AP Environmental Science curriculum

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Use ecosystem structure, biomes, productivity, food webs, trophic levels, and biogeochemical cycles.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Analyze an energy pyramid and nutrient-cycle model with one quantitative calculation and one limitation.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Explain energy flow and matter cycling.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Explain biodiversity, ecosystem services, island biogeography, tolerance, disturbance, and succession.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Evaluate how a biodiversity change affects ecosystem services and long-term resilience.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect biodiversity to ecosystem resilience.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Use population growth, carrying capacity, survivorship curves, age structures, and human population dynamics.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Read an age-structure diagram and forecast one likely environmental pressure with evidence.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Interpret demographic and growth data.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Use plate tectonics, soil, atmosphere, climate, global winds, and ocean-atmosphere patterns.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Explain a resource or hazard scenario using Earth-system evidence and uncertainty.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect geologic and atmospheric systems to resources and hazards.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Analyze agriculture, irrigation, pest control, forestry, mining, urbanization, overfishing, and sustainable practices.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Write a land-use decision memo comparing benefits, costs, stakeholders, and unintended effects.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Evaluate land-use tradeoffs.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Compare fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, biomass, and conservation.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Rank two energy choices for a region using quantitative and environmental evidence.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Use efficiency, availability, and environmental-impact evidence.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Use air pollutants, smog, indoor pollution, acid rain, legislation, and mitigation methods.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Trace an atmospheric pollutant from source to health/ecosystem effect and propose a mitigation.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect pollutant sources to effects and controls.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Analyze pollution sources, solid waste, wastewater, thermal pollution, pathogens, and human health.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Diagnose a pollution scenario and choose a monitoring or remediation strategy with evidence.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Distinguish point-source and nonpoint-source problems.

Start with AP Environmental Science and AP/College Environmental Science. Take notes until you can explain: Use ozone depletion, climate change, ocean warming, acidification, invasive species, and biodiversity loss.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Write a global-change argument with mechanism, evidence, proposed solution, and tradeoff.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Evaluate global-scale solutions and limits.