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Demystifying Science and the Environment
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5 Sections
26 Lessons
10 Weeks
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Chapter 1: Investigating the Environment
5
1.1
Putting the “Science” in Environmental Science
10 mins
1.2
Analyzing the Earth’s Systems and Ecosystems
10 mins
1.3
Supplies Limited! Natural Resources and Resource Management
10 mins
1.4
Keeping Things Habitable
10 mins
1.5
Imagining the Future
10 mins
Chapter 2: Thinking Scientifically: The Scientific Method and Other Ways of Knowing
5
2.1
Asking and Answering Questions with the Scientific Method
10 mins
2.2
Presenting Data Graphically
10 mins
2.3
Quantifying Uncertainty
10 mins
2.4
Recognizing Good Science When You See It
10 mins
2.5
Knowing There Are Different Ways of Knowing
10 mins
Chapter 3: What’s the Matter? Living and Nonliving Material
7
3.1
Changing States of Matter
10 mins
3.2
Examining Atomic Structure
10 mins
3.3
Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds
10 mins
3.4
Surveying the Properties of Water
10 mins
3.5
What’s pH Got to Do with It? Acids and Bases
10 mins
3.6
It’s Alive! Organic Matter and Compounds
10 mins
3.7
Building Organisms One Cell at a Time
10 mins
Chapter 4: Making Things Happen: Energy
4
4.1
Identifying the Different Types of Energy
10 mins
4.2
Defining the Thermodynamic Laws
10 mins
4.3
Counting Calories (and Joules)
10 mins
4.4
Converting the Sun’s Energy to a Useable Form
10 mins
Chapter 5: Studying the Environment and Your Place in It
5
5.1
Integrating Multiple Disciplines
10 mins
5.2
Applying Common Tools of Environmental Science
10 mins
5.3
Tracing the Development of Modern Environmental Ethics
10 mins
5.4
The Overall Goal: Seeking Sustainability
10 mins
5.5
To Be or Not to Be a Tree-Hugger: Looking Past Political Debates
10 mins
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