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Your Environment. Your Health.

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Educational Materials

Booklets

Keyword Description Grade Level
Cancer Cancer and the Environment(699KB)     9-12 12+
Disease Environmental Diseases: Environmental Diseases From A to Z (English)(4MB)   5-8 9-12  
EMF EMF Electric and Magnetic Fields Associated with the Use of Electric Power(11MB)     9-12 12+
Genetics You and Your Genes - Making it in a Tough Environment(286KB)   5-8 9-12  
Notebooks Guide to Keeping Laboratory Notebooks - 2002(75KB)   5-8 9-12  
Ozone Ozone Alerts(601KB)     9-12 12+
Prevention A Family Guide - 20 Easy Steps to Personal Environmental Health Now(350KB)       12+

Fact Sheets

Keyword Description Grade Level
Asthma Allergens and Irritants - 1998     9-12 12+
Cancer Environmental Factors and Breast Cancer Risk(1016KB)       12+
Cancer The Report on Carcinogens (RoC)       12+
Children New Directions in Children's Environmental Health Research(2MB)       12+
Children's Health NIEHS/EPA Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers(1MB)       12+
Endocrine Endocrine Disruptors(1004KB)       12+
Lead Lead and Your Health(1MB)     9-12 12+
Nanotechnology Nanotechnology Safety Assessment  National Toxicology Program     9-12 12+
Oceans Oceans of Discovery: How the study of oceans and lakes can improve people's health(1004KB)     9-12 12+
Phones Studies on Radiofrequency Radiation Emitted by Cellular Phones       12+
Risk NTP Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction(99KB)       12+
Toxicology The NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods(80KB)       12+

Flyers

Keyword Description Grade Level
Air Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Indoor Air(196KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Air Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Indoor Air (Arabic)(361KB) This fact sheet in Arabic presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Food Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Food Safety - 2001(345KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Lead Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Heavy Metals - 2001(188KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Pesticides Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Pest Control (English)(310KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Pesticides Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Pest Control (Arabic)(352KB) This fact sheet in Arabic presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Poison Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Look-A-Likes - 2001(209KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Poison Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Look-A-Likes (Arabic) - 2001(303KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Water Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Indoor Water (English)(269KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  
Water Healthy Homes = Healthy Kids: Indoor Water (Arabic)(639KB) This fact sheet in English presents basic information about food safety issues around the home, including sources, symptoms, and avoidance strategies for Salmonella, E. coli, Staphylococcus, and Listeria poisonings. K-4 5-8 9-12  

Interviews with Scientists/Researchers

For Educators

Interviews with Scientists/Researchers

Keyword Description Grade Level
Ecologist What is a Wetland Ecologist?   5-8 9-12  
Environmental Analyst What is an Environmental Analyst?   5-8 9-12  
Growth Biologist What is a Growth Biologist?   5-8 9-12  
Lung Doctor What is a Lung Doctor?   5-8 9-12  
Microbiologist What is a Microbiologist?   5-8 9-12  
Profession Meet the Experts: Environmental Health     9-12 12+
Profession Scientist Video Interviews     9-12 12+

 

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Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans

