Overview

Lesson One
Students are introduced to being a Health Hazard Detective, and make badges. After reading The Case of the Green Feathers, a story about Chick Chock™, a little chick, who wakes up from a nap in the park sneezing and covered in green dust, students are introduced to the ToxRAP™ Map and Framework, guidelines used in all of the lessons, through a discussion about what happened in the story.

Lesson Two
Students conduct four hands-on activities and observe that air takes up space, can be moved, can move things, surrounds everything and is needed to stay alive. Using what they have learned from their observations, they then discuss how health hazards can be transported in the air and get into our bodies.

Lesson Three
Students make their own Chick Chocks™ out of paper plates and place them at different locations inside Pine Cone Park. They observe how exposure to health hazards in the air changes with wind direction and distances from the potential source.

Lesson Four
Students learn about the respiratory system and measure how the frequency of respiration changes with exercise. They discuss how breathing faster will increase how much of a health hazard in the air gets into the body.

Lesson Five
Students survey different groups of people about their allergies and graph the results. Then, the different types of allergies are compared in terms of their different routes of entry into the body.

Lesson Six
Students smash lemons and onions in sealed bags to illustrate different types of health effects. The ToxRAP™ Map is then applied to the examples to illustrate how the health problem, the hazard and the people who are exposed can be linked together to reach a conclusion about whether a health hazard is responsible for causing health problems in people.

Lesson Seven
Students investigate control strategies for reducing exposure to health hazards and construct a cubic meter box to visually illustrate the unit of concentration (m3). Actual concentration data is then used to guide individual decisions about controlling exposure.

Lesson Eight
Students transfer their learning to four new situations about inhalation health hazards using the ToxRAP™ Map and Framework, demonstrating what they have learned.

Lesson Nine
Students continue to apply their knowledge of the ToxRAP™ Map and Framework to five additional health hazards that enter the body through the skin or by ingestion.