AP Environmental Science

You are required to take notes and keep an organized notebook for this course.  You should obtain a 3-ring binder style notebook for use in class.  Set it up with the following sections:

Notes: Print out the "skeleton outlines" from the class web page and store the notes you take in class here as well.  Create your own drawings and concept maps to store with your notes as well

Labs: This part will have two components: (1) notes/data you take while conducting experiments; (2) your typed lab reports

Handouts/readings: There will be numerous handouts and readings to keep track of.  Many readings will be available only online, but I would suggest storing them in your notebook if you print them out.  I do not make extra copies - keep track of your work!

News/articles: You will be required to document at least one news article related to environmental issues or research per month.  Write a short summary (on paragraph) of the article and it's significance, and attach it to the article.  When the assignment is due in class, you may email it to me; I will check for them in this section of the notebook when I grade it at the end of the quarter.

Writing assignments: Store your completed writing assignments here as well.

I will periodically collect the notebooks to check for all of the required components.  Grades will be part of your "class participation" grade.

Bonus incentive: in order to model the idea of reducing resource use, I want to encourage you to use less paper.  You can receive bonus points if you save electronic versions of all writing assignments and create an accessible index for them on a web page, so that I can view them there instead of in the notebook.