The Prescribed Learning Objectives below are from the ministry website
Abiotic characteristics:
- aquatic
pH, flow, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, salinity - atmospheric
sunlight, wind, temperature, pressure - edaphic
- soils (e.g., pH, mineral content, water content, temperature, acidity, aeration, nutrients, humus)
- topography (e.g., altitude, slope, exposure, mountain chains, valleys, plains)
ecosystem, species, genetic
of biotic diversity
Ecosystem complexity:
- roles
niche, autotrophs, heterotrophs, producers, consumers, decomposers, scavengers, keystone species - relationships
- between organisms (e.g., predator/prey, competition, pollination, symbiosis, mutualism, parasitism, commensalism, mimicry)
- interactions between biotic and abiotic
- population dynamics
cyclic fluctuations, birth rate, fertility rate, carrying capacity
Energy flow
food chains, food webs, photosynthesis, respiration, trophic levels, productivity, pyramids of energy and biomass
through ecosystems
Matter cycles
water, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus
through and between living systems
Succession
primary and secondary
First Peoples knowledge and other traditional ecological knowledge
agriculture, ethnobotany, forestry, fisheries, mining, energy, controlled burning, harvesting cycles
in sustaining biodiversity
Benefits of ecosystem services
water purification, pollination, climate regulation, medicines, food production, waste management
Human actions
harvesting, resource extraction and consumption, population growth, urbanization, habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change, pollution, introduced species, invasive species, forest fires
and their impact on ecosystem integrity
First Peoples ways of knowing and doing
prescribed fire, selective harvesting, plant propagation and pruning, clam gardens
resource stewardship
Sustainable use of, and care for, local resources (e.g., school garden, shoreline cleanup, citizen science projects)
Restoration practices
the process of renewing and recovering a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem (e.g., riparian zone recovery, invasive species removal, native species planting, ecological engineering, dam removal, hatcheries, wildlife, forestry and fisheries management)
Themes:
Environmental Science and Science overview
Systems and Cycles and Interactions
Ecology
Biodiversity and Biomes
Human Population and Human and Colonial Environmental Impacts
Ocean Health
Restoration and Stability
Current Events/ News Feed
Film Study
This is a participation class. The more you engage with the content the more that you will learn and absorb. Be ready to get involved and to get your hands dirty
A world without fish:
Youtube Videos of 'World Without Fish'
Introduction: Being a short exposition about what could happen and how it would happen
Chapter 1:Being a short exposition about what could happen and how it would happen
Chapter 2. Being the true story of how humans first began to fish and how fishing became in industry (Part 1 & Part 2)
Chapter 3. Being the sad, cautionary tale of the orange roughy
Chapter 4. Being the myth of nature's bounty and how scientists got it wrong for many years
Chapter 5. Being a concise history of the politics of fish
Chapter 6. Being an examination of why we can't simply stop fishing
Chapter 7. Being a detailed look at four possible solutions and why they alone won't work (Part 1 & Part 2)
Chapter 8. The best solution to overfishing : sustainable fishing
Chapter 9. How pollution is killing fish too
Chapter 10. How global warming is also killing fish
Chapter 11. Time to wake up and smell the fish (Part 1 & Part 2)
Other Useful Links-Env. Sc. 11 Internet Links:
Malaria Scientific Method Game on Biomanbio
CarbonQuest on Biomanbio
Succession Interactive on Biomanbio
EcoVoyage on Biomanbio
Paramecium Competitive Exclusion Lab
Ecosystem Detectives: Peril River on Biomanbio
Canetoads: An Unnatural History
Canetoads (abbreviated version)
Smithsonian Ocean Interactive: Oil Spill
40 things you can do to help the Environment
BC Green Games: Scienceworld
Leap into Action Guide!
Fishing/overfishing game (tragedy of the commons explained)
Wild fire simulator
Climate Change Links
NASA Global Climate Change and Warming
NASA: ClimateKids
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
National Geographic Climate Change
Exploratorium: Climate Change
World Health Organization: Climate Change
NOAA: Climate Change Impacts
Ecological Footprint Calculator
Plastic Pollution
Ted-Ed: What happens to those plastic bottles?
In a Nutshell: Plastics
National Geographic: Plastic for Dinner
It’s OK to be Smart: How much plastic is in the ocean?
Oceana: Ending plastic in our oceans for good
Slide Deck of Plastic Data
Videos
Beyond Sustainability