Unit 11: Food and Pests

Textbook Reading
Chapter 12: Food Production and The Environment



Click for the Unit 11 Activity Sheet.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Food Security and Nutrition.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Food Production.

Click to watch the video "Some Food for Thought."

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation notes on Environmental Impacts of Food Production.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Soil Erosion and Degradation.

Click to watch the Conservation International video "Nature Is Speaking – Edward Norton is The Soil."

Click to watch the video "Desertification."

Click to see what happened In The Time It Took to Form One Inch of Soil.

Click to read The Economist article "Afforestation in China - Great Green Wall."

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Soil Conservation.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on The Green Revolution and The Gene Revolution.

Click to view the video "GMO: The Ascending Era."

Click to read the Scientific American article "Are Engineered Foods Evil?"

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on More Meat, Fish and Shellfish.

Click to see the graphic in Sierra Magazine for "Innovate - Manure to Money."

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Pest Management.

Click to watch the video "Bt Corn: Genetic Modification and Refuges."

Click to watch the video "The Death Of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans"

Click to read the New York Times article "Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds."

Click for the first website (Six Steps for Profitable and Environmentally Sound Management of Crop Pests) for the Pesticide Webquest. Click for the second website (EWG's Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen).

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture.

Click to view the video "Michael Pollan: Twinkie vs. Carrot."



Other Interesting Links:

Click to watch the video "DDT Let's Put It Everywhere 1946."

Click to watch the video "Grocery Store Wars."

Unit 10: Human Health

Textbook Reading
Chapter 17: Environmental Hazards and Human Health



Click for the Unit 10 Activity Sheet.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Risks and Hazards.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Biological Hazards.

Click to go to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website and the World Health Organization website for the infectious disease project.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Chemical Hazards.

Click to view the video "The Story of Cosmetics."

Click to watch the video "NBC: Hormones in Water Turn Male Fish Into Females."

Click to view the movie trailer for the film "Toxic Hot Seat."

Click to watch the video "Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal India - Flashback - NBC News."

Click to go to the website for the "Dirty Dozen Endocrine Disruptors."

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Toxicology – Evaluating Chemical Hazards.

Click to view the video "How to Use Semilog Graph Paper" for the Using Brine Shrimp to Determine LD50 lab.

Click to read the Scientific American article "Do Low Doses of BPA Harm People?"

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Risk Analysis.

Unit 9: Solid and Hazardous Wastes

Textbook Reading
Chapter 21: Solid and Hazardous Waste



Click for the Unit 9 Activity Sheet.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Wasting Resources.

Click to watch the video "The Story of Stuff."

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Types of Solid Waste.

Click to view the video "The Majestic Plastic Bag - A Mockumentary."

Click to view the video "Plastic Soup - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

Click to view the video "The Story of Electronics."

Click to view the video "Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground."

Click to read the article "Excessive Product Packaging."

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Integrated Waste Management.

Click to watch the video "Dumpster Divers: Preventing Food Waste."

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Recycling.

Click to watch the video "Recycled Paper: How Do They Make That Stuff?"

Click to watch the video "How Plastic Bottles Are Recycled Into Polyester."

Click to watch the video "How Stuff Works: Corn Plastic."

Click to go to the first website for the Recycling Webquest. Click to go to the second website.

Click to see a Virtual Tour of a MRF.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Burning and Burying Solid Waste.

Click to watch the video "How Does a Modern Landfill Work?"

Click for a virtual tour of an incinerator.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Hazardous Waste.

Click to view the Love Canal video.

Click to watch the video on "Phytoremediation."

Click to go to EPA's Superfund website to do Superfund Program Research. Click for the second website.

Click to see Newsday's list of environmental cleanup sites on Long Island.

Click for the Hazardous Waste Poster.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Toxic Lead and Mercury.

Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Achieving a Low Waste Society.



Click to watch the video "Landfill Harmonic."