Session III: Environmental Science 

The Advanced Placement Environmental Science workshop is designed to aid in the development and teaching of a successful AP course within the guidelines of the College Board. We will be emphasizing lab activities, in particular, ways of doing labs that fit within different budgets. Generally, this means looking at both “high tech” and “low tech” ways of accomplishing the same objective. By collaborating we will cover lab activities that will support all the major study components on the AP Topics Outline. This is a participatory workshop and you should expect to be involved in the process of developing material and activities to share with others in the course. Additionally, the workshop will emphasize developing the skills and techniques necessary to help you aid your students to do well on the AP Environmental Science Exam. The workshop is intended to be a comprehensive collaborative effort committed to supporting participants in developing and teaching a successful Advanced Placement course.

Instructor: Michael Mayfield has an M.S. from the University of Michigan in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and has been teaching environmental science for more than 25 years. He is an AP Environmental Science teacher at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities in Muncie, Indiana, and a Midwest area AP Environmental Science Consultant for the College Board. He began teaching AP summer institutes for the last 17 years and has been an AP Exam reader since 2000, including 9 years as a Table Leader.