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Waste & Toxics Urban & Multicultural Population Consumption Schoolyard Ecology Geography Arts-based	Pages this Section:   EE Activities - Waste and Toxics Links on this page are for activities and materials dealing with: waste production and disposal, recycling and pollution prevention toxic materials--industrial wastes, environmental toxins, and pesticides You will also find topic-specific information on EE-Link in two other areas: EE Organizations and Projects Environmental Links (key links for information and organizations) Links for EE Activities - Waste and Toxics:   Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk "The new PLT secondary module, Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk, draws on state-of-the-art instructional strategies and on highly relevant topics to technologies, environmental hazards, and everyday activities. The module helps students explore how environmental and human health risks affect their everyday lives and how society as a whole makes decisions about risk." Open in new window Cluppers Organic Gardens Inc A nonprofit corporation teaching chemical free horticulture. Our educational kit Compost, Critters & Kids is used as a teaching tool from k-12 to University level. This kit also meets the National Science Standards. Open in new window Compost Gin "The compost card game is designed to teach the principles and methods of composting and futher the understanding of this very important natural cycle." Ordering information online. Open in new window Composting in the Classroom: Scientific Inquiry for High School Students "A comprehensive guide for teachers interested in guiding composting research projects by high school students." Open in new window EPA's Envirofacts Warehouse  Popular! "The Envirofacts Warehouse allows you to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Superfund sites, drinking water, toxic and air releases, hazardous waste and Biennial Reporting System data, water discharge permits, and grants information. Use online queries to retrieve data or generate maps of environmental information." Open in new window Environmental Education Video Program FREE videos that highlight real-world environmental clean-up efforts. For high school/college level, the videos document clean-up and remediation of pesticide spills, tire fires, and other events. Open in new window Garbage The Game  Popular! The purpose of Garbage The Game is to raise awareness of what our society commonly does with it's garbage,stimulate positive action and have fun.Available only through WWW site; used for fundraising and in classrooms. Open in new window Keep America Beautiful - Materials for Teachers Two curricula: Waste In Place (grades K-6) and Waste: A Hidden Resource (grades 7-12). Open in new window Lesson Plans - Environmental Issues Forum Workshop   Popular! Submitted by teachers at a workshop emphasizing urban EE, lesson plans on air and water quality, solid waste, and land use planning. from the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Open in new window Mission 3R - A Challenge for Change Interactive Solid Waste Education Software. The program takes students through the life cycle of products purchased in a virtual shopping trip. Developed for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, so the focus is on the US southwest. Open in new window Office of Waste Management - Students & Teachers Page OWM's Students and Teachers page contains EE materials including links to Tools for the Environmental Teacher, Home Hazardous Products Survey, What Your Home Haz, Lessons in HHW Management curriculum, From Awareness to Action -a HHW Internet course, and Streets to Streams; Youth Investigation into Water Quality curriculum. Open in new window Project Greenskate Project Greenskate is an interactive environmental learning adventure for grades 7-12. Using a highly interactive format, Greenskate introduces basic toxicology concepts such as dose-response, routes of exposure, thresholds for toxic effects, biotransformatin, and risk assessment. Printed support materials are available for teachers upon request. Open in new window Sewer Science High School Lab "Describes a 5-day lab curriculum that uses wastewater treatment to integrate the sciences and get students thinking about personal responsibility. Suitable for 9th - 12th grades." Open in new window Solid Waste Activities - BEES Activities investigating hazardous materials and pollution at home, and options for better management. Middle school level. From Building Environmental Education Solutions. Open in new window Teach With Databases:Toxics Release Inventory National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) with a grant from the EPA, developed this new curriculum. Designed to teach junior high and high school students how to access publicly available environmental information to complete projects in science and the environment. Open in new window Tyris Environmental Series Activity books on hazardous waste that "teach math and science by uniting these subjects with every day environmental experience in the lives of students." Sample activities on the WWW site. Open in new window
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