Urban Environmental Quality and Human Health: Conceiving a Sustainable Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.07.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. The Endocrine System
  4. Evidence of Disruption in the Endocrine Systems of Diverse Animals
  5. Spread of Synthetic Chemicals
  6. Endocrine disrupting chemicals
  7. Conclusion
  8. Lesson Plans
  9. Reading Materials
  10. Electronic Resources
  11. Readings for Students
  12. Endnotes

Effects of Plastics on Top Predators' Health

Francisca Sorensen

Published September 2008

Tools for this Unit:

Electronic Resources

Consumer Reports.org Consumer Protection A New Focus on Plastic Ingredient in

Bottles and Cans. www.consumerreports.org/cro/consumer-protection. May 2008

Environmental Global Issues Map Norway's Polar Bears: Suspected Victims of PCB

Contamination. McGraw Hill. www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/es_map/articles/article_14mhtml

Guillette, Louis J. Jr., Timothy S. Gross, Greg R. Masson, John M. Matter, H.

Franklin Percival, and Allan R. Woodward. Develpmental Abnormalities of the Gonad and Abnormal Sex Hormone Concentrations in Juvenile Alligators from Contaminated and Control Lakes in Florida. . Environmental Health Perspectives v. 02. n.8 Aug.94. www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Alligator-Sex-Abnormalities-Fl.htm

Guillette, L.J. et al Reduction in Penis Size and Plasma Testosterone Concentrations in

Juvenile Alligators Living in a Contaminated Environment. General and Comparative Endocrtrinology 101, 1996. www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Alligator-Penis-Apopka-Guillette.htm

Hayden, Thomas. Trashing the Oceans. U.S. News and World Report. 4 Nov.2002.

www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4n

Hormone.org. Pituitary Gland and Endocrine Symptom Disorders: an Overview.

www.hormone.org/Pituitary/overview.cfm

Ritz, Janet. Toxic Alert: Bottles, Cans and BPA. The Environmental Staff.

http//science.the-environmentalist.org/2008/05/toxic-alert-plastic-bottles

Comments:

Cindy Woolery

July 9, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Thanks!

Thanks so much for sharing this unit with me! I enjoyed reading it and will use some of the ideas from the unit with my students.

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