Open AccessSetting a New Syllabus: Environmental Health Science in the Classroom
Author(s) -
Valerie J. Brown
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.112-a814
Subject(s) - syllabus , environmental education , curriculum , public health , environmental medicine , health education , affect (linguistics) , environmental health , medical education , psychology , medicine , public relations , political science , pedagogy , nursing , communication
Environmental health is a subject that has only relatively recently become prominent in the social consciousness. Even as its significance becomes known, finding ways to integrate the subject into education for primary and secondary students is difficult because of federal testing requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and other demands placed on teachers. A number of efforts are under way, however, to provide teachers with resources to help them bring environment health into their classrooms.