AMBIENT EVALUATION

The goal of Project AMBIENT is to engage at risk high school students in environmental health science topics through modules that focus on critical thinking skills and social responsibility for personal involvement. The project provides opportunities for teachers to work with Environmental Health Scientists and experience interdisciplinary teaching strategies. Four modules will be created and disseminated: Microbes in Water; Lead in Soil; Natural Toxins in Food; and Asthma from Dust in Air. The modules are intended to be culturally sensitive, problem-based, interdisciplinary and meet education standard requirements.

Evaluation Overview (PowerPoint)

AMBIENT Rubric

Teacher Expectations

Introduction to Evaluation Instruments

Teacher Reflection

Student Pre Survey

Student Post Survey

 

Air

Air Pre/Post Test

Air Answer Key

Individual Tests

A Canary in a Coal Mine

Air Module Scenario

Asthma Outbreak

Carbon Dioxide Lab

Critical Reading

Our Community Asthma Quiz

Particulate Observation Lab

Peak Flow Meter Exercise

Peppermint Diffusion

School Survey

Straw Breathing Exercise

Temperature Inversion - Pollution Simulation

Wildfire Study

Water

Water Pre/Post Test

Water Answer Key

Individual Tests

Bacterial Growth Scenario

Bacterial Movement Through Water - Dillution

Get Your But Off the Beach

Molecular movement in water - Diffusion

Sewage Spill into Biscayane Bay

Water and Sewage Critical Reading

Water Mapping Lab

Water Microbes and Human Health Exercise

Lead/Soil

Soil Pre/Post Test

Soil Answer Key

Individual Tests

Home Inspection Interview

Lead Detection (Lead Swab Lab)

Lead Extraction Lab

Lead Particulate Demo

Lead Scenario

Mapping Exercises

The Nitty-Gritty

Using Math to Get to the Source

Food

Food Pre/Post Test

Food Answer Key

Individual Tests

Ethnobotany Research Paper

Ethical and Critical Thinking - Genetically Modified Food

Food Journal Exercise

Food Labels

Chromatography of Photosynthetic Pigments

Educational Materials

Harmful Algal Blooms in the Gulf of Mexico

Generate a Calibration Curve for Chlorophyll A

Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigation

Foodborne Illness - Educational Materials

Food Safety Lab - Cross Contamination and Hygiene

Food Safety Lab - High Temp

Food Safety Lab - Low Temp

Food Myths Critical Thinking and Reading

Foodborne Illness Scenario

Obtain a Visible Spectra of Chlorophyll A

Observation and Stimulation of Bioluminescence and Chemillumenescence

Measure the Absorbance of Chlorophyll

Kitchen Inspection Exercise

Ethics

Ethics Pre/Post Test

Ethics Answer Key

Ethics Teachers Guide

Ethics Background Reasoning

Ethics Backgrund Rubric

Ethics Food

Ethics Soil

Toxicology

Toxicology Pretest

Toxicology Answer Key

Individual Tests

Blood Worm - Alcohol

Blood Worm - Nicotine