HazardsHazards on the Homefront


Teacher's Guide & Workshops (New statewide edition!)

  • Designed for grades 6 through 12 Guide
  • Teaches about human health and our air, land and water
  • Teaches problem-solving skills
  • Helps teachers apply Multiple Intelligences and meet the EALRs
  • Provides real world examples about hazardous products
  • Provides flexible lessons regarding variety and length
  • Contains Web links and other resources for extended learning and self-directed projects
Workshops

Why use this guide?

The public's concern about hazardous products is growing. We know more and more every day about the chemicals and ingredients used in products, and the health and environmental hazards they pose especially to children.

GuideThis Guide integrates state and local information relevant to everyday activities at school and home, and in your students' community.

 

 

 

Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Each lesson in the guide notes the relevant intelligences from Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Teachers can use this information to assist them in accommodating the various needs and talents of their students.

Washington’s Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs)

This teacher's guide is an integrated set of lessons based on the EALRs. The lessons address standards in the areas of reading, writing, communication, math and science. Learn more.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to our partners! The Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County created the original Hazards on the Homefront Teacher’s Guide and provided resources for the production and distribution of this statewide version. Triangle Associates, Inc. has provided valuable consultant services for the statewide version and the teacher workshops. This project is generously funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement NE96083101-0 to the Washington State Department of Ecology. Although the information in the Teacher’s Guide and Workshops has been funded wholly or in part by EPA, it may not necessarily reflect the views of the Agency and no official endorsement should be inferred.