National Institutes of Health
Nih Curriculum Supplement Series: Chemicals, the Environment, and You
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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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Chemical Equilibrium
This site from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute provides an introduction to chemical equilibrium, covering equilibrium expressions, the pH scale, and presenting how to plot log concentration diagrams.
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Ithaca College: Project Look Sharp: Chemicals in the Environment
[Free Registration/Login Required] Project Look Sharp offers a unit, complete with lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, and videos, focused on chemicals in the environment.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Uzbekistan: Environment
This article from the Library of Congress addresses the sad state of the environment in Uzbekistan caused by chemical, water, and air pollution. Particular emphasis is focused on the Aral Sea.
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Pollution Probe: Mercury in the Environment [Pdf]
High levels of mercury exposure can cause birth defects, permanent brain or kidney damage, and/or death. This resource focuses on the impacts of mercury in the environment. Learn how mercury can reap havoc on lakes and other aquatic...
Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: Health Care, Agriculture, Environment [Pdf]
Take a closer look at some of the ways in which biotechnology is applied to help solve medical issues and improve our environment.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: How Does Your Environment Affect Your Health?
In this self-paced lesson, students learn how environmental factors affect the health of living things, including humans.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health
A college course featuring instructor's notes and case studies about the relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human diseases.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Protect Your Health and Environment
Learners 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.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Learn the Issues: Chemicals & Toxics
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.
PBS
Now With Bill Moyers: Kids and Chemicals: Facts and Laws
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.
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Uncommon Scents
An online game looking at household items contain toxic chemicals and evaluate how they affect our health.
Other
Wet in the City: A Recipe for Clean Water [Pdf]
In 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...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Tox Town: Environmental Health Concerns
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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: It's Raining, It's Pouring: Chemical Analysis of Rainwater
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...
Other
Environment Canada: What Is Acid Rain?
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.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Chemicals in the Environment
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.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Environment Module: Uv Menace
This site provides information and activities for classes to learn more about ozone depletion and UV radiation.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:hazardous Chemicals in Your Neighborhood
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.
NOAA
Noaa: Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration: Response Tools
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.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: What's Wrong Whiskers?
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...
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta: Nmr Spectroscopy
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...
NOAA
Noaa: Office of Response and Restoration
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....
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Antimony: Atsdr Fact Sheet
This resource describes the chemical element antimony (chemical symbol Sb) and gives detailed information about its effects on human health and the environment.