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Chemicals In the Environment. Middle School through College
Includes a 185-page kit with 40 slides covering an historical overview of American representations of chemicals from the three sisters to the Love Canal. It includes a teacher guide for each image, student readings, and both print and video case study lessons comparing conflicting constructions about nuclear reactor safety, depleted uranium, Rachel Carson and DDT. Through analyzing diverse historic and contemporary media messages, students understand changing public knowledge, impressions and attitudes about chemicals in the environment. |
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Unit 1 – History of Chemicals in the Environment --alchemist, chemist, market economy, advertisements, insecticides, ethyl (leaded) gasoline, public relations, DDT, Union Carbide, pesticides, plastics, additives, non-organic, United Farm Workers, pesticide poisoning, lead poisoning dead zones, fertilizer, algae blooms, globalized markets, consumer product safety, indigenous peoples, persistent organic pollutants, American Chemistry Council. Greenpeace, greenwash, transnational corporations, Bhopal, sustainability, genetically engineered seed, Monsanto, nitrogen-based fertilizer, chemical herbicide, endocrine disruption, agribusiness, Love Canal, toxic waste, Dioxin, carcinogen, environmental justice, petro-chemical industry, environmental racism, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, West Nile Virus, organic agriculture, biodiversity, development, green revolution, genetic engineering, GMOs, horticulturalists,
nitrogen fixing, companion planting
Unit 2 – Rachel Carson -- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, DDT, pesticide, balance of nature, malaria
Unit 3 – Rachel Carson -- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, DDT, pesticide, carcinogen, malaria Program, thalidomide, Environmental Protection Agency, petrochemical industry, Agri-chemical
Unit 4 – Nuclear Reactor Safety-- Nuclear reactor, radiation, control room operator, meltdown, containment dome, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Unit 5 – Depleted Uranium -- Uranium, depleted uranium, enriched uranium, radioactivity, heavy metal, isotope |
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Endangered Species. Middle School through College
Includes a 185-page kit with 40 slides covering an historical overview of American representations of endangered species from the slaughter of the American buffalo to Palm plantations in Sumatra. It includes a teacher guide for each image, student readings, and both print and video case study lessons comparing conflicting constructions about human/animal relations, rainforest biodiversity, the Northern Rockies’ gray wolf, frogs and Atrazine. Students decode how the relationship of animals and humans has been portrayed and passed on from generation to generation. Useful in any earth, natural or environmental science course as well as American history classes. |
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Unit 1 – History of Endangered Species -- Hudson Bay Company, whaling, Melville, wilderness, American Progress, slaughter of the bison, passenger pigeons, Charles Wilson Peale, Buffalo Bill, Jacques Cousteau, Greenpeace, overfishing, tropical rainforests, E. O. Wilson, ecosystems, UNEP, palm oil, Spotted Owls, Endangered Species Act, timber industry, non-native invasive species, environmentally responsible, greenwash, mountain gorillas, bushmeat, conservationist’s responsibility, hunting, animal welfare, Gray Wolf, ranching, eagles, DDT, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Indigenous Peoples
Unit 2 – Human/Animal Relations -- Green Belt Movement, Friends of the Earth, biodiversity, ecosystem services, stewardship, National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Unit 3 – Northern Rockies Gray Wolf -- Endangered Species Act, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, delisting, management plan. Wyoming Game and Fish, trophy game animals, predatory animals
Unit 4 – Rainforest Biodiversity -- Biodiversity, tropical rainforest, palm oil plantation, monoculture, Malaysian Palm Oil Council, Palm Oil Action, sustainable production
Unit 5 – Frogs and Atrazine -- Atrazine, Tyrone Hayes, Syngenta, endocrine disrupter, endocrinology, immune function, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), maximum contamination level, Data Quality Act |
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Resource Depletion. Middle School through College
Includes a 185-page kit with 40 slides covering an historical overview of American representations of natural resources from ancient Indian basketry to contemporary web sites. It includes a teacher guide for each image, student readings, and both print and video case study lessons comparing conflicting media constructions about the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the damning of rivers, and Chukchi sea oil drilling. By showing the slow realization that natural resources are finite, students will learn valuable lessons in earth, natural and environmental sciences. |
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Unit 1 – History of Resources Depletion --commodities, New World resources, fur trade, treaties, Northwest Territory, settlement, exploration, Gold Rush, Redwoods, Enlightenment, property, empire, Manifest Destiny, oil boom, Hoover Dam, drought, medical waste, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, commercial fishing, water footprint, WWF, the American dream, resource wars, Earth Day, Thoreau, conservation ethic, property rights, National Park Service, Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, consumption and disposal, Buy Nothing Day, consumerism, peak oil, alternative energy, Redwood Summer, Green Belt Movement, water privatization, sustainable agriculture, indigenous practices, renewable energy
Unit 2 – Damming the Rivers -- hydroelectric, Tennessee, Valley Authority, Tennessee River, Yosemite Valley, John Muir, Tuolumne River, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River
Unit 3 – Chukchi Sea Oil Drilling -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR), Chukchi Sea, Department of the Interior (DOI), Point Hope, Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, North Slope, Pacific Environment, National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Royal Dutch Shell, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Oil lease sale, Alyeska
Unit 4 – Exxon Valdez, Oil and Water -- Exxon Valdez, Prince William Sound, Alyeska Group
Unit 5 – Cochabamba, Water for Sale -- Privatization, Cochabamba, Aguas de Turnari, International Waters, Bechtel Corporation, La Coordinadora, International Monetary Fund,
World Bank, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes |
