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Feature: Learning from Blight

For residents of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Blue Mountain is a scar on the landscape and a health hazard. But for 120 sixth graders at Eyer Middle School in Macungie, Pa., Blue Mountain became a...

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Website: Superfund365

Each day for a year, Superfund365 visited one toxic site in the federal Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For each entry chronicling the trip, an interactive graph...

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Resource: Hazardous Waste Class Activities

HAZ-ED is a collection of class materials for grades 7-12 focusing on hazardous waste, dump sites, and efforts of remediation The materials -- which include basic information, warm-up and full class...

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Website: Superfund Sites Where You Live

This comprehensive website, run by the Environmental Protection Agency, provides lists of Superfund sites organized by state. A Superfund site is an uncontrolled or abandoned place where hazardous...

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Lesson: Landfills and Contamination

What happens to garbage? In this lesson, students grades 9-12 derive the answer by building their own landfill. While observing how household waste can leach into soil and groundwater, they also learn...

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Dispersants – a Help or a Hazard?

British Petroleum is using a series of dispersants to combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico -- chemicals intended to break up the surface tension of an oil slick and make oil more...

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EPA Teacher Resources

The Environmental Protection Agency has a collection of materials that can be used to teach environmental topics like conservation, human health, stewardship, waste & recycling, and water. The EPA...

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Environmental Education Week 2012

The environment, with its range of engaging, real-world challenges, gives teachers a chance to provide students with meaningful, hands-on experiences that reinforce STEM concepts across multiple...

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