Environmental Science: Planning Guide

1st Quarter - Environmental Science and Ecology

Science Safety
(Pgs. SH22-SH25)

Ea.2: Use appropriate laboratory apparatuses, technology, and techniques safely and accurately when conducting a scientific
investigation.
Ea.9: Use appropriate safety procedures when conducting investigations.

Unit 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to Environmental Science
Central Case: Fixing
a Hole in the Sky
(Pg. 3)
Lesson 1: Our
Island, Earth
(Pgs. 4-11)
Map It: Comparing
Ecological
Footprints
(Pg. 10)
Lesson 2: Nature of
Science
(Pgs. 12-20)
Go Outside:
Measure for
Measure (Pg. 19)
Lesson 3:
Community of
Science
(Pgs. 21-27)

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.

Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Ea.8: Compare the processes of scientific investigation and technological design.
Ea.2: Use scientific instruments to record measurement data in appropriate metric units that reflect the precision and accuracy of each
particular instrument.
Ea.3: Use scientific instruments to record measurement data in appropriate metric units that reflect the precision and accuracy of each
particular instrument.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.

Quick Lab: Can you

repeat that? (Pg. 22)

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

SBTS: The Lesson

Of Easter Island

Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.

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(Pgs. 28-29)

Study Guide
(Pg. 30)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 31-33)

Ea.2: Use scientific instruments to record measurement data in appropriate metric units that reflect the precision and accuracy of each
particular instrument.
Ea.3: Use scientific instruments to record measurement data in appropriate metric units that reflect the precision and accuracy of each
particular instrument.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Ea.8: Compare the processes of scientific investigation and technological design.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.

Chapter 2: Economics and Environmental Policy

Central Case:
Cleaning the Tides
(Pg. 35)
Lesson 1:
Economics
(Pgs. 36-41)
Quick Lab: CostBenefit Analysis
(Pg. 37)
Lesson 2: United
States
Environmental
Policy (Pgs. 42-47)
Lesson 3:
International
Environmental
Policy and
Approaches
(Pgs.48-55)
Real Data:
Analyzing Plans
(Pg. 51)

Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.

Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.

Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.

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Success Stories:
Fighting for Clean
Water
(Pg. 56-57)
Study Guide
(Pg. 58)
Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 59-61)

Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.

Chapter 3: Earths Environmental System

Central Case: Golf
of Mexicos Dead
Zone
(Pg. 63)

Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

Lesson 1: Matter
and the
Environment
(Pgs. 64-71)

Ed.1: Explain how fossil fuels are formed and where they can be found. (Pre-requisite)
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ed.3: Recognize that certain resources are nonrenewable because they are replenished at timescales of thousands to millions of
years.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,
manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).

Lesson 2: Systems
in Environmental
Science (Pgs. 73-75)
Lesson 3: Earths
Spheres
(Pgs. 76-82)
Map It: Pangaea
(Pg. 77)
Quick Lab:
Distribution of
Earths Water
(Pg. 80)
Lesson 4:
Biochemical Cycles
(Pgs. 83-89)

Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ef.6: Differentiate that the Earths systems exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium and that certain compositions of the Earths
system(s) may fluctuate on short or long time scales but the Earths system will generally stay within a certain narrow range for millions
of years. (Pre-requisite)
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
(Pre-requisite)
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ee.2: Organize the multiple pathways of carbon movement between reservoirs.
Ee.3: Organize evidence that Earth is a system containing essentially a fixed amount of each stable chemical atom or element which
moves among reservoirs in the solid Earth oceans, atmosphere, and organisms as part of geochemical cycles.

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A Closed Loop:
Nutrients
(Pgs. 90-91)
Study Guide
(Pg. 92)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 93-95)

Unit Project: A
Balloon Issue
(Pg.96)

Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ee.3: Organize evidence that Earth is a system containing essentially a fixed amount of each stable chemical atom or element which
moves among reservoirs in the solid Earth oceans, atmosphere, and organisms as part of geochemical cycles.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ed.1: Explain how fossil fuels are formed and where they can be found.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ed.3: Recognize that certain resources are nonrenewable because they are replenished at timescales of thousands to millions of
years.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,
manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).
Ee.2: Organize the multiple pathways of carbon movement between reservoirs.
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ee.3: Organize evidence that Earth is a system containing essentially a fixed amount of each stable chemical atom or element which
moves among reservoirs in the solid Earth oceans, atmosphere, and organisms as part of geochemical cycles.
Ef.6: Differentiate that the Earths systems exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium and that certain compositions of the Earths
system(s) may fluctuate on short or long time scales but the Earths system will generally stay within a certain narrow range for millions
of years.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.

