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Resources
- Online Environmental Science Course Materials
Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry
http://manahans1.googlepages.com/ This site houses
an array of resources for teaching environmental chemistry
including: 1. An annotated PowerPoint presentation suitable
for presentation as a general lecture to explain the basics of
environmental chemistry to a general chemistry class or similar
group can be downloaded from this site. This lecture emphasizes
sustainability and covers environmental chemistry from the
viewpoint of five environmental spheres: Hydrosphere,
atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere, and anthrosphere. 2. An
outline of a basic course in Environmental Chemistry based upon
the book Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry, 3rd ed.,
Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2009 by Stanley E. Manahan. 3.
The book Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of
Sustainability by Stanley Manahan and a complete set of
PowerPoint presentations for this book can be downloaded from
the Analytical Sciences Digital Library site free of charge.
The Habitable Planet: A
Systems Approach to Environmental Science
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/envsci/index.html
The Habitable Planet is a multimedia course for high school teachers and
adult learners interested in studying environmental science. The web
site provides a downloadable
guide, online textbook, interactive teaching and learning tools, and
video on demand. Each
of the programs in the series includes two case studies featuring the
work of top scientists in the field.
Units: Many Planets, One Earth; Atmosphere; Oceans;
Ecosystems; Human Population Dynamics; Risk, Exposure, and Health;
Agriculture; Water Resources; Biodiversity Decline; Energy Challenges;
Atmospheric Pollution; Earth's Changing Climate; Looking Forward: Our
Global Experiment
National Repository of Online
Courses: Environmental Science & AP Environmental Science
http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc/nrocdemos.html
NROC
is a library of online courses for students and faculty in higher
education, high school, and advanced placement. (Note: Both the ES and
AP ES courses contain the same content.)
Environmental Science
This course is designed to acquaint you with the physical, ecological,
social, and political principles of environmental science. The
scientific method is used to analyze and understand the
inter-relationships between humans and the natural environment. The
course shows how ecological realities and the material desires of humans
often clash, leading to environmental degradation and pollution. The
course covers the following topics: Earth's Systems, Human Population
Dynamics, Natural Resources, Environmental Quality, Global Changes, and
Environment and Society.
AP Environmental Science
This curriculum covers all of the
material outlined by the College Board as necessary to prepare students
to pass the AP Environmental Science exam. This course is designed to
acquaint you with the physical, ecological, social, and political
principles of environmental science. The scientific method is used to
analyze and understand the inter-relationships between humans and the
natural environment. The course shows how ecological realities and the
material desires of humans often clash, leading to environmental
degradation and pollution. The course covers the following topics:
Earth's Systems, Human Population Dynamics, Natural Resources,
Environmental Quality, Global Changes, and Environment and Society.
Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources
http://www.ncsr.org/
NCSR is a national clearinghouse for natural resource curriculum
materials used by college faculty and high school science teachers. The
materials stress a science-based instruction approach to develop an
accurate understanding of the principles of ecosystem-based resource
management and sustainability and feature lecture-discussion,
laboratory, and field-based teaching and learning approaches. Full
courses and labs can be downloaded.
Instructional and Educational Materials: Aquatic Field and Lab
Methods I & II; Environmental Ethics; Environmental Science I & II &
III; Geographic Information System; Introduction to Mammalogy;
Principles of Wildlife Conservation; Many More Topics
Fee-based Resources
Web of School
Science - Environmental Science Interactive
http://www.webschoolofscience.com/EnvScience.php
In this course are a
series of interactive, inquiry-based environmental science simulations
and exercises designed for college and AP high school environmental
science courses.
Course Topics: Scientific method; Risk and uncertainty;
Biodiversity; Evolutionary response; Human population dynamics;
Conservation of endangered species; Interactions among species; Energy
resources; Water resources; Waste management; Atmosphere and climate;
Air pollution; Natural resource use and planning; Policy and decision
making
Aventa Learning: Environmental Science & AP
Environmental Science
http://www.aventalearning.com/onlinecourses.html
Environmental Science
This course is an upper level science course. Environmental Science is a
multidisciplinary field that draws from all the sciences in addition to
other fields. This course will help students better understand the
relationship between humans and the world in which we live.
Environmental science applies the principles of pure sciences such as
biology, chemistry, ecology, geology, and others.
AP Environmental Science
This course is designed to acquaint you with the physical, ecological,
social, and political principles of environmental science. The
scientific method is used to analyze and understand the
interrelationships between humans and the natural environment. The
course shows how ecological realities and the material desires of humans
often clash, leading environmental degradation and pollution. The course
consists of six chapters covering the following topics: Earth's Systems,
Human Population Dynamics, Natural Resources, Environmental Quality,
Global Changes and Environment and Society. Chapters are divided into
several subsections, each of which contains text, animations, laboratory
simulations and video presentations by experts. This course is one
semester.
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