WEEK OF:

LECTURE TOPICS:

LAB EXERCISES:

1.  Aug. 24 – Aug. 28

Introduction to course
Environmental History – Sec. 2

Energy Conservation – Sec. 3

1.       Introduction

2.       Epidemiology – Section 19

3.       Vegetative Communities of AZ – Sec- 20

4.       Essential Elements (plant seeds): Sec-5

2.  Aug.31 – Sept. 4
      

Biology:  An introduction - Sec. 4

Soils - Sec. 5

Assignment: personal water worksheet

1.       Study of a Life Cycle - Section 1[setup]

2.       Epidemiology – Sec. 19 (observe microbes)

3.       Endangered Wildlife of AZ – Sec-23, p. 145

3.  Sept. 7 – 11 

[LABOR DAY]
    No MONDAY Classes

Soils - Sec. 4
Water in AZ - Sec. 6
Journal Reports: 1 & 2 Due

1.       The Plant Body: The Leaf - Section 2

2.       Continue: Life Cycle – Section 1 (week 2)

3.       Essential Elements: (Set-up) - Section 5

 4.  Sept. 14 – 18

Water in AZ - Sec. 6
Video: Rivers Lost

Riparian Habitat of AZ – Sec. 7
EXAM #1

1.       The Study of Soils - Section 3

2.       Growth of a Plant – Sec- 6 (Set-up) (Day "0")

3.       Continue: Study of Life Cycle – Sec.1 (wk3)

4.       Essential Elements – Sec. 5 (water)

5.  Sept. 21 – 25

Water Pollution - Sec. 8

Air Pollution - Sec. 9

1.       Water Pollution - Section 4

2.       Continue: Life Cycle - Section 1 (week 4)

3.       Continue: Essential Elements – Sec. 5 – 1^st data

4.       Continue: Growth of a Plant - Section 6 (Day 7)

5.       Conclude: Study of Soils – Section 3

6.  Sept. 28 – Oct. 2**

Air Pollution - Sec. 9
Plant Growth / Development -Sec. 10

1.       Flower Morphology & Pollination - Section 7

2.       Video: Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind

3.       Conclude: Life Cycle - Section 1 (week 5)

4.       Continue: Growth of a Plant - Section 6 (Day 14)

7.  Oct. 5 – 9

Toxins - Sec. 11
Journal Reports 3 & 4 Due!

1.       Seed Dormancy– Sec. 8 - Set up

2.       Seed Dispersal - Section 9

3.       Continue:  Study of a Life Cycle - Section 1

4.       Continue: Essential Elements – Sec. 5 (2^nd data) -Finish

5.       Continue: Growth of a Plant - Section 6 (Day 21)

8.  Oct. 12 – 16

Toxins - Sec. 11
EXAM #2

1.       Environmental Awareness and MCC - Section 10

2.       Use of Bioinsecticides - Section 11 – Setup

3.       Conclude:  Growth of a Plant - Section 6 - (Day 28)

4.       Conclude:  Seed Dormancy - Section 8**

9.   Oct. 19 – 23

Backyard Ecology - Sec. 12

1.       The Diversity of Arizona Animals - Section 12

2.       Conclude: Bioinsecticides - Section 11

10. Oct. 26 – Oct. 30
Happy Halloween

Ethnobotany - Sec. 13

Population Dynamics - Sec. 14

Field Trip:  Desert Botanical Gardens - Section 13

11. Nov. 2 – Nov. 6

 

Population Dynamics - Sec. 14

1.       Bears, Habitat and Carrying Capacity - Section 14

2.       Population - Section 15

12. Nov. 9 – 13
Veterans Day (Nov. 11)

NO Wednesday CLASSES

Interactions in Communities - Sec. 15

Field Trip:  Gilbert Riparian Preserve

13. Nov. 16 – 20

 

EXAM #3

Interactions in Ecosystems - Sec. 16 Environmental Editorial Due

1.       Skulls Talk - Sect. 18

2.       Video:  Saguaro, Sec. 24, page 163

 14. Nov. 23 – 27

Alpine Ecology - Sec. 17

Snag Ecology – Sec. 18
 

NO LAB: THANKSGIVING WEEK

NO THURS. / FRI. CLASSES

15. Nov. 30 – Dec. 4 ***

Forest Ecosystems & Fire – Sec. 19

Old Growth Forest – Sec. 20
Political Action Letter DUE

1.       Owl Ecology - Section 17

2.       Forest Ecology and Dendrochronology - Sect. 21

3.       Finish Vegetative Communities of AZ Map – Sect. 20

16. Dec. 7 – 11

Wetland Ecology - Sec. 23
Marine Ecology - Sec. 24

Developing a Sustainable Community – Videos and group activity, Sec. 22

17. Dec. 14 – 17

FINAL EXAM (#4)

See Final Schedule