Keyword Description Grade Level
Alcohol Toxicity Testing with California Blackworms: Alcohol(419KB) Toxicology is a fundamental component of the scientific study of environmental health. This classroom experiment teaches students about the basic concepts of toxicology, including dose-response and exposure, through observing the effects of a toxicant (ethanol) on the behavior of California blackworms. This teacher's guide provides background information, laboratory instructions, discussion questions, and variations and supplemental activities for conducting the experiment.   5-8 9-12  
Bacteria Guide to Plating Bacteria Using Sterile Technique - 2001(35KB) Bacteria are useful in a variety of classroom science experiments. This activity teaches the basic laboratory techniques for growing bacteria in Petri dishes. This guide consists of a teacher version and a student version of the instructions.   5-8 9-12  
Cancer Good Cells Gone Bad - 2001(102KB) This activity teaches students about the cellular changes that lead to cancer. It provides an overview of the prevalence of cancer, cell structure, and function, and a classroom activity and worksheet that reinforce lessons about cellular structure and the differences between cancer cells and normal cells.   5-8 9-12  
Climate Change This module is intended to promote student discovery and learning about the complex interactions between climate change, the environment and human health. Using content from the US Global Change Research Program’s 2016 report, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment (CHA, 2016), students are prompted to describe the impacts of changing climatic conditions on human health with emphasis on vulnerable populations and apply systems thinking to create a visual model of the various health implications arising from climate change.     9-12 12+
Community Community Action and the Environment - Can You Help Save the Environment?(611KB) This booklet, with an accompanying video, provides an overview of environmental pollution and ways in which citizens may contribute to the study and alleviation of pollution problems. It provides descriptions of and resources for four assignments that reinforce scientific methods for studying environmental problems. The first assignment encourages students to observe their local environment and think about potential sources of pollution. The second introduces the concept of disease clusters and demonstrates the concepts of probability and statistical distributions. The third assignment encourages group discussion of local environmental issues and requires students to learn about local environmental authorities and utilities. The fourth encourages critical thinking about local and global environmental problems. The booklet also includes a list of recommended printed and Internet resources.     9-12  
Disease Cluster Busters: A Game of Disease Mystery Solving(632KB) A Game of Disease Mystery Solving Scenario: Dr. Wanda B. Better (Infant Pulmonary Hemorrhage)     9-12  
Disease Growth and Disease - 2001(123KB) The spread of diseases continues to be an important public health concern in the United States and abroad. Teaching accurate information about the nature and consequences of the growth and spread of disease is essential for helping students protect their own health and the health of others. This lesson aims to provide such information through four learning activities that address the following subjects: the spread of viruses, antibiotic action and microbial resistance to drugs, the spread and control of parasitic organisms, and the probability of contracting diseases. The teaching materials package includes an overview of the entire lesson and a description of the objectives, performance tasks, class structure, procedures, and evaluation of each activity.     9-12  
Environmental Justice Issues    Race to Find the Cure: Isolation of Chemicals from Plant Leaves(68KB) In this short activity, students view an excerpt from the 1998 film A Civil Action, which is based on the 1996 non-fiction account of a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts. After viewing the film, students assume the role of environmental scientists and apply their knowledge of water and hazardous waste contamination to create a plan to help lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, try the case. This activity can be used as an assessment piece to determine your students' understanding of the many variables influencing water quality studies, especially when health risks are involved.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Social studies, History, Civics, Economics 		   5-8 9-12  
Environmental Justice Issues    Introducing Students to Environmental Justice: A North Carolina Case Study(184KB) In this activity, students will be introduced to environmental justice by considering a North Carolina case study that involved a hazardous waste landfill and is often credited with launching the national environmental justice movement. This lesson follows the 5E inquiry model, using engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation to promote student learning.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Social studies, History, Civics, Economics 		   5-8 9-12  
Environmental Justice Issues    Water: Muddle Up and Clean Up(305KB) In this activity, adapted from the lesson "There Is No Point to This Pollution" in the Water Quality Educators Guide by Healthy Water, Healthy People, students use critical thinking to predict how water becomes polluted. This activity is designed to safely model the ways in which pollutants and hazardous chemicals may react when they reach water and the cumulative effect of land uses on water quality. Common household items (food coloring, vegetable oil and corn syrup) represent pollutants and also hazardous chemicals that are commonly found at hazardous waste sites, including Superfund sites, across the country. By simulating the contamination of water by various kinds of chemicals, students are introduced to current information on hazardous waste sites in North Carolina and the clean up techniques being employed.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Social studies, History, Civics, Economics 		   5-8 9-12  
Microorganisms University of Rochester Summer Science Camp--Microorganisms - 1999(361KB) A collection of 12 experiments and activities related to microorganisms in plant life, blood cells and skin cells, including an at-home activity. They were developed for use at the University of Rochester's 1999 Summer Science Camp for students in grades 5 through 8.     9-12  
Nicotine Toxicity Testing with California Blackworms: Nicotine(337KB) Toxicology is a fundamental component of the scientific study of environmental health. This classroom experiment teaches students about the basic concepts of toxicology, including dose-response, and exposure, through observing the effects of a toxicant (nicotine) on the behavior of California blackworms. This teacher's guide provides background information, laboratory instructions, discussion questions, and variations and supplemental activities for conducting the experiment.   5-8 9-12  
Nuclear Nuclear Energy: the Good, the Bad, and the Debatable(479KB) curriculum booklet   5-8 9-12  
Plants Race to Find the Cure: Isolation of Chemicals from Plant Leaves(68KB) Many important pharmaceuticals and other chemicals are derived from plants. This classroom experiment teaches students about the isolation of plant chemicals using chromatography. Students apply different mixtures of spinach extract, beet leaf extract, and food coloring to strips of filter paper; observe the separation of the components of the mixtures; and extract the isolated components from the filter paper using water. This package of materials includes a teacher's guide, student instructions and notes, and discussion questions and answers.     9-12  
Pesticides Isolation of Naturally Occurring Pesticides: In this classroom experiment, students learn principles of biology, environmental science, and ecology by observing the effects on fruit flies of naturally occurring pesticides, such as those found in various spices and flowers. This teacher's guide provides background information, a list of necessary materials, preparation instructions, and recommendations for variations on the experiment.
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Risk Risk Management - 2001(97KB) The purpose of this lesson is to investigate risk management, in order to prepare students to analyze risks and make informed choices based on their analyses. Using four learning activities, students in grades 9-12 build conceptual understanding, scientific investigation and practical reasoning while developing and using reading, writing, and mathematics.     9-12  
Risk Risk Management and Health Care - 2001(112KB) An understanding of health care is critical for maintaining one's own health. This lesson aims to identify and investigate health care issues so that students maintain good health.       9-12  
Risk Risk Management: Health Risks - 2001(96KB) An understanding of health care is critical for maintaining one's own health. This lesson aims to help students identify and investigate health risks through four learning activities that address the following subjects: common causes of death, evaluation of personal daily health risks, health risks of substance abuse, and stress and mental health. The teaching materials package includes an overview of the entire lesson and a description of the objectives, performance tasks, class structure, procedures, and evaluation of each activity.     9-12  
Tobacco Tobacco Induced Mutations - 2001(562KB) Toxicology is a fundamental component of environmental health science. This classroom activity teaches about the basic concepts of toxicology as well as the scientific method and laboratory techniques by observing the mutagenic effects of tobacco on bacteria. Students prepare plates of bacteria and observe the effects on the colonies of the addition of varying concentrations of tobacco extract. The package of materials includes a teacher's guide, student instructions, student and class (pooled) data sheets, and discussion questions.     9-12  

