Meet Marisol, a high school student from Little Village in Chicago, and learn how she found out about the toxins produced by the local coal-burning power plant in her community in this video adapted from Earth Island Institute. Discover some of the health risks associated with such pollution, and observe how Marisol helped create OurMap of Environmental Justice, an interactive online map that includes videos, facts, and descriptions of toxic pollutants in the community. Includes background essay and discussion questions. [3:13]

Concepts

coal, fossil fuels

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Additional Tags

environmental pollution, pbs learningmedia, pbs learningmedia: environmental public health: teen maps contaminants from a coal plant, people change environments through pollution

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional