Crash Course Ecology 3 Week Full Curriculum

Teach all 12 Crash Course Ecology episodes as a coherent three-week, one-unit high-school curriculum with episode lessons, weekly assessment banks, a flexible cumulative unit assessment, an Educator Planning Guide, and a Student Syllabus.

FREE CURRICULUM SNEAK PEEK: Download the free Crash Course Ecology Full Curriculum Educator Planning Guide.

Try an actual lesson free: FREE Crash Course Ecology #1 The History of Life on Earth.

New Optional Video Companion (used with YouTube)

Use the free Classroom Video Guide Companion Chrome extension with these lessons to automatically pause YouTube at question timestamps and display prompts during viewing. This optional tool can make whole-class, small-group, and independent video lessons easier to facilitate, but the resource works normally without it.

The course moves from populations and communities into ecological change, ecosystem energy and matter flow, biogeochemical cycles, human impacts, pollution, conservation, and restoration. The commercial episode bundles are delivery containers; the curriculum itself follows three four-episode instructional weeks and one cumulative unit.

What's Included

• 12 individual episode lesson sets
• Teacher Guide, digital/print student materials, Google Forms quiz, and Multiple Choice Quiz Print ecosystem for every episode
• 3 weekly assessment sets (W01-W03)
• 1 cumulative Unit 1 Assessment (U01)
• Educator Planning Guide
• Student Syllabus
• START HERE access PDF

Course Structure

• Week 1 | Episodes #1-#4 - Foundations of Ecology: Populations & Communities
• Week 2 | Episodes #5-#8 - Interactions, Ecological Change & Ecosystem Flow
• Week 3 | Episodes #9-#12 - Nutrient Cycles, Human Impacts & Ecological Solutions
• Unit 1 | Episodes #1-#12 - Ecological Systems, Human Impacts & Conservation

Assessment System

• W01-W03 each provide 12 vocabulary terms, 10 A/B written-response questions, and 30 multiple-choice questions.
• U01 provides 15 vocabulary terms, 12 A/B written-response questions, and 40 multiple-choice questions.
• The assessment files are flexible item banks. Teachers can assign the complete bank or select the components that fit available class time.
• There is no separate cumulative Final. Because Ecology is a one-unit course, U01 serves as the flexible cumulative checkpoint after Week 3 and does not create a required Day 16.

Flexible Classroom Use

Use the regular three-week sequence, compress two episode lessons into longer blocks, select weekly items as retrieval practice, or use U01 as the primary cumulative checkpoint for summer school, credit recovery, long-term substitute coverage, make-up work, or independent study.

Print and Digital Options

Episode lessons include digital and print student materials plus self-graded Google Forms quiz support. Assessment banks can be assigned digitally, printed, split across periods, or reduced in quantity while preserving the core ecological reasoning.

Prefer an Episode-Only Bundle?

• Crash Course Ecology #1-#6 Video Lesson Set
• Crash Course Ecology #7-#12 Video Lesson Set

Frequently Asked Questions

Are the Crash Course videos included?
No. This independent curriculum is designed for use with publicly available Crash Course Ecology videos.

Does the Full Curriculum include both paid episode bundles?
Yes. It includes all 12 episode lesson sets plus W01-W03, U01, the Educator Planning Guide, and Student Syllabus.

Is there a separate Final?
No. The one-unit architecture uses U01 as the cumulative checkpoint after the three-week sequence.

Can I use this with Google Classroom?
Yes. The curriculum includes digital student materials and self-graded Google Forms support along with print-friendly alternatives.

Is this an official Crash Course product?
No. This independent educator-created resource is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or authorized by Crash Course or Complexly.