Mini-Unit/lesson |
Description
of Mini-Unit/Lesson |
| A Civil Action |
Students
will analyze segments from the movie “Civil Action” to
understand the civil procedure and the impact that civil
suits have on environmental health. |
A Country of Migrants |
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| A Recommendation for the Future |
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A Society of Employees |
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| American Migrations Timeline |
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Students
will use the information they gathered from the explore
lesson to devise a field trip to their assigned country.
The students will explain through a museum walk how the
people of their country have adapted to the physical and
cultural features of their country. |
| Arsenic Contamination; Natural Disaster
or Human Induced? |
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| Brother Can you Spare a Dime |
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| Building a Healthy City |
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| Business Revisited |
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| Can
Diseases be Prevented? |
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| Can I be Swayed? |
Students
will read and analyze articles on energy policy from different
points of view |
| Can We Breathe Easier? |
Students
will debate the pros and cons of federalism and then analyze
the Clean Air Act to ascertain the role of the states and
federal government in enforcing it. |
| Changing Opinions |
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| Climate Change Roundtable |
In
this lesson students will participate in a round table
discussion on climate change. Their objective will be to
persuade all industrialized countries to sign a global
treaty to adapt their technologies to use more renewable
energy sources and decrease their dependence on fossil
fuels, thus reducing the threat of climate change. |
| Dangerous for Your Health |
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| Describe my City |
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| Devastating Diseases! |
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| Diseases
are real |
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| Dreaming of a Healthy City |
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| Economic Crash & Recovery |
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| Energy Task Force |
Students
will simulate a meeting of the President’s energy
task force in order to observe how energy policy may be
developed with the input of various groups. |
| EXTRA! Read about it! |
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| Finding A Voice |
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| Finding Patterns in Times of Crisis |
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| Finding Your Voice |
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| Flush it! Throw it! |
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| Forced to Move |
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| Fun In the City |
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| Getting to Work and Making Money |
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| Global Interdependence |
The
issue climate change is a good example of how the physical
features of the earth; air, water, living organisms, and
land are interconnected. This lesson will allow students
the opportunity to explore this theory by participating
in a road race. |
| Government Intervention |
Students
will role play members of the FDA and make a list of regulations
for clinical trials on human subjects. |
| Hello Mexico City |
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| How can you be a Revolutionary? |
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| How to Write a Bill |
Students
will write their own bill and participate in a committee
mark-up session |
| Human Migration in the United States |
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