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The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is a 501(c)(3) environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor the state's oil refineries and chemical plants.

Environmental Health Topics A-Z

National Institute of Environmental Health Serivces

Health effects of consumer products - Enter Products, Manufacturers, Chemicals, Product Categories and Product Type.

TOXMAP® is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine® (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund Program.

FREE reliable resources developed by teachers and scientific experts to help introduce, reinforce, and supplement education programs

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National Library of Medicine. Internet resources on toxicology and environmental health issues.

For middle school students

Print-able handout

The Frankenstein exhibit is popular with science teachers

Here you can find lesson plans

Has a lesson plan on electricity

Has a lesson plan on anthropometric measurement, entomology, and DNA

For grades 6-12, these classroom activities and lesson plans familiarize students to the health and medicine of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians

Has a lesson plan on acquired and passive immunity

Created to help children from 7-11 years old learn about household chemical hazards

Uses color, graphics, sounds and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public's health. Tox Town's target audience is students above elementary-school level, educators, and the general public. It is a companion to the extensive information in the TOXNET collection of databases that are typically used by toxicologists and health professionals.

GeneEd Web, developed and maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Human Genome Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a safe and useful resource for students and teachers in grades 9 - 12 to learn genetics.

Lesson plans, genetic educational materials, printable activity sheets, and other teaching resources for educators seeking to increase genetic and genomic literacy.