The students must choose two options from the list to complete and hand in to you to grade a rubric is provided on the student's page that will let you give grades based on the rubric. The table below offers some options for students to do. If you feel comfortable, you can let the student complete a project not listed here. You should visit these sites to familiarize yourself with them and prepare for any questions students may have about the sites. Learn about pollution in your state and your city at the environmental scorecard website .
Students click on the Community Box and enter their area code.
This will bring them to a page where the student can see who is polluting and what are the major pollutants. The Five Major Pollutants section is to see what is in the air and water and to find out what suspected health effects are if one is overexposed to these pollutants. Write these down in your journal. Students should know how their community compares to the nation, the next section provides this. As you can see, Penobscot County is not the cleanest county in the United States.