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Agricultural Runoff and the Gulf of Mexico Dead ZoneThis video segment adapted from Big River: A King Corn Companion shows how agricultural chemicals from the Midwest that travel downstream in water runoff create a vast marine "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. |
6-12 |
Video |
Atrazine Affects the Water SupplyIn this video segment featuring live-action animation, adapted from Big River: A King Corn Companion, see how the agricultural pesticide atrazine impacts both crops and human health. |
6-12 |
Video |
Clean Water Systems in MexicoThe push to modernize Mexico's water and sanitation systems not only saved human lives, it also spurred economic growth, as illustrated in this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival. |
6-12 |
Video |
Converting to BiodieselMeet a college student whose class project to turn cooking grease into diesel fuel resulted in converting bus fleets to biodiesel, in this video from Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative. |
5-12 |
Video |
Environmental Justice: Opposing Industrial Hog FarmingLearn about the impact that large-scale hog farming has had on one minority community in North Carolina and how residents fought back to protect their water supply and property, in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." |
6-12 |
Video |
Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste IncineratorIn this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism," learn how farm workers and farm owners formed a rare alliance in an effort to block the use of an incinerator in their Latino community by suing a major corporation for environmental discrimination. |
6-12 |
Video |
Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste LandfillThis video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: “Toxic Racism” talks about the early days of the environmental justice movement and how the health of minority communities can be compromised by the disproportionate numbers of hazardous waste facilities located there. |
6-12 |
Video |
Environmental Justice in DallasFollow a Dallas community's fight to receive federal Superfund status to clean up the damage from a high-polluting lead smelter, in this video segment adapted from Earthkeeping: "Toxic Racism." |
6-12 |
Video |
Food JusticeIn this adaptation of a video that high school students created in collaboration with the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, learn "what's whack" about our current food systems and the many actions individuals can take to address these issues. |
6-12 |
Video |
Groundbreaking Pesticide BanLearn how one child's willingness to share her experience of life-threatening exposure to lawn pesticides helped inspire a citywide ban of pesticides for lawn or garden use, in this video segment adapted from Playing with Poison. |
6-12 |
Video |
Health Risks of the BP Oil SpillIn this video segment adapted from Need to Know, learn about the possible short- and long-term health risks for workers involved in cleaning up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. |
9-12 |
Video |
Help Prevent Diabetes with ExerciseThis animated video segment adapted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, featuring American Indian characters, explains how children can help prevent diabetes through regular physical activity. |
K-2 |
Video |
How Does Lifestyle Affect Diabetes?This animated video segment adapted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, featuring American Indian characters, explains how lifestyle changes have resulted in an increase in diabetes. |
K-2 |
Video |
Natural Gas Mining ContaminantsThis video segment adapted from Split Estate reveals some community health consequences of natural gas mining. |
8-12 |
Video |
PCB Cleanup in SeattleIn this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: “Poisoned Waters,” a Seattle community, concerned about its health, fights to clean up PCBs in its neighborhood. |
6-12 |
Video |
Protesting a Natural Gas FacilityMeet a high school student who mobilized her community to stop construction of a liquefied natural gas facility, in this video adapted from Earth Island Institute. |
6-12 |
Video |
Rachel Carson's Silent SpringIn this video segment adapted from American Experience: "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring," learn how the lethal impact of the pesticide DDT on wildlife inspired biologist Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring. |
6-12 |
Video |
Taking Action for a Clean EnvironmentIn this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore activism, some of the tactics that youth activists may use to influence others and bring about change, and the characteristics activists possess. |
9-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Teen Advocates for a Neighborhood ParkLearn how 18-year-old Misra and her teen advocacy group, A.C.T.I.O.N., successfully lobbied for a bus route to take her community’s residents to a hard-to-reach city park, in this video from Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative. |
6-12 |
Video |
Teen Fights for Toxic Waste CleanupMeet a student who successfully lobbied her state legislature about toxic waste sites in her neighborhood, in this video adapted from Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative. |
9-12 |
Video |
Teen Maps Contaminants from a Coal PlantIn 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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Teens for Safe CosmeticsIn this video adapted from Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative, meet a high school student who worked to enact a state law to make cosmetics safer, after she learned they contained toxic chemicals linked to cancer. |
6-12 |
Video |
