Urban Environmental Quality and Human Health: Conceiving a Sustainable Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.07.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Strategies and Class Activities
  5. Suggested Reading Lists
  6. Appendix A
  7. Works Cited

What Is She Eating?

Myrna Merana Alvarez

Published September 2008

Tools for this Unit:

Suggested Reading Lists

Annotated Teacher Resources

Carson, Rachel. "Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Miffin, 1962 (An eye-opener to pollution and pesticides.)

Tennant, David R. "Food Chemical Risk Analysis." New York: Chapman and Hall, 1997 (Introduces readers to potential food hazards and how they can be assessed and managed.)

Vogt, Donna U. "Food Safety Issues in the 107 th Congress." Congressional Research Service (2001) (A guide to federal regulatory framework for food safety.)

Wargo, John. Green Intelligence. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2008. (Exciting book that analyzes how environment influences human health.)

Annotated Student Resources

Shapiro, Mark and Weir, David. Circles of Poison. San Francisco, California: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1981 (An exciting book describing how chemicals like pesticides move in the market.)

Wargo, John, Cullen, Mark, and Taylor, Hugh. Plastics That may Be Harmful To Children and Reproductive Health. New Haven, Connecticut: Environment and Human Health, Inc. 2008 (Excellent book on sources and effects of plastics and plasticizers to human health.)

Others

Greyhalk, Sam. "Understanding Recycled Plastics - The Recycling Symbols." Ezine Articles. http://ezinearticles.com/?Understanding-Recycled-Plastics—The-Recycling-Symbols-and-Numbers&id=106748 (accessed July 10, 2008). (Good resource guide for understanding and doing recycling activities.)

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. New York, NY: Rodale, 2006 (A book that will open our eyes to global warming.)

Houlihan, Jane. "Timeline: BPA from Invention to Phase Out." Environmental Working Groups (2007) www.ewg.org/reports/bpatimeline. (accessed July 10, 2008). (A great website for the history of BPA.)

Dabrowski, Elizabeth. "Polymer Project." www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/Summer_Training/Magnificat/Polymer_Project.html (accessed July 12, 2008).

(A great website for lab activities.)

United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Information Guide. http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=1. (accessed July 12, 2008)

(A great resource for food intake analysis.)

Comments:

Janet Zachary

January 25, 2017 at 4:59 pm

Wish I had found this sooner.

Seems to be a great unit of study. I was looking for lab activities for Biomolecules and found this site. Since we are in Texas, my second semester of Biology is spent trying to get all of our TEKS(Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards)taught before our end of course Biology exam called STAAR Biology is administered during the first week of May. I have already spent too much time on Chemistry of Life and now Biomolecules, so I'm going to save this for future reference next year. I really liked the field trip to the landfill, and the attempt to make students aware of how much packaging of foods is thrown away.

Felicity Frisbie

July 15, 2022 at 9:40 am

Please give me credit for the food pyramid illustration

Illustration by Felicity Frisbie

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