Course syllabus
Units, grading, late work, retakes, classroom expectations, and every way to reach me. Printable, and it saves straight to PDF.
Read itCourse Home · 2026–2027
Environmental Science
A year-long look at how Earth's systems work, how people are changing them, and what a genuinely sustainable future would take. Everything for this course lives here: the syllabus, the day-to-day schedule, and the chapter readers.
Start here
Weekly schedule
Every objective, agenda, and assignment, updated as we go. The fastest answer to "what did I miss?" after an absence.
Open the scheduleChapter readers
The textbook chapters, page by page, in a reader that works on a school laptop or a phone without logging in to anything.
Chapter 1Chapters
Posted as we reach them. Chapter numbers follow the Cengage Environmental Science text.
- Chapter 1: Sustaining Your World · Unit 1, Ecology and Ecosystems
- Chapters 5–18 go up here as each unit starts. Until then, use MindTap and the weekly schedule.
Reaching me
- Extra help: every day after school, 3:09–3:30. Walk in.
- Email: rsajdak@buffaloschools.org
- Call or text: (716) 222-2016
- Schoology: assignments, notices, and messages
- Class texts for families: sign up for reminders
The syllabus has the full version of all of this, including extra help.