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Interactive
Rice University

Rice University: Web Adventures: Uncommon Scents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An online game looking at household items contain toxic chemicals and evaluate how they affect our health.
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Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Lead Pb Environmental and Health Issues

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After looking over several articles and reports about lead in the environment being toxic, students will write persuasive letters to various government officials to tell them how they feel about what the government is currently doing...
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Lesson Plan
National Institutes of Health

Nih Curriculum Supplement Series: Chemicals, the Environment, and You

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This comprehensive site from the Office of Science Policy offers a teacher's guide, lesson plans, and student activities that discuss the presence of chemicals in the environment and how they might affect one's body.
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Handout
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Chemicals in the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
Information summaries on some chemicals and descriptions of how you might be exposed to these chemicals, how that exposure might affect the environment, etc. Please note that this type of information changes rapidly.