Overview
- Provides educators with key concepts in learning about environmental health
- Features exemplary lessons regarding air and water pollution, heavy metals, and food
- Helps educators to adapt these pedagogical approaches to issues in their own communities
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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About this book
Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health. Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them. In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United States from a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Our goal is to extend these lessons to a global audience and for classroom teachers of all subjects and age levels to include environmental health in their teaching.Â
‘An invaluable tool for equipping informed citizens to think about the environment and its human impacts --both the science, and equally important, the social and ethical dimensions’ , Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr. P.H., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Environmental Health to Children
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Authors: David W. Hursh, Camille A. Martina, Hilarie B. Davis, Michael A. Trush
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1811-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1810-4Published: 10 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1811-1Published: 14 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 93
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Health, Education, general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice