Teaching Environmental Health to Children. An Interdisciplinary Approach

pEvery day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health.� Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them.� In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United States from a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.� Our goal is to extend these lessons to a global audience and for classroom teachers of all subjects and age levels to include environmental health in their teaching.� /ppi'An invaluable tool for equipping informed citizens to think about the environment and its human impacts --both the science, and equally important, the social and ethical dimensions'/i , Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr.
P.H., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA/p