EHP Science Education Partners

Curriculum Development Coordination

University of New Mexico
College of Pharmacy

Stefani D. Hines, MA, MS
Stefani D. Hines is coordinating the curriculum development effort for the EHP Student Edition. Stefani has an M.S. in soil, water, and environmental science, an M.A. in education, and has completed her pilot research and coursework towards a PhD in science education. Stefani's fifteen years of combined experience in scientific research, high school science teaching, and curriculum development are continuously drawn upon when designing curricula. She applies her experiences to create lessons that will energize students, develop skills used daily in research, and meet teachers' diverse and unique needs with respect to subjects, topics, time, and standards requirements. Stefani is the Assistant Dean for Assessment at the UNM College of Pharmacy and an Environmental Health Science Specialist with the UNM Center for Environmental Health Sciences.

http://hsc.unm.edu/pharmacy/

Curriculum Development Partners

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health
(UMDNJ-SPH)

Laura Hemminger, MPH, CHES
Laura Hemminger is the director of the Center for School and Community Health Education. Laura received her MPH degree from UMDNJ and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at UMDNJ-SPH, where she is pursuing a DrPH in health education and behavioral sciences with an emphasis in K—12 education and evaluation. She has been involved in all aspects of educational and outreach programming for UMDNJ-SPH since 1994. Laura directs, plans, organizes, develops, adapts, and evaluates curricular materials and teacher professional development programs. She has conducted more than 90 trainings for teachers and teacher trainers across the country, as well as within Puerto Rico and Guam.

Jennifer K. Campbell, MPH, CHES
Jennifer K. Campbell is a Health Educator, Center for School and Community Health Education. Jennifer holds a BS in biology and BA in history, and an MPH with an emphasis in health education and behavioral science and epidemiology from UMDNJ. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). Jennifer develops, implements and evaluates CSCHE's educational and outreach programming. She coordinated the production of the ToxRAP: Using Biology and Genetics to Understand Cancer module for high school students

Additional Curriculum Development Contributors

Barry Schlegel, EdD, CIH
Barry Schlegel has an MAT in science teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson University, an MS in industrial hygiene from the University of Pittsburgh, and an EdD in adult and continuing education from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is a certified industrial hygienist who worked in government and private industry for many years and a licensed teacher who taught 9th- through 12th-grade Earth science, chemistry, physics and biology. In addition to helping to develop many of the EHP lessons, he has worked on numerous educational curricula development, instructional design, research, and outreach projects. Most notable of these include helping to develop a K—9 curriculum series titled Toxicology, Risk Assessment, and Pollution (ToxRAP).

Lisa Pitman, EdD
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Lisa is the project director of the AMBIENT Environmental Health Project and a member of the Evaluation Working Group for the NASA Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century Program. She also has experience as an environmental science curriculum writer with the Miami Museum of Science and as project evaluator for The Audubon Society of Florida. Lisa holds a doctor of education degree. She is in the unique position of working concurrently as an educational specialist with Miami—Dade County Public Schools Division of Mathematics and Science AND as an adjunct professor in education and research in the Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Through the partnership, she is able to build strong unions between university researchers and the students and teachers of the fourth largest school district in the United States. These scientists provide cutting-edge research to an educational community recognized for its highly diverse population.

Wendy Blair Stephan, MPH
Wendy received her masters in public health from the University of Miami in 1998. She has gone on to design health educational materials for students and for the general public. Environmental health has been the focus of her work, in particular the development of educational campaigns on marine and freshwater toxins and pesticide issues. As a core writer for the joint NIEHS/University of Miami AMBIENT curriculum, she has developed modules with linked exercises relating to the effects of soil and air contamination on human health. By reaching out to students, she hopes to help create an scientifically informed generation that can overcome some of the environmental challenges facing us today.

Amy Leonard, MS, NBCT
Amy is a high school science teacher working with all levels of first year biology and AP environmental science curricula. She became a National Board certified teacher in 2004. She has worked closely with the AMBIENT program, first as a participant and later as a master teacher working with colleagues to help implement these lessons in a wide variety of classroom settings throughout South Florida. Amy was selected for a joint NSTA/FDA food science program as an offshoot of this work. Additionally, she is the president of the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, which is committed to ecological health and community education.

Resources

National Environmental Education & Training Foundation
Chartered by Congress in 1990, The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) is a private non-profit organization dedicated to advancing environmental education in its many forms. Since it was established, the Foundation has become a leader in the development of new policies, grant-making approaches, and direct programming to advance environmental literacy in America. We link environmental education (EE) to many of society's core goals such as: better health, improved education, environmentally sound and profitable business, and volunteerism in local communities. Each of our programs also focuses on the needs of under-resourced people in American society. The mission of the NEETF is a stronger future through environmental learning-improved health, education, business, and ecological protection through innovative environmental learning.

To learn more about NEETF visit http://www.neetf.org

NIEHS Community Outreach and Education Program
Liam R. O'Fallon, MA, Coordinator
Every day we are challenged to make decisions about the risks of environmental exposures. To help stimulate development of a more informed public on environmental health issues, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) enhances production, dissemination, utilization, and effective implementation of curricular materials that make the connection between our environment and our health. NIEHS accomplishes these activities through a comprehensive science education program that includes the Community Outreach and Education Program (COEP). NIEHS established COEP in 1996 as a way to increase community awareness of environmental health and provide researchers with an understanding of what environmental health issues are of importance to communities. Science education is a primary activity of COEP. Many COEPs work with schools to develop engaging curricular materials for K—12 students. These materials meet national education standards and are tied into the latest environmental health science research. These materials meet national education standards and are tied into the latest environmental health science research. Educational and outreach materials developed by the COEPs are collected and organized at the COEP Resource Center at http://www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/outreach-education/.

For more information on COEP and other NIEHS science education activities, visit www.niehs.nih.gov/science-education/.