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Download full textUS Environmental Protection Agency, 2008
Children and adolescents, up to approximately age 20, are more susceptible than adults to potential health risks from chemicals and environmental hazards. Hazardous chemicals can interrupt or alter the normal development of a child's body, leading to lasting damage. Since children are smaller than adults, similar levels of exposure to toxic…
Descriptors: Hazardous Materials, Risk, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCronin-Jones, Linda L. – Science Teacher, 1992
Describes how teachers and students can conduct a schoolwide hazardous waste survey. The activity is an introduction to hazardous waste management and is useful in general physical science, chemistry, and environmental science classes. Two activity worksheets are provided. Explains how schools can clean up hazardous waste problems. (PR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Environmental Education, Hazardous Materials, Physical Environment
Wray, Thomas K.; Enholm, Eric J. – 1994
This book provides a basic introduction for the student to hazardous materials chemistry. Coverage of chemistry, rather than non-chemical hazards, is particularly stressed on a level which the layman can understand. Basic terminology is emphasized at all levels, as are simple chemistry symbols, in order to provide the student with an introductory…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Hazardous Materials, Instructional Materials, Laboratory Safety
American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. – 1995
The goal of this safety guide is to enable students to take more responsibility for lab safety by using the Self-Audit System for Students and to understand the responsibility for safety shared by the institution through the development and maintenance of a Chemical Hygiene Plan. This student guide discusses safety equipment and the procedures…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Chemistry, Elementary Secondary Education, Hazardous Materials
American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. – 1985
This booklet provides guidelines for safety in the chemical laboratory. Part I, "Guides for Instructors and Administrators," includes safety rules, safety practices and facilities, preparation for emergencies, safety committees, accident reporting, fire insurance, and listings of some hazardous chemicals. Part II, "Student Guide to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Hazardous Materials, Higher Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1984
This document is the student laboratory manual that was designed to accompany some of the experimental activities found in the teacher's guide to this general science course for ninth graders. It contains laboratory worksheets for lessons on such topics as: (1) soil; (2) hazardous waste; (3) wildlife refuges; (4) the water cycle; (5) water…
Descriptors: Diseases, Environmental Education, General Science, Grade 9
