Pulse: Industrialization, Chemicals and Human Health

While students gain an understand of basic environmental toxicology, they explore the health impacts of industrialization on society in these lessons. This is a cross curricular unit that addresses standards for eleventh grade in math, chemistry, language arts, and American history. Topics covered include child labor, working conditions, poetic writing, editorial writing, pollutants, acids and bases, wildcat dumping, distillations and titration, proportion, scale, and measuring.