Check out this link to The Nature Conservancy to see some of the volunteer work the Environmental Science Class has done.

Classes for 2007-2008 

Earth Science Course Syllabus

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of earth are never alone or weary of life"                          -Rachel Carson

Physical Science Course Syllabus

Environmental Science Course Syllabus
 

"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the    preservation of the earth.”                  

 -Rachel Carson

Environmental Science Class Reading,

"Silent Spring" By Rachel Carson

For more information click on the book to visit the

Rachel Carson Webpage

"There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, “The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”

Chapter 2: The Obligation to Endure

Check out these websites to for current science articles!

Defenders of Wildlife

Popular Science

Discovery Channel News

National Geographic News