title: Educating Young People about Environmental Health for Informed Social Action.
abstract: Whereas environmental health education is rapidly becoming a global priority, it still receives little attention in schools. This paper describes a U.S. National Library of Medicine program, aiming to support environmental health education in grades 6-12 in U.S. schools. The program has four components: (1) developing reliable online resources that provide quality environmental health information; (2) creating lesson plans that integrate our resources into the classroom and extracurricular activities; (3) engaging teachers by inviting collaborations and promoting our resources and activities; and (4) conducting educational research that provides a foundation for the other components. The paper describes specific educational resources and activities and grounds them in learning theories from the fields of cognitive psychology and science education.
authors.affiliation: Division of Specialized Information Services, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. keselmana@mail.nlm.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Keselman
authors.affiliation: Department of Teaching, Learning, Policy, and Leadership, College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. dlevin2@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.affiliation: ICF International contractors to Division of Specialized Information Services, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. kramerju@mail.nlm.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Judy F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.affiliation: ICF International contractors to Division of Specialized Information Services, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. matzkink@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matzkin
authors.affiliation: Division of Specialized Information Services, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. dutcherg@mail.nlm.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Gale
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dutcher