If you appreciate nature and are curious about the scientific ideas that play a part in the health of our environment, then this course is for you! We will learn about soil, water, and the atmosphere, and how natural and human practices affect the world around us. This course is multidisciplinary, in that we will be applying scientific and Indigenous knowledge to understand world problems, using new technologies and engineering relevant to the natural world, creating art, improving animal habitats through woodworking, and enhancing natural habitats by gardening. Our learning will be through the lens of understanding, improving, sustaining, and/or restoring natural ecosystems.

Environmental science is a course that studies the interaction between human systems and natural systems. In environmental science, students study how plants and animals interact with each other and the biodiversity of living and non-living components of the environment. The course will have students explore topics within the big ideas of diversity, processes that cause changes, sustainability, and the conservation and restoration of ecosystems. Environmental science aims to both educate and equip learners with necessary environmental skills to pass on to the community in order to create awareness.  Students will participate in several concepts and projects dealing with these big ideas that specifically involve the skills of questioning and predicting, evaluating, applying, innovating, and communicating.

Recommended prerequisite: successful completion of Science 10