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Intro to Lead in Soil
Provided by: Orange County Environmental Justice
TransdisciplinaryPresentation Slides Grades 3-5
Synopsis
This presentation about lead contamination in Santa Ana, California provides age-appropriate content, maps, quiz questions, solutions, and connections to human health and socioeconomics. It also highlights the importance of scientific data collection and analysis for answering important questions about health and the environment.
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Subjects: SCI, HLTH
Authors: Orange County Environmental Justice
Region: California
Key Focus Areas
Core Component 1: Integration of Arts and Creative Expression
Students can read or create their own comic book or graphic novel to explain the issue and health risks of lead contamination in the lesson.
Core Component 2: Experiential and Project-Based Learning
Students can research the many health effects of lead poisoning mentioned in the lesson or participate in a solution identified for the Santa Ana area, such as working on policy changes to remove lead from soil or increasing access to free blood tests for lead. Students can collaborate with their city and local community-based partners to advocate for their community.
Core Component 3: Building Empathy, Resilience, and Responsibility by Integrating Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Students are presented with information about the people most affected, the locations most affected, and an understanding of why some individuals are more at risk than others.
This lesson also leans into the ideas of:
Details
- Students will enjoy learning about the natural remediation solutions to this problem.
- Teachers will need to do an online search to find the additional resources suggested as extensions for this lesson, as they are not hyperlinked.
- Consider having students map out their school or neighborhood to see if they are located near gas stations that have been around for many decades.
- A “prize” is advertised in the quiz section, so be prepared to have something to offer students.
- These resources have been carefully selected and reviewed by ECCLPs. Please note that they have not undergone SubjectToClimate's independent review process.
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