Ciencias ambientales de la escuela secundaria

This course is an overview of environmental science and current global concerns, exploring scientific, economic, social and political solutions to environmental problems. There will be discussion of the history of the environmental movement, environmental regulatory agencies, fundamental principles of resources and their use, population, conservation, and environmental health.   Environmental Science provides students with the foundation of scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies that are required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world. Students will identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, evaluate the relative risks associated with
these problems, and examine alternative solutions for resolving and/or preventing them. 

The course will stress the following points of study:
- Science is a process and a method for learning more about our world;
- Energy and matter conversions (not losses or gains!) underlie all ecological and human processes;
- The Earth itself is one interconnected system;
- This interconnected system is complex;
- Humans alter natural systems;
- Environmental problems have a cultural and social context and finally;
- Human survival depends on developing practices that will achieve sustainable systems.