Unit 2 : Ecology
Chapter 4: Population Ecology
Central Case:
Finding Gold in a
Costa Rican Cloud
Forest
(Pg. 99)
Lesson 1: Studying
Ecology
(Pgs. 100-103)
Go Outside: Biotic
and Abiotic Factors
(Pg. 102)

Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.

Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.
Ef: The student will analyze ecology as interrelationships, explain the transfer of matter and energy within ecosystems, relate the
theory of biological evolution to geologic time and addresses speciation and biodiversity in the context of the environment (Prerequisite)
Ef: The student will analyze ecology as interrelationships, explain the transfer of matter and energy within ecosystems, relate the
theory of biological evolution to geologic time and addresses speciation and biodiversity in the context of the environment (Prerequisite)

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Lesson 2:
Describing
Populations
(Pgs.104-109)

Lesson 3:
Population Growth
(Pgs. 110-117)

Real Data: Turkey

Vultures (Pg. 112)
SBTS: The
Cloudless Forest
(Pgs. 118-119)
Study Guide
(Pg.120 )
Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 121-123)

Ef: The student will analyze ecology as interrelationships, explain the transfer of matter and energy within ecosystems, relate the
theory of biological evolution to geologic time and addresses speciation and biodiversity in the context of the environment (Prerequisite)
Ef.4: Relate the importance of genetic diversity and population size to the conservation of a species.
(Pre-requisite)
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ef.4: Relate the importance of genetic diversity and population size to the conservation of a species.
Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.

Chapter 5: Evolution and Community Ecology

Central Case: Black
and White and
Spread All Over
(Pg. 125)
Lesson 1: Evolution
(Pgs.126-132)
Lesson 2: Species
Interaction
(Pgs. 133-140)
Lesson 3:
Ecological
Communities

Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.

Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.

Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.

(Pg. 141-148)

Real Data: Energy

Flow In
Communities

Ef.9: Identify the factors limiting population growth in a given area (carrying capacity). (Pre-requisite)

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(Pg. 144)

Lesson 4:
Community
Stability
(Pgs. 149-155)
Quick Lab:
Successful
Succession?
(Pg. 152)

Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.

Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.

SBTS: A Broken
Mutualism?
(Pg. 156-157)

Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ea.4: Design a scientific investigation with appropriate methods of control to test a hypothesis (including independent and dependent
variables), and evaluate the designs of sample investigations.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.

Study Guide
(Pg. 158)

Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ea.4: Design a scientific investigation with appropriate methods of control to test a hypothesis (including independent and dependent
variables), and evaluate the designs of sample investigations.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.
Ef.9: Identify the factors limiting population growth in a given area (carrying capacity). (Pre-requisite)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 159-161)

Chapter 6: Biomes and Aquatic Ecosystems

Central Case: Too
Much of A Good
Thing (Pg. 163)
Lesson 1: Defining
Biomes
(Pgs.164-167)
Lesson 2: Biomes
(Pgs. 168-180)
Real Data: Which
Biome? (Pg. 179)
Lesson 3: Aquatic
Ecosystems
(Pgs.181-191)
Go Outside: Whos

Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events
Ef.1: Describe the ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and human society. (Pre-requisite)
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.

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in the Water
(Pg. 183)
PCP: Should
Elephant Culling Be
Allowed?
(Pg. 192-193)

Study Guide
(Pg. 194)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 195-197)

Ea.4: Design a scientific investigation with appropriate methods of control to test a hypothesis (including independent and dependent
variables), and evaluate the designs of sample investigations.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Ea.4: Design a scientific investigation with appropriate methods of control to test a hypothesis (including independent and dependent
variables), and evaluate the designs of sample investigations.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ea.4: Design a scientific investigation with appropriate methods of control to test a hypothesis (including independent and dependent
variables), and evaluate the designs of sample investigations.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ef.1: Describe the ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and human society. (Pre-requisite)
Ef.3: Explain how organisms are adapted to the environment in terms of ecological niches and natural selection.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events

