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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: How Does Your Environment Affect Your Health?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this self-paced lesson, students learn how environmental factors affect the health of living things, including humans.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health

For Students 9th - 10th
A college course featuring instructor's notes and case studies about the relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human diseases.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Protect Your Health and Environment

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students learn what they can do to protect themselves from health hazards in their environment. They learn about potential hazards, how these can affect their health, and what they can do to minimize their exposure.
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Website
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Learn the Issues: Chemicals & Toxics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides real-world issues as well as the scientific research and technology used to support the EPA's mission to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Now With Bill Moyers: Kids and Chemicals: Facts and Laws

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate synthetic chemicals that may be found in one's environment, and consider how toxic synthetic chemicals may affect people differently. Reflect on alternatives to toxic home-use products, and evaluate the risks and benefits.
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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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Lesson Plan
Other

Wet in the City: A Recipe for Clean Water [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this hands-on lesson, students will examine the labels on common household products to determine what hazardess chemicals they contain, then test less toxic alternatives to see their affects on water quality. Students will also gain...
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Website
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Tox Town: Environmental Health Concerns

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about toxic chemicals and the environmental healths risks you might encounter everyday in familiar places. Select neighborhoods or locations to discover what chemicals might be found there and the health risks associated with each.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: It's Raining, It's Pouring: Chemical Analysis of Rainwater

For Students 6th - 8th
Here is an interesting project that could be approached from several different scientific angles: Environmental Science, Weather & Atmosphere, Chemistry, or Plant Biology. You can probably think of your own variations to emphasize...
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Website
Other

Environment Canada: What Is Acid Rain?

For Students 3rd - 8th
A thorough explanation of acid rain with a focus on the following topics: what is acid rain, the pH scale measures acidity, what does acid rain do, and what can I do about acid rain.
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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.
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Unit Plan
Center for Educational Technologies

Nasa Classroom of the Future: Environment Module: Uv Menace

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information and activities for classes to learn more about ozone depletion and UV radiation.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers:hazardous Chemicals in Your Neighborhood

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Identify hazardous chemicals and their effect on human health and the environment. Explain the importance of cleaning up hazardous waste, and identify facilities and agencies that deal with hazardous chemicals.
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Website
NOAA

Noaa: Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration: Response Tools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Listed is information to support effective and safe responses to oil spills in the coastal environment. Links provide access to software & data sets, publications and web portals.
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Website
National Institutes of Health

Niehs: Kids' Pages: What's Wrong Whiskers?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Online children's story that teaches about the health effects of exposure to environmental hazards such as chemicals. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see why Whiskers, the family cat, becomes ill from all the chemicals used...
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Unit Plan
University of Alberta

The University of Alberta: Nmr Spectroscopy

For Students 9th - 10th
1HNMR theory begins in the nucleus of hydrogen. Complete this tutorial on the 1HNMR spectrum graph to learn about the number of equivalent hydrogens, b) the chemical environment of each hydrogen type and c) the number of neighbouring...
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Website
NOAA

Noaa: Office of Response and Restoration

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are tools and information for emergency responders and planners, and others working to understand,.the effects of oil and hazardous materials in our waters and along our coasts. Links to oil/chemical spill information and photos....
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Website
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Antimony: Atsdr Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource describes the chemical element antimony (chemical symbol Sb) and gives detailed information about its effects on human health and the environment.
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Graphic
Other

Geology.com: Rocks: Pictures of Sedimentary Rocks

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents photographs of examples of clastic, chemical, and organic sedimentary rocks, with short descriptions underneath each rock image. Each rock name is also linked to its own dedicated page with a great deal of additional information...
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Website
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Hazardous Materials Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides links to safety data sheets on hazardous chemicals and micro-organisms that might be used in a laboratory or workplace environment.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Liberty Lands

For Students 6th - 8th
In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Acid Rain and Aquatic Life

For Students 2nd - 5th
Chemicals from the Earth's atmosphere are making their way down to the planet. Not in spaceships, but in rain. The acid rain can infiltrate ground water, lakes, and streams. How does acid rain affect aquatic ecosystems?
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Website
Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from Digital Library for Earth System Education provides materials for students and teachers on a huge array of topics. Search site by topic, grade level, and desired output (such as lesson plan, case study, assessment or...
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Handout
World Health Organization

World Health Organization: Dioxins and Their Effects on Human Health

For Students 9th - 10th
The World Health Organization answers questions relating to dioxins in our environment. Learn what dioxins are, how they effect our health and what is being done about possible contamination of the food supply.