Environmental Issues
Unit 1 Outline - Environmental Issues
1 - Introduction to Environmental Science
Course Outline & Science Evaluation Policy
Introduction to Environmental Science Powerpoint
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell YouTube 2:19
TedEd video - Greta Thunberg 11:11
Grade 10 Recap on Climate - group work
Weather vs Climate - YouTube 2:09
Climate Factors : LOWERN videos 18 min
Conduction, Covection & radiation - YouTube 4:26
Earth's Atomosphere - YouTube 4:56
How do greenhouse gases actually work - YouTube video 3:08
2 - Our Planet, The Past, Present and Future; Disc 2 - A Global Warning Documentary (History Channel)
Global Warning Documentary worksheet - to be filled out while watching the documentary
3 - Ecological Footprint - YouTube 6:13
Food and Ecological Footprint - YouTube 2:53
Ecological Footprint - Powerpoint
Ecological Footprint Student Slide Notes
Ecological Footprint infographic
4 - Ecological Footprint - paper calculator
Ecological Footprint - online assessment worksheet
Online link for Ecological Footprint - footprintcalculator.org
Carbon Footprint calculators:
Water footprint:
5 - *Sustainability and Natural Capital - powerpoint
Sustainability and Natural Capital - student notes
Sustainable yield of paper clip trees activity - to be collected at the end of class.
6 - Biodiversity
The Bio Da Versity Code - YouTube clip 5:26
Biodiversity - Vancouver Film School - YouTube clip 2:41
*Sustainability and Biodiversity Activity
International Year of Biodiversity 2010 - YouTube clip 8:26
7 - Biodiversity Hands on Lab (in class)
Why the World's Most Popular Banana May Go Extinct - youtube 13:38
8 - TED-Ed Why is biodiversity so important? - YouTube 4:18
*Promoting Biodiversity small group work
9 - The Eyes of Nye - Human Population (24:50)
*The Eyes of Nye - Human Population worksheet
Population - More is Less reading and worksheet
10 - World Population Projection Through Time - YouTube 6:24
Where do you stand - group activity
Population Assignment - Due: November 1st
https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/informationGateway.php
11 - *The Environment and Economics powerpoint
The Environment and Economics - student worksheet
The Story of Stuff - YouTube 21:16
12 - Endangered Species Assignment (in class work)
Due : Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Be ready to set up your assignment for a Gallery Walk on October 10 & 11, 2023
7 Presesntation Tips for Students
13 - Sustainability Case Studies
*Ray Anderson on the Hour - YouTube (9:58)
Business Case Study 1 : Interface Flor
*Sustainability Case Study worksheet
Sustainability Article 1 : Nike article
Sustainability Article 2 : Patagonia
*Sustainability Article 3 : InterfaceFLO
If the article on InterfaceFLO is giving you a hard time to open : try this link
14 - *Tragedy of the Commons - YouTube (4:57)
Tragedy of the Commons Lab - older version
15 - What is Greenwashing? Is it legit? - YouTube 3:40
Greenwashing : Marketplace Lousy Labels - YouTube 21:23
Greenwashing, Stand out examples
Climate Change: Seven Ways to Spot Business Greenwashing article
16 - Megacities Lesson/Jigsaw
See, Think, Wonder Starting Activity
Tokyo video to watch - 9:58
17 - The Lorax assignment End of Unit Assignment
18 - Klabona Keepers HotDocs
Klabona Keepers assignment
FYI:
Miniture Earth Link - crunches human population to 100 people, and shows some stats
Unit Test Review - you are allowed a one-page Study Sheet to use for the Unit test. Reminder : it will be checked prior to the test and has to be your own.