This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory environmental science course, preparing students to be knowledgeable on a variety of environmental issues. High school students are required to take the APES Exam at the end of the course and my receive college credit depending on their score. This course provides students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world. The curriculum will draw upon various scientific disciplines including biology, earth science, and chemistry. The overall theme of this course curriculum can be viewed as a balanced versus unbalanced system. A balanced system is sustainable, while an unbalanced system collapses. This is the key to understanding the cycles of the Earth, as a deeper understanding of nature is developed through lecture, discussion, participation in wet and dry labs, analyzing and interpreting information and experimental data using mathematical calculations and identification of environmental problems to evaluate the ecological and human health risks associated with these problems, as well as to critically examine various solutions for resolving or preventing them.
AP Environmental Science is open to any students that have successfully completed Honors Biology, and have taken or are taking Honors Chemistry concurrently. Taking Honors Earth Science is strongly suggested as a prerequisite to AP Environmental Science.
Course Description:
This course is designed to be the equivalent of a college introductory environmental science course, preparing students to be knowledgeable on a variety of environmental issues. High school students are required to take the APES Exam at the end of the course and my receive college credit depending on their score. This course provides students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world. The curriculum will draw upon various scientific disciplines including biology, earth science, and chemistry. The overall theme of this course curriculum can be viewed as a balanced versus unbalanced system. A balanced system is sustainable, while an unbalanced system collapses. This is the key to understanding the cycles of the Earth, as a deeper understanding of nature is developed through lecture, discussion, participation in wet and dry labs, analyzing and interpreting information and experimental data using mathematical calculations and identification of environmental problems to evaluate the ecological and human health risks associated with these problems, as well as to critically examine various solutions for resolving or preventing them.