Environmental Science /
Credit gained: 1 High School CreditPrerequisites
None.
Course description
This course for 11th and 12th graders aims to develop an understanding of the structure and functioning of natural systems. It will encompass the social, ethical and economic impacts of human activities focusing on current environmental problems and their underlying scientific principles. The student will understand the cause- effect relationship of human activities on the environment and all other living species. The concept of interdependence will be stressed throughout.
Topics include: Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Biosphere, Pollution, The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming, Ozone Layer and Biodiversity/Resource Loss. Activities include reading, written assignments, reviews (e.g., of articles, news items, documentaries), scientific investigations outdoors as well as the laboratory and field trips.
Course Instruction Time: 15 weeks
Course Completion Time: 17 weeks
Fellow/Online Instructor: Labrini Rontogiannis
Cost: 600 €UROS
Fellow/Online Instructor(s)
Labrini Rontogiannis, Associate Fellow
Ms Labrini Rontogiannis holds a Bachelor of Science in Cell Biology at McGill University (1994) and a Bachelor of Education, specialization in Science and English Literature, also from McGill (1998). She has also received a M.Ed. specializing in Educational Technology through an online program at the University of Calgary (2011).
Ms. Rontogiannis was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and moved to Athens in 2004. She taught for a number of years at a public school in the Greater Montreal area. She has been teaching at the ACS Athens Middle School since 2005 and she takes pride in getting involved in all aspects of student life; both in and out of the classroom. She has taught both Language Arts and Science in the Middle School and Academy.
Ms Rontogiannis has also taken part in many professional development opportunities both in Athens and abroad, as well as presented her own work at a number of conferences. In 2014, she presented at the ICALT conference in Athens, and was the recipient of the Best Poster Award. She has also designed and implemented both the Online Summer Health course that she has been teaching since 2014, as well as the eighth grade i2Flex Health course that she designed and taught in 2016.
This year Ms Rontogiannis is very proud to be involved with two courses within the ACS Athens Virtual School; Environmental Science and Health.