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- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students examine various environmental health issues related to ports and the shipping industry. As a class, they generate a systems model related to the ship- salvaging industry. Then in small groups, they create their own systems model for a specific solution to decrease emissions from ships at or near ports. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how environmental health relates to the built environment. They read an article, identify environmental health/built environment issues in their own community, complete a worksheet, and develop solutions. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students examine "multiple chemical sensitivity" and how it relates to genetic variation and environmental factors. They read an article, conduct research, and identify risk factors related to chemical sensitivity, asthma, breast cancer, and obesity. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine basic human rights as defined by the United Nations. They develop a list of rights by class consensus, read an article, answer discussion questions, and complete a worksheet. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, after researching/analyzing the concept of environmental health to air quality, role-play the basic principals of epidemiology. They act out a specific scenario to generate questions, draft a research plan, and generate possible solutions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students work in teams to synthesize their air, asthma, air contamination, and environmental health knowledge as well as additional research to represent a particular point of view persuasively. They create a handout and presentatin materials to help communicate this knowledge and point of view. Pupils use these materials, to practice public speaking to present their work. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - Higher Ed
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Students identify Environmental Health Problems caused by both living and nonliving things. They summarize Issue Components (event, problem, issue, players, and positions) involving environmental health issues such as contamination in air, soil, water, etc. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students use inductive reasoning to study different scenarios related to environmental issues. They evaluate various scenarios to develop common definitions and key concepts in environmental health ethics. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students learn the criteria for and create the framework of an impromptu speech about an environmental health issue that is especially important to them. Students write a speech about an environmental health problem based on the material learned in this quarter's science and social studies classes and the research conducted in the last language arts class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the environmental effects from an oil spill and identify ways environmental health is affected from individual through global levels. They identify ways to clean up oil spills, and read an article about the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Students then observe a simulated oil spill clean up involving an aquarium and motor oil. Full Review »
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