EE Activities - Toxic Waste and Risk
EE Activities - Toxic Waste and Risk
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Tox Town
Want to learn about the toxic chemicals and environmental health risks you might encounter in everyday life, in everyday places? Tox Town is an interactive Web site that enables the general public, students, and teachers to learn about the environmental health concerns in various neighborhoods. The URL is: http://www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/
Explores the impact of environment on health and encourages interest in health- and science-related careers. Games, riddles, and on-line coloring; news on environmental topics; career profiles. Also: a game in which students identify an environment-related illness for each letter of the alphabet. Also available in Spanish.
The URL is: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm
Resources for teachers, hazardous waste activities (some in PDF format for download), an internet training course and water quality curriculum guide. Sponsored by the University of Missouri.
The URL is: http://outreach.missouri.edu/owm/students.htm
Project Greenskate is an interactive environmental learning adventure for grades 7-12. Using a highly interactive format, Greenskate introduces basic toxicology concepts such as dose-response, routes of exposure, thresholds for toxic effects, biotransformation, and risk assessment. Printed support materials are available for teachers upon request.
The URL is: http://depts.washington.edu/hereuw/greensk8/
"This new Project Learning Tree secondary module draws on state-of-the-art instructional strategies and on highly relevant topics to technologies, environmental hazards, and everyday activities. The module helps students explore how
environmental and human health risks affect their everyday lives and how society as a whole makes decisions about risk." The URL is: http://www.plt.org/newsletter/fall1998.cfm#risk
RBRC is a nonprofit public service organization dedicated to rechargeable battery recycling in the U.S. and Canada. A free downloadable Battery Lesson Plan (designed for grades 3-5) is available for interested educators.
The URL is: http://www.rbrc.org/school/
"Designed by NSTA and the Environmental Protection Agency to provide teachers and students with a community-based context for chemistry, biology, and environmental science classes. The TRI database is a record of chemicals whose release--into air, surface water, or groundwater--is monitored by the EPA." Online ordering available.
The URL is: http://www.nsta.org/store/prodinfo.asp?number=PB14...
University of Missouri on-line household hazardous waste issues course, From Awareness To Action! The course is designed to educate on health and environmental impacts of many consumer products.
The URL is: http://outreach.missouri.edu/owm/hhw.htm
Teaches kids about acid mine drainage through a series of hands-on experiments. It also contains additional resources on wetlands, watersheds, stream monitoring and other environmental topics. A joint project of the US Geological Survey, the Pittsburgh Research Center, and the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. Activities available online.
The URL is: http://craddock_t.tripod.com/amd_experiments-html....
Storm drain stencils & related nonpoint pollution prevention materials for watershed education & public involvement. Free program development ideas for teachers & local governments. Service Learning Projects for students.
The URL is: http://www.earthwater-stencils.com/
Activity books (preK-8) about household hazardous wastes that "teach math and science by uniting these subjects with every day environmental experiences in the lives of students." Online ordering available.
The URL is: http://www.flash.net/~sonoraen/Pages/resources.htm...
Pollution Prevention Incorporated Within the Core Curriculum. The primary feature is 4th-6th grade math, science, & language arts classes on pollution prevention. Teachers use the exercises as part of their existing curriculum.
The URL is: http://P2CC.udayton.edu
A combined textbook and workbook that focuses on ecological concepts and the interrelationships of living things and their environments. Students examine current environmental problems such as acid rain, toxic waste, tropical deforestation, and destruction of the ozone layer. Grades 8+.
The URL is: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/rtmss/3.31.ht...
FREE videos from the EPA that highlight real-world environmental clean-up efforts. For high school/college level, the videos document clean-up and remediation of pesticide spills, tire fires, and other events.
The URL is: http://www.epa.gov/oerrpage/superfund/students/cla...
"The Envirofacts Warehouse allows you to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Superfund sites, drinking water, toxic and air releases, hazardous waste and Biennial Reporting System data, water discharge permits, and grants information. Use online queries to retrieve data or generate maps of environmental information."
The URL is: http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html
"...includes resources to help teachers and educate students (grades 2-12) about the Superfund Program. It includes several activities, environmental cleanup videos, and a participatory program in which classrooms collect weather data for EPA."
The URL is: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/students/clas_act/
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry Web site for kids to explore an interactive map of Chicago neighborhoods to view the results of soil samples that were taken to determine the amounts of various pollutants they contain. Students can conduct their own experiments (with help from teacher or parent) to learn about the health of soils where they live.
The URL is: http://www.msichicago.org/labs/tales/index.html
EPA Region 9's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program supports schools by helping students and teachers alike to use the TRI database. The Toxic Release Inventory can be incorporated into many different classroom subjects, from chemistry to geography, statistics or earth sciences.
The URL is: http://www.epa.gov/tri/
"A series of interactive, portable models that demonstrate water pollution- and its prevention." Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention curricula (K-12) is also available.
The URL is: http://www.enviroscapes.com/
Provides general information about P2 practices, programs and initiatives administered by EPA and other organizations, and provides contacts for further information. Also contains lists of events around the country, training and tools associated with National Pollution Prevention Week.
The URL is: http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/p2home/
Intended to introduce children ages three and up to the basic concepts of the Superfund Program. There are many fun activities and stories available. They were designed with different age groups in mind and include comic book formats, word games, puzzles, and coloring pages.
The URL is: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/kids/
Teacher education workshops in environmental health (EH) and materials to help introduce EH and toxicology into K-12 classrooms. From the University of Washington.
The URL is: http://depts.washington.edu/ceeh/Outreach/k12.html
An on-line database of cleanup levels at Superfund sites
The URL is: http://www.cleanuplevel.com/
How much does your car pollute? Calculate how much carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide your vehicle emits each year, compared to the national average. Learn why it matters and what you can do to help.
The URL is: http://www.environmentaldefense.org/tool.cfm?tool=...
The National Library of Medicine's Tox Town web site offers a new Hurricane Katrina (and Rita) web page that lists environmental health concerns following the disaster and during the clean-up effort. Topics include mold, pest control, worker health, drinking water, trash burning and many more. Suggested for high school students, educators, and the concerned public, the four neighborhood scenes use color, graphics, sounds and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment and the public's health.
The URL is: http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov
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