Essential Questions:
What is your environmental worldview?
What lessons can we learn from Easter Island?
What are some values of ecosystems?
What is the tragedy of the commons and how does it relate to most environmental problems?
What are externalities and how do they relate to the environment?
How do you design a good experiment?
Vocabulary:
worldviews (planetary management, stewardship, environmental)
Environmental indicators and sustainability (Module 2) Biodiversity, genetic diversity, species diversity, anthropogenic, per capita, sustainability, ecological footprint, externalities, tragedy of the commons
Scientific method terms (Module 3) purpose, hypothesis, null hypothesis, data, analysis, conclusion, replication, sample size, theory, control group, constants, dependent and independent variables, baseline data, dissemination, natural experiment, accuracy, precision, uncertainty
Ecosystem values (pages 657-660) Intrinsic, instrumental, provisions, regulating, support, resilience, cultural, monetary
Some math you should know:
Convert square km to square m.
Convert between metric prefixes (meters to kilometers...)
Media:
Videos
Crash courses video (Ecosystem services)
Readings
Native American land use practices
Six ways to think about the world
Easter Island - A new scenario
Links
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