APES: Netflix and Learn Extra Credit
Directions: To earn extra credit, you must watch any of the videos listed below over Spring Break. Then, you must take three selfies that include you and three different scenes in the movie. For each selfie taken, you must describe what is going on in the movie at that time and why it is significant to AP Environmental Science. You can watch a maximum of three movies, worth 5 points each movie. Extra credit selfies and explanations/significance is due the Tuesday we return.
Chasing Ice 2012:James Balog and his team on the Extreme Ice Survey assemble a multiyear chronicle of the planet's rapidly melting glaciers.
How to Change the World 2015: In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How to Change the World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement.
Revenge of the Electric Car 2011: Director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars.
Sushi: The Global Catch 2012: From humble beginnings as a simple food sold by Japanese street vendors, sushi has exploded into an international phenomenon in the past 30 years. SUSHI: THE GLOBAL CATCH is a feature-length documentary shot in five countries exploring the history, problems and future of this popular cuisine.
Plastic Paradise 2013: Angela Sun's journey of discovery to one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll, to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, industry, legislators and activists who shed light on what our society's vast consumption of disposable plastic is doing to our oceans, and what it may be doing to our health.
Vanishing of the Bees 2009: This documentary takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee.
Resistance 2013: 80 years ago antibiotics revolutionized medicine. Only now are we realizing the potentially catastrophic consequences of these miracle drugs. The question is: have we reached a point where we must save antibiotics to save ourselves? RESISTANCE uses interviews, archival material, and verity footage to untangle the web of factors behind the global crisis of antibiotic resistance.
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The Bomb 2012: This is the story of the most powerful and destructive device ever invented. With newly restored footage, go behind the scenes of the first atomic bomb, revealing how it was developed and how it changed the planet. Examine the choices society has made since 1945--and continues to make--to live with an invention that could destroy the planet.
Grizzly Man 2005: In this mesmerizing new film, acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who lived unarmed among grizzlies for 13 summers.
To Make a Farm 2013: In a world of environmental and agricultural destruction from large corporate farming, what does future of local food and farming look like? This beautifully photographed documentary explores the lives of five young people who have decided to become small-scale farmers.
Urban Fruit 2015: Told through the stories of city dwellers growing food in Los Angeles, Urban Fruit sheds light on the resurgence of urban farming in American cities. This diverse group fights to reclaim a skill that has been lost to the industrial food complex.
Fresh 2009: Both an enlightening documentary and a stirring call to action, Fresh outlines the vicious cycle of our current food production methods, while also celebrating the farmers, thinkers and business people who are reinventing our food system.