2nd Quarter - Humans and the Environment

Chapter 7: Biodiversity and Conservation
Central Case:
Saving the Siberian
Tiger
(Pgs. 198-99)
Lesson 1: Our
Planet of Life
(Pgs. 200-206)
Lesson 2: Extinction
and Biodiversity
Loss
(Pgs. 207-211)
Map It: Invading
Mussels
(Pg. 210)

Ef.1: Describe the ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and human society.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.
Ef.1: Describe the ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and human society.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.
Ef.4: Relate the importance of genetic diversity and population size to the conservation of a species.
Ef.1: Describe the ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and human society.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.
Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.

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Lesson 3: Protecting
Biodiversity
(Pgs. 212-217)
Real Data: Golden
Lion Tamarin
(Pg. 214)
Source Stories: A
Couple of Birds
Make Big
Comebacks
(Pgs. 218-219)
Study Guide
(Pg. 220)
Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 221-223)
Unit 2 Project:
Seeing the Past,
Foreseeing Future
(Pg. 224)

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ef.1: Describe the ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and human society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ef.1: Describe the ways in which biodiversity is important to ecosystems and human society.
Ef.2: Assess the potential value of a single species to a particular ecosystem.
Ef.4: Relate the importance of genetic diversity and population size to the conservation of a species.
Ef.7: Recall the natural processes of change in the environment, including examples of succession, evolution, and extinction.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.

Unit 3: Humans and the Environment

Chapter 8: Human Population
Central Case:
Chinas One Child
Policy (Pg. 227)
Lesson 1: Trends in
Human Population
Growth
(Pgs. 228-233)
Real Data:
Population Growth
Rates (Pg. 230)

Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.

Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.

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Lesson 2: Predicting
Population Growth
(Pgs. 234-241)
Quick Lab: Build
and Compare Age
Structure Diagrams
(Pg. 237)

Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.

Lesson 3: People
and Their
Environments
(Pgs. 242-247)

Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

A Closer Look: The U.S.

Census (Pgs. 248-249)

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

Study Guide
(Pg. 250)

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs.251-253)

Chapter 9: Environmental Health

Central Case: The
Rise and Fall and
Rise of DDT (Pg.
255)
Lesson 1: An
Overview of
Environmental
Health

Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.

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(Pgs. 256-260)
Lesson 2: Biological
And Social Hazards
(Pgs. 261-266)
Quick Lab: How Do
Diseases Spread
(Pg. 263)

Lesson 3: Toxic
Substances in the
Environment
(Pgs. 267-276)

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

Map It: Predicting
Earthquakes
(Pg. 278)

PCP: Should BPA

Use Be Regulated?
(Pgs. 284-285)
Study Guide
(Pg. 286)
Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 287-289)

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.

Chapter 10: Urbanization

Central Case:
Growing Pains in
Portland, Oregon
(Pg. 291)
Lesson 1: Land Use
and Urbanization
(Pgs. 292-298)

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.

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Lesson 2: Sprawl
(Pgs. 299-304)
Real Data:
Population Density
and Carbon
Emissions (Pg. 302)
Lesson 3:
Sustainable Cities
(Pgs. 305-313)
Go Outside: Open
Space
(Pg. 310)
A Closer Look:
Geographic
Information
Systems
(Pgs. 314-315)
Study Guide
(Pg. 316)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 317-319)
Unit 3 Project:
Charette for
Sustainability
(Pg. 320)

Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms
Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms

Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships. (Prerequisite)
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.

3rd Quarter Earths Resources

Unit 4: Earths Resources
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Chapter 11: Forestry and Resource Management
Central Case:
Battling Over
Clayoquots Big
Trees (Pg.323)
Lesson 1: Resource
Management
(Pgs. 324-329)
Lesson 2: Forests
and Their
Resources
(Pgs. 330-336)
Real Data: From
Trees to Paper
(Pg. 332)
Quick Lab: A Trees
History
(Pg.334)

Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.

Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.

Lesson 3: Forest
Management
(Pgs. 337-343)

Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.

Success Stories:
Reforesting Africa
(Pgs. 344-345)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.