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News

Keyword Description Grade Level
News  NIEHS Press Releases and News Stories
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Research  Selected Extramural Publications
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Topics Health Topics A to Z  
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Pamphlets

Keyword Description Grade Level
Environment Sharon Finds the Environment (English)(2MB) ,   Sharon Finds the Environment (Spanish)(2MB)  
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Environmental Exposures Linking Early Environmental Exposures to Adult Disease(312KB)
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Parkinson's Parkinson’s Disease and Environmental Factors(791KB)
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Poison Name That Poison(113KB) This activity sheet raises awareness and provides information about nine different poisonous substances. Users match substances with their common health effects. Background information about hazardous substances is provided.
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Presentations

Keyword Description Grade Level
Environment Your Environment. Your Health. (NIEHS Pocket Card)(141KB)
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Gene-Environment Environment and Gene Interactions Cancer Module(3MB)
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Lead Get the Lead Out: Your Environment, Your Health!(941KB)
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Storybooks

Storybooks

Keyword Description Grade Level
Carbon Monoxide What Could It Be, Beverly? K-4 5-8    
Chemicals What's Wrong Whiskers? K-4 5-8    
ETS Mama Didn't Know K-4 5-8    
Lead  Bradley & the Bad Pb K-4 5-8    
Safety Read the Label, Mabel K-4 5-8    
Stewardship Sharon Cleans Up! K-4 5-8    
Water Water, the Neverending Story K-4 5-8    

