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Introduction to Environmental Systems for the IB Diploma
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Introduction to Environmental Systems for the IB Diploma

The Foundations of Environmental Systems
Created byNigel Gardner
Last updated 8/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Develop an understanding of the essential foundations of environmental systems and their relationship with human society.
  • Develop an understanding of environmental value systems, the tensions that exist within them how historical events have helped create them.
  • Explore system models to help in understanding the relationships within and between the environment and society.
  • Understand the movement, transfers and transformations that affect energy and matter in environmental systems
  • Investigate the concept of sustainability
  • Explore the links between humans, pollution and environmental systems.

Course content

5 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 40m total length

  • Welcome2:28

    Welcome to this course supporting Topic 1 of the IB ESS course

  • Environmental Value System overview11:47

    Historical events, among other influences, affect the development of environmental values systems and environmental movements.

    There is a wide spectrum of environmental value systems each with their own premises and implications.

    After reviewing this video you will have . abetter idea of what Environmental Value Systems are and how they develop

  • What is Intrinsic Value?5:17

    Different EVSs ascribe different intrinsic value to components of the biosphere.


    This video and the worksheets that go with it will help you explore this idea

  • 1.1 Environmental Value Systems
  • Case Study Assignment
  • Tensions within Environmental Value Systems15:26

    Tensions exist between different EVS. What on the outside might appear to be  one part of the spectrum can with deeper investigation actually be in another part of the spectrum. By there very nature answers based on one particular EVS, may not encompass all of the nuance of any particular context.

Requirements

  • Middle/High School general science or biology

Description

The course is designed to help students studying the IB Environmental Systems and Societies course at Diploma Level. However it is also useful for any High School students doing ecology, geography or environmental science.

The course is built to help students review and prepare for summative assessments in the subject as well as provide additional understanding, examples and ways of thinking about the course.

In this first course we focus on Topic 1 of the IB Environmental Systems and Societies course, the Foundations of Environmental Systems and Societies.

In the Topic students explore aspects of:

Environmental Values Systems

System Thinking

The sources and fate of energy and matter within systems

Sustainability

Pollution

These provide the underlying foundation for the entire Environmental Systems and Societies Course. The course supports students through over one and half hours of video covering each theme in depth alone side tasks and quizzes designed to help the student take what is covered in each video and articulate their understanding of the concepts, and content in the concept of specific examples form around the world. All resources used are also available for students to download and save for latter revision and reflection.

Subsequent Topics return to these building blocks through the program as the scaffold in which a deeper appreciation of the subject is developed.

Who this course is for:

  • Students taking IB Environmental Systems and Societies classes or taking ecology and environmental science units in Biology, Environmental Science or Geography at High School

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