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Please feel free to contact us via:
Stefani Hines, MA, MS
NM Center for Environmental Health Sciences
College of Pharmacy
MSC09 5360
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Telephone: 505-272-9282
Fax: 505-272-4186
unmk12@salud.unm.edu
The Integrated Environmental Health Middle School Project (IEHMSP) is housed on the UNM campus in the College of Pharmacy. The seven year grant (2000-2007) is a collaboration between K-12 outreach experts and research faculty at the University of New Mexico's NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center and the University of Washington's NIEHS Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health. The seven-year goal of this project is to train educators in grades 6 through 8 to use newly developed curricular materials developed specially for New Mexico students. These new learning exercises employ the strategy of utilizing Environmental Health Sciences as an Integrating Context (EHSIC) for student-centered problem-based learning.
IEHMSP facilitates collaboration between community stakeholders and classrooms. Through these classroom collaborations students learn first-hand that environmental health science (EHS) topics are relevant to a wide range of community groups, individuals, and decision makers. Therefore, the goal of Middle School Project (IEHMSP) is to train New Mexico educators (teaching in grades 6-8) to plan and implement curricula and research projects that use environmental health science as an integrating context for learning.
BASIC ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION
1. What is Environment?
a. Physical Environment: Home, school, work, play, land, water, air
b. Biological Environment: Biota (plants, animals, humans)
c. Social Environment: Family, friends
d. Cultural Environment: Native traditions, religious practices, etc.,.
2. What is Health?
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and economic well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity (World Health Organization).
3. What is Environmental Health?
a. The study of how our environment can affect our health
b. The study of how toxic chemicals, microorganisms (bacterial, viruses) in our food, water, and air can affect our health
c. How changes in our environment and ecosystem can affect our health
Collaborating institutions and agencies: University of Washington & University of New Mexico, Dr. David Eaton, Principal investigator (UWA), Dr. Thomas Burbacher, Co-PI (UWA), Dr. Craig Marcus, Co-PI (UNM).
