| Clean Air Express |
To obtain a free copy:
Puget Sound Clean Air
Attn: Alice Collingwood
110 Union St., Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 689-4043
commedu@psapca.org
www.pscleanair.org |
| Clean Air express is a comprehensive resource manual that will
help K-12 teachers make air quality education fun. The manual includes
subject headings such as "Air and Transportation", "The Breath of Life",
and "Air and Wood Smoke" and provides background information, vocabulary,
quick facts, activities and worksheets for each topic. Clean Air
Express integrates activities into subject areas which include science,
health, and social studies. |
Toxicology Enrichment
Materials |
To obtain a free copy:
Rhode Island College
Department of Biology
Attn: Suzanne Conklin
Providence, RI 02908
(401) 456-9594
sconklin@students.wisc.edu |
| The Toxicology Enrichment Materials offer a concise collection
of toxicology information and activities for grades 10-12 biology, chemistry,
and psychology teachers. The materials include fact sheets, activities,
and work sheets. They are designed to enrich course curricula.
They can be used as regular class assignments, make up or extra-credit
assignments, or substitute assignments. |
| Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine on Daphnia |
To obtain a free copy of
instructions and worksheets:
Washington Association for
Biomedical Research
200 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
(800) 213-9227
(206)621-8556 |
| This is a 7th-12th grade science curriculum that is part of the Addiction
and the Brain program, a consortium of the University of Washington, Pacific
Science Center, Group Health Cooperative, and Washington Association for
Biomedical Research. Effects of Alcohol and Nicotine on Daphnia is
a scientific experiment that allows students to work like a scientist and
conduct an experiment based on their own hypothesis about the effects of
alcohol and nicotine on a living organism, daphnia. The daphnia must
be purchased separately. |
| Environmental Health Science Action Packs |
To obtain materials, contact:
Claudia K. Probart
Drop of Water Development
Team
Penn State Nutrition Team
5 Henderson Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-6323
nutrition.hhdev.psu.edu/
adow/adow.html
cjo2@psu.edu |
| The theme here involves three schoolkids in a fictitious town called
River Valley, who make an alarming discovery on their way home from school.
You, too, are invited to explore and solve this mystery in two CD-ROMs
entitled "A Drop of Water." Each unit presents a water pollution problem
to be explored. The CD, geared for 5th and 6th graders, deals with the
topic of "Microoganisms." The other CD, aimed at 7th and 8th graders, deals
with the exploration of "Volatile Organic Compounds". |
| EcoExpert: Health Risks in Our Town |
To obtain materials, contact:
Paula R. Brady
Texas Learning Technology
Group
P.O. Box 2947
Austin, TX 78768
(800) 580-8584, ext. 6101
www.tasb.org.tltg |
| TLTG's Environmental Science Series is divided into four units to challenge
students from grade levels 7-9. Four different CD-ROM games have
been developed. Students use biology, geology, medical science and chemistry
to evaluate and investigate environmental problems. In this truly multidisciplinary
program, students also learn about the political, economic, and sociological
issues that surround environmental debates. |
| ToxRap |
To obtain materials, contact:
Audrey R. Gotsch
Resource Center of the EOHSI
170 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
(732) 445-0110
www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/rc
gotsch@eohsi.rutgers.edu |
| How do you know if the environment is causing health problems? In this
inovative, three-part curricular series, students become health hazard
detectives to cooperatively investigate environmental health hazards and
their impact on human health. By applying an environmental health risk
assessment framework, students learn how to state a health problem, investigate
hazards and people who may be exposed and identify hazard control methods.
A detective theme helps students to study air contaminants and learn the
principles of toxicology and the process of risk assessment. Teaching techniques
include illustrated stories, problem-based learning, games, graphing, hands-on
experiments and case studies. |
| Enviromysteries |
To obtain materials, contact:
Gail P. Long
Maryland Public Television
11767 Owings Mills Blvd.
Owings Mills, MD 21117-1499
(410) 356-5600
www.mpt.org/learningworks/
teachers/envmyst.html
glong@mpt.org |
| EnviroMysteries is an innovative instructional television program that
explores the relationship between our health and the environment in which
we live. While informing students of this intricate symbiosis, it also
empowers students to take an active role by making well-informed decisions
about environmental issues today, in order to protect their own future.
Students will be introduced to environmental health concepts through the
eyes of a young group of television journalists, who are chronicling the
local health department's investigation of a waterborne illness. |
| Toxicology - An Environmental Education
Unit for Secondary Schools and Communities |
To obtain materials, contact:
Program Coordinator
Canadian Network of
Toxicology Centres
Gordon St., Bovey Bldg.,
Rm. 2113
Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1
Canada
(519) 837-3320
www.uoguelph.ca/cntc
dwarner@tox.uoguelph.ca |
| Seven lessons are included in this resource that features worksheets,
activities, and background information on each topic. The lessons
cover an introduction to toxicology, toxic substances, mammalian responses
to toxic substances, risk, food safety, environmental concerns related
to toxicology, and drinking water. Help students discover explanations
for topics such as how toxicants get into the body, what factors contibute
to how our bodies respond to toxic chemicals, what factors are attributed
to cancer, how risk and dose relate to toxicology, and where in the hydrologic
cycle water is susceptible to chemical pollutants. |
