Environmental Science and AP Environmental Science
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Environmental Sciences is a course of study designed
to give students the opportunity to explore the natural world around themselves.
Students located within an urban environment have not had the chance to
explore the role of nature on this planet. This course of study has been
designed to give the students exposure to a part of nature that they may
not have noticed. It is hoped that upon completion of this class, the students
will realize their part in the natural world and how they can never be
independent from their environment. Students learn the values of protecting
the environment and how humans are a direct cause for the environmental
problems that currently exist. Such problems include, but are not limited
to endangered species, pollution of air, land and sea, deforestation, extinction,
and disease.
AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
This college level advanced placement course explores
the many areas of environmental science in a more in-depth manner.
This course includes an off-site laboratory component at Gateway Environmental
Educational Center as well as an in-house laboratory experience.
Students are enrolled in this course for one year which culminates in the
Advanced Placement Examination. Students will receive college credit
for this fun, exciting, unique course.
Students are also given the opportunity to express
their opinions and understanding of environmental issues by submitting
various student generated projects to better assess student learning.
This inclusion of openness to student interest will give the students an
opportunity to become empowered to learn material that is of general interest
to the class. In this way, students will feel actively involved in their
learning process and come to understand that the educational system was
designed to help them better understand the world around them. Although
much of the curriculum is determined, there is enough openness to allow
for topics that students wish to study in more detail. These courses will
also allow students to further explore subjects for themselves and could
lead a student down a career that they may never have envisioned for themselves.
It is hoped that when students exit from this course, they will take with
them the ability and confidence to try to make a difference in the world
in which they live.
Prepared By: The Rumpolo
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Midwood High School at Brooklyn College