First Week Information

1. Review the Course Expectations found in the APES RESOURCES TAB with your parents. Select the "Acknowledgment Form", fill it out and submit it online.

2. Read through the Science Safety Contract found also in the APES RESOURCES TAB with your parents. Your signatures are required on the "Acknowledgment Form".

3. Have your parents read the Donation Letter given in class. Have them to sign it and bring any donations to class. Thank you so much in advance!

4. If you have not already done so, reset your CCSD AD Password for the 2017-2018 school year using this link: AD Password Reset. Write down you password somewhere safe so you don't forget it!!!

5. Log in to Google Classroom using your school provided Google account. CLICK HERE for a student sign-in tutorial. Join the Classroom Code: 6t65uk

This AP course is designed to be the equivalent of a one-semester, introductory college course in environmental science. The goal the AP Environmental Science course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts and methodologies required to understand 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 or preventing them.

This course is designed around the following introductory concepts in Environmental Science:

*Earth Systems and Resources *The Living World *Populations *Land and Water Use

*Energy Resources and Consumption *Pollution *Global Change