Activity: How healthy is your neighborhood? part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
You are going to complete an environmental health risk inventory of your neighborhood or hometown. Before you get started, you may want to review the terminology and familiarize yourself with environmental health ...

Teaching Notes part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
Context This exercise is designed for students in introductory environmental geology courses (grades 11-12, undergraduate). However, it can be modified for students in upper level courses as well. Learning Goals ...

National Cancer Institute Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
The Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the U.S., provides interactive maps, text, tables and figures showing geographical patterns and time trends of cancer death rates from time periods 1950-69 and 1970-94 for more ...

EPA's Window to my Environment part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
Window to My Environment provides a variety of federal, state and local information about environmental conditions in your area. Show me a screen shot Hide Understanding the Window to My Environment screen: On the ...

Environmental health risk inventory of your neighborhood. part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
By Laurie Cantwell The following tutorial is an example activity designed for students and teachers interested in completing an environmental health risk inventory of a specific locale. The tutorial provides ...

Model Assignment: How healthy is your neighborhood? part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
The following assignment serves as a model for using the environmental health assessment tools and databases in the classroom. The activity requires students to perform an environmental health risk inventory of a ...

Scorecard part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
Note: This resource is no longer available, but a similar resource called My Environment from the US EPA is available at: https://geopub.epa.gov/myem/envmap/myenv.html Scorecard: Get the Facts on Local Pollution ...

EPA's Toxic Release Inventory Explorer part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
The TRI Explorer (more info) provides access to Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data to help communities identify facilities and chemical disposal or other release patterns that warrant further study and analysis. ...

CDC's BRFSS Map Tool part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
The CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (more info) is a mapping tool that illustrates health risks at national, state, and local levels. Get Started! From the BRFSS front page you will be ...

EPA's Enviromapper part of Integrating Research and Education:Environmental Health Risk Assessment
Enviromapper Storefront (more info) provides a set of web-based interactive mapping tools for viewing and querying environmental information. ) . Note: All of the Enviromapper tools function similarly. The ...