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How the Environment Affects Your Health
Provided by: Crash Course |Published on: September 21, 2022
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Synopsis
- This video describes how environmental pollution and climate change impact human health, especially for marginalized and low-income populations in Illinois.
- Chicago is used as an example to demonstrate that people who live in certain neighborhoods have worse health outcomes due to a lack of infrastructure and community resources.
- Environmental justice is identified as a way to create an environment that is healthy for everyone.
Subjects: Biology, Geography, Health
Authors: Crash Course
Region: North America, USA - Midwest, United States, Global, Illinois
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The video uses maps, animations, and real-world data to explain key ideas.
- The video focuses on the populations most affected by climate injustice like the disabled, elderly, BIPOC, and low-income communities.
Additional Prerequisites
- The video is divided into eight sections that can be played individually to complement a variety of lessons.
- The content of the video ends at 13 minutes, 45 seconds. The remaining portion is credits.
Differentiation
- Students can research how their community's health is impacted by climate change and identify potential health hazards like busy roads, fossil fuel plants, industrial operations, and poor infrastructure.
- Challenge students in civics classes to create a proposal for how their local government can better address the health needs of marginalized groups due to climate change.
- To learn more about how pollution impacts health, students can check out this Khan Academy video, this article by the American Lung Association, or this video by the Climate Reality Project.
- Additional resources about climate change and public health include this video and this ebook.
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