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Training Programs

Training Programs

Keyword Description Grade Level
Careers Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute: Toxicology, Health and Environmental Disease High School Summer Program This one-week program offers students opportunities to participate in a variety of laboratory activities such as DNA isolation, cell culture, cytotoxicity studies, etc. and learn about careers in medicine, pharmacy, toxicology, environmental science, and research.
Location: Piscataway, NJ		 K-4 5-8 9-12  
Careers Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory's High School Fellowships
High school students (primarily from Maine) participate in 6 to 8 weeks of intensive, hands-on research under the guidance of scientist/mentors. Students work in the laboratory--conducting experiments, collecting data, and analyzing results, and also attend meetings and seminars.
Location: Salisbury Cove, ME		     9-12  
Careers Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory's Undergraduate Fellowships
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory offers undergraduates two 8-10 week summer research programs that provide hands-on research training in the biological and biomedical sciences: NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates, and Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence.
Location: Salisbury Cove, ME		       12+
Careers University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's High School Program
  University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Undergraduate Program
This program provides students with interactive and fulfilling research experience in various laboratories and with very prestigious mentors at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Location: Smithville, TX		     9-12 12+
Training University of Texas's Annual Environmental Health Sciences Institute for K-12 Educators
Description: This free summer program offers an extensive variety of workshops for K-12 educators, pursuing the connections between health and the environment. Learn how to help students use scientific inquiry to develop an understanding of the mechanisms that affect the environment and our health. K-12 curricular materials will be featured from a network of institutions nationwide focusing on cancer, genetics, cell biology, indoor and outdoor air pollution, lead poisoning, water quality and toxicology. All workshops are facilitated by educators, scientists, and classroom teachers.
Location: Austin, Texas, USA.		 K-4 5-8 9-12 12+
Training and Careers University of Rochester's Outreach Program at Life Science Learning Center (LSLC)
LSLC offers professional development workshops on a variety of topics to give educators experience with cutting-edge science technologies. LSLC also offers science camps to students during school breaks, and field trips for high school and middle school students.
Location: Rochester, NY		   5-8 9-12  

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Videos

Keyword Description Grade Level
Cleanup Teen Fights for Toxic Waste Cleanup
In this video adapted from Earth Island Institutes New Leaders Initiative, New York student Shadia Wood tells how she became an environmental activist. Wood lives near several toxic waste sites and was concerned to learn that the New York Superfund money set aside for cleaning such sites in her state had gone bankrupt. Working with other students and environmental groups, Wood lobbied the New York legislature for eight years until the Superfund program was refinanced. Environmentalist Laura Haight says that this law was the most important environmental law passed in New York State in a decade.
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Environment Public Service Announcements
  • Breathe Easier
  • Common Chemicals
  • Second Hand Smoke
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Genetics What Really Causes Baldness (Hint: It's not your Grandpa) Find out what causes baldness - Don't blame your grandpa, it's more complicated than that!
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Websites

Keyword Description Grade Level
Air EnviroHealth Connections Lessons These interdisciplinary lesson plans integrate environmental health topics into core content areas at both the middle school and high school level. The lessons are technology rich and effectively integrate media into the instructional process. Topics covered include: air pollution, asthma, environmental justice, food supply, evolution, weather, water, lead, urban development, genetics, obesity, food webs, global warming and cancer. Lessons online through www.thinkport.org
Keywords: air pollution, asthma, environmental justice, health, environmental science, food supply, evolution, weather, water, lead, urban development, genetics, obesity, food webs, global warming, cancer, etc.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, Geography, Civics, Economics, Health & fitness
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Air Contamination Air Module - Particulate Observation Students collect, observe and identify common substances in samples of dust taken from students' homes and/or daily environment.
Keywords: Air Contamination - Respiratory Problems
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science
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Air Contamination Air Contamination Module Interdisciplinary module of activities on air contamination and environmental triggers contributing to respiratory problems. Activities can be taught as "stand alone" or as a complete module. Includes case studies and epidemiology issues.
Keywords: Air Contamination - Respiratory Problems
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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Biology BioEd Online BioEd Online is an online educational resource for educators, students, and parents. BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. The goal of BioEd Online is to provide useful, accurate, and current information and materials that build upon and enhance the skills and knowledge of science educators. Developed under the guidance of its expert Editorial Board, BioEd Online offers the following high-quality resources: downloadable lessons and curriculum guides, short courses, streaming video presentations, slide library, and nature science update.
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Body Organ Systems
Lesson 1: Bodily Defenses;
Lesson 2: Digestion;
Lesson 3: Detoxication;
Lesson 4: Gas Exchange;
Lesson 5: Coordination and Control.

