EPA's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool

• This is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that displays publicly available EPA data, combining environmental and demographic indicators. 
• Students can choose an address or place to investigate and then select from a variety of map types, places, reports, and tools to use.
  

Positives 

• This map provides students with a huge range of possible questions to investigate about locations in the United States.
• Students may see trends between higher concentrations of pollutants and some health conditions.
  

Additional Prerequisites 

• Use the plus and minus to zoom in and out in the bottom-right corner and toggle between map base layers in the bottom-left corner.
  
• More detailed instructions for how to use the map can be found by clicking on "Help" and there is a glossary link and mobile-friendly site link as well.
  

Differentiation

• There is a lot of data here. Grouping students may be useful so they can make sense of the data together.
• This resource could be useful in researching a variety of topics and questions in social studies, biology, health, and economics classes.
• Other similar resources to consider include this TedEd video about urban trees, this StC lesson plan about pollution in Louisiana, and this Vox video about industrial water pollution.