Review renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Discuss how even renewable resources can be depleted, and why.
Introduce developed and developing country definition.
Discuss what steps can be taken to prevent collapse of the environment and civilization.
Answer questions 1-11 multiple choice, and FRQ #2 attached to unit 1. Discuss Video 2.1 APES college board assignment.
Introduce resource depletion, the fifth of the biological indicators. Discuss natural resource production for use as energy
and as material to support civilization. Classify resources into renewable and non renewable.
Answer questions 1-11 unit 1 AP practice exam. Discuss reasons for answers. Discuss FRQ #2, stress define, explain, and describe difference.
Introduce natural resources and discuss what they provide. Differentiate between renewable and non renewable resources and list samples for both. Discuss factors which will have the greatest effect on resource depletion and how those factors will have an effect on the systems.
Introduce per capita resource use and how to determine the per capita use of natural resources.
Session Minutes
90
Minutes Student Attended
90
Lesson Comments
Matthew did very well on the multiple choice questions, the free response questions we will work on.
Discuss the indicator of food production and the ability to feed the population. Elicit the 3 main grains used to supply more than 1/2 the calories consumed.
Discuss how world grain production has increased since the 1950's through the use of expanded irrigation techniques, fertilizer production, and new genetic varieties of food plants, which demonstrate genetic variation.
Discuss how even with all the technology, production is leveling off. View line graph of production and population growth.
Discuss the difference between inorganic fertilizer which is produced in chemical factories, and organic fertilizer derived from manure and composting. Relate how the particle size differs, with the smaller molecular sized inorganic fertilizers more easily seeping through the soil into ground water, causing pollution.
Review average global temperature changes, with the planet heating up.
Discuss the effects of greenhouse gas increases in the atmosphere and the anthropogenic causes.
Assignment
video 2.1 and unit questions 1-11
Session Minutes
90
Minutes Student Attended
90
Lesson Comments
JP initiates some very interesting questions for discussion. He seems very eager to learn and understand the effects on the environment.
Define and discuss indicator #4, human population effects on the systems.
Also discuss what the effects average global temperature increases have on the systems. Elicit factors which have maintained CO2 concentrations for millions on years, and the Anthropogenic factors which are now affecting the average global temperature.
Assignment
view APES video 2.1. Answer Unit 1 questions 1-11 and FRQ #2
Define genetic diversity and discuss the advantages to the population derived by increases in diversity. Discuss genetic mutations as the cause of the diversity, but not all mutations are helpful.
Define and discuss species diversity, speciation and background extinction rate.
Introduce ecosystem diversity and the advantages to the environment with increasing numbers of ecosystems.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
JP asks vert interesting and intelligent questions.
How to determine net loss or gain of species/year.
Discuss the food production indicators. The requirements needed to feed the population.
Determine factors which have allowed the world grain production to increase over the last 70 years, while farmland has decreased.
Discuss the negative effects seen when these factors are employed in grain increase..
Will there be sufficient rain to feed future populations?
Assignment
Complete reading unit, answer all unit one questions.
List and discuss he services and goods which are provided by a healthy ecosystem. Define ecosystem services.
Discuss why the system may become stressed.
List environmental indicators.
Review questions from AP exams, end of module 1.
List environmental indicator already discussed.
Explain how to calculate the average net gain or loss of species on Earth and present a problem to solve.
Investigate the second indicator, food production.
Discuss why it is important and the factors which are required in order to produce sufficient food.
Elicit the 3 main food grains, wheat, corn, and rice.
Discuss why and how world grain production has increased since the 1950's,
APES video 1.1, ecosystems, interactions, biotic and abiotic factors, and human intervention. Answer questions proposed by the video commentator and introduce other factors which will affect the predator-prey relationship curves. Begin reading fracking.
