AP Environmental Science

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Dive into Environmental Science with this worktext

BIOZONE’s AP Environmental Science is a dedicated title to address the APES CED. This title takes a global perspective, examining the very latest issues concerning the environment while still providing the foundation for students to understand and engage with the science involved. Current concerns in the global community, including wildfires, COVID-19, glacial retreat, and loss of biodiversity are examined, with the emphasis being on the interconnectedness of Earth’s systems and the importance of ecosystem services.

Using current case studies, student investigations, and data analysis, BIOZONE’s AP Environmental Science emphasizes the application of knowledge to understanding the Earth’s systems and identifying and analyzing environmental problems and their solutions. This easily navigated resource addresses the two essential components of the course framework: science practices and course content. Its interdisciplinary approach and highly visual format encourage students to engage fully with the principles, ideas, and methodologies required to understand the natural world.

Features and benefits:

• Chapter introductions provide a summary of required content, encapsulating the essential knowledge statements matched point for point.
• Key questions provide the focus for each activity.
• Student inquiry is supported through simple hands-on investigations (lab and field based).
• The big ideas and science practices spiral across topics and units.
• Through current case studies, students identify and analyze natural and human-made environmental problems and evaluate solutions.
• Concept and science practice codes help students make important connections across the whole program.
• Personal progress checks provide opportunity for formative assessment and prepare students for their AP exam.

Additional resources available

BIOZONE WORLD: Digital subscriptions to this program are available via our new online platform: BIOZONE WORLD.  Access is available for trial by schools and districts upon request.

Resource Hub:  The BIOZONE Resource Hub is a FREE resource, available to both students and teachers. It offers a curated collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) specifically chosen to support the content of the worktext. Resources include videos, animations, games, 3D models, spreadsheets, and source material

TEACHER SUPPORT PRODUCTS 

BIOZONE offers a number of products designed to help teachers effectively deliver AP Environmental Science. These include:

• • Teacher’s Edition contains:
    • Classroom Guide (see below)
    •  Model answers in place
    • Additional teacher coding

 

The Classroom Guide at the beginning of the Teacher’s Edition provides a guide to using BIOZONE’s resources. It includes strategies for teaching in a differentiated classroom, information about the assessment tools, practical investigations, and extended Teacher’s Notes.

Contents: Chapters

1. The Living World: Ecosystems
2. The Living World: Biodiversity
3. Populations
4. Earth Systems and Resources
5. Land and Water Use
6. Energy Resources and Consumption
7. Atmospheric Pollution
8. Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution
9. Global Change
10. Science Practices for Environmental Science Students

Book Structure

BIOZONE’s AP Environmental Science worktext is supported by the Teacher Toolkit, a suite of resources specifically developed to help plan and deliver an engaging program.

Resources available include:

• Teacher’s Edition (print): includes model answers, teacher coding and classroom Guide.
• Teacher access BIOZONE WORLD (digital): includes access to show/hide model answers, inbuilt presentation slides, 3D models, videos, and weblinks.
• Classroom Guide (free download PDF): explains the pedagogy and how to get the most from the features of the worktext. Includes information for differentiated instruction, assessment
• Presentation Slides (available in BIOZONE WORLD)
• Resource Hub (curated resources to support content delivery): access 3D models, videos, weblinks and more.
• Question Library: all activity questions in AP Environmental Science are extracted as fully editable files.

Student support is available online in two ways:

• Digital Platform:  Student access to BIOZONE WORLD (digital) can be purchased – see the DIGITAL tab above.
• Resource Hub is available for print book users and features curated resources to support content delivery, including: 3D models, videos, curated OER weblinks and more.

BIOZONE WORLD

BIOZONE WORLD consolidates all of our digital resources into one powerful platform. Available for institutional purchase only, a minimum purchase of 1 class set is required. Integrations to LMS and rostering services are available. Teachers have everything they need to successfully deliver an engaging science course with access to a digital replica of the student editions, model answers, presentation slides, classroom guides, and all resource hub materials. See full details on BIOZONE WORLD here.

Student Access

Digital replica that displays an interactive version of the book:

• Students can view the entire book (as it appears in the print version).
• Students can enter answers online and submit them to their teacher.
• Digital resources for each activity can be directly accessed: 3D models, Presentation Slides, Curated OER videos, Weblinks

Teacher ONLY Access

All the functions the student has plus:

• Teacher has access to online model answers via display buttons.
• Teacher can assign activities as time-sensitive coursework to be submitted by students.
• Teacher can view, comment and grade student responses to questions.

Digital subscriptions to this program is available via our new online platform: BIOZONE WORLD.  Access is available for trial by schools and districts upon request.

Resource Hub: 

The BIOZONE Resource Hub is a FREE resource, available to both students and teachers. It offers a curated collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) specifically chosen to support the content of the worktext. Resources include videos, animations, games, 3D models, spreadsheets, and source material