Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! These are easy to say, but what do you really know about any of them? Environmental Science will challenge your preconceptions and enable you to annoy your friends and parents with your knowledge how you can live out God’s Genesis 2:15 Creation-care expectations for you.
- Explore applications of environmental studies in our community and around the world. How is garbage managed? How does our sewage get cleaned so well we can drink the outflow?
- How is plastic turning up in the most remote parts of our planet?
- Go on field trips to places like gardens, recycling plants, grocery stores, shipping locks, museums, etc.
- Talk intelligently about the environment using civil discourse and scientific data
- You will need to collaborate with your peers and productively contribute to productive conversations about touchy subjects
- Homework is generally less than 30 minutes per class day