AP Environmental Science

Make the most of every valuable day in your AP Environmental Science Course! This comprehensive instructional support material covers all topics in the AP curriculum and gives you as a teacher, and your students, valuable experiences with guided inquiry learning. The 32 labs and activities make each day part of an integrated curriculum designed for excellence. Students will feel confident and well-prepared for the AP exam while becoming environmentally aware citizens. These award winning co–authors have combined classroom experiences of over 50 years. Weatherhead is an experienced AP Environmental Science Exam Grader, Table Leader and Workshop Lecturer. Matthews has published lab manuals for APES, Honors Environmental Science, Marine biology and Oceanography. In this manual there are four labs under each of the 8 unit topics listed below.

Designed to be used with any Advanced Environmental Science textbook as a content resource, this full-year course includes major state standard alignments, an easy-to-use pacing guide, plus comprehensive 160 daily lesson plans providing point-of-use content background and teaching strategies to support classroom success. The classroom-tested labs are creative, engaging and apply concepts covered in the (editable PowerPoints) daily class notes that are ready the first day of class. Assessments provided for each unit are also editable in both Word and ExamView. All of these elements will greatly reduce teacher preparation time, improve the instructional environment for both teacher and student, and ensure coverage of all required national and/or state standards. Lab materials are commonly available in grocery or hardware stores.

Advanced Environmental Science wins TEXTY Award from Text & Academic Authors Assn.

AP Environmental Science won National 2010 TEXTY Award from Text & Academic Authors Association. This text is one of only 7 awarded nationally in any subject area for that year and the only one for the Physical Sciences.

Judge’s comment: “Excellent work and certainly relevant! The student manual gives students the opportunity to see concepts in practice. This is probably the best material that I have seen on environmental science.”

Note: APES Co-Author Kathryn Weatherhead is 2012 South Carolina Teacher of the Year

Also authored by Carol Matthews are:
Marine Biology and Oceanography (click title for link)
Environmental Science (Regular or Honors version, click title for link)
Freshwater (Aquatic) Science (click title for link)

Text and Academic Authors Association Textbook Excellence (“Texty”) Award: Recognizing Current Textbooks and Learning Materials for Excellence

This text was awarded a “Textbook Excellence Award” from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) the only association devoted solely to serving textbook and academic authors since 1987 (www.TAAonline.net). The “Textbook Excellence Award” recognizes works for their excellence in the areas of content, presentation, appeal, and teachability. These awards are given each year in several academic disciplines for both elementary and high school works and college titles. TAA’s panel of judges are all noted textbook authors in these disciplines.

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Table of Contents

Buying a unit at a time: If you want to purchase one eBook version unit at a time as opposed to the whole course, click on any unit listed below. Otherwise, there are choices listed further below to purchase the entire course. Password: There is a password letter among the files you will receive upon purchase. Note: with the eBook version, this purchase is only for one teacher, your classes, and not for distribution on a school, district or any website, or sharing with any other teacher. You can print all the student material, but teacher materials, for copyright reasons, are screen-view only. You may purchase a printed version of the teacher material from the choices posted below these units.