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Event-Based Science: Remote Sensing Activities
Event-Based Science is a new way to teach science by using newsworthy events to establish the relevance of science topics. Interviews, photographs, web pages, and inquiry-based science activities ...Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity, Project, Classroom Activity
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Winogradsky Column Unit: Chemical and Physical Change
Yevgeny Pevzner, Sharyn Annette SheltonThis two-part activity leads Physical Science students, grades 8-12, to explore chemical change using Winogradsky Columns. Part 1 constructs student concepts concerning chemical and physical changes. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Central-Nervous-System Defects in Children Born to Mothers Exposed to Organic Solvets During Pregnancy
P.C Holmberg
This article from a 1974 issue of 'The Lancet' describes birth outcomes after women's exposure to organic solvents during pregnancy.
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Research Results
An Analysis of Contaminated Well Water and Health Effects in Woburn
S.W. Lagakos, B.J. Wessen, M. Zelen
This article from the Journal of the American Statistical Association describes the 1979 discovery that two of the eight municipal wells servicing Woburn, Massachusetts, were contaminated with ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Activities:Lab Activity
No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action
P. Brown, E.I. Mikkelsen
This is a book written about the cluster of childhood leukemia cases that occurred from the 1960s through the 1980s in Woburn, Massachusetts, and spotlights the community action viewpoint. Material ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Research Results, Overview/Reference Work, Opinion
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen
This book that was banned from the US for eight years and covers the events leading up to the 1975 violence at Wounded Knee, the shoot-out, Leonard Peltier's extradition, the Supreme Court case, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Project, Policy Resources:Opinion
Ecology in a Jar
Thomas Corner
This journal article discusses incorporation of the Winogradsky Column into high school science classrooms to demonstrate nutrient cycles and inter-relatedness of organisms in the environment. It ...
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Overview/Summary, Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Critical Windows of Exposure to Household Pesticides and Risk of Childhood Leukemia
X. Ma, P.A. Buffler, R.B. Gunier, G. Dahl, M.T. Smith, K. Reiner, P. Reynolds
This article, found in 'Environmental Health Perspectives,' discusses the potential for household pesticide exposures to cause disease. The study compared exposure to indoor and outdoor ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Research Results
Directed-Discovery of Crystal Structures Using Ball and Stick Models
David Mogk
This chapter in the booklet "Teaching Mineralogy", published by the Mineralogical Society of America, presents a series of exercises using ball-and-stick models and a series of ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work