<p>I just got accepted into Florida Virtual School and will be taking APES over this summer and the school year.</p>
<p>1) What textbook/review book? FLVS teaches APES through video clips with cartoon characters ... </p>
<p>2) I'm taking 5 APs next year and I want to get a 5 on all of them (APUSH, Calc AB, Bio, Lang, and Enviro). </p>
<p>Is that possible, or should I just drop APES now before I regret having too many courses?</p>
<p>AP Enviro is not a hard course at all. I took it online and found it quite enjoyable, actually, because most of what we learned in the class was, more or less, common sense. And what wasn’t “common knowledge” was stuff that worldly people SHOULD know. The course material is not difficult to understand - it’s like something you’d learn from listening to Al Gore or reading a nature magazine like National Geographic.</p>
<p>The other APs you are taking are by no means easy, but if you have the motivation and the work ethic - as you seem to do, judging by this post - it is most certainly doable. Start early! Study for your tests, especially biology and APUSH. Don’t cram it all in at the end because most of the APs you are taking are a cumulative effort. I would highly recommend Princeton Review’s prep book for APES, in addition to the textbook Living in the Environment by Miller. Good luck!</p>
<p>All right, thanks for the textbook recommendations :D! I assume that any edition of Living in the Environment by Miller will do, right?</p>
<p>Yes, but I would highly recommend that you choose one of the more recent editions. I had the 2006 edition, but I thought that even 2006 was a little old. AP Environmental Science is a course that is focused on very current events - for example, which country is the most populous? Which has the most reliance on nuclear power plants? What percent of its energy does the US derive from windmills? Lots of current statistics. These tend to change over time.</p>
<p>I’m in that class too, and I got 5 steps to a 5.</p>