Study Guide
(Pg. 346)

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,

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Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 347-349)

economic, and ecological standpoint.Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ef.8: Identify factors that influence patterns of ecological succession, including invasive species, loss of biodiversity, change in abiotic
conditions, and catastrophic events.

Chapter 12: Soil and Agriculture

Central Case:
Possible
Transgenic Maize in
Oaxaca, Mexico
(Pg. 351)
Lesson 1: Soil
(Pgs. 352-357)
Go Outside:
Classifying Soil
(Pg. 356)
Lesson 2: Soil
Degradation and
Conservation
(Pgs. 358-364)
Lesson 3:
Agriculture
(Pgs. 365-372)
Map It: Origins of
Agriculture
(Pg. 366)
Lesson 4: Food
Production
(Pgs. 373-383)
SBTS: Dark Earth in
the Amazon

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living..
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.

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(384-385)

Study Guide
(Pg. 386)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pg. 387-389)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms..
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.

Chapter 13: Mineral Resources and Mining

Central Case:
Mining forCell
Phones?
(Pgs. 390-391)
Lesson 1: Minerals
and Rocks
(Pgs. 392-397)
Go Outside:
Classifying Rocks
(Pg. 396)
Lesson 2: Mining
(Pgs. 398-404)
Map It: Distribution
of Minerals (Pg.
402)
Lesson 3: Mining
Impacts and

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ed.3: Recognize that certain resources are nonrenewable because they are replenished at timescales of thousands to millions of
years.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,
manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
(Pre-requisite)

Ec: The student will identify the effect of human activities on natural processes and interrelationships within ecosystems . (Pre-requisite)
Ed: The student will identify a variety of Earths finite natural resources, assess the availability and sustainability of resources. (Prerequisite)

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,

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Regulation
(Pgs. 405-411)
PCP: Is it Safe to
Mine Salt in Retsof,
New York?(Pg. 412)
Study Guide
(Pg. 414)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 415-417)

manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,
manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ed.3: Recognize that certain resources are nonrenewable because they are replenished at timescales of thousands to millions of
years.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,
manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).

Chapter 14: Water Resources

Central Case:
Looking for Water
in the Desert
(Pg. 419)
Lesson 1: Earth: The
Water Planet
(Pgs. 420-425)
Map It: The
Mississippi River
Water Shed
(Pg.422)
Lesson 2: Uses of
Fresh Water
(Pgs.426-434)
Real Data: Lake
Powell
(Pg. 431)
Lesson 3: Water
Pollution
(Pgs. 435-443)

Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.

Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ec: The student will identify the effect of human activities on natural processes and interrelationships within ecosystems. (Prerequisite)
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,

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lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).

Quick Lab: Cultural

Eutrophication
(Pg. 437)
A Closer Look:
Waste Water
Treatment
(Pgs. 444-445)
Study Guide
(Pg. 446)
Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs.447-449)

Ea.4: Design a scientific investigation with appropriate methods of control to test a hypothesis (including independent and dependent
variables), and evaluate the designs of sample investigations.
Ea.7: Evaluate a technological design or product on the basis of designated criteria (including cost, time, and materials).
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ef.5: Identify the factors that have contributed to the growth of the human population and examine the impact this growth will have on
the environment.

Chapter 15: Atmosphere

Central Case:
Changing Toward
Cleaner Air in
London
(Pgs. 450-451)
Lesson 1: Earths
Atmosphere
(Pgs. 452-460)
Quick Lab: How
Does Hot Water
Move (Pg. 459)

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.

Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).

Lesson 2: Pollution
of the Atmosphere
(Pgs. 461-468)

Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.

Go Outside: Is the
Rainwater Acidic?
(Pg. 467)
Lesson 3:

Ea.2: Use scientific instruments to record measurement data in appropriate metric units that reflect the precision and accuracy of each
particular instrument.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,

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Controlling Air
Pollution
(Pgs. 469-473)
Real Data: Effects of
The Clean Air Act
(Pg. 471)
Success Stories: The
Clean Air Act and
Acid Rain
(Pgs. 474-475)

economic, and ecological standpoint.

Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 477-479)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.1: Provide evidence for how human population growth has impacted the environment and the use of natural resources.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).

Unit 4 Project:
Senate Hearing on
Resource
Management(P 480)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.

