<bbh>EP&C V<ebh>: Decisions affecting resources and natural systems are based on a wide range of considerations and decision-making processes. <bbh>California Next Generation Science Standard HS-ESS3-4.<ebh> Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems. Supplies: Access to campus locations where they can investigate water issues on campus and opportunities to obtain data from CalEnviroScreen the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool available from the California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Students in Ms. class are learning about the effects of environmental conditions on K’s their personal and community health. After a facilitated class discussion, several students comment on the bad taste and odor of the water that they drink from some of the drinking fountains. Several students wondered out loud how safe the water school’s is in their whole community. They asked Ms. K. if they could work on a project to investigate water quality in their community. Ms. K tells them that she is familiar with an online environmental health screening tool She explains CalEnviroScreen is a screening tool that called, “CalEnviroScreen.” evaluates the burden of pollution from multiple sources in communities and it will allow the students to study the levels of pollution in the community and how it may be affecting environmental health. Ms. K tells students that CalEnviroScreen will allow them to compare different communities in California based on potential exposures to pollutants, adverse environmental conditions, socioeconomic factors, and the prevalence of certain health conditions. She mentions that CalEnviroScreen presents data for areas called, that they can use to compare results in different “census tracts,” parts of their community or make comparisons to other communities. Ms. K divides students into teams and assigns each team to compare a census tract in their community with a census tract in a neighboring community and census tract in an
<bbh>EP&C V<ebh>: Decisions affecting resources and natural systems are based on a wide range of considerations and decision-making processes. <bbh>California Next Generation Science Standard HS-ESS3-4.<ebh> Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems. Supplies: Access to campus locations where they can investigate water issues on campus and opportunities to obtain data from CalEnviroScreen the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool available from the California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Students in Ms. K’s class are learning about the effects of environmental conditions on their personal and community health. After a facilitated class discussion, several students comment on the bad taste and odor of the water that they drink from some of the school’s drinking fountains. Several students wondered out loud how safe the water is in their whole community. They asked Ms. K. if they could work on a project to investigate water quality in their community. Ms. K tells them that she is familiar with an online environmental health screening tool called, “CalEnviroScreen.” She explains CalEnviroScreen is a screening tool that evaluates the burden of pollution from multiple sources in communities and it will allow the students to study the levels of pollution in the community and how it may be affecting environmental health. Ms. K tells students that CalEnviroScreen will allow them to compare different communities in California based on potential exposures to pollutants, adverse environmental conditions, socioeconomic factors, and the prevalence of certain health conditions. She mentions that CalEnviroScreen presents data for areas called, “census tracts,” that they can use to compare results in different parts of their community or make comparisons to other communities. Ms. K divides students into teams and assigns each team to compare a census tract in their community with a census tract in a neighboring community and census tract in an
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