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  • Working on a Pollution Solution

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  • Introduction to Water Pollution

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    This lesson assesses students’ prior knowledge about groundwater pollution and has students investigate types and sources of water pollution. Note that this introductory activity sets the stage for subsequent learning…

  • Air Pollution and Environmental Equity

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    Airborne pollutants include “criteria” pollutants, such as ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and lead, and toxic pollutants like benzene and mercury. The Environmental…

  • The Origin of Federal Air Pollution Policy

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  • The Link Between Nanoscale Science, Technology, and a Vital Environmental Issue: Groundwater Pollution

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    Nanoscale science and technology play central roles in our understanding of how Earth works and in the environmental science field of study. As a freshwater source, groundwater is second in abundance only to water found…

  • Plants and Pollution

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    Investigations with Wisconsin Fast Plants can make the subject matter come alive…or dead, depending on the experimental treatment. This became apparent when a university-based teacher educator and a fifth-grade teacher…

  • Plastic Pollution to Solution

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    Second graders turn knowledge into action as they engineer solutions for a real-world problem in a school makerspace.

  • Plants v. Pollutants

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    Bringing engineering design practices and real-world context to the science classroom.

  • In Search of Air Pollution

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    Using EPA and NOAA websites, students are able to view pollution inventories (the amounts and kinds of pollution released in a given location) and follow pollution along its estimated path of travel. This inquiry based…

  • Measuring River Pollution

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    The Don River watershed is located within Canada’s most highly urbanized area—metropolitan Toronto. To help assess the ecological health of the Don, biology students investigated the main Don River tributaries using…

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