Study Guide
(Pg. 476)

Quarter 4 - Sustainable Future

Unit 5: Toward a Sustainable Future
Chapter 16: Global Climate Change
Central Case: Rising
Seas May Flood the
Maldives Islands
(Pg. 483)
Lesson 1: Our
Dynamic Climate
(Pgs. 484-490)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ee.4: Generate predictive hypotheses predicting the effects of carbon dioxide on Earths systems.
Ef.6: Differentiate that the Earths systems exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium and that certain compositions of the Earths
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millions of years

Quick Lab: Does

Latitude Affect the
Suns Rays?
(Pg. 486)

Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.

Lesson 2: Climate
Change
(Pgs. 491-496)

Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on
the environment.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically sustainable
environment.
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.

Real Data:
Changing
Temperature in the
Atmosphere
(Pg. 493)

Lesson 3: Effects of
Climate Change
(Pgs. 497--501)

Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem
functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management
strategies.
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically
sustainable environment.
Ee.4: Generate predictive hypotheses predicting the effects of carbon dioxide on Earths systems.

Lesson 4:
Responding to
Climate Change
(Pgs. 502-507)

Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically
sustainable environment.
Ed.8: Explain the ways in which individuals can alter their own behavior to reduce the human carbon footprint.

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Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.

SBTS: Climate
Clues in Ice
(Pgs. 508-509)

Study Guide
(Pg. 510)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs.511-513)

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology.
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.
Ef.6: Differentiate that the Earths systems exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium and that certain compositions of the Earths system(s)
may fluctuate on short or long time scales but the Earths system will generally stay within a certain narrow range for millions of years
Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management
strategies.
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically
sustainable environment.
Ee.1: Generate examples of the Earth as a complex system with connected and interconnected components and processes.
Ee.4: Generate predictive hypotheses predicting the effects of carbon dioxide on Earths systems.
Ef.6: Differentiate that the Earths systems exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium and that certain compositions of the Earths
system(s) may fluctuate on short or long time scales but the Earths system will generally stay within a certain narrow range for millions
of years.

Chapter 17 Nonrenewable Energy

Central Case: Oil or
Wilderness on
Alaskas North
Slope
(Pg. 515)
Lesson 1: Energy:

Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ed.1: Explain how fossil fuels are formed and where they can be found.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for
example, manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically sustainable
environment.
Ed.5: Analyze the future availability of nonrenewable energy resources considering the trend of human consumption of energy.

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An Overview
(Pgs. 516-521)
Quick Lab: Wheres the
Energy? (Pg. 520)

Lesson 2: Fossil
Fuels
(Pgs. 522-528)

Lesson 3:
Consequences of
Fossil Fuel Use
(Pgs. 529-535)

Real Data: Carbon

Dioxide from Fossil
Fuels (Pg. 530)
Map It: Imports and
Exports (Pg. 534)

Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information. (Pre-requisite)
Ea.8: Compare the processes of scientific investigation and technological design.
Ea.9: Use appropriate safety procedures when conducting investigations.

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ed.1: Explain how fossil fuels are formed and where they can be found.
Ed.2: Illustrate the naturally occurring cycles of Earths finite resources through Earths four major systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere, and biosphere) by describing the path of an element or a molecule in a natural resource (for example carbon or water).
Ed.3: Recognize that certain resources are nonrenewable because they are replenished at timescales of thousands to millions of
years.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,
manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).
Ed.5: Analyze the future availability of nonrenewable energy resources considering the trend of human consumption of energy.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using (including calculations in scientific notation,
formulas, and dimensional analysis), graphs, tables, models, diagrams, and/or technology.

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.

Lesson 4: Nuclear
Power
(Pgs. 536-541)

Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

A Closer Look: Using Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.
Coal to Generate
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
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(Pgs. 542-543)

Study Guide
(Pg. 544)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate
new knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Ec.3: Provide evidence for how people impact their environment through the use of natural resources.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment.

