Success Stories

Success Stories

Objective:



By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe the various ways communities are attempting to restore and protect ecosystems by completing an exit ticket with 80% accuracy

Multiple Choice

By the end of this lesson, you will? Just ONE is correct.

• Describe various ways communities are attempting to restore and protect ecosystems.

• Do an exit ticket

• Receive minimum grade of 80% on my exit ticket

• All alternatives

Multiple Select

Restoration is?

• the act of returning an area to a previous condition

• I have no idea

Insecticide USe

• DDT was a huge success story for environmentalists everywhere.

• Some of these pesticides are called endocrine disruptors (are chemicals that can interfere with endocrine systems, can cause cancerous tumors, birth defects, and other developmental disorders)

Multiple Choice

What DDT means?

• I do not know

• (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was developed as the first of the modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s

Restoration and Protection

• Community restoration and protection

• Managing environmental risks (pesticides, chemicals, Threats to watersheds)

• Pollution hazards to: Homes and Neighborhoods, Schools, Workplace

• Protecting critical ecosystems (Wetlands)

Multiple Choice

What are examples of Restoration and Protection.

Mark all that apply

• Pesticides and Chemicals regulations

• Pollution hazards to: Schools, Homes, workplace

• All questions are correct

Explain how conservation has saved the Bald Eagle. (Part 1)

Forty years ago, our national symbol was in danger of extinction. Contamination of its food source, largely as a consequence of DDT, decimated the eagle population. Habitat protection afforded by the Endangered Species Act, the federal government’s banning of DDT, and conservation actions taken by the American public has helped bald eagles make a remarkable recovery.

Multiple Choice

What helped the bald eagles make a remarkable recovery?

• Federal government’s banning of DDT,

• Habitat protection afforded by the Endangered Species Act

• All questions are true

Environmental Risk Strategy

• Identify, assess, and reduce chemical risk

• Ensure that necessary chemical meet health and safety standards

• Register chemicals for use

• Safety waste disposal

• Avoid harm to habitat

Open Ended

Why is important to wash fruits and vegetables before eating? (hint: chemical risk, health and safety, Pesticides)

Community Redevelopment (basic priority)

• Evaluate the effects of development on health and the environment

• Inventory, clean up properties: Abandoned, Unused, Previously polluted

• Pollution and infrastructure challenges (Basic sanitation, Ensure safe, clean, drinking water)

Multiple Choice

What is the basic priority to do a Community Redevelopment?

• Evaluating effects : Health and Environmental

• Inventory, assess, clean up properties: Abandoned, Unused, Previously polluted

• All alternatives are correct

Collaborative Efforts

Collaborative efforts between federal, state, and local governments, businesses and industry, and environmental groups have resulted in successful partnerships that encourage community involvement, promote a sense of environmental enthusiasm, and sustain environmental improvements. International and national cooperation has also occurred, and has identified and addressed environmental issues, and developed and implemented different policies for those environmental problems.

Multiple Select

Which alternatives describe Collaborative Efforts? Mark all that apply

• Federal, State, and local governments

• Community involvement

• International and National Cooperation

• Develop and implement policy

Open Ended

Exit Ticket

1) Write a quiz question and answer over today's learning. Hint: restoration, DDT, Bald eagle, Register Chemical, Community Redevelopment