TAILIEUCHUNG - AIR POLLUTION TRAGEDY: A CASE STUDY

The environmental justice movement brings together all elements of the social justice movement, espousing a more holistic definition of environment that embraces public health, economic development, housing, energy and transportation as well as preservation of natural resources. Environment is defined as where we live, work, learn and play. As children of the larger civil rights movement, environmental justice advocates organize from the bottom up and seek to cultivate and empower community-based leadership. The African American community has a long history of struggle in pursuit of justice. Research, communication, technical expertise and strategic grassroots organizing fueled by moral imperative have resulted in the movement that transformed America | AIR POLLUTION TRAGEDY A CASE STUDY Lesson Concepts Students will build awareness that many disciplines of study and areas of interest can contribute to solving a public problem. Students will build awareness of past air pollution disasters by reviewing historic accounts. Learning Objective Students will be able to Recognize that public awareness and activism can prevent or minimize air pollution tragedies. Link to Air -The Search for One Clean Breath from Executive Producer Barbara L. Page jagSSlM In the film we present the air pollution disasters in Donora Pennsylvania and in London England. In ỆgsHỆĨgl Donora we visit survivors Bill and Gladys Schempp. Bill was on the fire department during that event and literally crawled door-to-door to deliver oxygen to Donora residents. But there is another historical air pollution event we can learn from the 1930 tragedy in Belgium s Meuse Valley. Materials Resource sheets Advanced Preparation Make copies of Resource 1 information sheets for student groups. Time and Student Grouping One or two 50 minute class periods students will work in six groups to read summarize and report on evidence to solve a mystery. Procedure 1. Inform students they will be engaging in a forensic exercise to determine the cause of death of people in an area of Brussels in the 1930s. 2. Group students into six teams Medical doctors two groups Climatologists Geologists Chemists Industrialists. Each student group will read and discuss the information sheet provided to them. See Resource 1 for case studies. 3. The teacher will lead a class discussion during which time students will report their findings to the class. As information is provided to the class from each group the teacher or a student chosen by the teacher will post findings on a chart for all to read. 4. As a group class will discuss findings and propose solutions to the mystery. Grade Levels 9-12 California Science Standards Grade 9-12 Ecology . Students know how to analyze changes in

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