Michele Kloda
Michele Kloda is an Environmental Educator with the UNC-Chapel Hill Environmental Resource Program (ERP). The ERP serves as the outreach unit for the Superfund Basic Research Project funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.
Resources created by Michele Kloda
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- Bringing current science into the classroom
- How your students can experience current environmental research without leaving the classroom.
- Format: article/best practice
- By Michele Kloda.
- A case study of "A Civil Action"
- This is a short, culminating activity that can be used to assess your students' understanding of the steps needed to determine if a water source is contaminated and how it got that way, and to suggest possible methods of cleanup or remediation. Students review a portion of the film "A Civil Action" and identify the problem and the people involved. Students then take the role of environmental scientist and apply their knowledge of water and hazardous waste contamination to create a plan to help lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, try the case.
- Format: (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Michele Kloda.
- Superfund in science class
- Four Web-based activities let students identify Superfund sites, define hazardous waste, see how aquifers work, and explore cleanup solutions.
- By Michele Kloda.
