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Dadd, Debra Lynn – 1986
The document maintains that the world is filled with health hazards and the best a person can do is to assess the danger of individual products, learn the risks, weigh the risks against the benefits, and decide whether or not to personally take these risks or to subject family members to them. This perspective begins in the home. This book…
Descriptors: Asbestos, Environmental Education, Family Environment, Hazardous Materials
Kendall, Ronald J. – 1983
Modern society is very dependent upon numerous chemical substances. Chemicals have a wide variety of uses, including drugs to prolong our lives and pesticides to control insect and weed pests. Life would be drastically different without the availability of these chemical substances but, while the benefits of chemicals should be appreciated, the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Supplies, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Environmental Education
Texley, Juliana; Kwan, Terry; Summers, John – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2004
Just as high school science is more complex than it is at lower grade levels, so are the safety issues teachers face in their classes and labs. Reduce the risks to people and place with Investigating Safely, the third and most advanced and detailed volume in NSTA's unique series of safety guidebooks for science teachers. Some of the guides 11…
Descriptors: Safety, Laboratory Safety, Secondary School Science, High Schools