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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS AND TOXIC CHEMICALS WHERE YOU LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY
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  • Neighborhoods
    • City
    • Farm
    • Port
    • Town
    • US Southwest
  • Locations
    • Abandoned Mines
    • Agricultural Runoff
    • Airplanes and Air Travel
    • Algae Blooms
    • Animal Waste
    • Auto Shop
    • Barn and Silo
    • Beach
    • Brownfield
    • Cesspool
    • Chemical Storage Tank
    • Climate Change
    • Coal-Fired Power Plants
    • Coastal Brownfield
    • Construction
    • Crop Fields
    • Cruise Ship
    • Dental Office and Lab
    • Drinking Water
    • Drought
    • Dust Storms
    • Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs)
    • Factory
    • Farm Animals
    • Farm Environmental Health
    • Farm Pond
    • Feeding Operation
    • Fish Farm
    • Food Services
    • Fuel Pipelines
    • Funeral Home
    • Gyres
    • Hair and Nail Salons
    • Homes
    • Hospital
    • Houseplants and Gardens
    • Hydraulic Fracturing
    • Illegal Dumps and Tire Piles
    • Indoor Air
    • Irrigation Canals and Ditches
    • Landfill
    • Marina and Boats
    • Meat Processing
    • Mining
    • Nuclear Power Plant
    • Off-road Vehicles
    • Offices and Stores
    • Oil and Gas Fields
    • Outdoor Air
    • Park
    • Pests
    • Pets
    • Pharmacy
    • River
    • Rural and Unpaved Roads
    • School
    • School Bus
    • Septic System
    • Shed
    • Sheep Ranching
    • Shellfishing
    • Shipping
    • Shipyard
    • Storms and Floods
    • Stormwater and Sewage
    • Trash Burning
    • Tree Farm and Logging
    • Uranium Tailings
    • Urban and Industrial Runoff
    • Urban Sprawl
    • Vehicles
    • Wastewater Treatment Facility
    • Water Wells
    • Wildfires
    • Windmills
  • Chemicals
    • Acetone
    • Ammonia
    • Arsenic
    • Asbestos
    • Benzene
    • Bisphenol A (BPA)
    • Cadmium
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Carbon Monoxide
    • Chlorine
    • Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
    • Chromium
    • Crude Oil
    • Diesel
    • Dioxins
    • Endocrine Disruptors
    • Ethylene Glycol
    • Ethylene Oxide
    • Formaldehyde
    • Gasoline
    • Lead
    • Mercury
    • Methane
    • Methanol
    • Microplastics
    • Nanoparticles
    • Natural Gas
    • Nitrogen Oxides
    • Ozone
    • Particulate Matter
    • Perchlorate
    • Perchloroethylene (PCE, PERC)
    • Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)
    • Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
    • Pesticides
    • Phthalates
    • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)
    • Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
    • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)
    • Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
    • Propane
    • Radon
    • Solvents
    • Styrene
    • Sulfur Dioxide
    • Toluene
    • Uranium
    • Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
  • For Educators
    • Introduction
    • Tox Town-Based Curriculum Units / Science Club
    • Careers in Environmental Health, Chemistry, and Toxicology
    • More Resources
For Educators

The educator pages provide activities and resources you can use with your class to stimulate learning about environmental health issues. You will find:
  • Introduction
  • Tox Town-Based Curriculum Units / Science Club
  • Careers in Environmental Health, Chemistry, and Toxicology
  • More Resources
Introduction


Tox Town helps students and teachers learn about environmental health concerns and toxic chemicals pictured in an imaginary

  • City
  • Farm
  • Port
  • Town
  • US Southwest

Tox Town includes a text version and a Spanish language version.

Within each neighborhood, students can click on a location or environmental health concern, like drinking water, to find what chemicals might be in their drinking water. Tox Town also links to selected web resources about drinking water. Students can also click on toxic chemicals to learn, for example,

  • What is arsenic?
  • How might I be exposed to asbestos?
  • How can carbon monoxide affect my health?

Tox Town's target audience is high school and college students, educators, and the concerned public. Descriptions of chemicals and of environmental health concerns written for Tox Town score within grade 9-12 reading levels on the Flesch-Kincaid readability scale. Links to other web resources have not been scored.

Tools to help you get the most out of Tox Town include:

  • Tox Town Based Curriculum Units/Science Club is a an environmental health science curriculum for middle school students that can be used in a science classroom or in an interdisciplinary program that connects science and society.
  • Earth Day suggested classroom enrichment (PDF - 1.03 MB) on human health and the environment, pollution, and toxic chemicals
  • Introduction to Tox Town video and transcript (PDF - 55 KB). The 2-minute video file is 20 megabytes and uses Windows Media Player.
  • K – 12 Web Resources for Your Science Classroom (PDF - 660.34 KB). One page, double-sided, color handout from the National Library of Medicine.

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Why use Tox Town in the classroom?

  • Students develop an understanding of the relationship between human health and the environment
  • Fun and interesting to use, particularly when students find information relevant to their own communities
  • Easily accessed over the Internet: no fees, no registration, no advertising
  • Can be used in curricula that meet state standards in both Science and other subjects: Reading, Social Studies, Technology, Spanish, English

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Last updated: December 14, 2015

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