These learning units focus on five main classes of functions that a body must perform. Rather than just naming organs of the body and what they do, we present a perspective on the body as a coordinated group of systems that must do certain things correctly in order to survive and thrive. Each instructional unit includes topics on: "Why Does It Matter" to explain the significance of the facts; "How We Know" to explain how understanding develops; "What We Know" to summarize the main facts; "Story Time" a biographical sketch on famous scientists emphasizing, where possible, their childhood; "Activities" for hands-on learning; "Common Hazards" and their effects on organ system functions; On-line self-study system, Get Smart!, that operates like "flash cards," but also allows the teacher to provide feedback on answers and scores automatically; Internet group work-space "FORUM" for interactions among students, teachers, and consulting scientists.
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Body What Really Causes Baldness (Hint: It's not your Grandpa)
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Brown Lung The Waterfall Ghost The Waterfall Ghost deals with the 19th-century textile industry and the byssinosis (brown lung) that many workers contracted.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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Careers Careers in Environmental Health - Men and women who work in environmental public health are concerned with anything in the environment that may affect human health, from clean water to polluted air, mercury to mosquitoes. This interactive activity from Teachers Domain describes careers in different environmental public health disciplines. Learn about careers in these fields and how environmental public health professionals prevent disease, create safe environments, treat people sickened from environmental exposures, and help the public make healthy decisions.
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Cells Cells Are Us This "Cells Are Us" module has five instructional units. One is an introduction of the levels of organization in living systems, followed by four other units based on some key aspect of cell function. Rather than discuss cells from the basis of their anatomy (membranes, mitochondria, nucleus, etc.), we thought it more important to emphasize what cells DO and how they do it.
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Chagas Disease Kiss of the Assassin The Kiss of the Assassin focuses on pathogens and bacterial infectious diseases (Chagas disease in this case) that can be obtained from insects, like the "kissing bug," that harbor the bacteria and serve as vectors for the disease. Twenty lessons including activities, handouts, worksheets, and testing materials in science, math, social studies and English/language arts.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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Chemicals Chemical Hazards at Home - Toxie the cat leads kids from room to room in a typical house, pointing out chemical hazards like carbon monoxide, lead, chlorine, and radon, in this interactive activity from the National Library of Medicine. After clicking on each hazard, students are given additional information about why the selected substance is dangerous to human and pet health, and where else it can be found.
Keywords: Chemicals, environmental health, carbon monoxide, lead, radon, pets
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Cholera Dark Poison Dark Poison concerns a cholera epidemic in New York in the 1830s. Thirteen lessons including activities, handouts, worksheets, and testing materials in science, math, social studies and English/language arts.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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Climate Change Climate Change and Human Health - Learn how human health is impacted by changes in the environment in this interactive activity. Explore how global climate change affects health issues such as airway diseases, developmental disorders, mental health disorders, vectorborne diseases, and waterborne diseases. In addition, consider possible ways to reduce health risks.
Keywords: Climate Change
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Environment Environmental Health Disaster Scenario program Students learn how complicated public health decision making can be, and how quickly decisions must sometimes be made. The scenarios place the students in roles they might not normally find themselves in--as an environmental expert or public health official, for example. They also give the students a glimpse at potential public health careers beyond the familiar ones such as nursing, medicine, or pharmacy. 
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Environment PBS Learning Media - Environmental Public Health - PBS LearningMedia is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. Youll find media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities. The Environmental Public Health section of the website offers classroom-ready resources for middle and high school students to help examine real-world environmental perils and the role of public health.
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Environment Toxic or Not? - Environmental Health Hazards - Environmental Health Hazards This module focuses on our surroundings and the hazards present in everyday life. The environment is defined and broken into components, and the hazards present in our environment are discussed in terms of means of exposure.
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Environment Veggie-Mon - I'm in Charge of My Own Health
  • Article: Online and On Track with Veggie-Mon
  • Website: http://www.veggie-mon.org
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Environmental Justice Issues    Environmental Justice Module Interdisciplinary module of activities on environmental justice. Includes oral histories of those affected by environmental justice issues.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History 
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Environmental Justice Issues    ENVIROTHON - Cultural Landscapes / Env. Justice ENVIROTHON Competition - Environmental Health Station with a reading packet provided to students so that they will be prepared to answer competition questions on topics related to environmental health.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Social studies, History, Civics, Economics 
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Epidemiology What Should I Use to Clean My Shower? Students will learn the essential steps in an epidemiology investigation by studying John Snow's classic investigation of the cholera epidemic in London in 1854.
Keywords: Epidemiology, cholera, illness outbreak
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, History 
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Epidemiology Investigation of an Outbreak Students learn the steps in an epidemiology investigation, work in teams, and use real data to investigate an outbreak of gastrenteritis in Southern Oregon.
Keywords: Epidemiology, gastroenteritis, illness outbreak
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Health & fitness 
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Ethics and Environmental Health Environmental Health Ethics Module Critical thinking activities and case studies involving ethics relating to issues of environmental health.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Social studies, Civics, Economics 
