AP Environmental Science
Explore free resources that align with your AP Environmental Science curriculum.
CFR Education offers a range of free resources that can supplement your AP Environmental Science curriculum. Browse readings, timelines, videos, and simulations covering climate issues and other topics related to environmental science.
Skills students learn with CFR Education Environmental Science Resources:
- explaining key scientific concepts and how they impact us
- analyzing texts, visual representations, data to understand environmental issues
- evaluating various policy options to address environmental issues
Unit 2: The Living World: Biodiversity
| Video | In this educational video, learn how climate change's effects on agriculture can have serious economic consequences for the world. |
| Reading | Climate Change is straining the earth’s ecosystems. Learn how humans can adapt to protect them. |
Unit 4: Earth Systems and Resources
| Reading | Climate change can amplify itself through feedback loops. It can also trigger catastrophic “tipping points.” |
Unit 5: Land and Water Use
| Reading | Explore how eleven countries are adapting to the effects of climate change in this free resource. |
| Reading | Is there a global water crisis? In this free resource, learn how climate change is causing water scarcity to worsen worldwide. |
| Reading | Agriculture is warming the planet. Changing how we farm and manage land can decrease greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Reading | Climate Change is straining the earth’s ecosystems. Learn how humans can adapt to protect them. |
Protecting Global Food and Water Supplies in a Warming World Reading |
Discover how climate change is diminishing global food and water security, and how the world can adapt to those vital resource challenges. |
| Video | The world can work together in the fight against climate change, but there are challenges to international cooperation. |
Unit 6: Energy Resources and Consumption
| Reading | What is the IRA? In this free resource, learn what the United States' largest-ever climate change legislation does. |
| Reading | Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy can help mitigate climate change. |
| Reading | Industrial emissions pose big challenges for the climate. Innovative industrial solutions can make a difference. |
| Reading | Climate change–related weather events will destroy bridges, roads, homes, and even power plants—unless those structures become more resilient. |
| Video | Climate change poses energy security challenges, but building more renewable sources and taking other steps can help strengthen supply and lower risks. |
| Reading | Severe weather is causing costly disruptions. To protect the energy grid, countries need a smarter plan. |
| Reading | Learn how energy storage can provide reliable renewable energy. |
| Reading | Learn how turning toward cleaner energy sources means factoring in economic and energy needs alongside environmental ones. |
| Reading | Why does the price of oil change so much? Learn how crude oil affects the global economy and the potential for economic development, and how fluctuating prices can contribute to crises. |
Unit 7: Atmospheric Pollution
| Reading | Learn more about the promises and perils of artificially manipulating the environment to combat climate change. |
| Reading | A warmer world threatens more extreme weather and infectious disease, but policymakers can counter climate change’s damages to global health. |
Unit 8: Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution
| Mini Simulation | In this mini-simulation explore whether or not the United States should ratify the UN Convention's Law of the Sea. |
Unit 9: Global Change
| Reading | Explore how eleven countries are adapting to the effects of climate change in this free resource. |
| Mini Simulation | In this mini-simulation explore whether or not the United States should ratify the UN Convention's Law of the Sea. |
| Video | In this educational video, learn why the climate is changing, how it affects us, and what we can do about it. |
| Reading | Learn more about the promises and perils of artificially manipulating the environment to combat climate change. |
| Video | In this educational video, learn how climate change's effects on agriculture can have serious economic consequences for the world. |
| Reading | Climate change can amplify itself through feedback loops. It can also trigger catastrophic “tipping points.” |
| Reading | In this free climate change resource, learn why melting ice in Greenland is causing global sea level rise. |
| Reading | Every aspect of modern life carries hidden environmental costs. Recognizing the human-driven causes of climate change can help build a more sustainable future. |
| Reading | How do greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming? Learn why the world is getting warmer in this free climate change resource. |
Protecting Global Food and Water Supplies in a Warming World Reading |
Discover how climate change is diminishing global food and water security, and how the world can adapt to those vital resource challenges. |
| Mini Simulation | Should the United States consider the use of solar geoengineering to combat climate change? Explore this simulation. |
| Video | The world can work together in the fight against climate change, but there are challenges to international cooperation. |
| Mini Simulation | Should the United States take action to stop deforestation in the Amazon to combat climate change? Explore this simulation. |
| Reading | A warmer world threatens more extreme weather and infectious disease, but policymakers can counter climate change’s damages to global health. |
| Mini Simulation | Should the United States launch a new Arctic policy in response to climate change and investments from countries like China and Russia in the region? Explore this simulation. |
| Reading | Severe weather is causing costly disruptions. To protect the energy grid, countries need a smarter plan. |
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| Mini Simulation | How should the United States assist small island nations facing disasters? Explore this simulation. |