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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS AND TOXIC CHEMICALS WHERE YOU LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY

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. [Top] 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 [Top] Last updated: December 14, 2015

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

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