Tox Town
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- healthful living (physical health/disease prevention, safety), science (environmental science)
- Provider
- National Library of Medicine
- Special requirements
- Macromedia Flash is required.
Legal
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This interactive site teaches students about environmental health concerns in towns and cities, on farms, and on the U.S. and Mexican border. Color, sound, and animation “adds interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public's health.”
The site explains where students are most likely to find toxic chemicals and helps them understand the health issues associated with these chemicals in a non-technical way. It also provides links to these health issues on the Web.
Each section of the site has a clickable graphic to environmental health risks that the population faces everyday. Chemicals include arsenic, asbestos, benzene, carbon monoxide, lead, pesticides, radon, and sulfur dioxide, to name a few. These are “only suggestions of what MIGHT be found in a school or factory or farm or other place in town.” The site also has fact sheets on each of the chemicals and ways that the public can protect themselves from the environmental hazards which these chemicals cause.
