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King County: Household Hazardous Waste
Characteristics of hazardous waste products are provided on this site. Alternatives to use which will not harm the environment are also explained.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Radioactivity Activity
This activity is part of Planet Diary and contains an online exploration of waste in different states. Students investigate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund Priorities site for sources of nuclear waste and then see...
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...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids Pages: Crabby Kathy
Online children's story that teaches about the health effects of exposure to environmental hazards. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see why Kathy becomes "crabby" from all the chemicals and contaminants in her room.
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Health and the Environment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-three data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine health issues and how the environment impacts health in areas around the globe. They look at a...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Clean Air Markets Program
Market-based regulatory programs designed by the EPA, with information for consumers and industry cap-and-trade policies, Clean Air Act, and other government-sponsored efforts to reduce air pollution.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Envirofacts Data Warehouse
Using zip codes, this site allows students to locate businesses in their communities that are producing wastes.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Enviro Mapper Store Front
Lets kids create their own maps, down to the square mile, anywhere in America, choosing various features from water discharges to hazardous waste to roads.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Pulse: Striding Into the Future: Clinical Trials
An interdisciplinary unit teaching the topic of scientific research performed on human subjects for a skin cancer study. The physics principles behind imaging techniques, the biological implications of UV radiation on the skin, the...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: Mama Didn't Know
Online children's story that teaches about the health effects of breathing secondhand smoke. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see why it's so important not to smoke when children are present; it can affect your health but...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: Sharon Finds the Environment
Online children's story that teaches that the environment is everywhere we look. See how the environment can make us strong and healthy, or it can make us sick.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Assessing Health Risks From Pesticides
This site provides information about the active ingredients registered as pesticides. Site discusses toxicology, exposure, dose-response and risk characterization.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Waste?
A website devoted to the challenge of reducing solid waste for the good of our environment.
Environmental Chemistry
Evironmental chemistry.com: Grown Ups Don't Do Blue Goo
Tells the story of Love Canal, NY and the contamination that was happening there and what has been done about it recently.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Clean Air Act (United States)
Wikipedia offers extensive information on the history and amendments to the Clean Air Act of the United States.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Whmis: What You Need to Know
Explains the WHMIS legislation, which is of particular significance at the university level with its many research laboratories.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Air Toxics Website Manganese Compounds
Very thorough information on manganese. Lists its uses, where it is found, physical properties, and potential health effects.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: Dustmitezilla
Online make-believe children's story about Dustmitezilla, a giant dust mite. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to find out how Dr. Sneeze saves the day.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Mercury
This site provides a user navigated slide show with animations providing basic information about the element Mercury.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Asbestos
Discusses the different types of risks imposed when exposed to asbestos. Risks that are discussed are cancer risks, reproductive effects, and chronic effects.
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: Bradley and the Bad Pb
Interactive children's story that teaches about the dangers of lead poisoning. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see all the different sources of lead in the environment and the symptoms of lead poisoning.
University of Arizona
Pulse: Powerful Explorations of Health and Energy
A cross curricular unit where students simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...