Environmental Science AP
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Free response questions
Lesson Outline
Review answers to FRQ's chapter 14. Work on multiple choice questions module 62.
Discuss production and measurement of greenhouse gases, both naturally and anthropogenic.
Assignment
Read module 63 answer MC questions
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Joshua was a bit distracted today.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
sources of greenhouse gasses
Lesson Outline
List, define, and discuss the natural and anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gasses.
Natural: volcanic eruption, decomposition and digestions, denitrification, evaporation and evapotranspiration.
Anthropogenic: Burning of fossil fuels, agricultural processes, deforestation, landfills, and industrial chemical production.
Assignment
FRQ unit
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
on line class.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
FRQ's
Lesson Outline
Work on free response questions for chapter 15 which were completed last night for homework. Discuss answers and what more could have been included.
Start chapter 14 FRQ,s, and work on question 1 of 2.
Assignment
FRQ's
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Joshua's chapter 15 FRQ answers were much more complete and accurate, given the chance to work on them at home.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
FAQ,s
Lesson Outline
Module 51 free response questions 1 and 2. Once written, the answers were evaluated and corrected.
Assignment
finish question 2
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Joshua has problems with answering the FRQ,s. We are examining techniques for answering, and reading the questions carefully.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Toxicology and chemical risk
Lesson Outline
Discussion regarding chemicals that have harmful effects, and how they enter the environment.
Outline neurotoxins, carcinogens, teratogens, allergens, and endocrine disruptors.
For each effect, list common chemical causes, including pharmaceuticals, insecticides, radon, asbestos, lead, mercury, and female reproductive hormones. Discuss how they all may end up in groundwater and rivers/lakes through grey water releases.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Worked through some end of module questions. Starting on Tues. we will be concentrating on free response questions which make up about 45% of the AP exam.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Indoor pollutiio
Lesson Outline
Discuss APES frq's and mcq,s assigned for completion on 4/12.
Check on College Board performance tests for unit 7 assigned.
Review answers to module 49 questions.
View APES assigned video 72.1 which reviews and explains causes of smog and ozone.
List and discuss causes of indoor pollution in developing countries and the effects on human health.
List and discuss the causes and effects of indoor pollution in developed countries, and examine the reasons for the differences between developed and developing countries.
Elicit the most common indoor pollutants found in developed countries.
Discuss the 4 specific causes as outlined by the EPA which leads to indoor pollution.
Explain the "sick building syndrome"


Assignment
College Board unit 7 questions on line
Session Minutes
90
Minutes Student Attended
90
Lesson Comments
Needed to have a discussion with Joshua regarding his non completion of APES free response questions assigned. He has permission to research answers to questions not specifically covered rather than ignore the question.
Session Date
Lesson Topic
ozone depletion
Lesson Outline
Discuss the stratospheric depletion of ozone. Outline and explain the importance of ozone in the stratosphere in protecting the Earth from harmful UV radiation.
Discuss the DNA damage caused by UV radiation to skin, eyes, and the immune system.
Outline the chemical formation of stratospheric ozone and the chemical depletion of it by chloro-fluoro hydrocarbons.
Examine the Montreal Protocol signed in 1987 that eliminated the use of CFC,s as refrigerants and aerosols.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Session Date
Lesson Topic
Pollution Control Measures
Lesson Outline
The best way to control pollution is to avoid it.
Accomplish this by the use of low sulfur fuels, conservation, increase efficiency, and control measures after combustion.
The measures are accomplished by the use of fluidized bed combustion, burning fuel at lower temperatures and lower oxygen concentrations, by the use of catalytic converters and the control of particulate matter.
Each of these is discussed in detail, along with global methods applied.
Assignment
module 48 questions
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Session Date
Lesson Topic
SAT
Lesson Outline
SAT testing
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Joshua finished the science unit in the single period
Session Date
Lesson Topic
air pollutants
Lesson Outline
Definition and formation of particulates which pollute the air.
Discussion on how the varying sizes of PM can be filtered by nasal cilia, the small sizes deposit within the respiratory system.
View and explain the formation of fog by interaction of photo-chemicals with Particulate Matter.
Distinguish between London fog and LA fog chemically.
Discuss Volatile Organic Compounds, Primary pollutants and secondary pollutants.
Outline the chemistry of ozone, how it is produced and its function in the production of smog. Discuss the daytime production and the evening reaction.
Show how acid deposition is formed, and travels from the point source to an eventual deposition location, and the human health problems associated with acid rain, along with the effect on plant life, aquatic plant and animal life.
Assignment
AP module questions
Session Minutes
90
Minutes Student Attended
90