Children's Health: Children Aren't Little Adults

The characteristics of children make them extremely vulnerable to hazardous substances in the environment.

One Sniff Can Kill

Students will learn to recognize dangerous common inhalants and the effects of those substances on the body, as well as to find ways to prevent their abuse.

The Price of Beauty: What You Don't Know May Hurt You

Can the use of personal care products be harming our health? In this lesson, students learn about cosmetic safety issues.

Chemical Controversy

The controversy about endocrine disruptors centers on the issue of whether certain chemicals are endocrine disruptors and the cause of serious health issues.

Lead - More Common Than You Think

Students will test common items to see if they contain lead and determine where there might be lead in their homes.

Lead Awareness: What Everyone Needs to Know

Students will find out about the dangers and effects of lead on the human body, including how to treat and prevent the disease in this lesson written in cooperation with MDE.

Lead Poisoning and Environmental Health

Issues surrounding lead poisoning are presented in this lesson, written with MDE, so students become more aware of the dangers and effects lead has on the human body.

Lead and Children: Toxic Exposure!

This student learning activity is designed to introduce middle school students to the important and prevalent public health issue of lead poisoning.

The Role of Government in Lead Poisoning and Prevention

In this lesson written with MDE, students will investigate how and why government agencies were established and laws enacted to prevent and protect the general public from lead poisoning.

Chemistry of Lead

Students learn about the physical and chemical properties of the element lead in this lesson written in conjunction with the Maryland Department of the Environment.

We've Used Lead for All These Years?

Using internet articles, students will describe how lead has been used by humans historically and its impact on human health.

Something Fishy

Students explore the dangers of high levels of mercury and learn how small amounts of mercury in water accumulate in greater quantities in organisms higher in the food chain.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Your Nose, Your Mouth . . .

This lesson educates students about what is in the air we breathe and the factors that keep the body from getting enough oxygen.

Organic Mechanic Part 1

This lesson introduces students to the issue of farming using chemical pesticides vs. organic methods.

Organic Mechanic Part 2

Alternatives to using pesticides, such as companion planting, the use of biological controls, trapping, and the use of barriers are studied in this lesson.

Lesson Seeds

Presentations

What Do We Really Know About Mercury? - Dr. Ellen Silbergeld, Professor, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences

Interviews

Meet Dr. Tomas Guilarte, who is researching how lead affects the neurological system and how to reverse its harmful effects.
Meet April Neal, a PhD student studying the toxic effects of lead on the brain.
Meet Bob Swann, who is one of a team of people that cleans up spills of hazardous materials.

Online Interactive

Help Maggie decide what to do when lead paint is found in a building she is planning to renovate.

Teacher Discussion Highlights

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