Introduction to Environmental Systems for the IB Diploma

The Foundations of Environmental Systems

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Introduction to Environmental Systems for the IB Diploma
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Aug 2021
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What you will 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.

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.

Content

1.1 Environmental Value Systems

Welcome
Environmental Value System overview
What is Intrinsic Value?
1.1 Environmental Value Systems

1.2: Systems and Models

Systems and Models
Systems and Models

1.3: Energy and Equilibria

Energy and Equilibria
Energy and Equilibria

1.4: Sustainability

Sustainability
EIA structured Essay Practice
Sustainability exam type practice questions

1.5: Humans and Pollution

Humans and Pollution
Pollution in Vietnam

Reviews

Jason
January 11, 2021
Compared to a lot of the other courses here, the instructor uses and references extensively sources, provides all the slides and resources to download and provided a lot of assignment
Christina
June 6, 2020
The video transcripts were awful, which is unfortunate as the course seemed like it would be interesting.

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