Suggested Reading/Resources

As you may have already noticed, XRT Lab provides useful links and references for additional information from each of its topical pages. The following items reflect some of those resources, and other particularly useful items we've found. We'll be adding to this page on a regular basis, so check back periodically for new stuff.

Online curricula:

In the Air. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funded the Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center to design and develop a full spectrum of environmental education materials that can be used to educate and help K-12 students and adults better understand airborne toxics issues in their communities. The goal is to increase knowledge about air pollution and to make connections between behaviors and air quality.

4-H Council: Going Places, Making Choices. This curriculum challenges youth to understand the interdependency between economic, environmental, social, and political concerns through five units that cover: the history of transportation, natural resources and energy use, global climate change, land use, and personal choices and community action.

The Gateway. This online repository of educational materials is a special project of the U.S. Department of Education. It contains hundreds of high quality educational resources, organized in a search-able database.

EE-Link is a repository of environmental education resources, compiled by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE).

Air Defenders: The Quest for Clean Air. Want to be a hero? Use this multi-media, multidisciplinary training kit to deputize children (ages 8-11) and train them for their mission - to help clean the air and protect community health. As Air Defenders, they'll learn about open burning and respiratory health through science, health, and music-based lessons.

Johns Hopkins EcoHealth: Environmental Change and Our Health. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's educational web site focuses on global warming and other environmental threats and their links to human health. EcoHealth is for students, teachers and anyone interested in understanding the health of our planet.