Grades 11-12
Prerequisites: B- or better in both semesters of Biology and Chemistry
Semester 1-2, One credit per semester
AP Environmental Science is designed to provide students with the scientific principles and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world and to apply that understanding to environmental problems and issues. Lectures, discussions, laboratory investigations, and field data collection and analysis will be used to identify and investigate environmental problems. Students will also evaluate the risks associated with these problems and examine potential solutions. The course is an application of biology, chemistry, and physics and integrates elements of history, politics, and economics into quantitative and qualitative assessment of the environment. The course is intended as preparation for the College Board Advanced Placement Exam given in May of each year. Because of this intent, APES is significantly more difficult and will require larger time commitment than the one-semester ES course.
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