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High School Cambridge AICE Environmental Management AS Level

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Suggested Prerequisites

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Description

Managing our planet’s resources for the future is up to you! This course will develop transferable skills, such as handling data, practical problem-solving, applying the scientific method, and evaluating strategies for a sustainable future. You will also develop relevant attitudes, such as objectivity, integrity, inquiry, initiative, and inventiveness to take on the global issue facing humanity and the balance of Earth's systems. You will be encouraged to be confident, responsible, reflective, innovative, and engaged. The key concepts for this course are sustainability, interactions, pressure on the environment, global dimensions, and research methodology.

Module One: Foundations

-The world’s continents and major oceans

-World Bank income groups to classify countries

-Components and structure of the Earth's atmosphere

-Photosynthesis, respiration, and Earth's cycles

-Ecosystems and food chains and webs

-Sustainability and the tragedy of the commons

-Scientific method and reliability and bias in science


Module Two: Human Population

-Environmental research and types of data

-Sampling strategies and techniques to collect data

-Big data and data collection with technology

-Population density, distribution, structure, and composition

-Population dynamics, demography, and demographic transitions

-Dependency ratio and population strategies and policies


Module Three: Ecosystems

-Terrestrial biomes and succession

-Productivity, energy efficiency, and ecological pyramids

-Population, biodiversity, percentage cover, and abundance estimations

-Types of species and biodiversity

-Strategies, legislation, and protocols for conserving biodiversity

-Impacts and management for rainforests and Antarctica

Module Four: Food and Energy

-Food security: threats, impacts, and management

-Renewable and nonrenewable energy resources

-Energy security: threats, impacts, and management

-Energy insecurity case study

-Waste disposal, treatment, and management strategies


Module Five: Water and Air

-Water security: threats, impacts, and management

-Facts about the atmosphere

-Acid deposition and photochemical smog

-Dobson unit and impacts of ozone depletion

-Managing air pollution and ozone depletion


Module Six: Climate Change

-Enhanced greenhouse effect and global warming

-Monitoring and predicting climate change

-Impacts of climate change

-Strategies for managing climate change

-Environmental plans and investigations