COLLECTION: Erin Brockovich Chemistry Edition!
Hi Science Folks,
At a recent PD on Unit design I was talking with a chemistry teacher about an essential question for a chem unit. I don’t remember exactly where we were landed but it was a more poetic version of something like, “has chemistry been a net negative or net positive for society.” On that note, the following (mostly) recent resources are great short texts to listen to, read, view in Chem (or even bio) classes…
Teflon’s Toxic Legacy
For more than half a century DuPont hid information that a chemical it was using to make Teflon might be making people sick.
For Toms River, An Imperfect Salvation
"His father and then his mother noticed very scary things happening with Michael. There were very fast-growing lumps. His eyes on one occasion, actually on several occasions, darted back and forth as if he was watching a metronome. And things happened very fast, and within a week he was having major surgery, and had been diagnosed with neuroblastoma. The doctors told them that Michael had only a 50-50 chance of reaching his first birthday."
See also the National Book Award winner - http://amzn.to/1RGFQq5
Contaminating Our Bodies With Everyday Products
IN recent weeks, two major medical organizations have issued independent warnings about toxic chemicals in products all around us. Unregulated substances, they say, are sometimes linked to breast and prostate cancer, genital deformities, obesity, diabetes and infertility.
Also related to the question Day was cooking but also excellent for FOR CHEM, BIO & PHYSICS
Last year author / artist Nick Sousanis visited us over @ East. He is the author of the first comic book dissertation Unflattening (published by Harvard) that has made lots of “top graphic novels of 2015” lists. Nick was asked to collaborate with the prestigious science journal Nature to visually explore the politics and science around COP 21. This 10-page comic “The Fragile Framework: Can Nations Unite to Save the Earth’s Climate?” is an ESSENTIAL teaching tool for teachers in any discipline.
The full comic can be downloaded at - http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.18861!/menu/main/topColumns/top...
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