I have been teaching some version of an environmental science unit for the last 14 years in PhyChem, which is the 9th grade science course that NHPS has offered since the early 2000s, but this year is the last year we are offering it. Next year we will be teaching an Earth Space science course that we will call Integrated Science. Since the environment is very clearly part of Earth and because environmental issues such as climate change are such a big focus now and likely into the future, I do expect that the environment will still be a main portion of this curriculum, but it will be in a new format and with additional content pieces that I am less familiar with. This change means that I do not have experience with the curriculum I will be teaching next year, and cannot point to the parts of it I know students will struggle with or will lose interest in, because I do not know that yet.
