IMPORTANT NOTICE:
I have not updated this portion of the website for the current ESS curriculum.
Materials here may be useful for study, but do not reflect up-to-date IB requirements.
Welcome to IB ESS!
Please find below a copy of our curriculum, with links to the lessons we will be completing over the next two years.
I am here to share my passion for science and help you learn, so never hesitate to come talk to me and ask questions. The IB won't always be easy, but speaking as a graduate of the program myself, know that it will be rewarding. Let's begin!
Best,
Mr. Briner
“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
- Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters
I am here to share my passion for science and help you learn, so never hesitate to come talk to me and ask questions. The IB won't always be easy, but speaking as a graduate of the program myself, know that it will be rewarding. Let's begin!
Best,
Mr. Briner
“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
- Henry David Thoreau, Familiar Letters
Curriculum
| UNIT | TOPIC | TITLE |
| Populations | 2.6 | Changes |
| 3.1 | Population dynamics | |
| 3.7 | Limits to growth | |
| 3.8 | Environmental demands of human populations | |
| Changes and Energy | 3.2 | Resources - natural capital |
| 2.7 | Measuring changes in the ecosystem | |
| 3.3 | Energy resources | |
| Resources | 3.4 | The soil system |
| 3.6 | Food resources | |
| 3.5 | Water resources | |
| Pollution 1 | 5.2 | Detection and monitoring of pollution |
| 5.3 | Approaches to pollution management | |
| 5.5 | Solid domestic waste | |
| Pollution 2 | 5.6 | Depletion of stratospheric ozone |
| 5.7 | Urban air pollution | |
| 5.8 | Acid deposition | |