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IB Environmental Systems & Society

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College Board Outline of Topics

 

Fall Semester

Lectures:                    Chapter Outlines:                 Assignments/ Labs

Ø Chapter One

·                   Chapter One

*  History of Environmental Science Timeline

 

 

*  Focus questions for Worst Mistake Reading

Ø Tragedy of the Commons

 

*  M & M Lab

Ø Chapter Two

·                   Chapter Two

*  Null Hypothesis Worksheet

 

 

*  Biosphere Project

 

 

*  Salinization Lab

Ø Chapter Three

·                   Chapter Three

*  Sierra Nevada Food Web

Ø Biogeochemical Cycles

 

*  Biogeochemical Worksheet

Ø Chapter Seven

 

*  Grass Decomposition Lab

Ø Chapter Eight

·                   Chapter 7 and 8

*  Bird Beak Lab

 

 

*  Tag Recapture Lab

Ø Chapter Five Climate

·                   Chapter 5

*  What’s Up with the Weather Questions

Ø Biomes

 

*  Climatograms

 

 

*  Ecocolumn Lab

 

 

*  Predator Prey Activity

 

 

*  Diming the Sun Video Questions

Ø Evolution and Extinction

·                   Chapter 4

 

Ø Plate Tectonics

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*  Plate Tectonic Worksheet

Ø Human Population

·                   Chapter 9

*  Rule of 70 worksheet

*  Defining a Population Rubric

 

 

*  Population Age Structure Diagrams

Ø Soil Lecture

·                   Chapter 13 soil

*  Soil Lab

Ø Agriculture Lecture

·                   Chapter 13 agriculture

*  Food that Travels Well

*  How Many Can the Earth Support

 

·                   Chapter 6 Aquatic Biomes

 

Ø Pesticide Lecture

·                   Chapter 13 Pesticides

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Ø Sustaining Biodiversity

·                   Chapter 10 & 11

*  Theory of Island Biogeography

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*  Final Study Concepts

 

Spring Semester

Ø Water lecture

§  Chapter 14 Water

*  Water project presentation

Ø Water Pollution Lecture

§  Chapter 21 Water Pollution

*  Watershed Activity

Ø Mining Lecture

§  Chapter 15 Mining

 

Ø Energy as a Resource Lecture

 

Ø Review of Energy Resources lecture

§  Chapter 16 Nonrenewable Energy

*  Energy Project

 

*  Energy Project rubric

 

*  Renewable Energy reading

 

*  The Oil We Eat reading

 

 

 

*  Mining and Energy Test Study concepts

Ø Toxicology Lecture

§  Chapter 18 Hazards and Human Health

*  How Toxic is toxic

Ø Solid and Hazardous waste lecture

§  Chapter 22 Solid and Hazardous waste

*  Love Canal story

 

*  Recycling Aluminum Worksheet

Ø Air Pollution Lecture

§  Chapter 19 Air Pollution

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Ø Ozone Lecture

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Ø El Nino Lecture

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Ø Climate Change Lecture

§  Chapter 20 Climate Change

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