In this Evolution Web feature, test your skills at judging who's who on the tree of life while you learn about the tools and methods of cladistics.
Patricia Polacco's family stories provide an interesting and neutral way to begin discussions about families. Students can make connections from their own family experiences to some of her family experiences.
Learn about one town's conflict over the issue of spraying pesticides to combat disease-carrying insects, in this video segment from Greater Boston.
In this video segment adapted from LOKE Films and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, learn how human populations in the Arctic are affected by industrial contaminants in the food chain.
This video segment from Greater Boston examines whether environmental toxins may be to blame for a rare skin disease.
This activity involves jobs families have to do around the house.
Learn about a study in which participants discovered contaminants in their homes, and how green chemistry may provide alternatives to such everyday toxins, in this video adapted from Contaminated Without Consent.
The activities in this lesson will help students understand their surroundings and how they fit into their family, community, and the world.
This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets connects public health to the availability of clean and safe drinking water and elaborates on the threats our bodies face due to increasing kinds and quantities of pollutants.
In this class we will come to understand the vast changes in Spanish life that have taken place since Franco's death in 1975. We will focus on the new freedom from censorship, the re-emergence of movements for regional autonomy, the new cinema, reforms in education and changes in daily life: Sex roles, work, and family that have occurred in the last decade. In so doing, we will examine myths that are often considered commonplaces when describing Spain and its people.
Students are asked to explain how natural disasters affect environmental health.
Elements arranged in a column in the periodic table are referred to as a family. Elements within families have similar properties. For example, these elements in row #11 are all relatively heavy metals.
Tar Beach, written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold. A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family.
Tar Beach, written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold. A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family.
Tar Beach, written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold. A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family.
Tar Beach, written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold. A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family.
Tar Beach, written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold. A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family.
Tar Beach, written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold. A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family.
The Purple Coat, written by Amy Hest, illustrated by Amy Schwartz. Despite her mother's reminder that "navy blue is what you always get," Gabby begs her tailor grandfather to make her a beautiful purple coat. Viewers visit the Fashion Institute of Technology where they explore the fascinating world of design.
In this video adapted from Earth Island Institute, meet a high school student who educated her community about how a coal-burning power plant was contributing to asthma and other health problems there.