Date: 21 Aug 2006
Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Environment and Ecology
4.3: Environmental Health
This page contains the criteria for teaching Environmental Healththat were developed in the PA Academic Standards. Clicking on a grade levelbelow will skip directly to the criteria for educators teaching at or belowthat grade. Clicking on the criteria will lead to all the teaching resourcesrelated to it.
Fourth Grade |Seventh Grade |Tenth Grade |Twelfth Grade
| Grade 4 : Environmental Health (4.3.4) |
| Fourth Grade: 4.3A |
Fourth Grade: 4.3B |
Fourth Grade: 4.3C |
Know that plants, animals and humans are dependent on air and water.
- Know that all living things need air and water to survive.
- Describe potentially dangerous pest controls used in the home.
- Identify things that cause sickness when put into the air, water or soil.
- Identify different areas where health can be affected by air, water or land pollution.
- Identify actions that can prevent or reduce waste pollution.
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Identify how human actions affect environmental health.
- Identify pollutants.
- Identify sources of pollution.
- Identify litter and its effect on the environment.
- Describe how people can reduce pollution.
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Understand that the elements of natural systems are interdependent.
- Identify some of the organisms that live together in an ecosystem.
- Understand that the components of a system all play a part in a healthy natural system.
- Identify the effects of a healthy environment on the ecosystem.
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| Grade 7 : Environmental Health (4.3.7) |
| Seventh Grade: 4.3A |
Seventh Grade: 4.3B |
Seventh Grade: 4.3C |
Identify environmental health issues.
- Identify various examples of longterm pollution and explain their effects on environmental health.
- Identify diseases that have been associated with poor environmental quality.
- Describe different types of pest controls and their effects on the environment.
- Identify alternative products that can be used in life to reduce pollution.
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Describe how human actions affect the health of the environment.
- Identify land use practices and their relation to environmental health.
- Explain how natural disasters affect environmental health.
- Identify residential and industrial sources of pollution and their effects on environmental health.
- Explain the difference between point and nonpoint source pollution.
- Explain how nonpoint source pollution can affect the water supply and air quality.
- Explain how acid deposition can affect water, soil and air quality.
- Explain the relationship between resource use, reuse, recycling and environmental health.
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Explain biological diversity.
- Explain the complex, interactive relationships among members of an ecosystem.
- Explain how diversity affects ecological integrity of the natural resources.
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| Grade 10 : Environmental Health (4.3.10) |
| Tenth Grade: 4.3A |
Tenth Grade: 4.3B |
Tenth Grade: 4.3C |
Describe environmental health issues.
- Identify the effects on human health of air, water and soil pollution and the possible economic costs to society.
- Describe how indoor pollution may affect human health (e.g., dust mites, fumes, cat dandruff).
- Explain the costs and benefits of cleaning up contaminants.
- Explain how common household cleaning products are manufactured and how to dispose of their byproducts after use.
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Explain how multiple variables determine the effects of pollution on environmental health, natural processes and human practices.
- Explain how human practices affect the quality of the water and soil.
- Identify evidence of natural events around the world and their effects on environmental health (e.g., Yellowstone National Park fires).
- Identify local and state environmental regulations and their impact on environmental health.
- Analyze data and explain how point source pollution can be detected and eliminated.
- Identify and explain ways of detecting pollution by using state-of-the-art technologies.
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Explain biological diversity as an indicator of a healthy environment.
- Explain species diversity.
- Analyze the effects of species extinction on the health of an ecosystem.
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| Grade 12 : Environmental Health (4.3.12) |
| Twelfth Grade: 4.3A |
Twelfth Grade: 4.3B |
Twelfth Grade: 4.3C |
Analyze the complexity of environmental health issues.
- Identify environmental health issues and explain how they have been addressed on a worldwide level.
- Analyze efforts to prevent, control and/or reduce pollution through cost and benefit analysis and risk management.
- Describe the impact of occupational exposures as they relate to environmental health issues.
- Identify invisible pollutants and explain their effects on human health.
- Explain the relationship between wind direction and velocity as it relates to dispersal and occurrence of pollutants.
- Explain the different disposal methods used for toxic and hazardous waste.
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Analyze the local, regional and national impacts of environmental health.
- Analyze the cost of natural disasters in both dollars and loss of natural habitat.
- Research and analyze the local, state and national laws that deal with point and nonpoint source pollution; evaluate the costs and benefits of these laws.
- Explain mitigation and its role in environmental health.
- Explain industry's initiatives to meet state and federal mandates on clean air and water.
- Describe the impacts of point and nonpoint source pollution on the Chesapeake Bay.
- Identify and evaluate the costs and benefits of laws regulating air and water quality and waste disposal.
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Analyze the need for a healthy environment.
- Research the relationship of some chronic diseases to an environmental pollutant.
- Explain how man-made systems may affect the environment.
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