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Exposure Lemons and Onions This entertaining and educational activity gives elementary and middle school students a hands-on lesson in evaluating environmental health problems. In a well controlled activity, students smash lemons and onions to observe what happens when they are exposed to the odors. Then they participate in a demonstration that links together the health problem, the hazard, and the people who are exposed. Afterwards they use the concept of links in a discussion about how scientists reach a conclusion that a hazard is responsible for causing health problems in people.
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Food Contamination Food Module - Viewing Bacteria Students compare harmful and helpful bacterial cells and observe the structures within the bacterial cells.
Keywords: Food Contamination and Nutrition
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science
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Food Contamination and Nutrition    Food Contamination and Nutrition Module Interdisciplinary module of activities on food contamination and nutrition. Activities involve seafood contamination in transport, storage, and handling. Includes issues of nutrition.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History 
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Hepatitis Midnight at the Marble Tomb Midnight at the Marble Tomb focuses on the health consequences of raw sewage in streets, acupuncture, tattoos, body piercing (of the nose, ears, lips, eyebrows, and belly button), blood transfusions, and organ donations in India. Fourteen lessons including activities, handouts, worksheets, and testing materials in science, math, social studies and English/language arts.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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Household chemicals What makes a Product Hazardous? Students read product labels noting signal words, hazardous properties, and routes of exposure. They inventory hazardous household products in their homes and identify unsafe storage and use of products, and write a memo to their parents detailing what they found and recommended changes.
Keywords: Household chemicals, risk, routes of exposure, environmental health
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Health & fitness
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Illness outbreak   Mysterious Illness Outbreak Scenario Students form teams that take on the roles of the professionals on the Hydroville Health Department team involved in determining the cause and control of an outbreak. Students follow the steps of an epidemiology investigation. They collect data, develop a case definition, and form a hypothesis about the cause of the outbreak. They learn data collection and analysis techniques used by such investigators, analyze simulated data, modify their case definition based on this analysis, and present their results in a press release and press conference format.
Keywords: illness outbreak, epidemiology, pesticides, environmental health, inquiry-based, integrated curriculum, problem-based, science careers
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Geography, Health & fitness
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Indoor Air Quality Indoor Air Quality Scenario The local school board has received complaints of illness at the newly renovated Hydroville Middle School. Many people believe that this is due to poor indoor air quality. High school students participating in this problem act as a team of environmental consults to determine if there really is an indoor air quality problem in the school. Student teams present their findings at the next school board meeting.
Keywords: indoor air quality, indoor air quality in schools, environmental health, inquiry-based, integrated curriculum, problem-based, science careers
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Geography, Health & fitness
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  • 9-12
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Influenza March Madness March Madness focuses on the influenza epidemic surrounding World War I. Sixteen lessons including activities, handouts, worksheets, and testing materials in science, math, social studies and English/language arts.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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  • 5-8
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Lead Soil Module - Lead Detection Students learn one method for the detection of lead.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science
  • K-4
  • 5-8
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Lead   Soil Contamination Module Interdisciplinary module of activities on lead contamination in soil that can be taught as "stand alone" or as a complete module. Environmental Justice and Ethics issues involved.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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  • 9-12
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Mold EnviroMysteries: Breaking the Mold This video and accompanying extensive online educational resources look at health and air pollution and empower students to take an active role in environmental issues that can affect their health today and in the future.
Keywords: asthma, mold, air pollution, indoor air pollution, respiratory system, mystery, science, environmental health, health
Subjects: Science, Health & fitness
  • k-4
  • 5-8
  • 9-12
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Mold Mold Control Using four types of cleaning solutions, students analyze which product is most effective for controlling yeast (substitute for mold) and create a dose-response curve to analyze the toxicity of the cleaning product to yeast.
Keywords: Mold, toxicology, dose-response, environmental health
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Health & fitness
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  • 9-12
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Pesticides Pesticide Spill Scenario Students involved in the Hydroville Pesticide Spill Scenario act as members of the team of scientists and engineers that are sent to the site of a pesticide spill. Their task is to remove the liquid, evaluate the risk posed to the citizens of Hydroville, develop a proposal for complete cleanup of the site, and make a presentation about their proposal to an open meeting of the Hydroville Town Council.
Keywords: pesticides, toxicology, dose response, integrated, environmental health, problem-based, science careers
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, Geography, Health & fitness
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  • 9-12
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Research Unsolved Mysteries of Human Health Take a virtual tour of the labs, get accurate and non-technical explanations of complex research methods and instruments, check in on real-world examples of current research and more!
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  • 9-12
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Smallpox and Bioterrorism Three Rivers, Three Nations Three Rivers, Three Nations takes a look at bioterrorism, focusing on the use of smallpox during the French and Indian War in the 18th Century. Seventeen lessons including activities, handouts, worksheets, and testing materials in science, math, social studies and English/language arts.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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  • 5-8
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Tobacco Chemicals and Human Health Web Site Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Development Activity: Teacher's Guide and Student Sheet
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  • 9-12
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Toxicology

