ES

Environmental Sustainability Honors: Grades 10-12 – 1 credit (596) Prerequisite: IED

Environmental Sustainability (ES) is an interdisciplinary engineering course in which students investigate and design solutions to solve real-world challenges related to clean and abundant drinking water, food supply enhancement, and renewable energy. Students will grow genetically engineered crops to resist pests, extract DNA from fruit, clone and copy DNA, develop systems to extract or remediate contaminants from soil and water, explore how contaminants infiltrate the water table, explore how water treatment facilities work and how wastewater is remediated back to drinkable water. This course has the potential to bring together a diverse group of students with interests in biology, chemistry, and/or environmental studies, and it gives students the opportunity to lead their own learning, collaborate, and gain skills needed to communicate their creative solutions.