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    Unit 5: Hazardous Waste and Love Canal part of Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
    Jill Schneiderman, Vassar College; Meg Stewart, American Geophysical Union
    Students explore the classic case of Love Canal, New York, in which Lois Gibbs—originally described as a "hysterical housewife"—mobilized her community and called attention to the contamination of ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share
    Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Point Source Pollution, Environmental Science:Waste:Toxic and Hazardous Wastes, Health Sciences, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity
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    Unit 4: Hurricane Impacts part of Natural Hazards and Risks: Hurricanes
    Lisa Gilbert, Cabrillo College; Josh Galster, Montclair State University; Joan Ramage, Lehigh University
    This unit has three options for 40-minute activities that address hurricane impacts. Alternatively, if time allows, all three could be used in sequence. Activity 4.1 includes a presentation on the terrestrial ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share
    Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Health Sciences, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes
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    InTeGrate Developed This material was developed and reviewed through the InTeGrate curricular materials development process.
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    Using Vaccines to Fight Outbreaks part of Teaching Activities
    Science Buddies
    What exactly is a vaccine? Can vaccines prevent outbreaks? How effective does a vaccine need to be to help a population during an outbreak? Students will explore these questions and more in this lesson plan by ...

    Grade Level: General Public, Informal
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
    Subject: Health Sciences, Environmental Science:Human Population:Epidemics, Pandemics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Where do drugs go? part of BASICS:Teaching Materials:The Wicked Problem of Water Quality in the Mississippi River Watershed:Course-Specific Exercises
    Zoë Wagner, Bentley University, Natural & Applied Sciences
    This classroom discussion centered around the biological/chemical mechanisms by which drugs leave the body and where the drugs go from there. We discussed renal clearance via urine, then transitioned into a ...

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
    Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Waste:Toxic and Hazardous Wastes:Bio/Medical Wastes, Health Sciences, Biology:Anatomy & Physiology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry