Environmental Science 621A
Prince Edward Island · Grade 12 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Inquiry Skills (Project Based Learning)
The guided-inquiry research process used throughout the course to investigate environmental science issues: planning, investigating relationships, analysing data, and communicating results.
- Investigating an issue with guided inquiry
- Planning an investigation
- Conducting investigations of relationships
- Analysing data and explanations
- Communicating information and results
Unit 2: Introduction to Environmental Science
What environmental science is, its history and interpretations; stewardship, sustainable development, the precautionary principle, and critical thinking about environmental issues.
- Understanding environmental science
- Factors of sustainable development
- Stewardship and sustainability
- Interpretations of environmental science
- The precautionary principle
- Critical thinking about environmental issues
Unit 3: Ecological Principles
Systems and scale, biotic and abiotic factors, Earth's life-support system, ecosystem balance, energy flow and nutrient cycling, biodiversity and its loss, human impact, and conservation organizations.
- The concept and scale of systems
- Abiotic and biotic factors
- Earth's life-support system
- How balance is maintained in ecosystems
- Cycling of matter and biogeochemical cycles
- Measuring abiotic factors
- Human impact on living and nonliving systems
- Types of biodiversity
- Loss of diversity and sustainability
- Organizations preserving ecosystems
Unit 4: Human Population and Carrying Capacity
Resource limits and natural populations, human population growth and consumerism, ecological footprint, PEI land and resource use, landowner rights, natural capital, and Earth's carrying capacity.
- Resource limits and natural populations
- Population growth, resource demand, and consumerism
- Ecological footprint
- PEI resource and land use over time
- Landowner rights and responsibilities
- From natural resources to natural capital
- Earth's carrying capacity
Unit 5: Natural Resources
Responsible resource development; agriculture, soil, and food production (with PEI agriculture); water resources and fisheries; forestry (with PEI forests); and renewable and non-renewable energy. All coded 5.x sections are built; the guide's 'Energy plus three of five' is a delivery note, not a skip.
- Responsibly developing Earth's resources
- Types of agriculture
- Strategies affecting global food production
- Agriculture in Prince Edward Island
- Organic and traditional farming
- Soil conservation, erosion, and degradation
- Environmental impacts from agriculture
- Sustainable water use
- Water resources and international relations
- Global fishery management
- Environmental impacts of fishing techniques
- Ocean resources and Prince Edward Island
- Major forest regions of Canada
- Forests as natural capital
- Forest history on Prince Edward Island
- Managing forests sustainably
- Renewable and non-renewable energy
- Future energy use on Prince Edward Island
- Improving home energy efficiency
Unit 6: Environmental Challenges and Successes
The atmosphere and climate over time, greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect, global warming and anthropogenic climate change (with effects on PEI), air and water pollution and their reduction, and solid-waste management.
- The troposphere and stratosphere
- How Earth's climate has changed over time
- Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
- Greenhouse effect versus global warming
- Catastrophic effects of climate change
- Climate change effects on Prince Edward Island
- Anthropogenic carbon dioxide and climate change
- Challenges and successes addressing climate change
- Types, sources, and effects of air pollution
- Types, sources, and effects of water pollution
- Reducing air and water pollution
- Testing for water pollutants
- Types of solid domestic waste
- Managing solid waste on Prince Edward Island
- A course of action on waste management
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