Urban Environmental Quality and Human Health: Conceiving a Sustainable Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.07.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objective
  4. Student Activity 1
  5. Polymers and Plastics
  6. Impact of Plastics on the Environment
  7. Impact of Plastics on Health: DEHP and BPA
  8. Recycling Plastics
  9. Student Activity 2
  10. Schools and Their Food Trash
  11. What Can We Do?
  12. Student Activity 3
  13. Notes
  14. How Plastics Breakdown in Landfills
  15. Implementing District Standards
  16. Bibliography for Teachers
  17. Students Resources
  18. Classroom Resources

Our Environment: A World Away?

Michell Carter

Published September 2008

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Implementing District Standards

  1. M4P5 Students will represent mathematics in multiple ways. a.Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.
  2. udents will develop these skills by creating and interpreting graphs with the data collected from trash.
  3. S4CS1 Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works. a. Keep records of investigations and observations and do not alter the records later. b. Carefully distinguish observations from ideas and speculation about those observations. c. Offer reasons for findings and consider reasons suggested by others Students will develop these skills continuing to collect data from trash, researching plastics, and developing a plan of action.
  4. S4CS5 Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
  5. . Use numerical data in describing and comparing objects and events. d. Locate scientific information in reference books, back issues of newspapers and magazines, CD-ROMs, and computer databases.
  6. udents will use graphs of collected data, research plastics, and inform classmates of findings.
  7. ELA4LSV2 The student listens to and views various forms of text and media in order to gather and share information, persuade others, and express and understand ideas. a.Shapes information to achieve a particular purpose and to appeal to the interests and background knowledge of audience members. b.Uses notes, multimedia, or other memory aids to structure the presentation. c.Projects a sense of individuality and personality in selecting and organizing content and in delivery. Students will develop these skills via campaign to reduce food packaging waste.

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