Environmental Health

This lesson encourages students to explore literature written by conservationists and consider the influence of these books on readers’ thoughts and actions relating to the environment.

This activity is correlated to National Life Science and Geography content standards.

Students have probably heard about parasite-borne diseases, but they might not know the specifics of how these diseases are spread and how disease rates can be reduced. In this lesson, students will research some parasite-borne diseases and report on how parasites infect their hosts.

This lesson is correlated to National Geography Standards.

These materials, developed by Maryland Public Television in partnership with the Center in Urban Environmental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provide lessons and materials on several topics which include: air and atmosphere, societal issues, toxicology and food/nutrition.

These materials are designed to be interdisciplinary, constructivist in nature, and engaging for students.  The materials were developed using Understanding by Design emphasizing the student outcomes desired and working backwards to develop lessons to achieve them.

This website features curricular materials for a variety of environmental health topics by grade level.  At the secondary level, topics include alcohol, bacteria, disease transmission, toxicology, and air quality.  Materials also exist for the study of environmental justice, pesticides, risk management, and research.

The Environmental Protection Agency has developed an assessment tool that school districts can use to evaluate their facilities' key environmental, safety and health issues. This voluntary self-assessment is designed to be used by district level staff for multiple school sites, not individual schools.