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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Love Canal-A Man Made Disaster

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch a "Waste Management" Power Point as well as a "Love Canal" PowerPoint (a link is provided for the second presentation). Students write the chemical formula for each chemical and convert the contamination to grams using...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

And Your Point Is . . .? Part I

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars, in groups, complete a WebQuest titled "Love Canal Debate". They follow the WebQuest to research and write papers on different points of view regarding the Love Canal environmental disaster.
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Primary
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: The Love Canal Tragedy

For Students 9th - 10th
An assessment of the horrific tragedy of the chemical pollution whcih seeped into the town of Love Canal. Written by an EPA administrator just months after carcinogenic materials began leaching into yards and the public school built over...
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Primary
University at Buffalo

Love Canal Collections: Love Canal Chronologies

For Students 9th - 10th
Find chronologies from three different sources of Love Canal and its chemical contamination. Read about how the investigation of this environmental disaster progressed over the years.
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Website
University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo: Love Canal Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated history surveys the infamous Love Canal chemical contamination environmental disaster of the 1970s.
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Primary
New York State Dept. of Health

New York State Department of Health: Love Canal Public Health Time Bomb

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the report to the New York governor and legislature from the Commissioner of Health laying out the dangers presented by the toxic chemicals dumped in the town of Love Canal.
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Primary
University at Buffalo

Love Canal Collections: Niagara Gazette Newspaper Clippings

For Students 9th - 10th
Newspaper clippings covering many aspects of Love Canal including much information about the litigation and claims filed by those so affected by the pollution that seeped into the town.
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Handout
Environmental Chemistry

Evironmental chemistry.com: Grown Ups Don't Do Blue Goo

For Students 9th - 10th
Tells the story of Love Canal, NY and the contamination that was happening there and what has been done about it recently.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Earth First, 1960's

For Students 9th - 10th
This excellent resource provided by Digital History contains a wealth of information on the environmental movement of the 1960s in America, as well as the rest of the century.