Spill Sleuths: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Health Investigation | NSTA

Spill Sleuths: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Health Investigation

Science Scope -- February 2005

An environmental health mystery can help teach students many aspects of environmental health and crisis management in the context of their own community. Students use skills from several disciplines to pinpoint, assess, and address the environmental damage and health threat posed by a fictitious pesticide spill they uncovered.

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