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Palliser, Janna – Science Scope, 2011
This article looks at the costs and benefits of producing organic milk. To be organic, dairy farmers must use organic fertilizer and organic pesticides, and the cows are not given supplemental hormones or antibiotics--that is, the milk must be produced without chemicals, hormones, or antibiotics (Hannon 2009). The organic versus nonorganic world…
Descriptors: Food Service, Agricultural Occupations, Agriculture, Poisoning
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Bauer, Erin; Ogg, Clyde – Journal of Extension, 2011
The trend toward encouraging adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in schools has increased in the last decade. Because IPM helps reduce risk of human pesticide exposure, reduce allergens and asthma triggers, save energy, and protect the environment, it's essential that IPM awareness continue not only with current school administrators,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Video Games, Child Health, Human Body
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Fishel, Fred – Journal of Extension, 2014
Partnering with private industry can empower Extension educators to enhance their educational outreach efforts. Since 2011, UF/IFAS has cooperated with the Florida Turfgrass Association in conducting a 1-day statewide Polycom® event for providing continuing education to licensed pesticide applicators employed primarily in the ornamental and…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Extension Education, Extension Agents, Partnerships in Education
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Izadyar, Anahita; Kim, Yushin; Ward, Michelle M.; Amemiya, Shigeru – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
The inexpensive and disposable electrode based on a double-polymer-modified pencil lead is proposed for upper-division undergraduate instrumental laboratories to enable the highly sensitive detection of perchlorate. Students fabricate and utilize their own electrodes in the 3-4 h laboratory session to learn important concepts and methods of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Water, Plastics, Science Laboratories
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LePrevost, Catherine E.; Blanchard, Margaret R.; Cope, W. Gregory – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
Informal science educators play a key role in promoting science literacy, safety, and health by teaching pesticide toxicology to the large, at-risk Latino farmworker population in the United States (US). To understand the experiences of informal science educators and the nature of farmworker education, we must have knowledge of farmworker…
Descriptors: Hazardous Materials, Agricultural Occupations, Beliefs, Science Teachers
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Reddy, Aravind; Braun, Charles L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
Lead poisoning has been a problem since early history and continues into modern times. An appealing characteristic of lead is that many lead salts are sweet. In the absence of cane and beet sugars, early Romans used "sugar of lead" (lead acetate) to sweeten desserts, fruits, and sour wine. People most at risk would have been those who…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science History, Poisoning, Archaeology
Morsy, Leila; Rothstein, Richard – Economic Policy Institute, 2015
That students' social and economic characteristics shape their cognitive and behavioral outcomes is well established, yet policymakers typically resist accepting that non-school disadvantages necessarily depress outcomes. Rather, they look to better schools and teachers to close achievement gaps, and consistently come up short. This report…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Social Class, Academic Achievement, Child Rearing
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Fishel, Fred; Liu, Guodong David – Journal of Extension, 2014
The University of Florida Cooperative Extension conducted a statewide program with a dual role during 2013 and 2014 to enhance efficiency. The program provided in-service training to county Extension agents and provided continuing education to meet requirements needed by licensed pesticide applicators. Using Polycom distance technology, the event…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Poisoning, Statewide Planning, Extension Education
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Hockridge, Emma – School Science Review, 2010
The decline of colonies of honey bees across the world is threatening local plant biodiversity and human food supplies. Neonicotinoid pesticides have been implicated as a major cause of the problem and are banned or suspended in several countries. Other factors could also be lowering the resistance of bees to opportunist infections by, for…
Descriptors: Entomology, Poisoning, Food, Biodiversity
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Anderson, Marcia – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
Many people assume that schools and childcare centers are environmentally safe places for children to learn. However, adverse health effects from pest allergy related illnesses or pesticide exposure incidents can demonstrate the need for safer and more effective pest management strategies. The goal of this research is to measure the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Hazardous Materials, Conservation (Environment), Educational Environment
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Misch, Donald A. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2011
In 2005 there were 1,825 alcohol-related unintentional injury deaths (e.g., vehicular accidents, falls, drowning, burns, suffocation, and gunshot wounds) among college students from 18 to 24 years of age. Of these, 468 college students died from alcohol-related, nontraffic injuries. Unfortunately, there is no good estimate of the number of college…
Descriptors: Accidents, College Students, Injuries, Poisoning
Ratnapradipa, Dhitinut; Ritzel, Dale O.; Haramis, Linn D.; Bliss, Kadi R. – American Journal of Health Education, 2011
In recent years, reported cases of bed bug infestations in the U.S. and throughout the world have escalated dramatically, posing a global public health problem. Although bed bugs are not known to transmit disease to humans, they pose both direct and indirect public health challenges in terms of health effects, treatment, cost, and resource…
Descriptors: Prevention, Public Health, Resource Allocation, Child Health
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Stewart, Terry Mark – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: There are many complexities to be considered when selecting tactical control options in crops grown under an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) regime. Students being trained in IPM are made aware of this complexity but do not always get the chance to experience IPM decision-making first-hand. This case study describes a web-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agronomy, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction
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Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw – Harvard Educational Review, 2015
In this article, Jessica Wolpaw Reyes investigates the link between lead exposure and student achievement in Massachusetts. Childhood exposure to even low levels of lead can adversely affect neurodevelopment, behavior, and cognitive performance. Using a panel dataset of cohorts of children born in the 1990s who were third and fourth graders in the…
Descriptors: Poisoning, Early Experience, Investigations, Academic Achievement
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Yin, Shan – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objective: The objective of this study was to describe malicious nonpharmaceutical exposures in children reported to US poison centers. Methods: We performed a retrospective study of all nonpharmaceutical exposures involving children 7 years old reported to the US National Poison Data System (NPDS) from 2000 to 2008 for which the reason for…
Descriptors: Age, Sanitation, Child Abuse, Injuries
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