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 545-547)

Ec.5: Evaluate a variety of land management practices on their ability to restore ecosystem functioning and trophic relationships.
Ec.6: Describe how people affect biodiversity through land use practices, pollution, and their use of organisms.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ed.1: Explain how fossil fuels are formed and where they can be found.
Ed.3: Recognize that certain resources are nonrenewable because they are replenished at timescales of thousands to millions of
years.
Ed.4: Interpret how changes to the availability of nonrenewable natural resources might affect society (considering, for example,
manufacturing industries, agriculture, and transportation).
Ed.5: Analyze the future availability of nonrenewable energy resources considering the trend of human consumption of
energy.
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically
sustainable environment.

Chapter 18 Renewable Energy Alternatives

Central Case:
Germanys Big Bet
on Renewable
Energy
(Pg. 549)

Lesson 1: Biomass
and Geothermal
energy
(Pgs. 550-555)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment
Ed.9: Summarize how changes in the availability of energy will affect society and human activities, such as transportation,
agricultural systems, and manufacturing.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate
new knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.

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Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

Real Data: Biodiesel

(Pg. 552)

Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.

Lesson 2:
Hydropower and
Ocean Energy
(Pgs. 556-560)

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.

Lesson 3: Solar and

Wind Energy
(Pgs. 561-569)

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ea.1: Generate hypotheses based on credible, accurate, and relevant sources of scientific information.

Go Outside: Does
the Temperature
Change?
(Pg. 564)

Ea.2: Use appropriate laboratory apparatuses, technology, and techniques safely and accurately when conducting a scientific
investigation.

Map It: Wind Patterns

(Pg. 568)

Does Not Support the DoDEA Environmental Science Standards

Lesson 4: Energy
From Hydrogen
(Pgs. 570-573)
PCP: Are Biofuels
Better for the
Environment?
(Pgs. 574-575)

Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.

Ea.3: Use scientific instruments to record measurement data in appropriate metric units that reflect the precision and accuracy of
each particular instrument..
Ea.6: Evaluate the results of a controlled scientific investigation in terms of whether they refute or verify the hypothesis.

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint

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Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

Study Guide
(Pg. 576)

Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 577-579)

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Ec.2: Describe the ways in which the use of technology has an affected the environment and standard of living.
Ec.4: Recognize the ways in which technology, while improving our standard of living, has increased the human impact on the
environment
Ec.7: Identify the effects of human activities on ecosystems at various scales in terms of ecosystem functioning.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.
Ed.9: Summarize how changes in the availability of energy will affect society and human activities, such as transportation,
agricultural systems, and manufacturing.

Chapter 19 Waste Management

Central Case:
Transforming New
Yorks Fresh Kills
Landfill
(Pg. 581)

Lesson 1: Municipal
and Industrial
Waste
(Pgs. 582-588)

Lesson 2:

Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the
society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the
environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental
policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the
environment.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies. Ed.6:
Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically sustainable environment.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new

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Minimizing Solid
Waste
(Pgs. 589-595)

Quick Lab: Reduce,

Reuse, Recycle
(Pg. 591)

Lesson 3:
Hazardous Waste
(Pgs. 596-603)

knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically sustainable
environment.
Ed.8: Explain the ways in which individuals can alter their own behavior to reduce the human carbon footprint.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a social,
economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the environment.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management strategies.

Real Data: Radiation

and Human Health
(Pg. 601)
A Closer Look: The
Recycling Process
(Pgs. 604-605
Study Guide
(Pg. 606)
Chapter
Assessment
(Pgs. 607-609)

Ea.5: Organize and interpret the data from a controlled scientific investigation by using mathematics, graphs, models, and/or
technology
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the
environment.
Eb.1: Utilize research methods to investigate environmental questions, reevaluates their personal beliefs to accommodate new
knowledge and perspectives, and is able to effectively communicate this understanding to others.
Eb.2: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of balancing short term interests with long term welfare of the
society.
Eb.3: Explain how individual activities and decisions can have an impact on the
environment.
Eb.4: Identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues and evaluates the benefits and consequences of each from a
social, economic, and ecological standpoint.
Eb.5: Evaluating the ways in which government can influence environmental
policy.
Eb.6: Identify how the choices individuals make affect the

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environment.
Ec.8: Assess the environmental and societal costs and benefits of various common natural resource management
strategies.
Ed.6: Infer the effects of natural and human-caused activities that either contribute to or challenge an ecologically
sustainable environment.
Ed.8: Explain the ways in which individuals can alter their own behavior to reduce the human carbon
footprint.

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