lab / Supplies Lab Supplies by CED unit in AP® Environmental Science Here is a list of some labs that are commonly done in AP® Environmental Science …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 7 Tropospheric Ozone Virtual Picture Lab I created this lab during the summer when tropospheric ozone is really high in the …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 7 Coriolis Effect and Atmospheric Circulation Lab I love it when I hear kids say “whoa”, or “wow” or “ohhhh, now I …
Ecocolumns / Uncategorized Container Seeds in Ecocolumns This year, I had packets of donated seeds that my students used in ecocolumns. Two …
lab / Supplies A Review of Pasco’s Wireless Sensors I used some of Pasco’s wireless sensors in my classroom over the past two years …
lab / Supplies A Review of Vernier Sensors I recently tried a few of Vernier’s GoDirect Wireless Sensors with my high school students …
lab / Supplies / Uncategorized A Review of Hanna pH Meters I recently tested three of Hanna’s pH Meters in my high school science lab. Hanna …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 3 Human Population 5E Lab Using Cemetery Data Part II This post discusses each part of the 5E Lab. For suggestions, materials and set of …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 3 Human Population 5E Lab Using Cemetery Data Part I One of the most interesting labs in Regular or AP®Environmental Science is using cemetery data …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Uncategorized / Unit 1 Primary Productivity and Light in the Ocean Lab I came across this lab from the Monterey Bay Aquarium called “Light in the Deep …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 9 Tree Rings and Climate Lab Tree rings are a good way to study past and present climate. They are proxy …
lab / Labs For CED Units Labs For Each Unit in AP® Environmental Science This is a list of labs with links that I do for each unit in …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 7 Airborne Particulates Lab Using LED Tap Lights I recently experimented using LED tap lights as an alternate to using stereoscopes in the …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 8 Toxins 5E Lab Two important topics in APES are combined for this 5E–Serial dilution Lab and LC50 Lab. …
lab / Unit 5 Trees, Forestry and Deforestation 5E Take students outside to measure trees, discover ecosystem services of trees and forests, develop math …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 2 Island BioGeography Theory 5E Lab The Theory of Island Biogeography is a nice 5E lab using inexpensive materials (funnels, beans …
Ecocolumns / lab Finishing and Assessing EcoColumns Finishing EcoColumns is a sad, but necessary part of EcoColumns. Students become very attached to …
Ecocolumns / Unit 1 Everything Ecocolumns My students’ favorite lab is building and taking care of Ecocolumns. This lab gives them …
lab / Supplies Supplies In AP® Environmental Science, we don’t have any mandatory labs, but there are a few …
lab / Supplies APES Lab Supplies Part 2: Other Recommended Labs The labs on this post tend to be popular, because they cover a lot of …
lab / Supplies APES Lab Supplies Part 1: Essential Labs A question new AP® Environmental Science teachers ask is “What supplies do I need?” or …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 7 Air Pollution Lab-Airborne Particulates One of the best (and easy to implement) labs I do is an air pollution …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Uncategorized / Unit 8 Biomagnification Activity from the Monterey Bay Aquarium I really like this biomagnification activity from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I discovered this activity …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 8 Water Quality Testing in the Lab Water Quality Testing is essential for AP® Environmental Science students. Every released exam has water …
instructional_video / lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 8 Fecal Coliform Bacteria Students need to understand fecal coliform bacteria. This is bacteria that comes from mammal waste …
instructional_video / lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 8 Biological Oxygen Demand I live in arid Southern California where surface water is scarce and it is impossible …
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instructional_video / lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 1 GPP/NPP Virtual Lab I don’t always have time for students to do a lab. Every day is precious. …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 5 Soil Salinization Lab One of the most common (and important!) labs in AP® Environmental Science is the Soil …
Ecocolumns / lab Things Go Wrong in Ecocolumns-and its OK! Things will go wrong in ecocolumns, they always do. And that’s part of the magic …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 6 Electricity 5E using Kill-A-Watt Meters Updated Spring 2019! This year, I revised my Kill-A-Watt lab with a lot more math, …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 5 / Units Tragedy of the Commons 5E A great way to teach Tragedy of the Commons is with a “fishing” activity. There …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 9 Ocean Acidification Experimental Design Lab Students learn not only about the effects of increasing acidity in the ocean on marine …
Ecocolumns / lab 10 Scientific Concepts Learned from Ecocolumns Ecocolumns can teach the kids A LOT of scientific concepts if you are purposeful with …
lab / Methods & Lessons / Supplies Where to Find Science Grants and Other Funding When I was beginning science teacher 20 years ago, a very wise science education professor …
Ecocolumns / lab Ecocolumns with a Small Budget and with a Big Budget Sometimes new teachers panic when they see all the shiny probes, grow lights and data …
Ecocolumns / lab Building the Aquatic Chamber in Ecocolumns After two weeks of draining your ecocolumns, its time to build the aquatic chamber. DO …
Ecocolumns / lab Ecocolumn Fish–“O Happy Day!” After weeks of your students being excited about getting a fish, today is the day! …
lab / Labs For CED Units / Unit 1 Owl Pellet Dissection-Trophic Levels and Energy Loss Owl pellet dissection is used to teach ecology topics such as food webs, biomass pyramids …
Ecocolumns / lab Bugs, Worms, and Leaf Litter…..O my! (Adding detritivores to EcoColumns) Adding worms is almost as much fun as getting a fish! (NO FISH for two …
Ecocolumns / lab Planting Seeds in EcoColumns, Taking Soil Data and Setting Up Data Charts On the second day of building ecocolumns, students add seeds and begin taking data. (This …
Ecocolumns / lab Cutting and Filling Ecocolumns Students thoroughly enjoy building ecocolumns. Building usually takes 2 full class periods (50-55 min). The …
Ecocolumns / lab / Supplies Buying Supplies for Ecocolumns Students thoroughly enjoy building ecocolumns. The supplies here are for an ecocolumn with three chambers: …
Ecocolumns / ecocolumn_videos / lab EcoColumns: Solving Dissolved Oxygen issues with aquatic chamber holes
Ecocolumns / ecocolumn_videos / lab Building EcoColumns Part 5 Making the Aquatic Chamber This video describes how to build the Aquatic Chamber. Remember, DO NOT build this chamber …
Ecocolumns / lab / Labs For CED Units / Methods & Lessons / New APES Teachers Group Data Analysis At the end of Ecocolumns, my students graph their data and answer questions as a …
