Environmental Justice Preview
eLearning Module by Bay Academy
Welcome to Bay Academy eLearning Module: Environmental Justice
This module is designed for a desktop browser or tablet, but smaller hand-held devices like iPads, iPhones, and Android devices also work.
Welcome to Environmental Justice, a newly interactive online eLearning tool to help students learn about the connection between systemic inequality and environmental degradation. This program is geared to meet Common Core Standards for grades 9-12.
Common Core Standards Met
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.9
Compare and contrast findings presented in a text to those from other sources (including their own experiments), noting when the findings support or contradict previous explanations or accounts.
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.
Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
This is Module 2 of a series by Bay Academy, a division of BayEcotarium. Our mission is to enable conversations on climate resilience and ocean conservation globally, while inspiring actionable change locally by protection and preservation of the San Francisco Bay and its ecosystems, from Sierra to the Sea™.
This module contains an introduction and 3 lessons. Each lesson begins with an engagement activity, includes a note-taking device, and ends with a quiz to help students test their knowledge.
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Module Outline
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Background
We are all connected to this story.
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Lesson 1: The Story of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
Activists in the Bayview Hunters-Point neighborhood are worried that their neighborhood is radioactive. In Lesson 1, students will look at images and articles to construct a timeline of what happened at Hunters Point.
Learning Goals: Students Will Be Able To create a timeline that integrates and evaluates multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media to address the question: What happened at Bayview-Hunters Point?
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Lesson 2: The Local Impacts of Toxic Waste
In Lesson 2, students will look at articles, toxicology reports, and medical information to gather information about the impacts of radioactive pollution on the Bayview Hunters-Point community.
Lesson goals: Students will be able to use scientific evidence to write a descriptive paragraph answering the question: How does radioactive pollution at Bayview-Hunters Point affect the environment and human safety?
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Lesson 3: Taking Action
In Lesson 3, students examine case studies of environmental justice in other parts of the country. By studying other environmental success stories, students will have the tools to decide the best way to stand up for local environmental justice issues.
Lesson goals: Students will be able to describe a case study and compare it to the injustices in Bayview-Hunters Point. They will use that knowledge to take concrete action against environmental injustice in the SF Bay Area.
BayEcotarium has a mission to enable conversations on climate resilience and ocean conservation globally, while inspiring actionable change locally by protection and preservation of the San Francisco Bay and its ecosystems, from Sierra to the Sea™.
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