Students will identify a current environmental problem cited in scientific literature or the media.

While maintaining a historical perspective, students will investigate the current problem, propose possible further research then critique other students' proposals.

Students will communicate the results of their investigation to groups concerned with the issue.

Students will assess the relationship of matter and energy in natural, managed, and built systems.

Students will evaluate the importance of ecosystems and biodiversity from a natural and human perspective.

Students will evaluate the stability and sustainability of an ecosystem (including carrying capacity) in response to changes in environmental conditions.

Students will analyze the impact of past and current human activities to ecosystems.

Students will analyze ways in which technology has expanded our ability to alter the environment and its capacity to support humans and other living organisms.

Students will explain how society is influenced by natural resource distribution; including management strategies to maintain economic and environmental sustainability.

Students will analyze how natural resource ownership influences different political and governmental systems in trade, development, distributions, consumption, and waste.

Students will describe the impact the economy and environment have on human population growth rates.

Students will explain the idea of exported and imported pollution and debate the risks of those pollutants.

Students will research environmental careers and individuals who have made important contributions in those fields.

Students will illustrate how environmental quality affects the economic well-being of a community and human health.

Students will analyze the effects of natural and human-caused activities that contribute to an ecologically and economically sustainable environment.

Students will explain the factors that contribute to the development of individual and societal values between cultures.

Students will identify a variety of approaches to environmental issues, evaluate the consequences of each, and select and defend a position.

Students will develop and evaluate a plan to maintain or improve their environment and enlist support for implementation.

Students will research a variety of ways to improve an environmental issue analyzing the political, economical, and social costs and benefits.

Students will explain the advantages and disadvantages of economic approaches to improving the environment.

Students will reflect on their personal beliefs regarding their relationship to the natural environment.

Students will write a plan and take action on an environmental issue.