Chemicals, The Environment and You: Explorations in Science and Human Health Students explore the relationship between chemicals in the environment and human health, utilizing basic concepts in the science of toxicology. Developed by teachers, this curriculum includes six hands-on activities that will encourage students to think about chemical exposures, dose-response, and individual susceptibility. 
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  • 5-8
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Toxicology Toxicology Module Module of toxicology activities, including basic terminology in toxicology.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies
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  • 9-12
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Toxins ENVIROTHON - Chemicals in the Park ENVIROTHON Competition - Environmental Heatlh Station with a reading packet provided to students so that they will be prepared to answer competition questions on topics related to environmental health.
Keywords: Toxins in the Park - Lead, Arsenic, and Mercury
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies
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  • 9-12
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Water Water's the Matter This module will focus on five different measurable properties of water. The quality of water is more than just visible observations such as color and odor. Nature (and also man) can cause many changes in a body of water. As a result, a given body of water will have a specific footprint. It will have unique properties when compared to another body of water.
Each unit is divided into six sections: Introduction, Objectives, Pre-Test, Lesson Presentation, Activity, and Post-Test
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  • 5-8
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Water EnviroMysteries:Water +? = Trouble This video and accompanying extensive print teacher resources explore how water can become polluted, consequences of and potential remedies for water pollution. Students are engaged in a mystery and learn why it is important to take an active role in environmental issues that can affect their health today and in the future.
Keywords: water, water pollution, cholera, water cycle, water purification, mystery, science, environmental health, health
Subjects: Science, Health & fitness
  • k-4
  • 5-8
  • 9-12
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Water Contamination Water Contamination Module Interdisciplinary module of activities on recreational water contamination that can be taught as "stand alone" or as a complete module. Based on authentic events.
Keywords: Recreational Water Contamination - Microbes
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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  • 9-12
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Water Contamination Water Module - Create a Microbe Students construct models of microorganisms recognizing size relationships - comparing the size of viruses with the sizes of bacterial cells.
Keywords: Recreational Water Contamination - Microbes
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science
  • K-4
  • 5-8
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Water Contamination ENVIROTHON - Water in a Changing Climate ENVIROTHON Competition - Environmental Heatlh Station with a reading packet provided to students so that they will be prepared to answer competition questions on topics related to environmental health.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social studies
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  • 9-12
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Water Quality Water Quality Scenario The town of Hydroville is experiencing some of the social, political, and environmental problems associated with rapid growth and development. The drinking water report shows that certain pollutants in the water supply have increased significantly.Students teams investigate possible causes of the increase in contaminants in the water supply and develop remediation options that will protect the drinking water from further contamination. Students report their findings to the city council through presentations and to the community through newspaper articles and public service announcements.
Keywords: water quality, drinking water, groundwater pollution, groundwater remediation, environmental health, inquiry-based, integrated curriculum, problem- based, science careers
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Communication, Science, Social studies, Geography, Health & fitness
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  • 9-12
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Water Quality Tut's Revenge Tut's Revenge is about water contamination during construction of King Tut's tomb in ancient Egypt.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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  • 5-8
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Yellow Fever Texas, 1867 Texas: 1867 deals with the yellow fever epidemic in Texas after the end of the Civil War. Seventeen lessons including activities, handouts, worksheets, and testing materials in science, math, social studies and English/language arts.
Subjects: Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Social studies, History
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  • 5-8
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